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AT&T is planning to offer Webalo’s Mobile Dashboard service to the retail sector – enabling the delivery of real-time business intelligence to a mobile workforce in a market that is all about “real-time”.
As you might or might not know, Webalo’s technology transforms enterprise applications and data to make them compatible with mobile devices, eliminating the need for traditional custom programming and reducing the deployment of mobile applications from weeks or months to, in most cases, less than a day.
As the press release says:
Retail is a real-time business – where knowing the status of sales figures and inventories on a moment-to-moment basis can mean the difference between profit and loss,” said Peter Price, president and CEO of Webalo.
Price said that there are a large number of ways in which retail professionals can use the Mobile Dashboard on their mobile devices. For example:
• Managers can get immediate access to store/region/division/company key performance indicators
• Buyers and other executives can instantly access sales information for consumer package goods and other fast-moving products that can inform their competitive response
• Retail executives can gauge the effectiveness point of sales promotions in real time
Sounds good doesn’t it? Leveraging standard mobile tech to deliver access to the kind of data you often see managers walking around shops with on those big chunky PDA/EPOS units. And anything that gets those out of public sight has to be a good thing!
I’m all in favour of productivity apps for mobile, as you know – whether it’s B2C or B2B – and with Webalo having received AT&T’s stamp of approval in it’s “Enterprise Solution Certification”, it looks like they have a great way of linking that intangible (yet critical) data with the “man on the ground”
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Ben Robinson
Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the next-gen accessories you might view it on. As a result he has a broad and deep knowledge in numerous areas of Mobile – from network operators to device vendors, to infrastructure and middleware vendors (not to mention content delivery) – and has worked for companies in all of these areas! He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to 'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device) isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question of why you continue to use it... His focus at IntoMobile is mainly on Mobile content, services, and infrastructure, particularly as regards the UK market – and with the occasional look at devices. Additionally, using his extensive experience in the industry, he will provide commentary on the industry at large, with regular (and hopefully thought-provoking) articles.
