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The Challenge

In a bid to achieve the many business benefits that enterprise mobility can deliver, organizations are increasingly looking to mobilize business-critical processes. Projects range from simple e-mail to specialised field workforce implementations such as Sales Force Automations, Field Service Automation, CRM, Sales Order Processing and many others.

Industry research specialists, Gartner, suggest that the requirement for organizations to deploy multiple applications will grow considerably over the next three years.

As organizations have gained the capability to mobilize multiple business processes, complexity, security and cost have become a concern. These concerns become more acute as deployments expand rapidly across multiple departments, this leads to an exponential increase in the number of disparate systems running independently

The challenges organizations face when attempting to mobilize mutliple business processes include management & security of different device types, synchronization of data, development & management of applications and back office integration.

Purchasing and maintaining individual applications from multiple vendors, or developing applications in-house using device operating specific SDKs (Software Development Kits) further increases the complexities and cost involved.

The Solution - CommonTime mDesign StudioCommonTime mDesign Studio is a design environment that allows the rapid development of enterprise mobile applications. This environment makes it easy to mobilize business processes and has been designed specifically for people who manage them.

mDesign Studio gives business process managers the tools to design, develop, deploy and manage dynamic mobile applications without the need for complicated coding.

“mDesign Studio puts the power to create solutions in the hands of those who best understand the problems.”

Design, develop, deploy and manage dynamic mobile applications quickly and easily.

Well implemented mobile applications can deliver many

business benefits including:

Improved productivity•Business process efficiency•Timely and accurate information •captureMore informed decision making•Staff satisfaction and retention•Customer experience •improvementsImproved internal and external •communicationsEnhanced corporate image•

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How it worksmDesign Studio provides a simple drag-and-drop business process modeling interface and an intuitive application building process that can be used to mobilize complex business processes quickly and easily.

CommonTime’s library of customizable business process templates can be modified and adapted in hours, and complex business process can be built from scratch in days.

A library of pre-designed business process templates and components (called process snippets) are provided for users to customise and adapt using simple drag-and drop functionality.

Users create applications by adding process snippets to a new workspace or by amending existing process templates. The configuration of snippets can be changed; new fields can be added and captions, labels and other attributes can be amended.

There are existing snippets for authentication, customer information, surveys, questionnaires, inspections, remote data lookup, workflow, photographs, voice memos, and location information. New snippets can be created manually and added to the library for reuse. CommonTime is continually developing both business process templates and snippets, which are available to download online.

Once an application has been created, it is crucial that it can be tested and deployed efficiently to get mobile workers operational. mDesign Studio integrates seamlessly with mSuite, CommonTime’s comprehensive mobile device management solution to provide secure over-the-air deployment of applications, as well as ongoing management after the initial deployment.

Changes to applications can me made quickly and easily within mDesign Studio and instantly pushed out over the air to the devices in the field. mDesign Studio has flexible and tiered integration capabilities that range from simple direct integration with existing SQL data and Web Services to using bespoke elements such as stored procedures to ensure data integrity can be tightly maintained and controlled by its owners.

Any information your mobile workforce captures is integrated with your back end systems, removing the need for re-keying or further data integration work.

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The InterfacemDesign Studio ‘s simple drag and drop interface makes application development quick and easy. The screenshots below show business process snippets and the way that they flow together for a typical inspection process, in this case, vehicle inspection

The structure of snippets in a typical inspection process, displaying individual process elements and their relationships.

An individual process snippet, in this case a Visual Inspection, provides a diagram to annotate with damage information on the device.

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For more InformationTo find out more about CommonTime mDesign Studio or the CommonTime MEAP, please visit our website www.commontime.com contact sales@commontime.com or call us on: CommonTime Ltd. UK: +44 (0) 1332 542 028

USA: CommonTime Inc. Tel: 866 706 0609 (toll-free)

About CommonTimeWe are experts at mobilizing workforces, with experience in developing and deploying line of business applications for mobile devices. Our customers range from local businesses to large multinationals, across the public and private sectors.

The Benefits of mDesign StudioCommonTime mDesign Studio provides a wealth of tangible benefits for organizations and their workforces.

Simple design environment - easy to use, mDesign Studio allows drag and drop creation of mobile •applications, providing a simpler learning curve and faster, more efficient application development and modification.

Multiple applications across multiple platforms - mDesign Studio provides a truly cross platform approach- •design one, deploy to many.

Design from templates - CommonTime’s 15 years experience in mobile application development instilled in •the provided templates

Back-end integration - applications designed using mDesign Studio fully integrate with back-end systems, •providing streamlined, seamless data transfer.

Future proof investment - mDesign Studio creates applications that work across multiple platforms and •device types. As new devices are released, our compatibility grows, providing the solution for all your mobile working needs.Reduce costs - the cost of mobilizing applications with mDesign Studio is 20-30% compared to traditional •development approaches

CommonTime MEAP

CommonTime mDesign Studio is a key component of the CommonTime MEAP (Mobile Enterprise Application Platform) Solution.

The CommonTime MEAP provides full device management, real time over the air support, the highest levels of security, and mobile application design and development.

For more information about the CommonTime MEAP, or any of its components, please visit www.commontime.com

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