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Service Mobile Digital Mission
The Service Mobile Digital Mission: Beyond Work Orders
We rely on the “work order” to complete the call transaction and capture service data. Work orders are important and recognized as the nucleus of field service operations. Leaders today, however, have other business drivers ranging from selling services to technician recruiting and retention on their mind as they learn to think beyond the work order. The Mobile Digital Mission (MDM) is the business process and technology architecture...  Continue Reading..
EMM Features
7 Must-Have EMM Features To Look For
It’s time for businesses that already use an EMM (enterprise mobility management) or MDM (mobile device management) solution to circle back and conduct an assessment. And it’s long overdue for many non-users to evaluate and introduce EMM for the first time.  Continue Reading..
Orkin Embraces The Field Service Evolution
Orkin revamps processes and updates technology to better meet customer expectations, and in doing so saves between $60,000 and $90,000 per month in fleet costs alone.  Continue Reading..
An Often-Overlooked Tool To Improve The Field Service Customer Experience
In your quest to master the customer experience, consider this technology.  Continue Reading..
Cloud-Based Field Service Software Improves Efficiency And Inventory Management
The elimination of paper speeds invoicing from one week to essentially same day.  Continue Reading..
Q&A: Making Field Service Diversity Intentional
Editor in chief Sarah Nicastro talks one-on-one with Dot Mynahan of Otis Elevator about the opportunities for women in field service.  Continue Reading..
Focusing On Cultural Adoption Ensures Field Automation Success
Amano McGann modernizes its field service operations as it looks ahead to IoT.  Continue Reading..
The Big Rig Biz Meets Big Data, Tech
The collective transportation and logistics industry shows a strong embrace of technological developments. VDC’s 2018 Enterprise Buyer Behavior study of mobile technology end users finds a 51.1 percent year over year increase in transportation respondent’s extreme satisfaction with the pace of their organization’s mobile initiatives, and a 23.4 percent twelve-month improvement in extreme satisfaction with the adoption of mobile...  Continue Reading..
Service Lifecycle Management
Using Service Lifecycle Management To Support Your Customers
Every day you deal with a multitude of customers who vary by type, size, installed base, usage, personality, and everything else that ultimately differentiates one customer from another. However, one thing always remains constant – their business systems and equipment are critically Important to their day-to-day business operations. Despite this common thread that runs through virtually all of the customers you support, it is still...  Continue Reading..
Big Bang Disruption: The Speed Of Change In The Digital Era
Modern businesses need to adapt to the speed at which technology changes. The past decade has seen a multitude of entrenched industries fall by the wayside in the wake of digital disruption. Businesses need to be proactive about following technological trends if they want to avoid potential disaster.  Continue Reading..

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