Business Benefits
Increased productivity and reduced costs: Mobile computing can lead to increased employee productivity, increased service calls per engineer, more calls per site surveyor, less time spent by professionals on administrative work and more sales per sales staff. Capturing signatures and date on the spot electronically can also lead to a reduction in the payment cycle.
In a typical company environment more that 70% of the workforce now work away from the headoffice. Many in the field such as engineers, surveyors, repair people and sales staff are required to capture date i.e. a customer signature. This is traditional captured on paper leading to loss of orders, invoices and legislative forms, costing business thousands in lost revenue and legal costs. Implementing igroups software can eliminates such risks.
ROI
Paybacks for mobile computing investments can often be measured within months. For example, look at a typical telecommunication engineer. With mobile computing it is very common to save an hour or more per day by simply eliminating the need to go to the office in the morning or return in the evening.