Blue Dot’s Work Management mobile solutions allow field workers to remotely manage and service a variety of work order-based tasks. Specifically, remotely manage individual work orders, create new work orders on the fly, document critical on-site customer visit or specific equipment information, and capture both time and materials usage. Each completed work order can be synchronized and sent back to corporate backend systems in a real-time or right-time connectivity environment.    

Below are additional features and benefits for Blue Dot’s Work Management mobile solutions:

Features

• Remotely review work orders or services orders 
• Create new work orders on the fly
• Review history information from previous work orders 
• Update comments to work orders
• Book labor for individuals or for a crew
• Record parts usage to a work order for improved inventory tracking
• Complete work order through consistent, validated process
• Transfer work orders
• Review documents associated with a work order
• Capture images or signatures for work orders

Business Benefits

• Eliminate unnecessary travel time associated with the pickup and delivery of manual work orders
• Enable service technicians to more effectively complete jobs by providing valuable information when and where they need it most
• Improve efficiency in the time it takes to complete work orders in the field
• Improve the quality of data through electronic data capture opposed to error-prone manual processes
• Improve invoice turn time by immediately creating invoices opposed to lengthy, manual, double-entry process
• Improve customer service through more timely and efficient response and resolution of work orders

Work Management mobile solutions are designed and built within Blue Dot’s  mfLY!^® for Visual Studio 2008mobile application design environment.  mfLY! allows IT resources to easily leverage a visual workflow designer and entity data model designer to evolve Work Management mobile solutions all on their own.   In addition, the solution works seamlessly with all the tools and components that make up the entire mNOW!^® Mobile Framework 2008.

Blue Dot’s Mobile GIS for Inspections solutions expands geographic and mapping data to any remote field worker. Specifically, GIS mapping data can be taken to the field as digital color-based maps for any type of Windows and Windows Mobile-based device or PC.  By improving your mobile business processes to incorporate map-based workflow, organizations will dramatically improve the efficiency and effectiveness of remote field workers.

Below are additional features and benefits for Blue Dot’s Mobile GIS for Inspections solutions:

Features

• Turn by turn navigational directions
• Annotate on top of maps or images to record specific notations relevant to the data capture process
• Seamlessly swap views between data collection forms and map view
• Integrate with existing GIS information, and bring current GIS data to any mobile device
• Pre-existing integration with many leading GIS backend systems

Business Benefits

• Eliminate unproductive time searching for locations, assets, or other critical information when remotely completing field inspections
• Improve operational processes and GO GREEN through the elimination of intensive paper-based distribution.
• Reduced operational costs: reduce your back-office overheads, bring office functions to the front line and keep your field workers active in the field.
• Standardization of work processes: automate your business process workflow to ensure your field workers adopt consistent work practices and use up-to-date reference data, synchronized with your back office.
• Better data quality: capture data in the field with on-site validation and return it electronically.
• Eliminate paper, eliminate transcription errors and improve the quality of the data entering your corporate systems.
• Improved customer service: complete tasks first time, using effective, high-impact technology to increase customer satisfaction and perception.

Mobile GIS for Inspections solutions are designed and built within Blue Dot’s  mfLY! for Visual Studio 2008mobile application design environment.  mfLY! allows IT resources to easily leverage a visual workflow designer and entity data model designer to evolve Mobile GIS Inspections solutions all on their own.   In addition, the solution works seamlessly with all the tools and components that make up the entire mNOW! Mobile Framework 2008.

Blue Dot’s Inspections mobile solutions enable mobile workforce professionals to accurately and efficiently capture any type of inspection-driven data on a Windows or Windows Mobile-based device.  The collected inspections data can be synchronized to any backend system in a real-time or right-time connectivity environment. The productivity gains for automating paper-based inspections is very significant, and once implemented, provides on-going value for organizations year over year.

Below are additional features and benefits for Blue Dot’s Inspections mobile solutions:

Features

• Map inspection points within any backend system to a generic inspection workflow on both mobile devices, tablet PC’s or full screen PC’s.
• Leverage signature capture and time recording on all inspection records to validate work time, billing scenario, and work data performance.
• Capture images to inspection records through integrated camera from mobile device
• Integrate with mobile GIS or navigational software to find destination, specific equipment, or asset
• Sophisticated workflow and data validation
• Pre-existing integration with many leading inspection-based backend systems

Benefits

• Reduce operating expenses by eliminating costly inspection form printing, manual completion, and labor intensive rekey process into backend systems
• Improve data quality through increased validation and electronic data collection process on a mobile device
• Integrate more information to your backend systems to provide auditors and customers the information they require: pictures, maps, sketches, comments, etc.
• Eliminate unnecessary and costly drive time associated with pickup and delivery of manual inspection forms

Inspections mobile solutions are designed and built within Blue Dot’s  mfLY!^® for Visual Studio 2008mobile application design environment.  mfLY! allows IT resources to easily leverage a visual workflow designer and entity data model designer to evolve Inspections mobile solutions all on their own.   In addition, the solution works seamlessly with all the tools and components that make up the entire mNOW!^® Mobile Framework 2008.

Blue Dot’s Asset Management mobile solutions streamline many asset-based operation business processes, ranging from receiving new assets to maintaining and tracking physical installed assets.  By automating these traditional paper-based processes, both reduction in time of asset inventories and significant on-going asset data accuracy will be achieved. 

Below are additional features and benefits for Blue Dot’s Asset Management mobile solutions:

Features

• Receive new assets into stock
• Move assets to new location
• Retire an asset
• Apply integrated barcode scanning to all transactions in application
• Associate images to asset record
• Involve pre-existing integration with many leading asset management backend systems
• Verify current asset information at the point of activity
• Automate asset inventories
• Compare expected assets per location to actual inventory captured
• Create new asset record in the field
• Track warranty status

Business Benefits

• Significantly reduce the time associated with asset inventories by leveraging barcode scanning and electronic data capture
• Greatly improve the quality of data  pertaining to asset location, quantity, status, and asset header information
• Save money by properly managing warranty-based assets
• Improved accounting through the proper disposal and retiring of assets
• Knowing where your assets are at all times leads improvements in finance, customer service, and internal operations

Asset Management mobile solutions are designed and built within Blue Dot’s  mfLY!^® for Visual Studio 2008mobile application design environment.  mfLY! allows IT resources to easily leverage a visual workflow designer and entity data model designer to evolve Asset Management mobile solutions all on their own.   In addition, the solution works seamlessly with all the tools and components that make up the entire mNOW!^® Mobile Framework 2008.

Blue Dot’s Proof of Delivery mobile solutions enable your remote field workers to track goods from dispatch to delivery, minimizing shrinkage, loss and delivery inaccuracies.  The solution will eliminate excessive paperwork, data rekeying and manual errors associated with handwriting transposition and related manual processes. In addition, our Proof of Delivery mobile solutions offer organizations a powerful tool for increasing efficiency and decreasing costs across the supply chain.  

Below are more specific features and business benefits associated with Blue Dot’s Proof of Delivery mobile solutions:

Features

• Validate the correct amount of products delivered, each specific location they were delivered to, and the time they were delivered
• Electronically record the signature of the person receiving the products
• Bar-coded items are  scanned using a barcode scanner—this  includes packages as well as items that are tracked by serial number
• Transmit copies of PODs to customers who require them automatically reduce  queries
• Allow sorting and optimization of route on mobile device

Benefits

• Shorten the delivery to invoice cycle - jobs can be invoiced within minutes of being completed
• Improve customer service through better data quality and understanding the exact status of a pickup or delivery at any given moment
• Reduce operating costs through reduced time of each pickup and delivery

Proof of Delivery mobile solutions are designed and built within Blue Dot’s  mfLY!^® for Visual Studio 2008mobile application design environment.  mfLY! allows IT resources to easily leverage a visual workflow designer and entity data model designer to evolve Proof of Delivery mobile solutions all on their own.   In addition, the solution works seamlessly with all the tools and components that make up the entire mNOW!^® Mobile Framework 2008.

Blue Dot’s RFID for Preventive Maintenance mobile solutions deliver the latest in technology to automate engine hour readings, temperature, fuel/oil metrics, and other essential readings required to properly maintain critical assets and equipment.  The solution eliminates manual data capture of many types of preventive maintenance data, reducing operational costs, improving overall data accuracy, and extending the life of key assets.  RFID for Preventative Maintenance mobile solutions bring extremely quick return on investment to organizations requiring more advanced preventative maintenance solutions. In addition to leveraging RFID technology, the total solution combines all the necessary components, including hardware, application software, services, and support.

Below are more specific features and benefits for Blue Dot’s RFID for Preventative mobile solutions:
 
Features

• Full integration with Active RFID tags and RFID Reader on mobile device
• Read range of up to 300 feet from RFID Tag on equipment to mobile device
• Automatically collect engine hour readings and immediately synchronize to and standards or proprietary backend database systems
• Additionally capture other important information such as fuel level, oil level, battery life, status, etc.
• Pre-existing integration with many leading EAM backend systems

Benefits

• Reduce operating costs by eliminating the need for time-consuming and error-prone manual data capture processes and rekey entry of data into CMMS systems
• Improve data quality by obtaining engine hour readings electronically instead of error-prone manual processes
• Improve overall preventative maintenance by ensuring critical meter reading information is actually entered into system and is accurate

RFID for Preventative Maintenance mobile solutions are designed and built within Blue Dot’s mfLY!^® for Visual Studio 2008 mobile application design environment.  mfLY! allows IT resources to easily leverage a visual workflow designer and entity data model designer to evolve RFID for Preventative Maintenance mobile solutions all on their own.  In addition, the application works seamlessly with all the tools and components that make up the entire mNOW!^® Mobile Framework 2008.

Blue Dot’s Field Sales mobile solutions allows organizations the ability to record sales in the field on any sized mobile device and completely eliminate the need for paper-based forms.  The solution not only encompasses a rich mobile application that improves efficiency in the field sales process, but also includes a backend application for assigning prospects to individual sales personnel.  The administration application includes a full administrative console, complete with device management and reporting features.  The system is also architected on top of a flexible integration layer (the mNOW! Mobile Framework Integration Engine), providing the unique ability to integrate the Field Sales application with corporate ERP and bespoke systems.  The solution also provides unlimited configurability to match each organization’s unique Field Sales business processes.

Below are more specific features and benefits for Blue Dot’s Field Sales mobile solutions:

Features

• Synchronize prospects information to the mobile device and ensure near real-time updates to corporate systems
• Sort prospects by various fields including zip code, town, status, etc.
• Record “No Sale” information to improve field sales close rates and statistics
• Link with corporate PowerPoint presentations for seamless integrated application and experience for the customer
• Record all aspects of the sale, including product choice, billing information, bank details, customer confirmation, and signature
• Confirm bank processing at the customer location
• Mobile application is a binding legal contract
• Print receipt or confirm immediate email to customer
• Eliminate the need for paper based forms

Assignment and Dispatch Module

• Role based hierarchy for assigning prospects to the field
• Administrative console to add new users or managers, or edit the hierarchy of existing personnel
• Drag and drop unassigned prospects to field salespeople
• Record Winbacks
• Single click export of information to Excel or PDF for versatile reporting
• Single Sign-on/Active Directory security support

Business Benefits

• Improve the efficiency of recording “no sale” and “sale” information through intuitive electronic interface vs. time consuming paper based forms
• Improving receivables and DSO by processing payment information immediately at the time of sale
• Improved communications with field sales personnel for email and alerts
• Eliminate the labor required to rekey paper based sales forms to corporate systems
• Avoid costly mistakes of incorrect information caused by illegible handwriting, rekey typing errors,  and smudged paper forms 
• Eliminate the need for paper based forms; eliminate cost of printing and “go green”

Field Sales mobile solutions are designed and built within Blue Dot’s mfLY! ^®for Visual Studio 2008 mobile application design environment.  mfLY! allows IT resources to easily leverage a visual workflow designer and entity data model designer to evolve Field Sales mobile solutions all on their own.  In addition, the application works seamlessly with all the tools and components that make up the entire mNOW!^® Mobile Framework 2008.

The Storeroom Inventory Management mobile business application optimizes inventory efficiencies for a broad range of storeroom management processes.  The functionality of the application ranges from automation of cycle counts to reduced theft through improved confidence in inventory stock levels and valuation.   

Features

• Check out/in parts to a work order, employee, or equipment
• Parts lookup capability
• Automated Cycle Counts (both scheduled and blind cycle counts)
• Bin to bin and storeroom transfers
• Receiving parts
• Wireless printing
• Integrated barcode scanning throughout all functionality
• Pre-existing integration with many leading CMMS backend systems

Benefits

• Improve the operational efficiency associated with manual processes of tracking parts management throughout storeroom locations
• Improve inventory accuracy to reduce critical inventory shortages, false accounting reporting, and unnecessary stock purchasing
• Eliminate downtime associated with searches for “missing parts”
• Significantly reduce the time associated with daily, monthly, or annual cycle counts
• Eliminate the need for manual key entry of “check in/out” logs or cycle count sheets into EAM/CMMS system
• Reduce theft are write-offs due to lack of proper inventory management processes

The Storeroom Inventory Management mobile business application is powered by mfLY!^® for Visual Studio 2008, and allows IT resources to easily leverage mfLY!’s visual workflow designers to modify and grow the Inventory Management application internally.  In addition, the mobile application works seamlessly with all the tools and components that make up the entire mNOW!^® Mobile Framework 2008.