After creating much applause and enriching the personal lives of millions of people around the world, mobile applications are going to hit the market in a big way. Smart applications deployed on smart phones are exhilarating corporate to get the most from their associates.
As more and more people are depending on various smart applications in everyday life while they drive or plan for holiday or network with friends & family members or enjoy their favorite games on smart phones, the attachment with smart phones is taking them to extend to workplace as well.
This has been promptly realized by businesses and has come forward to get the maximum from the new lifestyle or work-style where an employee wish to work even on the move or at anytime and at anyplace.
Productivity Mobile Applications Extend Office Space
2012 is going to witness new mobile applications that will improve productivity besides provision of fun and flexibility in corporate work culture. New applications will offer great potential to face competitors in business by staying ahead of others through the introduction of innovative and customer friendly features.
As per predictions from industry analysts, innumerable number of enterprise applications will be launched in the year 2012. As per Frost & Sullivan’s report, corporate sector is going to spend as much as seven billion dollar for procurement and deployment of mobile applications by the year 2015. The new devices will give strategic edge over their competitors.
Businesses have realized the huge potential through mobile applications as more and more powerful small gadgets are launched in recent past. These small but powerful devices are second to none in terms of processing power, memory handling and networking capability for data transfer.
It is long cherished dream of employees to equip their smart phones and tablets with applications that will help them work without interruption and at any place.
Mobile enterprise applications will not only change the way an associate can contribute to the business but also help the end users (customers) to get better services and in less time.
Early birds in corporate will not only be able to offer high end service but have the possibility to attract new customers.
If mobile applications and smart gadgets are introduced in businesses, dramatic changes can be expected in various functionalities. Instead of using printed papers, desktops and laptops employees will be able to use easy to carry tablet computers.
Smarter mobile applications provide smarter solutions
Tablet computers will be equipped with various applications to take minutes of the meeting, to analyze complex statistics and to present snapshots that can be displayed on a projector. Those who are working in accounts will be able to generate invoice on the move.
Inventory can be maintained in a better way without losing potential clients. Even though there are some challenges like what set of features can be handled through mobile applications and what level of security should be maintained, these can be sorted out by defining the requirements to the developers properly.
Businesses should be able to draw advantages from mobile applications. For example, if time consuming customer support through phone call is routed through mobile application, the gesture will save time and money for customer as well as the business.
Businesses should have enhanced security on all the devices including the ability to kill the data or swipe the disk when the tablet is lost or stolen.
Good article and I can tell your first hand that at my company our IT folks are very busy rolling out new mobile apps to aid in the productivity of the workforce.
I must agree that mobile applications have a lot of advantages to businesses. And every businesses should find time in using it to be more close to their clients. But of course should have some security measures to avoid such problems.