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Why iPad Is The Best Business Tablet For Mobile Forms
Many organisations are put off by the price point of iPads, but as Fletcher Pelvin (IBM’s IT guy) mentioned in his Jamf tech conference keynote speech, “Windows devices are 3 times as expensive.” In Pelvin’s experience, Apple devices require less support, see better...
6 Smart Ways To Secure Your Mobile Form Data
Many of our larger clients have in house security specialist teams and deploy Mobile Device Management Software (MDM) to secure their mobile devices. However, this is not an option for all organisations. We’ve compiled 6 smart security workarounds that will...
New Mobile Forms Tables Element Coming to Formworks Soon
We’re very excited to update you on the new tables element that we’re aiming to release in September 2017. Many of our clients’ mobile forms are in a list structure: maintenance checklists, inventories, safety checklists … the list goes on! Add Tables To Your Mobile...
Transforming your mobile data capture processes is not as tough as you think
Embarking on a digital transformation programme can be daunting, so it’s probably not surprising that our most common clients are ones with an urgent problem to solve. It may be that a newly-won customer contract demands a digital solution, their service may be...
Scripting – the powerful engine driving smart, dynamic mobile forms
When talking about their mobile data capture processes, one of the top challenges our clients mention is optimising data quality or “getting it right first time”. Errors and omissions at point of capture can have huge knock on effects: additional administration,...
Why local databases can make a real difference to your mobile data capture
How often are your mobile staff filling out the same information time and time again when completing their digital forms - job references, customer details, locations, asset information? Not only does this take up time, it also leads to errors that then need to be...
How Apprentice Training Organisations & Colleges Can Raise Standards By Digitising Data Capture Processes
Apprenticeships provide an important development route for individuals and are key to the development of the UK skills base. In the 2015 to 2016 academic year, there were nearly 900,000 funded apprentices participating in apprenticeships spanning 170 industries and...
GreenZone Cleaning Move To Paperless Environment With Formworks
We recently spoke to one of our FM clients, GreenZone Cleaning, about their desired outcomes of transitioning from paper to mobile forms. GreenZone is a commercial cleaning company who provides services to a wide variety of commercial and residential premises...
The New iOS 11 Release Is Just Another Reason You Should Choose iPad Tablets For Your Mobile Workers
As many of our clients would testify, iPads are a fantastic tablet for mobile workers because of the flexibility, power and reliability delivered by the highly engineered hardware and iOS operating system. We developed our mobile form solution, Formworks, on...
5 Best Practices For Approaching Mobile Form Design For Field Teams
We’ve spent many years working with clients, helping them digitise their paper forms or revamp their old school electronic data capture solutions. Here are 5 best practices on how to get the most of our your mobile form solution: 1. Review your current forms and the...
Hidden benefits of moving to mobile forms
Moving to mobile forms offer important improvements to organisations with field operations - removing paper, processing information faster, getting rid of copying and re-keying of data into various systems (to name a few of the more obvious ones). Also, whilst...