Professional's Roadmap: Evaluating Mobile Technology The Right Way

How to Select Everything You Need for Your Environment the First Time Around

The use of mobile technology has become almost mandatory in every industry worldwide. Every worker, regardless of their job, is now expected to maintain a certain level of communication and visibility with colleagues, customers, partners and prospects. That notion is not easily achieved by desk-bound employees, or “fixed” computer setups. Thus, the urgency to “mobilize” workforces, workflows and operations systems. But the consequences of hastiness can be costly.

Of the tens of billions of dollars collectively spent by global organizations on mobile technologies every year, we’d bet that the majority of that is later classified as “wasteful spending”. The crowded mobile device marketplace can make for a tedious and confusing buying journey, and many honest missteps can be made along the way. For example, it’s not enough to deploy out-of-the-box platforms from familiar consumer brands in order to check a few boxes and make the claim that you’re now a “mobile” organization. Nor can you spend a few extra dollars on a “rugged” case and prove the business case for an iPad in an industrial or field service environment. Rugged tablet “knockoffs”, those that claim to be inherently rugged but lack quality engineering and testing, can be deceiving too. Very few manufacturers engineer flexible rugged tablet technologies that allow you to implement future-proof mobility solutions with immediate benefits, without compromising on features, price or performance today.