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Scheid Vineyards has chosen MobileFrame’s Inventory Control Application

Danielle Mora — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:53:02 +0000

Scheid Vineyards has chosen MobileFrame’s Inventory Control Application to track their inventory and crops. Prior to MobileFrame they were doing most of their data entry and inventory tracking manually, and found this system to be timely and inefficient. As Scheid Vineyards continues to grow, they decided that they were in need of more advanced software technology to help streamline their business operations. After researching several software packages, it was obvious that MobileFrame was a perfect fit. With MobileFrame, Scheid Vineyards has been able to automate harvest tracking and fertilization information down to the individual row level, which has achieved significant efficiency gains for the company. Now that Scheid Vineyards has automated the vineyard side of their business, they will be able to streamline their wineries data and inventory on the same platform, thus driving a much higher ROI.

Although application development tools are a commonplace, those tools require costly, time-consuming development to create business applications. Moreover, such business solutions tend to be inflexible, requiring expensive custom programming whenever business processes change. As Scheid Vineyards business processes evolve, MobileFrame’s software has the ability to provide them with unparalleled flexibility to create new mobile applications of any degree of complexity, incorporating any mix of business processes, and to make changes to those applications on-the-fly. With its flexibility and ease of use, MobileFrame’s enterprise mobility software will allow Scheid Vineyards to quickly deploy their Inventory Control Applications and make changes as needed, without time-consuming and expensive development efforts.

“For two years we have been asking for a change in one of our [previous] packaged applications, and it never makes it into the product. In MobileFrame I can have that done in a couple of hours. I am not a computer programmer and basically I have been able to run with this thing. In 5 weeks I went from not knowing anything about MobileFrame to having a fully deployed harvest inventory system”.

- Tyler Scheid, Viticulture Technology Coordinator.

“We love it when customers exploit our state-of-the-art technology in their business. Going mobile so quickly is a rarity in the mobile industry, but typical in our deployments — a fact that doesn’t go unrecognized across our network of over 350 global resellers. With over 1,400 successful MobileFrame customer deployments, MobileFrame has become the Gold Standard.”

- Lonny Oswalt, MobileFrame CEO

About Scheid Vineyards

Scheid Vineyards, a family ran business located in Greenfield, California, is one of the largest independent growers of premium wine grapes. Their primary business is the production and sale of wine grapes and bulk wine to wine producers. Scheid Vineyards’ vision has always been to maintain and enhance quality without losing high production-rate capabilities. Their mission is to supply their winery clients with the grapes they need at an acceptable price and at the highest quality possible. For more information visit: http://www.scheidvineyards.com

About MobileFrame

MobileFrame is the leading provider of Configurable Mobile Applications™ enterprise software that requires no coding or programming to create, deploy and remotely manage sophisticated mobile applications. With secure SOX compliant instant messaging, remote device control, configuration and management, intelligent networking, remote software updates, prioritized synchronization, automatic device driver recognition and loading all built-in, MobileFrame’s platform significantly streamlines mobile application development, deployment, and administration. MobileFrame eliminates custom programming through an intuitive, user-friendly point-and-click graphical user interface, enabling novice computer users to quickly create and deploy custom mobile applications tailored to their business.

MobileFrame’s award-winning mobility platform is an entirely self-contained mobility solution that provides full functionality out-of-the-box, with no custom programming, no third-party mobile gateways, synchronization engines or SDK’s required. MobileFrame’s software allows users to capture photographs, voice notes, documents, templates, logos, sketches, digital signatures, bar code scans, magnetic strip read outs, RFID tags, advanced algorithmic functions, and attach them directly into their mobile applications. Applications are stored in a library so administrators can quickly make changes whenever operational requirements change, enabling on-the-spot deployment of a wide variety of mobile applications.

For more information, customers may contact MobileFrame directly at 1-408-885-1200 or visit our website at http://www.mobileframe.com.

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Contact:
Danielle M. Mora
MobileFrame LLC
(408) 885-1200
dmora@mobileframe.com

When Selecting Mobile Solutions, don’t leave any ROI on the Table.

Nick Hession — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:53:23 +0000

When investigating mobile software solutions every organization has to ask themselves the age old question: “Can I find something off the shelf to solve this problem?”

I invite you to consider the merits of evaluating an alternative approach before spending money on a solution.

FACT: Off the shelf mobile software solutions are developed by companies that identify some common problems in a specific market, then build a software solution that addresses some of those needs. This is also called a one size fits all approach.

PROBLEM: Here is where the problem lies; no two organizations even within a specific market operate in exactly the same way. The associated business logic that has made your organization successful can’t be incorporated into a boxed solution intended to fit the masses.

THE POINT: Don’t purchase a ‘one size fits no one’ product since it will provide only some of the needed functionality to your organization. The ability to configure and define how your solution looks, feels, and operates based on your organization’s best practices will provide a much more substantial ROI, and will solve the problem for which it was intended. As a bonus, our custom software solution can also be reconfigured to accommodate changes as business conditions dictate.

MobileFrame’s Configurable Mobile Application allows you to have a custom app with no custom programming required. If you would like to learn more about how we do it, please contact us today. We can show you how other customers in similar positions have made the decision to go with MobileFrame and have realized incredible returns.

Contact Us | Phone: 208.577.6179 | Email: Nhession@MobileFrame.com

Barcode Asset Inspection – Challenge Accepted

Nick Hession — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:41:02 +0000

Here at MobileFrame we are pretty good at solving the problem of paper in the field. In this case we had a customer come to us with a very simple yet, annoying problem.

Here’s the current process:

Write the Barcode from the asset on a sheet of paper
Indicate if it passed or failed inspection
If the asset failed, indicate why

They were having problems with

The wrong asset tag information being captured (Transcription Error)
Forgetting to indicate why the inspection failed
Not turning in required paperwork in a timely fashion
Duplication of data back at the office.

Here is the application that I developed in under 1 hour that was able to address these problems with 100% data accuracy, and real time information sharing. If you would like to learn more about MobileFrame please contact us today.

Challenge Us! Send us your forms – we’ll build your custom mobile application and demo it to you live

Nick Hession — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:26:19 +0000

We are inviting YOU to send in YOUR paper forms and have us build you a custom application. We will then demo it for you on our very first phone call. Our enterprise mobility system is 100% code-free, eliminating custom programming through an intuitive, user friendly point-and-click desktop, enabling novice computer users to easily create and deploy sophisticated custom mobile applications. Don’t believe us? Send in your form, you won’t be disappointed.

If you are interested in learning more about our advanced capabilities and how we can empower your service based organization to operate more efficiently please contact us today!

MobileFrame.com | Office: (408) 885-1200 | twitter @MobileFrame

Make vs. Buy – Why not have both?

Nick Hession — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:58:21 +0000

Every Organization looking to implement mobile technology is forced to make this same decision: Do I make my mobile application, or buy it? There are several options to consider.

Make (i.e. Develop)

Pro	Con
Get Exactly what you want, fits exact business need.	Long Development Cycles (6-9 Months when hard-coded) Expensive to Develop Costly to Maintain

Buy

Pro	Con
Inexpensive, can be purchased off the shelf Quick Implementation	Doesn’t fit exact business need.

What many organizations don’t know is that they no longer have to make this decision. There is a 3^rd and much easier choice…MobileFrame.

MobileFrame is a Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) product developed for the sole purpose of helping organizations design, develop, deploy, manage, and support custom mobile applications, without the need to write a single line of code. And because MobileFrame is a full featured mobile computing platform it can serve the needs of your entire organization, and not just a single department or a single application.

With MobileFrame you have the ability to create your Custom Applications in Days and not Months, and roll out changes very quickly. In addition, if you are looking for a pre-packaged solution MobileFrame also offers several pre-built mobile applications that can be custom tailored to your business requirements.

If you would like to see a live customer demo or receive more information please contact us.

Business Decision Making – Are you in the Dark?

Nick Hession — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:29:59 +0000

Every organization is forced to make difficult decisions on a daily basis. Business Managers and owners are trying to figure out what inventory to order, what equipment to purchase, what markets to enter, which jobs to bid on, etc. They attempt to gather all of the information available out of the many IT and Paper based systems the organization utilizes, and they render a decision. BUT what happens when that information isn’t accurate, updated, or available?

Just because the information is not available does not mean that management doesn’t need to make a decision, it just means they have to make a decision in the dark.

What if your management team had the right kinds of information available 100% of the time? I bet it would lead to better decision making.

Here is what some of our customers have said after they have implemented the MobileFrame configurable mobile application to streamline their business operations.

“…MobileFrame’s platform has enabled us to capture real-time payroll hours, contract hours, invoicing data, job cost data, and all relevant information required to run our operation. In addition, MobileFrame provides immediate key performance indicators and productivity feedback metrics to our foremen. This scoreboard provides Miller invaluable real-time information.” – Dennis Norman, VP of Corporate Performance Miller Pipeline

“The use of cutting edge technology is an effective way to improve our department’s productivity. The City always tries to engage technically innovative solutions to help us achieve better efficiency” - Mark Linder, City of San Jose Assistant Manager

“MobileFrame’s software is an incredibly powerful and innovative solution. The benefits of MobileFrame’s solution allows us to service more customers per day and to provide better service to our customers.” – Steve Raymond, CEO of Raymond Handling Concepts Corp.

If you are interested in hearing more about how MobileFrame can assist your organization in making better decisions please contact us.

Phone: 408.885.1200 | Email: Sales@MobileFrame.com | Twitter @MobileFrame