A 2015 report by IDC predicts that t he India enterprise mobility market is expected to grow from $1.7 billion in 2015 to $2.3 billion in 2017. With the smart phone market set to grow in double digits, it is of little wonder that enterprise mobility is taking center stage in the market.  The success of a solution not only depends on its versatility, but, also on how we are able to accommodate the unique contingencies in the market. 19% of the Indian population now access the internet on their mobile phone. Primarily used for social participation, the average Indian spends no lesser than 3.24 hours using the internet on her phone.  Times are upon us when an the employee, be it at the office, working from home or on the field will demand applications that can help them do their job quicker and better.  This infographic predicts what the future holds for the Indian Enterprise market.    ...

With mobility coming into the forefront of field services, the volume of data available has increased manifold. But this does not necessarily resulted in an increase in insight for many companies. While business intelligence is important for specialists, it is also imperative that co-ordinators and field service managers have access to relevant and real-time data to make informed decisions. This not only allows an informed decision making on a day-to-day basis, but, also largely affects the effective utilization of resources and meet emerging demands. According to Aberdeen , only 68% of average users are satisfied with the relevance of analytical capabilities to their job roles. Self-serving Business Intelligence Self-serving business intelligence tools that present visually relevant stories are the need of the hour. Gartner has predicted that by 2017, most users will have access to self-service tools for preparing data for analysis.    Relevant & Accessibl...

In the ongoing effort to bring you a well rounded field service platform, we have extended to provide auto offline sync and added dynamic pivot reports to our kitty of offerings. As a field service platform, we generate loads of data about equipment, billing, distance travelled etc. To convert this into intelligible measures such as first time fix, efficiency and resource utilization rate we need powerful analytics. Keeping in line with this, we have added a new! analytical interface on the existing Reports and Activities on Cloudtrac :   Dynamic Pivot Reports Interface: All reports now have a view and Analyze interface View interface* supports column hide/show, sort,simple search and export (XLS & CSV) Analysis interface supports pivot insight of the data shown Drag and drop the columns and analyze data View as tables, bar charts, line chart, heat map etc Filter on the data and dig deeper Simple TSV dump of the analyzed data Dyna...

#PNgrowth 2016, was handcrafted by iSPIRT foundation and  academia professionals of  Stanford and Duke school of businesses for Indian Start-ups . Hosted at the famed Infosys Mysore campus, the 3 day-entrepreneurial retreat was a perfect beginning to set the mood for 2016. Read this blog to get a blow-by-blow of the sessions and takeaways from each of the speakers.     The much anticipated #startup India initiative launched on Jan 16th has gained much attention from the startup world. The even saw nation wide participation from business leaders, industry enthusiasts and entrepreneurs from across the country. Notable entrepneurs from India and outside commended the initiative including - Kunal Bhel, Bhavish Agarwal, Naveen Tiwari, Travis Kalanick and Masayoshi San.  Read it as-it-happened and thoughts of a visionary from the industry. Startup India Summarised in 3 minutes - Watch the video here

It's been a busy very busy start to 2016 as we have started adding excited new feature set to our product. Here is a low down on what we have been upto - Full Offline Support Now mEdge support full suite of offline capabilities, starting from access task data, master look up information, customer data and critically ensuring that job can be completed offline and updated automatically and intelligently.  Its specially build keeping in mind the flaky connections and the need for integration with enterprise backend systems. If your field executives show up to a jobsite in a remote location without a connection, how will they be able to perform with the quality and consistency your customers have come to expect? Because we know your teams work offline, we understand how important it is to make sure your software does too. With the challenges of networks in some of the emerging countries, offline will go a long way ensuring increased productivity to the field teams...

In the age of the empowered customer metrics like worker productivity and SLA compliance may be leading indicators of success, but no longer hold the final keys to success, which have been given to satisfaction. Mobile workers, especially those with critical missions, need to have continuous access to information regardless of their connection to a network. Most platforms have considerable alignment with cloud and mobile technology and are inherently tied to online connectivity. However, it is also a constraint for industries where a large portion of their assets are dispersed and in remote locations.Additionally, common scenarios like working in a basement, in a hospital or a mobile regulated area, under a cell tower, construction sites can lead to a no network situation. Basically, your mobile teams who travel will encounter situations where they’ll need offline capabilities. With the move to digital, cloud based mobile solutions have no doubt revolutionized the way field s...

In what was called the ‘ Year of enterprise mobility ’, 2015 has been full of triumphs and victories for Vitamap. We started off with being named as one of the top ‘ Enterprise startups  to watch ’ in Feb 2015 by CIO Review, a premier magazine for tech leaders. As the year progressed, we added a slew of new customers with interesting use cases to our growing list. We rolled out mEdge for one of the top retailers in the city helping them iron out operational anomalies in their delivery business in Jan ‘15. Following our success in retail, we took up the task of making field sales smoother. In May ‘15, mEdge was equipped to support standard sales workflows to collect lead data, manage visits, collecting feedback and provide other pertinent information to field sales force. We had a busy couple of months mid-year - Onboarding a leading aftermarket service provider to ensure smooth transitions from a paper based process and launching a new identity for bra...