As adoption of mobile devices increase, enterprises too have realized they can't do without it. eBMS has adapted the Shipping and logistics solutions by building mobile applications focused on solving the business problems of eBMS clients.
For instance, eBMS has developed a eSales Dialogue for the Sales teams to quickly access Leads and prospects data, to check Voyages and Rates. For Senior managers on the move, approval work flows on mobile enables timely responses to Agents and sales teams requests. For customer support executives or operations executives on the field, the mobile applications enables timely update of Shipment tracking information. Improved customer support by providing Track and Trace and Shipment tracking to customers, provides scope of immense productivity and customer satisfaction.
Should organisations "do mobility right" by deploying native apps that are customized for each type of smart phone and tablet used by their workforce, business partners and customers? Or can the organization get by with mobile web-based apps that can be used by everyone? eBMS provides solutions with a mix of web-based and native mobile application depending on the functional features required for their customers.
1. Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms (MEAP) MEAP enables developing mobile software for variety of devices, networks and user groups. Unlike standalone apps, a MEAP provides a comprehensive, Cross-platform capability. A company can use a MEAP to develop the mobile application once and deploy it to a variety of mobile devices with no changes to the underlying business logic
2. SAP Mobile Applications Platform - MEAP eBMS is developing development capability in SAP Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) containing the Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP), Afaria and SAP NetWeaver Gateway Sybase Unwired Platform and SAP Afaria enable secure IT management of a heterogeneous mix of enterprise mobile applications, while SAP NetWeaver Gateway provides the interface to data in a timeless, nondisruptive, standards-based, and easy-to-use fashion. . The greatest benefit is that using SUP provides the ability to build once and deploy to multiple devices, while still connecting to the mission-critical back-end systems. The time-savings and unified development process are beneficial when it suits the client's requirements
3. Native Mobile Operating systems eBMS has tied up with Mobile application developers with experience in development on mobile operating systems such as iOS, Android and Windows Mobile. The native applications-and their rich user experience and robust features are recommended based on the clients' mobility application usage requirment. eBMS development associates have extensive experience and knowledge in Application development for Smart phone such as iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, J2ME, Symbian, Mobile Web and other such hand-held application software development Competency in upcoming technologies like HTML5, that combine the best of both worlds - increased functionality that can be easily accessed by all mobile devices is also being built
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