Peter Dickinson, CEO, Greentree
MAKING THE MOVE TO MOBILE ERP As businesses weigh up their mobile options, the working world is moving progressively towards more flexible working hours and a workforce that is increasingly needing to access business information remotely.
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W
hile this is largely be-
‘cloud’, mobile access should be available
ing led by field service
via a browser or native app from both on-
workers, your sales force,
premise and cloud-hosted software. But it
operational staff, mar-
is only quite recently that having mobile
keting and management
access directly into your ERP system or
teams aren’t far behind.
other core business management software
This has been driving mobile access across
has become really viable.
the length and breadth of companies, into their core enterprise business systems.
There have been any number of earlyadopter scenarios in the mobile ERP app
But what do we actually mean by ‘mobile’
space over the past few years. As with any
access? While it is a term that is currently
disruptive technology, we’ve seen a high
being used a lot, mobile software access has
rate of churn and increasing fragmenta-
in fact been around for decades. Despite
tion. But what has also evolved has been
often being used interchangeably with
a raft of valuable learnings as the number
FSB MAY 2016
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