How Mobile Apps Make Your Work Place Better

   
Mobile apps and smartphones have together brought about a 180 degree shift in the way data is accessed and shared at the workplace. Smartphones are already a part of the list of productivity tools in many businesses. A study by Forrester shows workers gathering about 13 per cent of information from their smartphones. This article looks at the different options mobile apps give you to help your business run better.

• Development options 

The growing demand for apps has given birth to the mobile development boom we are currently witness to. Though there are many options for building than before, the options fall into two distinct categories - off-the-shelf development and custom development.

• Custom-development

 Here, the company pays a development team or hires one in-house to create customized apps for its business. Often the best option for companies that look to build mission-critical native apps, this methodology of development however is expensive. As a result, most businesses, particularly the small ones, don't prefer them.

• Off-the-shelf development

 If you haven’t the budget or resources to build a custom app in-house or with a development team, you could look at purchasing off-the-shelf apps, albeit at a much lower cost. They can be used for email scheduling, data collection, CRM and so on.

Common mobile apps in enterprise workplace 

Here we give you a list of some common mobile apps used at the enterprise workplace.

• E-mail apps

These are among the basic and most commonly used apps in business mobile devices. E-mail apps enable e-mail usage on smartphones and tablets. Apparently 92% of information workers have an e-mail app on their smartphone according to a Forrester survey.

• Schedule planner apps 

These apps have a calendar that records events, reminding users of important discussions, meetings, etc. No less than 80% of information workers have calendar apps.

• Customer relationship management apps 

They manage and share interactions with customers, and increase your sales prospects by integrating sales, customer support and marketing information into a single, centralized database and software system.

• Service and support automation apps 

They enable you to capture using your mobile phone or tablet, real-time service information. They help you transfer it to back-end systems immediately via wireless connectivity. They also allow you to access this data instantly at any point of time.

• Near field communication apps

 Establish radio communication between two smartphones within a certain range.

• Financial apps 

Can access your financial data like payments, expenses, pending bills, customer accounts from your mobile phone. You can also use these to share or record the financial data whenever required.