What do to-do lists, quality face time, project management, team meetings, restaurant specials, maintenance schedules, grocery shopping and do-it-yourself repairs all have in common? They can all be accomplished, right now, on a mobile device.
Your business can have its own customized Apps. Application development companies can provide cross-platform, custom mobile application development systems for your business’ specific needs:
- Interactive sales presentations and custom sales tools. You can make your presentation right from your mobile device for a one-on-one demo, or project it on a plain surface anywhere. No need for a meeting room with AV equipment any more.
- Mobile project management designed for your projects. Prioritize assigned tasks for people working all shifts and in multiple locations. As soon as a task is completed, the app automatically updates to the next task needed in the project using data entered by each employee. Employees equipped with mobile devices don’t have to be in the same building or even the same city to continue the project because everyone is on the same page.
- Prioritize maintenance calls. Use a GPS-based App for categorizing locations so the nearest technician can respond to the most urgent calls. Save time and correct problems more efficiently.
- Digital owner manuals for your customers. You can design a manual to give maintenance reminders, show the owner how to order a part and then provide a video showing how to change the part at home to save on service charges.
- Engage your customers in the moment. Restaurants and bars can use a verbal interactive app to welcome the customer by name, remember food preferences and what they ordered in the past, and suggest specials or items on the menu they might like.
- Mobile point of sale system for retail establishments. Shopping carts with NFC chips on the front eliminate the checkout line. Customers scan each item as it goes into the cart and then scan for payment when they are finished. This also allows the store’s stock team, equipped with mini iPads, to gather real time information to check inventory.
Businesses will be using mobile devices to accomplish the complicated and creative tasks that make them successful. Employees are already using mobile technology to enhance their jobs. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is popular and growing. According to the Accenture 2013 CIO Mobility Survey, 82% of surveyed companies in 2013 allow some or all workers to use employee-owned devices.
Mobile technology for business is here today.
And now that you know what is here today, take a look at what the future will bring:
Check out Microsoft 2020 Technology Future Vision at http://www.microsoft.com/office/vision/ and click on Watch Video.
For more information on NFC technology, Check out our earlier blog at: https://www.afpi.com/NFC_Technology
Accenture 2013 CIO Mobility Survey:
http://www.accenture.com/us-en/Pages/insight-mobility-cio-survey-2013.aspx?c=tgp_usmwc2013psgs&n=Mobility_Survey_-_US&KW_ID=sKfUIURgm|pcrid|23599188068