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5 Ways To Ensure You Have A Smooth Software Implementation
Any Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) solution needs to be optimized to work specifically for field services. This guide will lay out five ways to solve your field services tech adoption challenges.
REAL-WORLD CASE STUDIES
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Combatting The Heat And Embracing Portability With The TOUGHBOOK 33
Learn how Batson-Cook increased productivity by replacing consumer devices with Panasonic Connect TOUGHBOOK 33, streamlining construction project layout processes.
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Drone-Based Remote Asset Inspections
Our customer aimed at providing field technicians with better and clearer insights regarding assets’ conditions and failure sources, through advanced remote collaboration features, which can even be drone-based.
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Hartwig Turns To Fieldpoint For Mobility And Ease of Use
When someone needs to have their mill, lathe, grinder or CNC machine tool repaired, chances are they are turning to Hartwig, who has become one of the nation’s leading machine tool and manufacturing support solution companies in the United States. Their support of the machine tool industry has helped decrease downtimes and improve the overall efficiency of the equipment they produce, which has made them the first line of support for the machines they sell.
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Gas Utility Reduces Inspection Times By 50% Using Mobile App
Challenged to meet regulatory requirements, a natural gas distribution utility was able to replace slow and unreliable paper data collection processes with a mobile data collection app. The new digital workflow included data capture via bar code saved significant time in getting accurate data into the utility’s digital network as-builting process.
FIELD TECHNOLOGIES MAGAZINE ARTICLES
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Field Service Organization Cuts Scheduling Costs12/1/2019
Moving to a cloud-based solution helps this in-home services provider reduce support costs, eliminate outages, and optimize scheduling.
If your field service management (FSM) platform does not do enough for your organization, it is time to reconsider. Historically, FSM solutions seemed quite similar. Most of the solutions providers in this sector focused on the same core services of scheduling and billing, gradually progressing toward supporting the field service visit as these companies built more advanced capabilities.
Revenue and market growth are accelerated by a new approach to leading a service business. The Service Growth Portfolio concentrates on value and capability creation in three distinct investment areas: 1) Service Product Offering, 2) Workforce Skills and Behaviors, 3) Enabling Technology.
Customers interact with a company across multiple touch points such as sales, customer service, and technical support. Interactions are not limited to human contact; customers interact with a company’s systems, channels, and products that mold their view as well. These experiences customers have over the myriad interactions influence their perception of an organization.
Your field force are the key people who interact with customers, day in and day out. One of the foundations often used to ensure that your customers have a consistent experience is to create a customer journey map. When properly trained on and executed, it will guide your team to take the right actions at the right time and to ensure they understand when and how to best engage customers around different circumstances.
FIELD TECHNOLOGIES WEBINARS
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How To Scale Field Service With AI And Automation
Discover how Salesforce Field Service, leveraging Einstein AI, boosts field productivity, proactive management, and automation, addressing modern service challenges.
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3 Strategies To Reinvent Field Service Delivery
Watch this on-demand webinar, where we talk about easy, innovative ways to scale your field service teams and boost customer satisfaction with trusted AI and data.
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Apple Partnership On-Demand Webinar
Learn how to provide the best service experiences with new Apple + Service Cloud innovations and see how you can make engagement effortless using trusted mobile apps and tools.
INDUSTRY NEWS
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Motive Expands AI Platform To Automate Driver Qualification, Compliance And Workforce Records Management, Saving Teams From Time-Consuming Administrative Work2/18/2026
Motive, the AI platform for physical operations, today announced new advanced AI capabilities as part of its expanded Workforce Management product to help organisations tackle one of their biggest challenges: efficiently managing and empowering frontline teams at scale.
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Fulcrum Acquires Wildnote To Expand Platform Capabilities For Environmental Compliance2/17/2026
Fulcrum, the AI-powered field process management and data collection platform, today announced it has acquired Wildnote, an environmental software company focused on regulatory compliance with field data capture and reporting.
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Bolt Data Announces Bolt Data Connect, Developed On The ServiceNow AI Platform To Unify Equipment Data And Operational Workflows Across The Enterprise2/17/2026
Bolt Data today announced Bolt Data Connect, developed on the ServiceNow AI Platform, to enable real-time field asset monitoring and service automation.
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Esri And Pix4D Launch Real-Time Terrestrial Mapping Workflow2/17/2026
Esri, the global leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, has launched a terrestrial mapping workflow with Pix4D. A Switzerland-based photogrammetry software company, Pix4D specializes in mobile reality capture and site-digitization.
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GeoCue Expands TrueView GO Handheld Lineup With New TrueView GO NEO At Geo Week 20262/16/2026
GeoCue, a leader in geospatial hardware and point cloud processing software, today announced the upcoming release of the TrueView GO NEO, a new handheld SLAM LiDAR system that expands the company’s TrueView handheld LiDAR product lineup.
MOBILE COMPUTING SOLUTIONS
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The 3.5G MC75A, one of the world’s premium EDAs, offers more features and functionality, in a field-proven rugged form factor, than any other device in its class.
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Wilson Electronics provides a variety of omni directional antennas.
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The ultra-thin Toughbook Y7 offers a large 14.1" color LCD screen, DVD Super MULTI Drive with dual layer support, and built-in durability. Designed for optimal productivity on the road or in the office
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The DLI 9200 is offered with either a 12.1" or 15" industrial-rated touchscreen ensuring a perfectly sized display no matter what your application. Powered by a dual-core Atom® processor and sporting a shock-mounted HDD or blazing fast, the DLI 9200 is powerful enough to run the most demanding software.
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The Motion C5, the first mobile clinical assistant (MCA) that integrates technology from Intel® Health, combines durable design elements with key data capture technologies to simplify workflows, increase productivity, and improve overall quality of care. Designed based on input from thousands of clinicians, the C5 brings reliable, automated patient data management directly to the point of care. Get a handle on patient care with the C5. It’s highly portable and lightweight.