Friday, July 26, 2013

Tech Focus: The Golden Age of Active Apps In Our Lifestyle

By Kunal Mehta / Mumbai

As we are witnessing an age, where everything including education is deploying applications for its purpose. As the world of technology is evolving every single minute, beinbg a techie your focus should be on the development of applications for educating your employees as the performance of the employees depends on their current knowledge. The employees cannot leave their jobs to learn the latest trends in technology; therefore it is the responsibility of a techie to update the employees with the latest trends according to their convenience.
Customised applications use terms, processes, and software interfaces and functions that your employees are familiar with, and therefore enhance organizational productivity and adoption, and reduce training time and expense.

Now the type of applications should depend upon the department and industry they belong to, like for people in IT industry we can create apps for educating them with what can enhance their skills, including new courseware’s and new add-ons which are being updated in the latest versions. Another idea is to create an application where there is synchronization of knowledge between the team, like an application which can give a small social network of the hundreds of employees in the team, where the new innovative ideas can be shared, troubleshoots can be done, issues can be posted like questions and people connected in the network can provide solutions. To know such innovative and technological advanced app, please check at www.taxipixi.com and download the app in your mobile to test its efficiency and mobility. 

Developing such applications will obviously create a comfortable environment amongst the employees, so the degree of performance will be improved and also the unapproachable authorities can be approached via these types of applications for their opinions and solutions about the issues posted. Also as the employees will know that whatever their contributions are in the applications are being looked upon by the higher authorities as well, the overall performance will also increase and will also give chance to the hidden talents to come to the limelight.

Custom applications provide tools to improve productivity. Tasks done by staff, but which could be accomplished using automated applications, are good candidates for customizing. For example, if your support staff provides forgotten passwords to a company’s private web site or network, an application that allows customers or employees to retrieve their password (or set a new password) could give you a significant improvement in productivity. Assuming you have enough customers and/or employees, this application will pay for itself plus provide a cost savings. With enough savings, you can significantly increase your competitive advantage.

Custom applications that increase productivity offer an opportunity to grow without adding staff. A good example is adding online ordering to your web site. Like a bank ATM, you can not only serve more customers, but also allow customers to order 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from anywhere in the world. To know such innovative and technological advanced app, please check at www.taxipixi.com and download the app in your mobile to test its efficiency and mobility. You can extend your site’s capabilities to allow customers to track shipments, check account status, and reorder products. With these applications, you could reduce both your sales and customer service staff. Add a second or third language and you reach even more customers.

As the workplace becomes increasingly mobile, custom applications have emerged as a way to streamline how companies engage customers, improve employee productivity and boost revenue. More and more we're seeing individual business units within the organization, rather than IT departments, lead the way in terms of mobile application development and deployment.

Customised applications use terms, processes, and software interfaces and functions that your employees are familiar with, and therefore enhance organizational productivity and adoption, and reduce training time and expense.

Apart from lot of benefit it offers, developing and managing a custom mobile application introduces a number of complexities to the organization. Even if a large enterprise is building out an enterprise app for a narrow, select number of platforms, it is still massively expensive. The bigger problem however is that large enterprises, just like smaller businesses, evolve and change – and so do their technology needs. As a result, a custom app can become more restrictive and less valuable for your enterprise over time unless you continue the costly process of updating the platform and adding new features, all of which typically requires developers and in the end may only support one mobile platform.

Once a traditional enterprise app is built, an organization must devote significant time and resources to ensure the platform or application supports and tests to new versions of operating systems and devices, while mitigating downtime and other technical/user issues.