| Many companies begin to derive the benefits of | | | | uploading of data (real time data transfer) |
| wireless connectivity by enabling personal | | | | When embarking on the mission to implement a |
| productivity applications such as e mail, PDA's, and | | | | wireless network for your company - whether |
| access to the corporate intranet. As their | | | | inside your corporate walls or outside in the field -- |
| employees and processes become more efficient, | | | | it is important to put together a plan of attack. |
| organizations extend their wireless capabilities to | | | | That plan needs to consider all of your |
| include core business applications such as | | | | departments and employees. As a matter of |
| Customer Relationship Management, Automated | | | | fact, it pays to map out your entire strategy to |
| Data Collection and Sales Force Automation. All | | | | consider your total environment. Using a project |
| along the way, more efficiency is realized and | | | | plan to facilitate this process is highly |
| profitability metrics becomes easier to measure - | | | | recommended and implementing your wireless |
| even better! | | | | network in a phased-approach will enhance your |
| Once you've achieved your inside wireless | | | | success rate and help to manage the budget for |
| network objectives, the next step is to enable | | | | the entire project most efficiently. |
| the company's field force via a wireless network | | | | When working with our clients in this area, we |
| solution. As you facilitate wireless connectivity for | | | | recommend starting with a wireless site survey |
| your workforce outside of the office, there are | | | | to determine the wireless "net" that you need to |
| new considerations and even greater productivity | | | | construct. In addition, it is helpful to step back |
| and cost efficiencies. However, as field engineer | | | | even further than that and begin with a Mobility |
| delivery personnel applications are considered, the | | | | Roadmap. This will allow you to build out the |
| requirements and implementation become | | | | project approach outlined above, and give you a |
| significantly more complex and a number of other | | | | detailed project plan that will take into |
| requirements must be considered. These include:o | | | | consideration your internal workers, your field |
| Existing business processes for field | | | | workers and your entire corporate environment. |
| representativeso Current application architectures | | | | It will also help you avoid pitfalls along the ways |
| and associated technologies (web, client/server | | | | as it will consider other systems and applications |
| etc.)o The locations in which field workers will | | | | that will be impacted by creating your wireless |
| operate and the determination of the most | | | | network. |
| reliable options for connectivityo Capabilities of | | | | So, start with a plan, and then execute on that |
| existing devices and selected networks for | | | | plan while paying attention to the details of each |
| providing reliable communicationso Feasibility of | | | | piece of every project. We guarantee that this |
| Satellite Communications, Wireless LAN or some | | | | approach will result in a well designed, cost |
| combination of botho Application requirements for | | | | efficient wireless network for your company that |
| enabling organizations to determine the type, | | | | will allow your company to be more efficient and |
| amount and frequency of the data to be | | | | utilize all of your resources to their fullest extent. |
| transferredo Value of using wireless versus batch | | | | |