SAP Company Sybase Updates Mobile ERP Application Platform
Sybase, an SAP company that provides mobile ERP software, today released an update its Sybase Unwired Platform, a platform for producing mobile ERP applications.
The platform allows enterprise developers to easily and rapidly build applications that enable mobile devices to access business data. It includes a tooling environment, integration with a variety os different ERP solutions, and support for Windows Mobile, Windows laptops and tablets, iPhone, and Blackberry. Sybase has several global partners that produce their own unique mobile ERP applications.
Sybase partners have found varied uses for the Unwired Platform. Bluefin produced an iPhone app that provides critical sales and customer information for sales people and managers on the move. HCL Axon, a consultancy that sells services to SAP customers, is creating mobile ERP applications that extend SAP solution capabilities for industries like utilities, oil and gas, travel and logistics, and financial services.
Independent CRM consulting company Maihiro designed its CRM to Go for Mobile Business application that allows mobile sales and CRM data access from devices including BlackBerrys, iPhones, and Windows Mobiles. NEO Business Partners has a NEO Mobile Suite, a host of mobile applications for SAP ERP and CRM that allows its customers to work on service orders and notifications offline on their mobile smartphones.
Gary Kovacs, senior vice president at Sybase, says, “Sybase offers the most comprehensive expertise and platform for mobilizing SAP solutions, as well as for rapid development and deployment of custom mobile offerings in the industry. Our leading mobility platform is fueling our partner ecosystem and extending our reach globally, enabling us to successfully transform businesses through enterprise-wide mobility solutions.”
Besides the Sybase Unwired Platform, Sybase also provides its own custom mobile ERP applications that accompany standard SAP solutions, which include Sybase Mobile Sales for SAP CRM and Sybase Mobile Workflow for SAP Business Suite.
No commentsMobile ERP Likely to Come to an Office Near You, Says McAFee Research
According to research from McAfee’s Trust Digital team, about 75% of IT executives plan to make internal business applications accessible by mobile device in the oncoming year. Further, 57% of survey participants said they will extend remote mobile access beyond email to CRM, ERP, and other proprietary applications. 45% will have device support for the iPhone and Android by popular request from employees, though BlackBerry support has been most prevalent in the past.
The Trust Digital survey was conducted with 150 large U.S. companies to find out how senior IT management executives plan to utilize mobile devices as a part of IT infrastructure within the next year.
The looming tidal wave of smartphone devices – Android, iPhones, iPads, and other technological tomfoolery – will hit workplaces very soon, and organizations have to prepare for it, concludes McAfee. “Heterogeneity is real and enterprises are saying, ‘I have to learn to deal with it,’” says David Goldschlag, vice president of mobile technologies at McAfee.
Additionally, the survey indicated a shift from using corporate-supplied technology to enabling employees’ personal devices. About a third of respondents reported a desire to make this change to personal smartphones. Most organizations view employee smartphone use as a cost-saver, but the issue is making the devices secure and compliant with enterprise infrastructure.
Still, by all appearances, mobile ERP looks like the inevitable future. In the contemporary business, especially over a global market, workplace mobility is crucial. More employees over a larger work cycle can be utilized through telecommuting. With a mobile device connected to CRM or ERP data, critical sales or customer information can be available while on the go. These advantages are converging with a consumer mania of smart devices that will eventually bleed into the workplace. Providing mobile ERP access as a standard practice cannot be too far off.
No commentsEnterpriseIQ ERP Software Made Mobile for the Blackberry
IQMS, an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software provider, yesterday announced the release of EnterpriseIQ for the Blackberry. The new application allows for management of work flow, customer service, inventory, and financial statistics from the mobile device.
The IQMS product was developed to meet the growing need for mobile (Blackberry) ERP solutions. This newest IQMS product is an addition to pre-exisitng EnterpriseIQ mobile ERP software, which was only capable of CRM applications. IQMS expanded on the idea of workforce mobility and chose to include many more mobile enterprise functions.
This is part of a trend of mobile ERP software that frees employees from having to stay at the workplace, and supports data collaboration among individuals on the move. The increasingly globalized economy requires businesses to be active and openly communicative.
The EnterpriseIQ ERP system uses a single database, and is designed to provide simple, lean business functionality. The application takes advantage of already existing Blackberry software and web services to give access to the system at all time; Blackberry servers are not used.
The application includes many practical mobile ERP features such as customer record viewing, customer pinpointing via GPS, and complete inventory access.
Glenn Nowak, vice president of IQMS, comments that EnterpriseIQ is another step in providing ERP services to employees in any location, on whatever interface. “The business world is constantly on the move, and we want to give our customers a competitive advantage,” says Nowak.
IQMS has been a business solutions provider for over two decades. The company offers ERP software that covers manufacturing, accounting, production monitoring, quality control, supply chain, SPC, CRM, and eBusiness.
No commentsGodlan Launches New Mobile ERP Software Solution, InSync Anywhere
Godlan launched its new InSync Anywhere mobile sales application, a solution for Infor ERP SyteLine users wanting a mobile cloud-based application for remote workforces, at the SyteLine User Network (SUN) conference in Nashville, TN.
The new mobile ERP software solution, InSync Anywhere, utilizes the emerging cloud technology (SaaS) and delivers critical customer information to any device – anytime and anywhere – to ensure 24/7 SyteLine ERP continuity between sales, customer service operations and customers. The InSync Anywhere mobile sales solution may be used on various mobile devices including BlackBerry, Droid, iPad, iPhone, Palm and Windows Mobile. Base-product functionality of InSync Anywhere includes mobile queries, data entry and real-time measurement of key performance indicators.
It is Godlan’s belief that mobile sales for SyteLine ERP enables companies to increase revenue and customer retention rates by delivering time-sensitive and content-rich information to the mobile device. Godlan’s mobile ERP software solution, InSync Anywhere, is developed on the most recent open-architecture platform to guarantee the best mobile experience for the end user.
With InSync Anywhere, this web-based mobile ERP application, customers can provide management with immediate access to information and metrics to speed up decision-making processes while improving the responsiveness of customer service and increasing date accuracy through automated data collection.
This could be the next greatest thing in mobile ERP solutions.
Visit www.insyncanywhere.com for more information.
No commentsApple Pushes iPad and Mobile ERP
The iPad is an undeniably sexy device for constant connectivity and amazing fun and useful apps. Many developers are looking to the iPad as the next great player in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) segment.
The enterprise resource planning segment spans across the management of an enterprise’s physical and software assets, fiscal and human resources and inventory. With its server-based architecture, everyone inside and outside the enterprise can easily connect with each other and the application.
Workers don’t just want to be stuck in front of a terminal nowadays. With the expanding capabilities of Smartphones, iPhones and other mobile devices, enterprise developers are given more opportunities for a more mobile direction for ERP clients.
In particular, the medical market is already seeing growth in mobile ERP adoption. Doctors and nurses are adopting the iPhone, voting with their feet and now jumping on the iPad too. They’re using these tools for significant daily work, real patient and medical data management. The mobile tools are solving enterprise data entry problems. Thanks to Apple’s design and effortless user interface, we can now take a new approach to computing on a corporate scale with massive and enthusiastic user participation.
While the hardware in exam rooms now is elegant and high quality and probably costs millions in integration, the success of an enterprise resource planning solution really boils down to everyone using it and using it efficiently. With its impressive usability and speedy touch screen response, the iPad with a running mobile ERP solution might just be what the doctor ordered.
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No commentsCould Mobility Suites Help ERP Move toward The Future?
ClickSoftware is positioned as a service optimization provider rather than an ERP company, but their latest innovation could foreshadow some progressive improvements in the ERP market. The company recently released a standalone mobility suite that aims to close the gap between the back offices and the employees in the field.
ClickSoftware has offered mobile capabilities in their ServiceOptimizatoin Suite for a couple years, but the company decided to offer the detached mobile suite due to the heightened interest in mobility they saw among their customers. Mobility Suite will connect the back-office with the field representatives through mobile workflows, optimized routing, real-time inventory data, time and attendance recording, and more. Interestingly, ClickSoftware noted that while many people prefer to get mobile platforms from a vendor they’re using for CRM, they found plenty of people looking elsewhere for those capabilities, and their seizing the opportunity to land and expand.
William McNeill of AMR Research (who evidently partnered with ClickSoftware on the development of Mobility Suite) told CRM Magazine that the product is about “getting to where technicians are, what they’re doing, the parts they’re using,” and ultimately helping them make the best decisions efficiently. Mobility Suite also offers a jumpstart on billing processes that might previously have taken weeks to fulfill. McNeill states that this expedited turnaround with curry favor with customers who’ll be able to explain billing to their CFOs within a number of days.
Ultimately, ClickSoftware’s Mobility Suite isn’t entirely a standalone product, because it does rely on information from desktop databases, but it’s a smart offering and it bodes well for the ERP market, which has been stuck in the on-premise past. It’ll be interesting to see if their offering a mobile component does in fact increase business.
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