As consumers, our mobile devices keep us connected, make our lives easier through the accessibility to all of our data, they provide us with personal tools, and give us the sense of safety of being in touch.
Through our own personal preferences with our mobile devices, we as both consumers and mobile workers are influencing the way enterprises develop their mobile strategies and select their devices. If we can marry our personal preferences, needs and benefits with those of the mobile worker, which we require our employees to be, we have the winning formula for happier, more effective and productive mobile employees, and ultimately we can look forward to increases in profitability.
A large aviation customer recently decided to purchase a non-rugged consumer device over a more suitable rugged device, and explained to me that "all I need is a browser and I can work, and more important to me is the buy-in and acceptance from the users".
New features that endear us as consumers to a mobile device, such as accelerometers, gyrometers , barometers, temperature, humidity and heart rate monitors, image recording, geo-tagging, HD recording and those sought by enterprises such as biometric, bar code, RFID, NFC, and GPS make this choice a challenge.
Technologies such as smart watches and smart eye-wear add new dimensions to our mobile world. This is also translated into task-specific enterprise mobility devices, such as wearable industrial mobile computers and voice-driven industrial mobile computers, which are commonplace in enterprises and deliver exceptional benefits and measurable efficiencies.
So, how do we chose a device that meets the needs of the individual and the enterprise?
The key to device selection is the balance between these two factors and the ongoing service and support thereof.
Cradle Technology Services understands how to combine consumer preferences and task-specific enterprise requirements, and consults, advises, supplies and supports a wide variety of mobility devices, from industrial task-specific devices to general use devices.
The company partners with leading suppliers of mobility software to bring best-of-breed solutions to its corporate customer base, and also offers security and connectivity solutions. It has a label manufacturing facility and offers auto-ID related products, services and support.
Cradle Technology Services also recently launched its in-house developed Granite warehouse management solution in the UK, and signed its first implementation there.
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