Whether it’s a huge business establishment or a small-scale venture, enterprise mobility revolutionizes processes and operations across industry verticals. With on-the-go operations heading towards exponential growth, companies are increasingly embracing and adopting mobility solutions.

Irrespective of the roles they play in their workplaces, employees have the opportunity to enjoy unsurpassed convenience.

Flexible work schedules and operations inevitably translate into high business revenues and unparalleled development. Nearly every enterprise or company is opting for mobility solutions. Let’s turn to some stats, so that you get a complete lowdown on the topic.

Stats alert

Enterprise mobility seems to be the need of the hour. Irrespective of the nature of businesses or its location, mobility solutions can work wonders for employees. If reports published in ‘Forrsights Networks And Telecommunications Survey’ are to be followed, nearly 64% of companies in North America and Europe consider mobility amongst their top priorities.

None other than employees determine your venture’s performance and revenues. Therefore, it’s highly essential to ensure optimum convenience and flexibility for them. With the widespread use of Smartphones, tablets along with the increasing importance of BYOD trends, mobility solutions are emerging as crucial necessities for every business today.

With the capability and power to transform numerous operations across departments, mobility plays a pivotal role while onboarding employees. Let’s take a deeper look into the situation.

Mobility and unified employee platforms

It’s quite tough to onboard a new workforce and speed up their operations. Especially, if you have mobile employees offering remote support, things become tougher than ever. That’s where onboarding software can help by ensuring smooth communication and guidance, even without face-to-face interactions.

However, when it’s your startup, and you are just in the initial stages, unified employee platforms might just turn out to be the right solutions.

That brings us to a crucial point in the discussion. So, what it is it that makes unified mobility platforms the best option while onboarding employees. Here are some aspects to consider:

How does this help?

Unified mobility platforms aim at creating unique experiences for employees. They get a complete picture of your company motto, values, principles, and objectives. These little bits of information play an important role when it comes to understanding crucial business processes and enterprise functioning.

New employees also have the opportunity to know their colleagues along with the tasks performed by them. It’s here that we need to know the most effective ways of doing that.

Tips for successful onboarding

Adopt the best practices that you truly believe in. Plan carefully, get your hands on a high-powered video camera and create an exceptionally engaging script. With these things in place, you can move on to the following steps:

• Welcome videos: Create welcome videos for each of your employees. Let them know about their respective roles and how they can contribute to your business.
• Short training videos: With the incredible capability to engage viewers, videos can turn out to be the best tools for onboarding new workers and employees. Create short training videos thus imparting targeted and effective training to employees.

Parting thoughts

You will have to embrace unified mobility solutions to achieve successful onboarding of employees. That will be the key to achieving unmatched business growth.

When the internet was first introduced in the late 20^th century, its scope and expansion couldn’t be estimated. Now in 2016, we are in a position to manage the web through our handheld devices. Mobile Web has since been the most uncomplicated form of web access.

With the burgeoning interest in the field of Mobile Web, a host of new trends have set a strong foothold in the mobile web market. These developments have not only been software specific, but numerous attachments, or mobile accessories have made the mobile web industry hardware proof too.

Watch out for these trends in Mobile Web Technology

Mentioned here are the top 5 trends of the millennium that have certainly made mobile web access more than just a function.

• M-commerce: The new way to pay

Standing in long queues at the bill counter never interested anyone of us. Offline shopping always had that one sales executive trace our path inducing irritation. It also limited our options. Since the advent of online payment options, shopping and paying bills has been a fun event to look forward to.

E-commerce combined with the ease of handset operation pledged support to transactions without physical cash.

• Wearable devices: more power to the handset

Smart watches, smart jewellery and health sensors have synchronized the human brain with machinery with so much ease. These devices track human wellbeing and transfer the recorded data to the connected mobile device. This has given a new dimension to healthcare on a personal level. Health sensors make fitness goals a reality. These devices have been proving their worth in keeping people in shape and limiting their harmful food intake too.

Wearable devices are the future of the mobile web in many areas than one.

• Location sensing: no fear of losing way

Google maps on the Androidplatform, and similar location detection apps on other platforms have proved to be a boon for people in foreign cities. Traffic determination, routes, distances and best transport choice are some of the benefits provided by these apps that make them even more worthwhile.

• Application performance feedback

The installed apps on mobile handsets work on a pre-defined path and are not designed for abrupt deviations. Any alteration in the existing path causes the app to crash. The crashing of apps is not always harmful. But at other times, the app that has crashed may originate misbehavior of other apps.

Keeping this increasingly mainstream demand, companies are plunging into the market to provide apt feedback for the apps’ performance. Any setting that causes the app to crash is automatically sent to the app grievance redressal department.

• Security

With the developments in this field, certain amends were seen as necessary to protect all the preinstalled features and to eliminate virus attacks. Development of Mobile security tools also became the need of the hour when people frequented with online transactions. So, various companies are coming up with plenty system defenders against virus and malware attack with new and new additions to the existing design.

These trends will soon see modifications with new and improved ideas to make mobile web access even more intelligent and universal.

Tech innovations have revolutionized operations across numerous industrial sectors. Whether it’s the business arena, service sectors, or education industry, there’s simply no denying the role of technology. Mobility solutions happen to be amongst those remarkable tech advancements. Since its inception and discovery, mobility has been working wonders for innumerable sectors and the education industry ranks amongst them.

With the emergence of mobility solutions, operations in schools and colleges are undergoing massive transformations. When it comes to the education sector, mobility plays a pivotal role in streamlining operations. Both teachers and students benefit from the inclusion of various mobile devices, networks, and applications.

On that note, let’s take a deeper look at the situation and find out what makes the bond between mobility and education ubiquitous.

Education and Universality

No one can confine education and learning, within the boundaries of a particular institution. It’s universal, and every individual has the right to fundamental education. Quite interestingly, mobility embraces and promotes this concept which breathes new life into the education sector. Educators across the world have the opportunity to get in touch with numerous students through upgraded strategies, learning models, and technology.

When it boils down to tracking the benefits of mobility in the education sector, here are some aspects you should know:

Crucial aspects to consider 

Mobility has revolutionized various segments in the education industry. The following points will support this statement.

1.      Transformations

With mobility solutions taking giant strides towards development, student-teacher interactions are reaching new heights. Teachers are devising social CRM strategies by leveraging mobile devices thus creating constructive and student-friendly ambiance in class. That is the prime reason for improved student participation.

2.      Infrastructural capabilities

Decision-making and implementations have turned out to be quite smooth and easy with mobility solutions. These solutions play a highly crucial role in strengthening your IT infrastructure, thus making it easier to take prompt decisions.

3.      Supporting back-office tasks

Education and learning happen to be collaborative endeavors, as both teachers and pupils benefit from it. While teachers offer the most useful, comprehensive, and detailed lectures, it’s the students’ understanding that adds an entirely new dimension to the class or lesson. Mobile devices and mobility solutions support back-office tasks thus catering to students needs.

4.      Content publishing

Students should have uninhibited access to the best learning resources. With mobility solutions in place, educators have the opportunity to share important contents and learning resources with their students.

These are some of the benefits offered by mobility solutions. Or should we say, they are the crucial characteristic features of a 21st-century classroom. Try to consider education as an industry and you will find out how cloud-based systems and digital training redefines learning.

Products of mobility

Interactive messaging applications are remarkable and notable products of mobility. Some of the other products include:

• Video eLearning devices and systems
• Web-based systems for back-office support
• Fees collection app and systems
• Document management apps and systems for educational institutions

Signing off

Mobility has the power and potential to catapult the education sector to unsurpassed heights. However, it also has the power to maintain the universality of education, and that’s what makes it special.

The Google Mobile Academy held an event on the 1st of Septermber in Delhi, India, which was aimed at discussing the future of mobile web and mobile web technology. As a Google Developer Agency Partner, GoodWorkLabs was an integral part of the event. The CEO of the company, Vishwas Mudagal was invited by the Google Mobile Academy to extend his expertise as a technology thought leader in the field of web and mobile technology development.

With primary focus on how the web and mobile technology sector works and understanding the prognostic needs of the market, here is what he had to say:

Vishwas Mudagal at the Google Mobile Academy event in Delhi.

• State of the Mobile Web in India: do you think the current Mobile web and app experiences are doing justice to the customer’s expectations?

Vishwas: To be honest, it’s not meeting the expectations if you look at more mature markets like the US and Europe. However, mobile apps are better compared to Mobile web currently. Mobile web currently lacks several key ingredients that will let users access the content and features seamlessly. Few aspects are – 1. slow loading 2. poor UX/UI and navigation 3. poor networks, bandwidth. 4. low-quality devices with majority of users. 5. lack of offline access , etc.

• What are some of the most common mistakes you’ve seen people in the industry make with respect to their mobile web strategy? What KPI’s do you feel a company should define to measure the success of a mobile web product.

Vishwas: The most common issue we face is the lack of understanding how and why mobile web is critical to the strategy and business growth. Mobile web hasn’t got the due attention it needs and most clients don’t have a special focus for it. Only after Google has been giving preference to responsive websites, businesses have moved towards responsive websites. This is a positive development. But still there is special emphasis on key parameters like –

1. Page speed / loading time
2. Ease of navigation
3. Push notification
4. offline availability
5. conversion ratio – to get user do a transaction or sign up, etc.
6. reduce bounce rate
7. increase time spent on the site
8. measuring increase in business transaction through mobile
9. percentage of business / traffic / users coming from mobile

We need the right mandate, financing and manpower to get the mobile web strategy right. This lack of investment is another issue. It’s not a one time activity, it needs us to continuously monitor and optimise the way our mobile web product works.

• How important is speed in a client’s m web strategy / asset ?

Vishwas: Speed is the most important criteria. Especially if the website is transactional in nature, like a ticket booking or e-commerce site. People are not patient enough to deal with slow loading.

With the availability of AMP + PWA combination, now we have plenty of ammunition to address this concern. This was not the case before.

“Design is make or break for the mobile web,” says Vishwas Mudagal, CEO GoodWorkLabs.

• It’s common knowledge that agencies like you all are often operating under various constraints, imposed by clients. Have you ever found any such constraint to affect the quality of the mobile web element of the product you’re building out?

Vishwas: I have tried to answer some of the aspects previously with respect to a special mandate or investment available for the mobile web. Budgets, time and resources are a major constraint with many clients.

Also they dont understand why they need to spend money on good UX/UI. Because the talent in UX/UI is expensive, agencies struggle to allocate expensive resources and end up delivering not-so-great UX/UI. This will ultimately affect the brand, user engagement, KPIs, and even the business. Just to save little money, business end up making huge losses but they never realise it. Because of this, it is important for the CMOs and CTOs to ensure the top management in the company understands the seriousness of mobile web.

• I’d like to focus on one particular topic that can make it a lot easier to develop a responsive experience: design. Do you have any specific recommendations to designers and product managers on that front?

Vishwas: Design is make or break for the mobile web. We have to invest the right amount of time, money and talent into this, else the whole strategy fails.

When it comes to mobile, the expectations are quite high from the general users, because mobile web is competing with the native mobile apps. One recommendation is to bridge the gap between the two with similar navigation, keeping native OS in mind, making it super-responsive which feels as though the app was tailor made for that device, bring in certain personalised content, creating a great look-n-feel, etc.

Another aspect is to understand who are the primary, secondary and tertiary audience. The design should be always ‘user-centric,’ hence understanding who is your user is the key. Then you build the user journeys around the business objectives your web product is supposed to fullfil. Look at creating the right information architecture and information hierarchy.

Because the real estate on the devices is too small, we need to know which data or action is primary, and what is secondary. etc. (I can always discuss the Lean UX strategy of getting this right)

• I know the dynamic between an agency and a client varies significantly from project to project. Do you have any suggestions for potential clients on how to get the most out of their engagement with you?

Vishwas: Effective requirement gathering, expectation setting, best practices in terms of Lean UX, Agile software development (iterative process), clear mandate from client, etc. are very critical. We have seen that when clients are not clear on what they want, the project becomes very expensive and time consuming. So its important for client to do their homework, in terms of requirements, product positioning, feature set, roadmap, go to market strategy. This clarity will go a long way.

Secondly, the right amount of onsite and onshore resources are critical. Distance between a client and vendor team might create problem in KT and project management. So, for critical phases, sitting together helps a lot.

•  Final words: are you bullish on the mobile web?

Vishwas: Absolutely, it’s a no brainer that mobile web is the logical thing to do and it will evolve in terms of technology support (now we have PWA, responsive web, AMP, etc.) to make it really awesome for almost all types of businesses and portals.

The event hosted some of the most eminent names from the web and mobile technology sector who contributed their on-field industry expertise to the Google knowledge bank. GoodWorkLabs CEO, Vishwas Mudagal, was invited to be a part of the panel discussion at the event to help understand the state of mobile web in India. As a web and mobile technology thought leader, Vishwas spoke about the future of mobile web and conveyed the need for rapid advancements and knowledge sharing in the mobile web technology sector.

Click here to read Vishwas Mudagal’s Panel Discussion at the Google Mobile Academy!

GoodWorkLabs stall at the Google Mobile Academy Event

GoodWorkLabs was invited to be a part of the event to extend our expertise as mobile web technology experts

The GoodWorkLabs team was present at the Google Mobile Academy event as Google Developer Agency Partners

Experts in the field of Mobile Web made their presence felt at the event.

GoodWorkLabs CEO, Vishwas Mudagal was invited to share his opinion as a technology thought leader.

The panel discussion was aimed at understanding the future of mobile web in the Indian market.

Vishwas Mudagal spoke about the importance of fast and accessible mobile web technology and the need to accelerate this tech.

GoodWorkLabs is a market leader in providing rapidly deployable and beautifully developed Mobile and Web Applications.

A number of Indian and global MNCs have, since a very long time, upgraded to the concept of BYOD i.e. Bring Your Own Device. Each professional, thus, brings their own device to work and accesses wireless and mobile networks through the company platform. This was initially done to aid the workers and support them with their network needs. Now, it also doubles up as a surveillance system to detect the calls/SMS that could be possibly causing internal fraud.

Enterprise mobility management is a tool that allows the owners to keep track of the incoming and outgoing calls and SMS and emails that directly affect the company’s functioning. This process or method of internalizing networks also provides support in cases of data fraud or when the device is lost. Data that is susceptible to fraud has higher chances of being accessed through various unfair means.

Enterprise mobility management looks after this very situation. All the company data on a worker’s device is protected through passwords and easily erased in case a device is misplaced. This reduces the chance of misuse and apotential threat to the company’s database is also diminished.

Key factors for successful implementation of Enterprise mobility management

Within the broad spectrum of Enterprise mobility management, there come three important yet very common issues that need instant requital. These points of consideration also enlist in detail the significant aspects of Enterprise mobility management.

• Mobile security

In this age of regular mobile habit, handset safety is a major factor to be addressed. Simply because it is easier to access, we tend to store a range of data and recordings that are needed in our workplaces in our phones. This makes mobile security even more significant an issue.

Under the Enterprise mobility management tool, users can easily lock data and other relevant documents on their handsets and prevent any mistreatment on illegal admittance. Furthermore, the set passwords can be brought into use by the administrators and through complete blocking or data wipe out, the records can be protected.

• Mobile device management

The applications on a personnel’s mobile device need a constant upgrade for the device to function smoothly. Through the enterprise mobility management tool, professionals working on the system make constant efforts towards this and ensure that the handset is managed rightly. This also keeps the data on a mobile handset perfectly synced with the company’s database.

Nowadays, cloud storage have increased that allow users to directly save edits to the cloud storage and rule out chances of data infringement or loss or beyond deadline submissions. Along with this, mobile device management has resulted in better productivity and increased security. Better productivity is dependent on increased security as lesser fear of loss of data induces better commitment towards work.

• Mobile application management

The applications on a user’s mobile device need correct management for smooth performance of the device. The final output of a person depends on upon the clarity with which the devices around him/her work. Mobility management makes sure that these minor subjects are taken care of, and specific taskforce is delegated towards this certain job.

Enterprise mobility is fast gaining recognition amongst new start-ups as well. This is one aspect of technological advancement that is rapidly seeing growth and popularity.

Bangalore/San Francisco – 21st September 2016

GoodWorkLabs announced that they have been awarded the Red Herring Asia Top 100. A prestigious recognition, Red Herring is one of the World’s Leading innovation and technology magazines. Hand-picked by their editorial board for being one of Asia’s most promising companies set to take the tech world by storm, GoodWorkLabs set themselves apart as thought leaders in the sphere of web, mobile, and software development.

Since 1996, Red Herring has made a mark in the world of business innovation for recognizing promising companies that are breaking boundaries and showing rapid development in their space of expertise. Red Herring Asia Top 100 2016 enlisted over 2000 privately financed companies in Asia, and through rigorous benchmarks based on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technological innovation, business model, and market penetration, awards the Top 100 for their exceptional growth and promise.

Vishwas Mudagal, CEO and Co-Founder, GoodWorkLabs said, “We are honoured to have been declared winners for this most prestigious award that recognizes the fastest growing and the most innovative companies in Asia. We have grown tremendously since the last year and continue showing a positive revenue growth of 500% year on year. With this rate of growth, we have on-boarded large-scale clients globally and will continue to design and build futuristic technology for the world.”

“In 2016, selecting the top achievers was difficult as always,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “The variety, depth, disruption and traction we saw from the early stage companies to those with significant scale made 2016 a great vintage to judge. The Asia winners are representative of the amazing ecosystem that never ceases to astound, with new and experienced entrepreneurs continuing to push the barriers of innovation. As one of the winners, GoodWorkLabs should be proud of its accomplishment.”

Here is a complete list of Red Herring Asia Top 100 2016 Winners.

Technology and its advancements have become an integral part of modern lives. Dramatic revolution in mobile technology has made smartphones the most sought after technology of all time. Not even the industrial revolution had made such an impact at such a rapid pace. No industry has been left untouched by the impact of mobile revolution. Healthcare is no exception. There are a number of interesting mobile applications pertaining to healthcare and fitness industry. The remote monitoring device is one such example of the impact of mobile revolution on healthcare.

Remote monitoring devices record vital signs and electronically transmit them to your individualdoctor. Any abnormality, if detected, the doctor can reach the patient as soon as possible. Thus, technology has made healthcare providers more proactive and involved with patients’ health.

Since the use of the internet is fast penetrating all areas of peoples’ life, the need to make the stakeholders realize the benefits of mobile technology for healthcare Industry has also arisen.

How has technology disrupted the healthcare landscape?

Following are some of the areas in which mobile revolution has made deep impacts in the healthcare industry:

• Applications for Relapse prevention in Schizophrenia patients and using mobile technology for recording and gathering asthma data have made mobile phones the need of today in the healthcare industry.

• NICHE pilot study deals with the impact of mobile phone technology on type 2 diabetic patients’ self-management. This technology uses the internet and mobile phones to improve diabetic healthcare.

• Another application of mobile phones in diabetic care is the FTA(Few Touch Application). It uses a diabetes diary in mobile phones to provide support to the diabetic patient for managing sugar levels.

• Headache is yet another area where patients can use mobile applications to help themselves. However, types and intensity of headaches vary from person to person. So you cannot be sure about the use of mobile technology in treating headaches, but in the long run, this application would be very useful for the people.

• The automated speech recognition for time recording is a medical treatment in an emergency due to unavailability of medical facilities.

• Mobile phones can also be used during treatment of mental disorders as they are utilized in the therapeutic sessions by psychiatrists.

• Intelligent biomedical clothing for disease management that revolutionized medical treatments is also a part of the mobile phone revolution.

• A number of fitness apps have also come into the market providing health tips and fitness hacks to the people. Some apps send regular notifications to the users prompting them to follow a better diet plan and routine than their existing one. These fitness apps can even be customized according to users’ needs and demands.

• Mobile Apps can now also be used by patients to book appointments with doctors, schedule lab tests, access their reports online. This has introduced more transparency in a patient’s interaction with the doctor.

• Mobile Technology has made best medical facilities accessible for patients located in distant or rural areas also.

In a nutshell, mobile applications have opened up new avenues in personalized healthcare, disease management and an improved way of communication between the patient and health care provider.

Thus, there has been an enormous impact of the mobile revolution on the healthcare industry and this advancement in mobile technology is still to continue and may produce even better results.

The Economic Times featured an article today on the 10 Steps to make Great Apps. Fueled by GoodWorkLabs thought leadership the article goes on to talk about the crucial steps one needs to take to ensure the success of their Mobile or Web Application.

Mobile and Web Apps have taken over the tech space and now contribute to a large chunk of the information exchange online. At GoodWorkLabs we help companies evolve by developing insightful and prognostic mobility strategies. We are the architects of some of the most user experience driven apps and mobility solutions in the market.

Read the article here to know more about the ten steps we follow and ascribe to while developing the perfect app strategy!