Imagine for a moment that you are the IT support manager for a large organisation. Six months ago your business made the investment in a sales force application for your field sales force. The application, running on smart phones, has delivered significant benefits to the business by giving the sales team access to stock and order information in your existing ERP database while they are with the client. Sales are up!
However, a new release of the ERP system has been scheduled that requires some small alterations to the mobile application. Also, internal security has requested a small modification to the connectivity settings on the smart phones to ensure the corporate network is not compromised. Your sales force is all over the country. How do you get the updated application and configuration settings to their smart phones without physically bringing them into the office for several hours?
This problem is solved by Celesta Remote Management Server - supported locally by Lerumo. Celesta RMS enables centralised administration and management of mobile devices running Celesta Smartforms. Features include configuration management of both devices` settings and applications as well as the ability to update these remotely.
"This represents a significant benefit for our clients," says mobility consultant Corrie de Jonge. "We currently support hundreds of mobile workers in the field. Previously, attempting to upgrade applications has been a complex process requiring significant manual intervention. Even the ability to ensure all users are running the correct version of an application will significantly simplify support."
Celesta mBusiness Oy is the leading European mBusiness Application Platform provider and is being used by tens of thousands of mobile workers. The solution comprises an n-tiered client server platform to allow rapid extension of existing internal systems to standalone applications running on various mobile devices. Lerumo has successfully deployed numerous mobile solutions using this platform and currently support hundreds of mobile workers in SA.
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Lerumo is a BEE business consultancy with offices in Centurion and Cape Town. Lerumo entered the mobile applications market in 1998 after recognising that significant business benefits could be driven through extending key internal processes to field workers. Lerumo defines project success based on the project meeting the agreed business objectives - technical success is incidental. Our clients include major corporates in the banking, telecommunications, manufacturing and medical industries.
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