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Construction companies might be surprised to learn that by combining the cloud and mobile construction apps, they will be able to communication in real-time with little spending and far less development and integration time.

Construction mobility: There’s a live update app for that

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The construction industry is no stranger to innovation, but when it comes to technology, some firms are lagging behind on implementing cutting-edge solutions to problems that are far too common. While some organizations might fear the costs of upgrading, others are worried that deploying brand new systems could impede productivity, eating up valuable time that could be spent improving different processes.

Global Construction explained that some construction companies have certainly moved onto new and better technologies, but it isn’t rare for these businesses to still rely on legacy software and spreadsheets. These old systems are holding the industry back, and this is primarily due to the lack of real-time communication. In fact, the source highlighted the fact that the current reliance on archaic solutions only allows construction firms to collect data every four to six weeks.

“79% of construction firms said mobility is ‘important’ or ‘very important.'”

Saving the day with mobile
Construction companies might be surprised to learn that by combining the cloud and mobile construction apps, they will be able to communicate in real-time with little spending and far less development and integration time. The road to paperless administration is just around the corner for many firms, as mobile app development platforms such as Mobilengine allow construction businesses to digitize workflows with a mobile app to meet their every construction mobility need.

The good news is that many construction firms already have mobile strategies. According to a report from JBKnowledge, 72 percent of construction workers use a smartphone and around 50 percent use a tablet for work-related reasons. Their employers immediately noticed how useful mobile devices in the field can be, as over 79 percent of firms reported that mobility is “important” or “very important.”…

3 reasons why you need a rapid mobile app dev platform [Video]

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Fifty-six percent of mobile leaders said that it takes between 7 months and a year to build one mobile enterprise app.

Hi, and welcome to the latest Mobilengine video blog!

Common mobile enterprise app development techniques cannot keep up with the pace of business. Once a company identifies a problem that can be solved with a mobile app, employees can wait up to a year to be given a solution. But not with Mobilengine since it offers rapid development capabilities.

Here are three reasons why you need a rapid mobile app development platform.

One: Rapid mobile development platforms such as Mobilengine provide a simple SDK to design forms and workflows according to your business process. Once ready, you can launch them on your universal workflow app. This process requires 10 percent of the amount of the code when compared to native development solutions

Two: On the backend, the Mobilengine PaaS solution provides a fully functional management console, complete with monitoring tools and integration middleware. You don’t really have to code anything, instead only parametrize the backend to your organization and users. Instead of wasting time developing infrastructure, focus on your business.

Three: With a rapid mobile development platform like Mobilengine, once you are ready, you can immediately run your new mobile solution in the cloud, allowing you to scale your development.

Thanks for joining us, and stay tuned for more mobility news, tips and strategies from Mobilengine.

Now is a better time than ever to start deploying new and improved mobile workflow apps for your field sales teams.

Do’s and don’ts of field sales mobility

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Some industries are just perfect for enterprise mobility, and field sales is a great example of this. After all, these companies rely on a mobile workforce day in and day out. While some sales professionals travel in local communities, others must traverse borders. Regardless of either situation, these individuals need to remain in contact with headquarters, and in the modern era, phone calls aren’t the only form of interaction. Nowadays, sales professionals need access to customer relationship management software and enterprise resource planning systems, as well as timesheets, task lists and invoicing platforms.

The good news is that organizations with field sales teams have been using smartphones for years. However, these companies merely adopted mobility due to employee demand, when they should be tackling mobility as a challenge to increase sales, revenue and the success of the business as a whole.

Now is a better time than ever to start deploying new and improved mobile workflow apps. So, here are some do’s and don’ts of enterprise mobility in field sales….

MADP: The smartest approach to mobile enterprise app development [Video]

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This year, 82 percent of CEOs plan to invest in mobility.

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Enterprise mobility is no longer an option. However, the growing demand for enterprise mobile apps of all kinds has caused a schism between traditional and mobile app development. Now, the latest trend to solve that problem in enterprise mobility is leveraging mobile application development platforms such as Mobilengine.

The major difference setting MADPs apart is that platforms like Mobilengine offer a complete mobile development package.

Organizations can build, test, manage, sync, secure and deploy mobile workflow apps on the same platform with a universal app and backend. This means that companies can focus on their business rather than the understructure, mobile app management, security, synchronization and analytics. Without those requirements, businesses can create and deploy solutions in a tenth of the time of other solutions.

Furthermore, MADPs give developers flexibility when they create and customize mobile apps, perfectly splitting the difference between native development and off-the-shelf solutions.

With MADPs, developers have a single platform to create a variety of forms, development costs remain low, time to deployment is fast and there’s no constant maintenance required.

MADPs are the future of enterprise mobility, and with Mobilengine PaaS, you can empower your employees with mobile apps while remaining true to your business.

Mobilengine Announces Revolutionary NFC Inspection Program

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Boston, MA, (June, 2015) — Mobilengine, “the complete end to end mobility solution for your enterprise”, announced that UK based construction firm McGee Group will be featuring Mobilengine NFC inspection tags on its truck fleet. This is a continuation of a partnership that began last year and was highlighted by an award from the Construction Health and Safety Group (CHSG) this spring for this organizations’ use of innovative mobile applications. The McGee and Mobilengine team was presented with the Commended Award for the development of two innovative mobile applications that automate and digitize McGee’s site safety inspections and daily vehicle inspections.

John McGee, Director, said: “The Construction Industry as a whole is challenged by the significant number of paper-based forms, reports and other documents that have to be processed on a daily basis. We therefore decided to develop a series of bespoke mobile applications to enhance daily vehicle inspections and site safety inspections to revolutionize time consuming paper-based systems by ‘going digital’ and above and beyond the minimum requirements of law in relation to vehicle and road safety. The main goal is to fully mobilize a number of company processes and to merge several different management tools into one single application for enhanced safety, improved workflow safety and more visible and controllable processes.”

“With Mobilengine’s mobile technology know-how and McGee’s industry expertise, a solution has been created that enables McGee to enhance site safety and vehicle and road safety.” says Michael Kelly, McGee Group’s Head of IT. We could not have done this without our partnership with Mobilengine and their innovative solutions.” Mobilengine was uniquely positioned to help McGee as they specialize in helping companies create apps that mimic their business processes perfectly in order to improve them….

What makes Mobilengine unique? [Video]

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There is a large variety of mobile enterprise app development programs, tools and strategies to choose from, with each offering something different. Do you know what separates Mobilengine’s platform-a-as-service solution from the rest?

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Mobilengine recently released a new software development kit, and that got businesses asking, “What is unique about Mobilengine’s mobile app platform?” Let’s put that question to rest.

Mobilengine is an enterprise mobile app development and management platform for building, launching, controlling and supporting business-to-employee mobile workflow apps. All of those capabilities make Mobilengine one of a kind, but the unique qualities don’t stop there.

The Mobilengine PaaS provides organizations with everything required to support numerous workflow apps, from enterprise-grade hardware in the cloud to integration languages for development. This means that businesses can create a mobile workflow for any task without starting from scratch every time developing a complex app. Mobilengine also allows enterprises to quickly deploy that mobile workflow app to employees’ devices, making this PaaS solution 10 times faster from build to implementation than any other.

In essence, Mobilengine is a platform that provides a universal mobile app on which you launch workflows and forms for employees. Once mobile workflows and forms are created, you can launch them into the Mobilengine provided cloud for all employees to access. This rapid mobile app development process requires 10 percent of the time and lines of code of other platforms, and the hosted enterprise-grade hardware ensures that IT staffs focus on the business, not maintenance.

It's time for logistics to fully embrace the 21st century with mobile workflow apps.

The new face of logistics, powered by mobile workflow apps

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The term mobility has and always will describe the logistics industry. Whether it’s freight trucks transporting consumer goods across America or truck drivers traversing through multiple European nations with supplies for a manufacturer, this sector is always moving.

In fact, workflows and procedures are the only aspects of logistics that are not keeping pace with the industry as a whole. Paper-based processes plague trucking and transport. Not only do drivers need to manage stacks of CMRs, manually note deliveries and submit documents in person, but cumbersome administrative tasks bog down the productivity of companies and their staff members.

However, thanks to modern day conveniences such as touch​-screen smartphones, 4G connectivity and accompanying mobile apps, the logistics industry recently received a facelift. Mobile workflow solutions have truly revolutionized trucking and transport, but not all businesses hopped on this bandwagon immediately. After all, driving trucks and smartphones usage are not commonly associated with one another, and logistics companies usually lack the IT infrastructure to make mobile apps in house. Achieving always-on connectivity seems like a feat even for an experienced team of app developers….

Let's take a look at some of the most popular MADP solutions on the market, so you can have a better idea of the differences between the many tools available.

The MADP showdown: Mobilengine vs. Xamarin vs. Kony

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In the past few years, enterprise mobility shifted away from being a competitive advantage, and now, mobile apps for your employees are absolutely required in order to keep up with the pace of business. Where there is a need, there are technology vendors offering a solution. In enterprise mobility, mobile application development platforms meet that requirement, enabling organizations to develop, deploy and maintain mobile solutions for their staff members.

Gartner reported that the MADP market is growing, evolving and maturing right now, as more businesses procure these solutions and make their demands known to vendors. Of course, like any other industry in its youth, decision-makers and IT leaders are going to face challenges when finding the best MADP tool for their business needs. Add in the fact that marketing buzzwords are the coin of the realm in enterprise IT, and it becomes clear that organizations will struggle to identify the pros and cons of each platforms.

We know you are reading this on a Mobilengine blog, but don’t expect any bias here. Let’s take a look at some of the most popular MADP solutions on the market, so you can have a better idea of the differences between the many tools available….

4 steps to mobilize your construction workforce

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This blog post could actually be part one of dozens that highlight the numerous benefits of going mobile in the construction industry. That’s not what this blog post will do, however. You already know that mobility is the key to empowering employees and making them more productive. You don’t need convincing.

Instead, you need help going mobile to begin with. After all, this is uncharted territory, and you shouldn’t expect other construction companies to gladly hand over their keys to success in that regard. That doesn’t necessarily mean that achieving mobility is difficult. You just need to be shown the right direction.

Here are four simple steps to mobilize your construction workforce:

1. Identify processes

The first phase of the mobility journey is the most important one: You need to understand exactly what your employees do, and then translate that into a workflow or process. Ask yourself whether or not that task can be optimized with a mobile device. Chances are that all of your paperwork can become a thing of the past, but you need to plan.

Let’s take one of Mobilengine’s success stories for example. London-based specialist contractor McGee had around 170 different processes, all of which were reliant on paper. With Mobilengine, the company was able to turn those complicated construction workflows into simple mobile app forms….

A new business-to-employee mobile workflow app development solution [Video]

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To meet multiple enterprise mobility demands, Mobilengine is introducing a new solution for mobile workflow app development.

Hi, and welcome to the Mobilengine video blog!

This week, Mobilengine announced the public availability of our mobile workflow app development platform-as-a-service solution. With Siemens, CitiBank and 3M already experiencing the benefits of Mobilengine PaaS and partners including Vodafone and T-Systems, now you can take advantage of this proven platform.

Starting at mobilengine.com/developers, IT professionals can sign up for free and begin developing business-to-employee mobile workflow applications with the Mobilengine Build Tool. With a variety of coding languages provided by the SDK, no prior mobile app development experience is required. Additionally, enterprises can rapidly create multiple workflow apps on the same backend infrastructure for both Android and iOS devices.

Once apps are developed and tested in the free-to-use Developer cloud, IT professionals can quickly deploy them on Mobilengine’s enterprise-grade infrastructure, the Production Cloud. This enables businesses to grow their mobile solutions at their own pace and according to their own budgets.

Mobilengine provides organizations with an all-in-one PaaS that supports development, launch, management and monitoring of business-to-employee mobile workflow apps.

Check out the toolkit now at mobilengine.com/developers, and get started creating enterprise mobile apps today with the Mobilengine platform-as-a-service solution!

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