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The Challenge Organizations worldwide increasingly understand the need to mobilize their workforces. In a bid to achieve the many business benefits an effective mobile strategy can deliver, many companies are looking to mobilize multiple business processes. At this stage complexity, security, time and cost become valid concerns.

Mobilizing business processes with the development of mobile applications can be a lengthy and costly process. Furthermore, an organization’s ability is often restricted to working within the coding capabilities of its IT department rather focusing on delivering a solution best suited to the particular business process.

Traditional mobile application development approaches are no longer appropriate in the face of fast moving mobile technology trends, nor do they provide the best solution for addressing the mobility challenges of a varied workforce.

“By taking a strategic approach to mobile application requirements with CommonTime mDesign, organizations can realize the significant business benefits of enterprise mobility.”The Solution - CommonTime mDesignCommonTime mDesign is a comprehensive yet simple enterprise mobility solution which allows the rapid design, development, deployment and management of cross platform enterprise mobile applications.

The solution features a zero code design environment which allows you to mobilize any business process on almost any mobile platform quickly and easily. The solution also provides full application deployment and a range of flexible back office integration options.

mDesign allows you to produce fully functional and integrated mobile applications at fraction of the time and cost compared to traditional development methods.

Design, develop, deploy and manage dynamic enterprise mobile applications quickly and easily.

Well implemented mobile applications can deliver many

business benefits including:

Improved productivity•Business process efficiency•Timely and accurate information •captureBetter informed decision making•Staff satisfaction and retention•Customer experience •improvementsImproved internal and external •communicationsEnhanced corporate image•

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How it worksCommonTime mDesign provides a simple drag and drop business process modelling interface and an intuitive application building process that can be used to mobilize complex business processes quickly and easily. Our library of customizable business process templates can be modified and adapted in hours, and complex business process can be built from scratch in days.

Completed applications are securely deployed over the air to devices in the field and the information your mobile workforce captures is seamlessly integrated with your back office systems.

CommonTime mDesign Studio includes a library of pre-designed business process templates and components (called process snippets) which are provided for users to customise and adapt using simple drag and drop functionality.

Users create applications by adding process snippets to a new workspace or by amending existing process templates. The configuration of snippets can be changed; new fields can be added and captions, labels and other attributes can be amended. There are existing snippets for authentication, customer information, surveys, questionnaires, inspections, remote data lookup, workflow, photographs, voice memos, and location information. New snippets can be created manually and added to the library for reuse. CommonTime is continually developing both business process templates and snippets, which are available to download online.

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CommonTime mDesign Manager allows application deployment, management and full version control from a centralized location or console.

Once an application has been created, it is crucial that it can be tested and deployed efficiently to get mobile workers operational. mDesign provides secure over the air deployment of applications, as well as ongoing management after the initial deployment. Changes to applications can be made quickly and easily within mDesign Studio and instantly pushed out over the air to the devices in the field.

CommonTime mDesign Client allows the applications to run on mobile devices and make the most of the individual device’s hardware capabilities such as a camera or GPS receiver.

mDesign Client also allows applications to run “offline” should a field worker be in an area of poor mobile signal coverage.

CommonTime mDesign has flexible and tiered integration capabilities that range from simple direct integration with existing SQL data and Web Services to using bespoke elements such as stored procedures to ensure data integrity can be tightly maintained and controlled by its owners.

Any information your mobile workforce captures is integrated with your back office systems, removing the need for re-keying or further data integration work.

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Contact UsFor more infotmation about CommonTime mDesign please visit our website www.commontime.com contact sales@commontime.com or call us on: UK: +44 (0) 1332 542 028 USA: 866 706 0609 (toll-free)

About CommonTimeWe are experts at mobilizing workforces, with experience in developing and deploying line of business applications for mobile devices. Our customers range from local businesses to large multinationals, across the public and private sectors.

The mDesign Studio InterfaceCommonTime mDesign Studio’s simple drag and drop interface makes application development quick and easy. The screenshot below shows business process snippets and the way they flow together for a typical inspection process, in this case, housing inspection.

The BenefitsCommonTime mDesign provides a number of tangible benefits for organizations and their workforces.

Reduced Costs – The cost of mobilizing applications with CommonTime mDesign is up to 70% less compared •to traditional development approaches.

Speed to Market – mDesign provides the ability to roll out business processes to the mobile workforce in a •matter of hours. Mobile workers can have immediate access to the resources they need to make them more productive.

Future Proof Investment – mDesign creates applications that work across multiple platforms and device types. •As new devices are released and your mobile infrastructure changes our compatibility grows with you.

Easy to Use – mDesign allows drag and drop creation of mobile applications, which provides a simpler, faster •and more efficient way to create and modify applications.

Better Applications – mDesign is designed to build applications around your business processes and not around •the IT capabilities needed to build them. The easy to use design tools allow business process managers to be more involved, leading to better applications.

The structure of snippets in a typical inspection

process, displaying individual process elements and their

relationships.