Mobile Introduction
The development and proliferation of personal computers in the last 20 years has delivered repeated revolutionary changes in business processes worldwide.
At a personal level, individual tasks and activities such as word processing and spreadsheet data entry are performed daily by a wide spectrum of employees throughout organisations. This has created a shift in productivity and job roles, notably the decline of the typing pool and the growth from almost zero of the IT support department.
From an inter-organisation point of view, a connected networks of machines, most notably the internet in the past decade, has created seamless and immediate communication capabilities across the business landscape. Email is contending for the position of mission critical application and forms a major part of many employees’ daily tasks.
And from a commercial perspective the pervasive use of computers in home and office has created new market places for the trade of goods and services. A simple web site can create an international presence overnight and the use of e-Commerce facilitates immediate trading capability with these new customers.
The last five years has seen the advent of a new technology landscape: Mobile and wireless computing capabilities. The potential this offers business processes promises just as revolutionary a change as we have seen in the last twenty years from desktop computing. The dependency on the connected desktop is cut and Wireless Networks extend the above IT revolution from outside the four walls of the organisation to the roaming employee or customer on an international basis.
Semi-Conductor advances have progressed dramatically making available handheld computing devices far more powerful than the original desktop personal computers.
This presents many potential benefits to a business such as constant communication for out of office staff, access to up to date information, and more efficient business processes.
To take advantage of these benefits businesses are presented with many choices in networks, computing devices, communication methods and application options.
The goal of Mobile Beacon is to raise awareness of the choices and help businesses make informed decisions on what can realistically be achieved with the technology. Armed with this information your business can then concentrate on achieving the promised benefits.
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