While getting ready for the holidays I was at the mall, and it was packed!  People were hustling and bustling about, looking for the perfect gift for loved ones.  I mean it was NUTS!  It made me think, why do we put ourselves through all this?  Couldn’t we just as easily get a gift card, or whatever is in the sale ads for the people close in our lives?  Wouldn’t they be happy just knowing we thought of them?  No.  There is something to be said for the perfect gift, the one thing that – when you see it – you know it was made for them.

Why settle for less when it comes to your organization’s mobile application needs?  Off the shelf systems are designed to meet industry wide needs, but not necessarily the requirements of your organization.  Your organization is unique and chances are your software needs are as well.  Settling for an off the shelf system might solve some of your problems, but it will surely leave holes – probably in just the places that differentiate your organization.
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Los Gatos, CA (September 19, 2011) – MobileFrame, LLC., the leading provider of Configurable Mobile Applications™ enterprise software, announces that Deiter Brothers, an HVAC delivery company, has chosen MobileFrame’s Field Service Application for their technicians. Deiter Brothers has been providing fuel oil, heating oil, propane, HVAC,  air conditioning, radiant heat, heat pump, furnace, onsite and fleet fueling, and other indoor comfort services in many homes and businesses in the Lehigh Valley area for over 80 years.

In order to become more efficient and eliminate manual data entry and paperwork in addition to providing real-time invoicing for their customers, Deiter Brothers chose MobileFrame’s Field Service Application.  Through MobileFrame’s partnership with Blue Cow Software, which is also their business system, Deiter Brothers will be much more efficient for real time invoicing and eliminating paper work now that they will no longer be tied to a paper based system. Continue reading →

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.

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Warnambool Cheese and Butter Factory (WCB), producers of high-quality dairy products for over 120 years, selected MobileFrame’s Configurable Mobile Application Solution to eliminate all paper based processes across the company.  WCB is one of the oldest dairy processors in Australia today and is a major producer of high quality dairy commodities such as cheese, milk powders, whey protein, butter and cream, for both domestic and export markets.

Prior to purchasing the MobileFrame solution, their staff was using clipboard and paper forms to do quality control inspections on both the production floor and in the warehouse. After the data was collected, the completed forms were turned over to administrative staff to manually enter the data into their business system. This manual system was extremely labor intensive, error-prone and inefficient, so they were looking for an easy to use, intuitive software solution to solve these problems.  WCB quickly realized that MobileFrame’s platform can be used to deploy any app with any requirement across any department. Their apps can be tailored to their business and integrated to their JD Edwards backend system. Some of the benefits of MobileFrame’s solution include:

• Increase efficiencies by eliminating error-prone manual data-entry tasks
• Increasing efficiency of product inspection operations
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Along with the smartphone boom of the past decade we have also seen an exponential increase in the number of companies providing mobile applications.

This increase in the number of available software vendors has caused confusion in the marketplace when trying to determine what the main differences are between companies that provide simple mobile forms vs. mobile business applications.

When most companies are investigating solutions they are looking for ways to eliminate the manual process of collecting information on paper. By eliminating the collection of data on paper, the business will be able to save costs, and ultimately increase profits. As an example let us assume that you are currently looking for a mobile software vendor to help eliminate paper from your field operations. You have completed your preliminary research and think you have found 2 companies that could be a potential fit.
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EuroExpress has selected a version of MobileFrame’s proof of delivery application. EuroExpress, a Europian based organization of haulers and couriers, will be using MobileFrame’s home delivery application for truck pickup inventory from a warehouse, then delivery and assembly of the furniture at the customer’s location. Prior to adopting MobileFrame’s platform, EuroExpress’ system for collecting such data was proven costly and ineffective. This is expected to be the first phase of a large deployment that will be rolled out as new warehouse distribution centers are loaded. With MobileFrame, EuroExpress will be able to utilize the latest mobility technologies to implement full-featured mobile proof of delivery applications that closely integrates with their existing Knighted Home Delivery backend system, guaranteeing them a huge ROI.

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Sunstate Equipment has chosen MobileFrame in order to allow their individual drivers in the field to manage the pickup and delivery of heavy construction equipment. Prior to adopting MobileFrame’s platform, Sunstate Equipment was collecting data on paper and generating around 9 million paper forms. Sunstate Equipment is utilizing MobileFrame’s platform as a base-point in the process of eliminating these paper forms. MobileFrame is now helping Sunstate Equipment to go mobile. With MobileFrame, Sunstate Equipment will be able to utilize the latest mobility technologies to implement full-featured mobile work order applications with delivery time and signature capture that closely integrates with their existing Kronos, SQL backend system, and eliminates the need for manual data re-entry – guaranteeing them a huge ROI.  Continue reading →

Snyder Security Group (SSG) has chosen MobileFrame to automate their proof of delivery because their customers are requiring better accountability and tracking.  They also have a courier business that needs better control and visibility of their pickups and deliveries to provide better customer service. Prior to adopting MobileFrame’s platform, Snyder Security was collecting data on paper. This was highly inefficient and costly, leading Snyder Security to recognize the need for a robust mobility solution to make this process more efficient. MobileFrame is now automating them with both a proof of delivery dispatch app and a handheld app.  Snyder Security recognized that MobileFrame’s unique full-featured platform was best suited to helping them automate their proof of delivery. With MobileFrame, Snyder Security will be able to utilize the latest mobility technologies to implement full-featured mobile work order applications that closely integrates with their existing Dos-based backend system, and eliminates the need for manual data re-entry – guaranteeing them a huge ROI.

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The Mobile Village Mobile Star Awards is a once a year contest where industry professionals cast their vote to recognize the companies with the best products, success stories, and vision within the mobile space. The aim is to increase awareness about mobility and to promote new technologies. With the help of our partners and customers, MobileFrame has consistently swept the competition in every category that we have entered since 2005. We would love to keep the streak alive! Continue reading →

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.
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