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Nov 6, 2018 Robbie Westacott No Comment

B2B Manufacturing: Why Does Successful Servitization Require Mobile Apps?

Digital-driven customer trends have forced B2B manufacturers to evolve beyond the traditional business model of solely making products, to embrace servitization. The current market now demands these organisations provide immersive after-sale services and support alongside their products, and we explain here how innovative technologies such as dedicated mobile apps can help them succeed in doing so.

Mobile is Disrupting Manufacturing

We recently took an in-depth look at today’s need for B2B manufacturers to provide mobile customer service and product support directly at their point of use. This is an important step which should be taken if a business hopes to transform from traditional manufacturer to market-leading innovator.

Jul 5, 2017 Robbie Westacott No Comment

Empowering a Nationwide Nonprofit Service with the Salesforce Community Cloud

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StreetLink is a UK-based nonprofit service which allows members of the public to alert their local authorities to rough sleepers in their area. The service has helped thousands of people find support and shelter thanks to a number of available channels of communication.

Those channels of communication function through various technologies, with a phone line, website, and mobile app each enabling members of the public to contact StreetLink, who then pass the information to the local outreach teams to locate and provide rough sleepers with assistance.

Jun 19, 2017 Robbie Westacott No Comment

Exploring the Developer Skills Needed to Build Apps with MobileCaddy

The MobileCaddy framework removes a great deal of the hard work for developers tasked with building sophisticated enterprise mobile apps. This means the business investing in the app won’t need to seek new developer skills or spend to recruit new team members thanks to MobileCaddy, and the developers can focus entirely on delivering the app itself. This article will detail the many ways the framework makes this possible, giving the business complete confidence it will be getting the app it needs.

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You’ll always need capable, competent people to build a mobile app which can add value to an organisation beyond the obvious improvements to basic worker productivity. That’s why finding a solution which allows the people you already have to rely on their existing skills and focus on delivering that app, rather than working on tedious, time-consuming development, is so important.

With the MobileCaddy Application Delivery Framework, developers can quickly and easily build these more advanced mobile apps using a familiar set of skills, as the solution removes the need for specialist development, and provides helpful guidance across all stages of the project.

Here, we’ll answer key questions our partners and clients ask us about the skills needed to begin a mobile project on the Salesforce platform using the MobileCaddy Application Delivery Framework.

May 30, 2017 Robbie Westacott No Comment

Top Mobile Tech Takeaways from the 2017 Salesforce World Tour London

Salesforce-World-Tour Each year the Salesforce community gathers in major cities around the globe for the Salesforce World Tour. These events allow those in attendance to come together and discuss, learn from, and celebrate each others’ hard work.

This year’s event drew well over 10,000 people to the ExCel Centre in London.

The MobileCaddy team went along to explore the new and exciting technology on show, and to understand how some of the world’s leading brands are using Salesforce to set new standards for success.

Better tools for employees to better serve customers

One of the main goals Salesforce sets itself each year is to help businesses provide the best possible customer experience through technology innovations. In the digital age, businesses are better equipped than ever to serve their customers, and this year’s World Tour focused on the convergence of cloud, social, mobile, IoT, and AI technologies as a game-changer for those who embrace it.

At MobileCaddy, we obviously have a keen interest in the role mobility is playing in redefining how businesses operate, regardless of size or resources, stretching across all lines of business and industry verticals.

With mobile being a key pillar of Salesforce’s core technology offerings, we’ve listed a number of interesting examples from the 2017 event below.

Feb 6, 2017 Robbie Westacott No Comment

Salesforce London’s Calling 2017: A MobileCaddy Preview

London's Calling 2017 Another year brings another slate of events, conferences, meet-ups, and networking opportunities to attend within the living, breathing, ever-growing Salesforce community.

Boasting the title of Europe’s largest community-led event for Salesforce professionals, London’s Calling 2017 will be the perfect way for anyone working with Salesforce in the UK to expand their knowledge and learn exciting new ways to get the most out of the technology.

MobileCaddy’s own Todd Halfpenny has just been proudly named one of the Top 25 people to meet at the event by Salesforce consultant Phil Walton, and will be giving a presentation on browser developer tools at the event, which takes place this Friday, 10 February.

With more and more of the partners, consultancies, and Salesforce customers we work with embracing the value of using the Salesforce platform to mobilise their employees and their operations, we wanted to take the opportunity to preview London’s Calling with a mobile-centric twist. Here’s what to expect for anyone who’ll be attending…

Dec 19, 2016 Robbie Westacott No Comment

Mobile Apps in the Workplace: The Top 10 Stats of 2016

Mobile-apps-in-the-workplace When looking at the growth and acceptance of mobile apps in the workplace over the past 12 months, it’s clear to see that while priorities are moving in the right direction, some efforts are still lacking to fully accommodate what is an enormous opportunity for businesses of all shapes and sizes.

Considering how these apps are delivered, when focusing on the enterprise SaaS market, there was reportedly growth of almost 40% in 2015, and analysts Synergy Group forecasted that it will more than triple in size over the next five years. Within that market, Microsoft, among others, is now challenging for leadership, but is still a way behind long-time leader Salesforce, according to Synergy.

Thanks to this growth, throughout 2016 mobile apps built on the Salesforce platform have become exponentially more capable, affordable, and reliable, and have consequently become critical to the daily running of organisations in many cases.

However, there’s still a large gap in the understanding of what’s required to deliver this more advanced class of apps successfully, which is something we’ve witnessed as a prominent challenge for the wider Salesforce ecosystem this year. Right alongside that is a lack of confidence among decision makers to place mobile apps into such important supporting roles within the core responsibilities of their employees.

Still, there are plenty of positive signs when looking ahead into 2017, as more and more businesses are acknowledging the potential of mobility as more than just a driver of productivity, but as a key competitive differentiator as well.

To highlight this, we’ve pulled together 10 notable statistics from the past 12 months which tell the story of the current state of mobile apps in the workplace, and which also shed some light on what the future may hold for businesses embracing them as a means for success.

Dec 2, 2016 Robbie Westacott No Comment

Salesforce Consultancies Face a Whole New Class of Mobile App

Salesforce consultancies are facing a significant demand for mobile apps from prospective clients that, for one reason or another, they’re unable to meet. This article explores the separation of all available enterprise mobile applications into five ‘Classes’, based on their varying complexity and capabilities. This will allow consultancies (and end users) to more accurately assess their needs, from both a technical and a commercial point of view, reducing the rate of failure currently associated with mobile app projects.

The need for a new approach

More and more opportunities have been arising in recent years for Salesforce consultancies and solution providers to build enterprise mobile applications. Unfortunately, for various reasons, they’re often either having to turn these prospective clients down, or are taking on the projects and failing – and this is happening far too often.

Nov 3, 2016 Robbie Westacott No Comment

Salesforce Mobile Apps Make Telecoms A Truly Dynamic Sector

Telecoms: A mature mobile industry?

When we recently took a look at the opportunities available to financial services organisations investing in Salesforce mobile apps for enterprise purposes, we reported that the sector was named second only to telecoms regarding the verticals most likely to embrace mobility in 2016.

As we approach the end of the year, it seems like an appropriate time to turn attention to the telecoms industry’s mobile maturity, and provide some insights for those businesses feeling the pressure of the fast-moving, ever-changing market place.

Neglecting mobility is a mistake too costly to make

These days it seems silly to suggest there aren’t huge opportunities being presented to virtually every sector when it comes to leveraging mobile technology. Around 80% of work is now reportedly ‘deskless’, so the concept of a traditional office employee working in a fixed location and spending all their time in that position is extremely dated. But statistics can be misleading, and trends often move a lot faster than the majority of the businesses they’re supposedly affecting can keep up with.

So what does this actually mean? Well, firstly, it means that while the demand for being able to work in a deskless environment – whether that’s at home, on a train, in a partner company’s office, or on the beach during a family vacation – is growing exponentially, it will be rendered ineffective unless businesses are able to provide tools capable of allowing employees to take full advantage.

Oct 19, 2016 Robbie Westacott No Comment

Looking Beyond the Limitations of Salesforce1 Mobile Apps

mobile-apps For businesses looking to leverage the Salesforce platform to mobilise operations, enabling the now inescapable demand for ‘deskless work,’ it’s common for Salesforce1 mobile apps to be the vehicle chosen to make the first attempt.

When given to employees within a business, mobile apps are intended to make those workers faster, more accurate, and more effective in doing their jobs.

That ability to work seamlessly from a mobile device at any time, in any location, is ideal for driving productivity. But unfortunately, those valuable gains will only be achieved if the right mobile apps are introduced.

While Salesforce1 is a great first step for a business to take when setting out on its mobile journey, the inherent limitations can only stretch so far.

Sep 5, 2016 Robbie Westacott No Comment

Diesel: Learn How This Leading Global Brand Achieved Mobile App Success

diesel-case-study While enterprise mobility may have transcended the status of ‘buzzword’ to be recognised as a genuine strategic business practice many years ago, most analysts and experts feel it’s a trend which is still in its infancy.

Why? Well, despite the vast majority of employees now demanding mobile technology in their respective workplaces – fuelled by the consumer habits and expectations of their everyday lives – some business leaders are still struggling to fully embrace enterprise mobility.

In some cases, this is due to a lack of funding for investment, in others it’s because of the challenges they feel will arise from disrupting their organisations; but often it’s because they’re unable to understand how their most important business processes would actually benefit from translating into the context of a mobile phone from paper or desktop.

But with all the early attention on enterprise mobility being given to mobile devices, mobile business strategies are now beginning to mature and evolve to focus on the applications those devices support. This app-centric trend is where the real driving force has originated recently for enterprise mobility to become more than just a strategic business practice, but an absolute necessity for those businesses to survive in the long-term.

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