Your field workers can update their Facebook status and text loved ones from the job site, but they’re still using clipboards and paper to record technical information for your projects? It’s not as expensive as it once was to stay connected to your remote workers. Why are you still bogging your employees down with paperwork, and exposing yourself and your clients to unnecessary and sometimes costly risks?
Eventually, someone gets that field data captured into Excel back at the office, but you still face the same challenges there as you did ten years ago:
- Field notes often take too long to get keyed into to operational systems.
- Field data gets keyed-in incorrectly due to bad handwriting, damaged paper, or simple entry error.
- Your Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) is too long because of manual processes and double entry of data.
If your primary system of record consists of a series of Excel templates, or you have an application that is not web-enabled/does not work when your workers are disconnected from the Internet, then you are running an unnecessarily inefficient process. None of the commercially available software on the market has the functionality that you need, but you know that you need to stay ahead of the competition. What can you do to more effectively leverage technology in your day-to-day operations?
The answer is there, and it’s less expensive than you’d think. By deploying a custom line-of-business software application into the Azure cloud environment, you get instant availability and technology that can scale with your business without worrying about all of the high overhead that comes with installing or maintaining computer servers, network routers or telecommunications services. We’ve helped clients develop their applications using the latest technology and bring them to market quickly by deploying directly to the Azure cloud.
Using Azure’s software-as-a-service offerings, rather than traditional physical or virtual servers, we cut out of the IT middle man and gets your applications in production faster and easier. Azure App Service for Web Apps provides the main platform for your software. Azure SQL Database sits behind the scenes and stores all your business critical data. Microsoft’s SLA provides an up to 99.99% uptime guarantee for your database environment as well as geo-replication for failover and automatic backup services. You get the benefits of a Fortune 500 company’s IT infrastructure without any extra work and at minimal cost.
Entrance utilizes the best of breed technology from Microsoft’s .NET Framework and the JavaScript open source community to create cutting-edge web applications that utilize the latest HTML5 capabilities for offline data storage to ensure your field staff don’t miss a beat whether they are online or offline. Furthermore, the HTML5 and JavaScript platform provides inherent mobility support so your application will work on a wide array of mobile devices such as phones and tablets.
