Miles Technologies Empowers Mobile Workforces

MOORESTOWN, N.J. - July 2, 2013 - PRLog -- MOORESTOWN, NJ (JULY 2, 2013) – Recent developments in mobile collaboration offer tremendous opportunities for businesses to allow employees to utilize their own mobile devices to do their jobs – reshaping workplace technology.

Today, with millions of workers utilizing the latest smartphones, tablets and various devices to do daily tasks, more businesses are encouraging employees to be mobile to enhance an employee’s productivity, accessibility, client service response and even employee morale.

“The concept of truly untethering employees so that they can accomplish more remotely - whatever their line of work – by leveraging custom software that taps into their core business is the definition of a mobile workforce,” reports JP Lessard, President of Business Software Solutions at Miles Technologies. “A mobile workforce is a truly optimized workforce – connected at all times to the information flow among a company’s systems, which is a service Miles Technologies is fundamentally built to deliver.”

Miles Technologies offers Miles mobile workforce solutions designed to fully utilize the “second screen” army of mobile devices that are part of the general workforce today.  Trends impacting today’s mobile workforce include mobile-friendly website designs and custom mobile apps, designed to give employees all the convenience of the office – on the road.

Capitalizing on smartphones and other mobile devices can take a website, web portal or other web-based application to the next level, especially in today’s fast-paced world where these devices can instantaneously deliver more information than the average employee needs to review.  

At Miles Technologies, the rising demand for mobile and user-friendly websites is supported with mobile friendly, responsive and/or separate mobile designs, according to Lessard.

A mobile-friendly website is developed in such a way that all of its features function the same on both a regular computer and a mobile device. The advantage of choosing a mobile-friendly website is users have a single website to maintain, plus the site’s development is not as complex as that of a responsive design. One drawback to this approach: The website may not be as easy to use on smaller mobile devices.

Responsive website design involves coding a standard website in such a way that the website detects the user device’s browser and device capabilities. The site’s content will adjust to these capabilities and display to the user in a friendly format. While this type of development eliminates the need to maintain two separate websites, it is much more difficult to develop due to coding complexity and, occasionally, there can be slow load times depending on the user’s connection speed.

“Responsive websites deliver an enhanced experience on mobile devices,” Lessard reports. “A responsive website offers a better viewing experience that is easy to navigate in a comfortable, user-engaging format. With the ability to detect the type of mobile device being used to access them, responsive websites adapt their layout and content to accommodate the viewer.”

A separate mobile website involves developing a completely different website for mobile users. The mobile website is designed and formatted to be simple so users may browse via a slower connection and smaller display.

“Making sure your business website is mobile-friendly is not as complicated as it used to be and it is a necessity for businesses today,” Lessard explains. “Remember, more than 70 percent of all newly acquired devices are now smartphones and there are more than one billion smartphones in use worldwide.”

Most businesses and organizations have websites, more and more are relying on web portals and web-based applications every day, and with the popularity and proliferation of all sizes of mobile devices, a mobile strategy for business websites is more important than ever, according to Lessard. “If you haven’t already begun to make those decisions about your own organization’s mobile web presence, the time is now,” he states.

A complementary mobile workforce solution that Miles Technologies provides is mobile application development. Miles Technologies has extensive experience in developing all types of custom software applications, bringing companies robust and innovative solutions for mobile application needs.  

“Our developers are well-versed in developing applications for many mobile platforms, including iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Mobile and more,” Lessard reports.

Miles Technologies takes all elements of mobile workforce integration into consideration when designing a customized mobile workforce program for clients, including everything from data-accessing behaviors of employees to data delivery, comprehensive mobile platform support, mobile management solutions and data security. Miles Technologies leverages inventive design techniques and proven methodologies to ensure that custom mobile solutions are ready for business use, particularly by sales professionals.  

“Compared to employees from other departments, sales teams need mobile apps and mobility solutions the most in order to make effective presentations to clients, attend events, store and manage information about leads, and work while on the move,” Lessard reports. “Our professional software team guides our clients through every step of the development process, providing as little or as much consultation as needed to make mobile workforce integration and management successful.”

To learn more about Miles Technologies' mobile application development services, call 800-496-8001 or go http://www.milestechnologies.com/software/customsoftware/mobileapplications. More information also at http://www.milestechnologies.com/software.

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Founded in 1997, Miles Technologies of Moorestown, NJ, provides Information Technology (IT), business software, web and graphic design and online marketing services to organizations of all sizes and from all industries. Today, Miles Technologies provides these cutting-edge technology services to more than 1,800 customers nationwide.

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