Imagine you could view your latest sales figures while walking into the boardroom, or check your current inventory levels of a key component as you sit on the bus to work, or track the location of your sales teams through the GPS locators on their vehicles between meetings. These are just a few examples of what can be achieved with mobile apps.
Mobile apps are applications designed for portable devices like cell phones or PDAs. They are specially tailored to the smaller screens commonly found on such devices and allow you to take your key business information with you wherever you go. If your device has WiFi or cellular data you have even more flexibility by being able to view real-time data on the go.
With more and more businesses offering smartphones to their staff to access email on the go, you may already have the hardware in place to support mobile apps. To some extent phones from manufacturers such as blackberry and palm are capable of running mobile apps, however with the advent of the iPhone operating system (and subsequent arrival of the Google Android platform) the capabilities of mobile apps have advanced greatly and are becoming more common place in trendsetting businesses.
These days mobile apps are a huge market, with the big players Apple and Android having dedicated online stores where applications can be purchased – check out the huge variety available on iTunes. Many of these applications are games or gimmicks, but there are a good number which can really help productivity in the office. In fact if you run a large CRM like SAP or Oracle you will find that these companies already have mobile apps established which give you certain functionality to your phone.
The team at Rhythm IT love designing mobile apps from the ground up to replace or complement your existing information systems. If you already have a CRM or inventory system for example, we can create a mobile app which allows you to access this information on the go. The opportunities are almost unlimited!
