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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

Wheat Growers Sprouts More Business with MobileFrame’s Sales Order Entry App

Danielle Mora — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:15:56 +0000

South Dakota Wheat Growers, an innovative grain and agronomy cooperative with many active members throughout the James River Valley in eastern North and South Dakota, has selected MobileFrame’s enterprise mobility software to increase efficiencies and productivity across the company. Wheat Growers was looking for a way to streamline the process that their agronomists, or sales people, used for their sales order entry process. The agronomists were collecting the data on paper then manually entering that data in their backend business systems. Eliminating the manual data entry task alone allows the sales team to spend more time selling and less time doing clerical work.

Making the sales team more efficient is only the first step in improving efficiencies across the entire company. They have big plans for their mobile app deployments, including:

Inventory Receiving
Picking Sales Orders in the warehouse
Packing the orders into shipping cartons
Inventory Cycle Counts

Although application development tools are 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 business processes evolve, MobileFrame’s software provides unparalleled flexibility to create new mobile applications of any degree of complexity and incorporating any mix of business processes. The software then seamlessly deploys the new applications to the field wirelessly “on-the-fly.” With its flexibility and ease of use, MobileFrame’s enterprise mobility software will allow South Dakota Wheat Growers to quickly deploy their sales order based applications and make changes as needed, without time-consuming and expensive development efforts.

“Several options were explored by South Dakota Wheat Growers, including complete replacement of their current accounting/inventory system. We won this account because of our unique flexibility and mobility capabilities the other solutions could not provide.” — Lonny Oswalt, CEO of MobileFrame

About South Dakota Wheat Growers

Wheat Growers is an innovative grain and agronomy cooperative with more than 5,400 active member-owners throughout the James River Valley in eastern North and South Dakota. Despite the name, their members now grow more corn and soybeans than they do wheat. Wheat Growers markets approximately 150 million bushels annually – and has been serving member-owners with pride and integrity since 1923.

Wheat Growers is governed by a board of active producers elected to represent five districts, and backed by 55 delegates who serve as the liaison with the general membership. Cooperative headquarters are located in Aberdeen, South Dakota. For more information, visit: http://www.sdwg.com

About MobileFrame

MobileFrame is the leading provider of Configurable Mobile Applications^TM 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 Configurable Mobile Applications^TM software 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 athttp://www.mobileframe.com.

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Contact:
Danielle M. Mora
MobileFrame LLC
(408) 885-8018
dmora@mobileframe.com

Sturgeon Services International is Pumping Out Work Orders with MobileFrame

Danielle Mora — Tue, 31 May 2011 20:21:26 +0000

Sturgeon Services International (SSI), formerly known as Sturgeon & Sons, has purchased MobileFrame’s work order automation with asset tracking application. SSI is an oil field services company in California, and was looking to automate their work order and asset tracking processes. Prior to implementing MobileFrame’s platform, Sturgeon Services International was completing their work orders in individual Excel spreadsheets per job. The tech would then email the completed spreadsheet to the office. SSI employs 10 clerks who are responsible for verifying the accuracy of the data for payroll and billing purposes. The same clerks had to then manually enter all of that data into Microsoft Dynamics and other backend office systems. SSI found this process to be very time consuming, costly and prone to human error. With MobileFrame’s solution, not only do those clerks get to avoid all that manual data entry, but the company no longer needs to hire new IT staff to develop and manage applications. During the evaluation phase the SSI team particularly liked the simplicity of integrating our system with their back office systems.

The SSI team ran ROI calculations as they were building the business case before purchasing the MobileFrame software. They realized that the return is massive and will run over the lifetime of the project. Some of the contributing factors to such a high ROI include:

Streamlining their work orders
Asset tracking operations
Eliminating manual data entry
Workforce is more efficient and productive

Businesses are pressed to do more with the same resources. Capital expenditures are more closely reviewed than ever before. In this environment it’s paramount that every dollar invested in new technology drives a return that is measured in days, and not months or years. MobileFrame’s unique, patented technology addresses that need head–on. With the ability to adapt quickly and deploy literally overnight, no other mobile platform provides this type of acceleration of deployment of any custom application, integrated into any backend system. MobileFrame accepts challenges to deploy custom applications live and synchronize those custom built apps over the air in real-time every day. With this flexibility and ease of use, MobileFrame’s enterprise mobility software has allowed Sturgeon Services International to deploy their work order and asset tracking application and make changes as needed, without time-consuming and expensive development efforts.

“Sturgeon and Sons International understands that there is more to mobile applications than mere development. After seeing a demonstration of MobileFrame’s product, they knew that MobileFrame would be the best fit. They will now be able to make their development, deployment and overall project management a significantly easier job.”

— Lonny Oswalt, MobileFrame CEO

About Sturgeon Services International

Formerly known as Sturgeon & Son, Sturgeon Services International (SSI) was founded in 1927 by Henry Sturgeon. What started as primarily an earthwork company has expanded significantly over the years. Today, they provide the full spectrum of contracting services for oilfields throughout California. In fact, they pride themselves on being a “One Stop Shop” for any oilfield need. From earthwork to well abandonment, centrifuge to rathole drilling, we do it all. For more information visit: http://www.ssiworldclass.com/

About MobileFrame

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

Contra Costa County has chosen MobileFrame’s Paternity Declaration Application

Danielle Mora — Sun, 08 May 2011 16:48:08 +0000

Contra Costa County, the ninth most populated county in the state of California, has chosen MobileFrame’s Configurable Mobile Application^TM Platform to automate California’s Paternity Declaration Application which collects the signatures of unwed parents at the time of a new born child’s birth. Prior to implementing MobileFrame, when a baby was born to an unwed mother, Contra Costa County had to have a form completed that listed both parents. The data on that form is completed by an estimated 2500 birthing clerks in over 700 birthing centers around California. Contra Costa County found this manual entry process to be timely and inefficient. In many cases, it would take the County months to get these completed forms back. MobileFrame’s 100% Code-Free Platform will implement these records into the County’s Vital Records (SQL) database.

Although application development tools are 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 business processes evolve, MobileFrame’s software provides users 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 Contra Costa County to quickly deploy their paternity declaration applications and make changes as needed, without time-consuming and expensive development efforts.

“Contra Costa County is using MobileFrame at its best; extending an application across a large network of diverse users with different devices from different manufacturers. Our ‘Build It Once, Deploy It Anywhere’ value proposition is perfect for this deployment, which will ultimately extend to thousands of users across California”, said Lonny Oswalt, MobileFrame’s CEO. “California being a leader in deploying state-of-the-art technology is being followed closely by many other states that have the same paternity declaration needs—we expect this solution will quickly expand across the United States given the huge payback to cash strapped counties.”

About Contra Costa County

The County of Contra Costa, California (the “County”) was incorporated in 1850 as one of the original 27 counties of the State of California (the “State”), with the City of Martinez as the County Seat. It is one of the nine counties in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area. The County is the ninth most populous county in California, with its population reaching approximately 1,051,677 as of January 1, 2008. For more information visit: http://www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/

About MobileFrame

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

Tenet Healthcare Chooses MobileFrame to Automate their Surgery Checklists

Danielle Mora — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 23:10:38 +0000

Tenet Healthcare has chosen MobileFrame to automate their surgery checklists in order to track patients. Prior to adopting MobileFrame’s platform, Tenet Healthcare collected data on paper and they had 120 clerks doing the manual data entry to their backend Access Database. Federal regulations require that the surgical implant is inserted within 90 minutes from the time the patient arrives complaining about chest pain, so this application helps them to comply. With MobileFrame, the patient now receives an armband with a barcode that can be scanned and time stamped at every juncture during pre-op.

Although application development tools are 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 business processes evolve, MobileFrame’s software provides users 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 Tenet Healthcare to quickly deploy their surgery checklist applications and make changes as needed, without time-consuming and expensive development efforts.

“Tenet Healthcare Corporation is a marquee customer for MobileFrame in the hospital services sector. We’re proud that our software will be utilized in such a critical process in patient care – a surgical checklist application that is built entirely using MobileFrame’s patented 100% code free technology. This application is just scratching the surface in automation of literally hundreds of unique mobile applications throughout their hospitals operations. MobileFrame can be used to automate all of their clinical applications and give care givers access to accurate patient medical data in real-time, exactly when they need it most.”

— Lonny Oswalt, MobileFrame CEO

About Tenet Healthcare

Tenet Healthcare Corporation is a health care services company whose subsidiaries and affiliates operate acute care hospitals and related ancillary health care businesses. Tenet’s hospitals and other businesses are committed to providing quality care to the patients they serve. For more information visit: http://www.tenethealthcare.com

About MobileFrame

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

Why don’t businesses value mobile computing like they value office based computing?

Nick Hession — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:15:09 +0000

I was chatting with one of our valued partners today, and we got into a very interesting discussion regarding the adoption of field based mobile computing. It appears as if we have both stumbled upon the same problem. The apparent disconnect between automating office based paper processes, and field based paper processes. This discussion really made me think.

“Why don’t businesses value mobile computing like they value office based computing?”

For years companies have been using computers in the office to aid in the functions necessary to run the daily operations of the business.

For Example:

Bookkeeping / Accounting
AR / AP
Payroll
E-mail
Customer Activity Tracking
Sales Performance Tracking
Resource Scheduling
Creating, assigning, and closing Work Orders
Ordering Parts
Updating Spreadsheets
Etc.

Could you imagine if each of these various office based functions were on paper and needed to be managed the same way field data is? As odd as it seems, it appears that these organizations just haven’t thought about the benefits of extending the reach of their many business systems out into the field. Mobile applications, specifically those built using MobileFrame, have the capability to easily extend the data contained in each of these systems to the mobile worker. Once the information is received the mobile worker is able to interact with the data to make better decisions faster, and with minimal impact to the office staff. Increasing the productivity of the Mobile Worker is just one of the areas mobile computing can assist an organization.

Here are some of the other benefits of Mobile Computing:

Increase number of jobs performed, customers visited, etc
Eliminate redundant manual data entry and data transcription errors, reducing clerical data entry costs
Provide real-time access to data in the field, ensuring workers have the information they need, when they need it
Reduce invoice and accounts receivable lag time
Improve customer service
Increase time spent in the field by eliminating the need to return to the office to complete paperwork
Increase efficiency and productivity of field workers

If those bullet points didn’t capture your attention, how does eliminating 7000 sheets of paper on a weekly basis sound? Miller Pipeline sure didn’t mind.

To learn more about how Mobile Computing can help your business reach new levels, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We would love to show you how Mobile Computing can make a difference to your service based organization.

Custom Mobile Applications, NO IT department Necessary

Nick Hession — Wed, 12 May 2010 18:07:48 +0000

Miller Pipeline, a happy MobileFrame customer with over 450 users in the field has automated over 200 5 part forms in just over 18 months. Here’s the kicker

THEY DON’T HAVE AN IT DEPARTMENT!!!!!!

Want to hear more about how Miller Pipeline, and how they were able to eliminate 7000 sheets of paper per week? Watch the video below.

MobileFrame – Miller Pipeline Customer Success Story from MobileFrame on Vimeo.

2010 – A New Year, and a New Direction for the Blog!

Nick Hession — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:39:29 +0000

It’s been a very busy year so far, we are almost into February and we’re getting just getting out our first blog post! Fortunately we have been hard at work planning our content schedule and strategy around the blog for 2010, and have decided to add a new section to the blog specifically focusing on Mobile Education. With all of the competing technologies, platforms, operating systems, carriers, it can be difficult to separate marketing hype from actual fact. Our aim is to focus on one topic every couple of weeks, and try to shed more light on each particular subject.

Not surprisingly for this week we’ve decided to focus on : What a Mobile Computing Platform is, and why it matters (Disclaimer – MobileFrame is a software company that focuses on providing the most highly configurable and easy to use Mobile Enterprise Application Platform, that money can buy)

First and foremost what is a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform?

In its most simple form, a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) is a software based mobile computing strategy for providing organizations the means to deploy multiple different mobile applications on top of the same technology stack. Typically this type of Platform approach provides organizations with the ability to extend the data usually enclosed in multiple different back-end enterprise systems, deploy against multiple different types of operating systems, and connect or “Sync” over a wide variety of different types of communication mechanisms. The platform approach usually involves the ability to scale quickly and easily, with a build once and deploy to a wide variety of different types of devices without the need to actually target a specific device or operating system. This approach when carefully planned lowers overall total cost of ownership, and provides a central management point for all mobile application throughout the enterprise.

Typically there are several components to a mobile computing platform

Development Environment – Provides the ability to create the mobile application screens, and underlying business logic
Synchronization Server – Allows for bi-directional synchronization of data between the back office business systems, and the mobile worker
Consolidated Database – A Database that serves as the central data repository or the pass through to multiple different back end systems, also referred to as a Staging Database.
Client Software - This is software that gets installed onto each mobile client to run the mobile applications, manage the synchronization, as read / write to the local database if applicable

The Typical Problem: ABC Corporation has 3 separate divisions that all would like to implement mobile technologies, each with their own unique needs. When faced with the decision of what to do ABC Corporation must decide if they plan on building or buying their mobile solution, as well as who is going to make the selection of the solution vendor, devices, as well as who is going to manage and support the applications. Unfortunately many organizations allow for each division to separately manage their own solution, leading to a decentralized approach.

This approach leads to some of the following challenges:

Significant development costs
High total cost of ownership
Decentralized management
Hard-coded applications, with the need to re-install whenever changes are made
Developed for use with a single device type, and or operating system
No out of the box integration mechanisms to manage the data
Support related headaches, no centralized management

If ABC Corporation were to take the platform approach, they would gain the following benefits

Rapid application development tools
Code Re-use
Single source toolset
Mobility management (device management, etc.)
Application updates handled wirelessly
Out of the box connectors to multiple different backend systems.
Multiple Device support
Lower total cost of ownership
The ability to make changes and deploy them instantly.

For these reasons and many others, organizations that are interested in going mobile have been looking at Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms, to provide the necessary tools, connectors, and support mechanisms to alleviate many of the common pitfalls of going mobile. If you would like to see a demonstration of how MobileFrame addresses the mobile challenges within the enterprise, please contact us today!

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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