Mobility Solutions

Today's mobile professionals are doing a lot more than talking on their cell phones. They are boosting their productivity with smart phones - devices that give them access to e-mail, appointments, attachments and data from the Internet and corporate applications. Now, users can synchronize collaboration information between nearly any mobile device and their e-mail accounts, instantly boosting productivity and information sharing more than ever before.

In addition to laptop computers, PDA and other mobile devices are enabling flexible working. Employees are no longer office-bound, with mobile data and WiFi networks enabling home working, application access on the move and technology use in front of the customer.

Mobility is about bringing the various technologies together; it is about combining hardware, software and data networks to extend your IT capability out of the office and in the hands of your users, when they need it and wherever they need it.

What Are The Benefits Of Mobility technology?
With the right deployment of Mobility solutions your users can have secure access to e-mail, appointments, tasks and notes from anywhere at anytime. They can view almost any type of attachment (word processing documents, spreadsheets or presentations) in graphical format and when you enable the integrated "push" technology, a Mobile Server will push data to the mobile device (through a wireless carrier of your choice or over WiFi) as soon as it arrives in the user's inbox.

Mobility does not only change the way your users work, it can drastically change the way your business works and the services you provide to your customers. Field sales people can provide information in real-time to your customers as they sit in the customer’s office. Field-based service people are able to get real-time information on the work they are required to do or where next to go. And your workforce is able to work effectively wherever they may be, in the office, at home, on the move, or even in a different country.

Deployed properly, a mobility solution can deliver significant return on investment through increased productivity, improvement in effectiveness of a field-based workforce and increased revenue through the ability to offer new services to customers.

In addition to this, with the right solutions and tools in place, a mobile solution can be delivered that does not entail the anticipated increase drain on IT resource and risk from security.

What Mobility Technology Is Available?
The technology available in the area of Mobility is vast, from numerous Mobile Phones, Smart Phones, PDA and hand-held computers, through to mobile networking services and a range of software that make applications and data available to mobile users.

Microsoft not only offers their software such as Windows, Office and Outlook in mobile formats, but they also inherently support mobile working in their server products, such as Exchange, providing both POP and PUSH capabilities. Microsoft is also now offering mobile devices including their Mobile Windows 6.1 phones and Ultra-Mobile PC.

In addition to this, all of the major hardware and software vendors now provide solutions that are specifically designed for mobility or have the capability to operate in a mobile environment.

How Can b2Lateral Help With the Mobility of your workforce?
As a vendor-independent IT services organisation, we focus on keeping up to date with all of the latest cool technologies and making it our job to understand how these integrate together and add value to the virtual business.

Our solution consultants have been helping our customers implement mobility solutions from the very first mobile phones and pagers, through to today’s latest WiFi enabled devices.

We can help you map out your users’ requirements for mobility, what are the real business effecting elements and what are the gimmicky nice to haves. We can then work with you to determine the most appropriate technologies and applications to deploy and having done this before, we can assist in integrating these into your existing IT infrastructure.

To find out more about how we can help, select Mobility in our more information page.