THE rapid growth of mobile devices, teamed with the expansion of cloud computing and advancements in mobile device security, has led to many organisations using mobile apps to help boost staff productivity and enable more efficient business processes, regardless of time or location.
Furthermore they are leading the way with their mobile strategy, setting a new standard and reaping the benefits.
Whether it’s through a compelling sales presentation tool, or an internal expenses management app for employees, there are many ways in which businesses can add value through mobile apps.
THE rapid growth of mobile devices, teamed with the expansion of cloud computing and advancements in mobile device security, has led to many organisations using mobile apps to help boost staff productivity and enable more efficient business processes, regardless of time or location.
Furthermore they are leading the way with their mobile strategy, setting a new standard and reaping the benefits.
Whether it’s through a compelling sales presentation tool, or an internal expenses management app for employees, there are many ways in which businesses can add value through mobile apps. Statistics from the USA show that 42 per cent of enterprise-level companies are working on internal apps for their employees, similar signs of which are starting to show in small and mid-market businesses here in the UK.
Local IT solutions provider ACS has fully adopted this mobile strategy, deploying iPads to every member of staff and producing in-house apps to manage job sheets, catalogues and brochures, delivery reports, expenses and holiday forms to name a few.
“With how our business runs, adopting a mobile strategy was no question. When we looked into our business processes and analysed our pain points we could see how mobile applications could have a real impact on our business,” said Jon Thorpe, Director at ACS. “We have cut our engineers’ paper trail and reduced the time it took to complete forms from an average of 20-30 minutes per job to under five minutes. It has also helped to increase compliance and tracking of our engineers. Productivity has risen by 30 per cent, so apps have added huge value to our business.”
Partnering with app development company All Things Code, ACS is helping its customers to realise how business applications could benefit their business.
“We perform a simple analysis of the company’s processes, a sort of ‘day in the life’ so we can learn what processes are used most regularly, or that cause the most pain. We can then develop attractive, easy-to-use applications that we know will have an immediate positive impact on their business,” said Dan Harding, Co-Founder of All Things Code Ltd.
We are already witnessing how apps are changing our personal lives. Mobile banking, surfing the internet, social media, games, weather; all on our smart phones, with us all of the time. With mobile business strategies starting to follow this trend in terms of the devices we use, the next step is progression to considering how we use these devices and transform the processes we carry out in our day-to-day work lives too.
For a free consultation on your mobile strategy or business applications contact ACS today, email or call 01604 704000