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Field Service Engineer—Jurgen Mobile Professional—Paula Financial Advisor—Osvaldo Jurgen stays connected to the office Paula uses her Windows Mobile device Osvaldo keeps up with market news using his Windows Mobile® device to stay up-to-date with appointments using his Windows Mobile device. and orders.
07:30 12:00 14:00 Reuters Wireless Delivery Jurgen is a remote worker for an industrial Microsoft Dynamics AX Paula works as a merchandiser for a major Osvaldo works for a large financial CWR Mobile CRM is a leading mobile client for System sends time-critical equipment supplier. At the start of the Mobile Sales uses RoleTailored TM retail chain. With a busy afternoon planned, institution. On the way to a customer Microsoft Dynamics CRM. market prices and news day he checks his planned workload using technology to help Windows Paula uses CWR Mobile CRM to view a list of meeting, he receives an alert about some This cost-effective solution direct to Windows Mobile Microsoft Dynamics™ AX Mobile Sales. Mobile users carry out their appointments and current priorities. important financial results through Reuters gives sales and service devices. Users get real-time daily tasks more efficiently. personnel in the field Wireless Delivery System. Osvaldo uses the Preparing for her next meeting, Paula uses access to detailed quotes and www.microsoft.com/dynamics/ax instant access to accurate information to better advise his customer. CWR Mobile CRM to review current offers watchlists, alerts, charting, CRM data through their and a portfolio tracker. handheld devices. from the corporate office and sales trends for the region. about.reuters.com/ 08:30 www.cwrmobility.com productinfo/wirelessdelivery Jurgen’s first customer requests some replacement parts. Using Microsoft Dynamics AX, Jurgen creates an on-screen purchase order and takes an electronic signature to confirm the 13:00 14:30 transaction. It is then automatically sent for processing. Paula’s first appointment is at one of the Linking to CoPilot Live Mobile Navigation, After his meeting, Osvaldo uses Reuters Wireless Delivery System to set up a portfolio tracker, company’s busiest stores. Upon arrival she CoPilot Live FleetCenter is a monitoring the customer’s investments. He configures the application to alert him when a 09:30 learns that the daily delivery has not arrived. Web-based fleet management crucial share price changes. Using CoPilot Live FleetCenter she checks the Back in the office, Jurgen’s manager Jan and job scheduling solution. Envision is a GPS mobile real-time location of the delivery and sends It can monitor driver locations receives an urgent call from a customer. phone tracking solution for a message asking the driver for an estimated in real-time, send new 15:00 Using Envision, Jan checks the real-time organisations with a mobile time of arrival. destinations, and forward location of the company’s workers to see workforce. It brings a new customer tracking links. With Lemon Way Wonderbank Osvaldo has appointments in Germany, so who is nearest to the customer site. Jan dimension to field service www.alk.com/copilot Mobile, banks can give robust, it’s time to head to the airport. On his way, schedules the emergency appointment for management, with real-time secured, transactional solutions he transfers money between his personal Jurgen, who automatically receives an alert. resource and appointment to customers who use Windows bank accounts using Lemon Way Wonder- tracking for logistics, sales, 13:30 Mobile devices. Users can review bank Mobile. and service departments. Reviewing the store’s inventory, Paula their accounts, transfer money, www.envision-live.com TBS TaskMaster is an enterprise mobility decides to order additional stock of a pay bills, and buy or sell stocks. solution that gives organisations a competitive popular item. Using TBS Taskmaster, Paula www.lemonway.fr 10:30 edge by integrating seamlessly with back- inputs the order directly through her office systems and allowing businesses to Windows Mobile device, and it is processed Jurgen arrives at the site and assesses Tensing Mobile Workflow communicate information wirelessly to their 16:00 immediately. wave Financial Services is a the repair. He then uses Tensing Mobile wirelessly connects your field workers. At the airport, Osvaldo receives a call from a complete solution for trading mobile workforce with www.tbsmobility.com Workflow to review the customer’s order customer who urgently needs him to trade and risk-management on your back-office system. history and check the availability of spare some stocks on her behalf. Osvaldo uses the move. Users get real- Field employees can access parts. Finding them in stock, he places an wave Financial Services to carry out the time streaming of mission- business-critical information order, and is ready for the next job. critical information, reliable from their handheld trading securely from his mobile device, transactional functionality, computers, making remote just before boarding his flight. and on-demand charts with working fast and efficient. full historical analysis. www.tensing.com www.wecomm.com
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