- Julius Rassou
- 05-Sep-2017 12:06:34
Mobile ERP the First Step to Industrial Digital Transformation
Mobility and
productivity are contradictory factors in the business realm, was a popular
contention even until the first decade of this millennium. But as per the
present 2017 trend, wherein traversing international borders for work and/or on
business has become a trivial affair, mobility has become an important aspect
of productivity.
Where; customers are on the move, vendors are on the move,
business executives and staff are on the move; it is only logical that the
manageability of the business is also mobile. This is when the relevance of
mobile ERP appeals. Presently, though mobile ERP, by itself, may not be able to
furnish all the benefits of the comprehensive solution provided by an
On-Premise full-suite ERP; it certainly is the ERP for the future, wherein
tantalizing prospects for a great digital flourish are envisioned.
Thanks to internet aided Software as a Service (SaaS)
facility; mobile ERP has matured from being an inept source that facilitated
limited access to business data, into a mobile office that employees can carry
in their hands wherever they go. Role-specific access to data repository
installed in cloud services; empowers business decision makers, executives, and
field staff to enter and retrieve real-time information; and efficiently
accomplish their responsibilities from anywhere, at any time, and even while
they are on the move.
As individuals and households are choosing to go wireless;
it’s no wonder that cloud-based and SaaS solutions have become a mandatory
requirement for business processes. Perfectly fitting into that groove is the
ubiquitous nature of portable devices that could be aligned with ERP solutions
by means of fully-customizable Application Programming Interfaces (API). These
APIs rule out all complexities involved in developing mobile ERP by
facilitating the easy roll out of advanced business/role specific Apps, and by
enabling ERP systems to connect with new technology, like Artificial
Intelligence (AI); thus opening the portal of enormous scope for incorporating
new capabilities into the solution.
The forecast for the digital presence of industrial units,
therefore, obligate organizations integrated by On-Premise ERP systems to go
‘hybrid’ by transferring their data repository to cloud-based services, to
realize access to data on mobile platforms. Continuing with an unaltered
On-Premise solution may help organizations to save time and money, but that
would only happen at the exorbitant cost of digital stagnancy endowed perpetual
unproductive lag.
Mobile ERP is obviously the first prerequisite if a company
is to position itself to survive, take on, and prosper the eagerly anticipated
Digital Transformation. It is the due season for companies to dare to go mobile
with its ERP software. In doing so business stakeholders will only be giving
their businesses a head start in racing into the era of industrial Digital
Transformation, which is already almost at hand.
