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Mobile Devices - The new client-side frontier
May 25, 2004
In recent years the client side has been undergoing a second revolution. The technology front has been pushed further back into client territory. The mobile workforce, using small handheld mobile devices is for the first time interacting dynamically with backend systems, the effect of which is that there is little or no data latency and as a result data is always current and up to date.
The implications of this may seem minor, but the potential rate at which business can be conducted can no doubt increase several fold, reducing turnaround times and as a result improving the efficiency of a business e.g. orders taken on mobile devices can potentially be filled within minutes of the order actually been placed. Orders can be shipped and invoices printed even before the sales representative has actually left the building!
What is the cost of operating on stale or inconsistent data ? The right hand may not know what the left hand is doing. If information being gathered in the field is immediately available throughout an organisation, the implications should be profound in terms of organisational efficiency and cost effectiveness.
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