17 Jul Web Apps? How to Work Less and Earn More
It sounds like an infomercial headline: Work less! Earn More! Guaranteed using our special system! Don’t worry: we’re not selling a special system.
We just want to show you how apps can make your life a little bit easier and more productive.
Why Do You Need Apps In Your Life?
According to a survey from Apperian, a consistent benefit of web or mobility apps is that they improve business processes; 64% of survey participants believe these apps make the work easier. Another 60% of the surveyed point to increased user satisfaction as well as competitive advantage.
In addition, competitive advantage is exactly one of the main reasons why you should pursue app development. If you have an edge that your competition doesn’t, suddenly you stand a much better chance of driving up your own profits. Forget about leveling the playing field. When you’re getting software made for you, why not tip the scales firmly in your direction?
Considering that web apps are directly responsible for taking a load off employee’s shoulders and raising their efficiency, it is no surprise that they have some of the greatest impact on ROI today. Regardless if it’s a note-taking app, or an office doc package; as long as it increases productivity, it does the trick.
An app designed to make people more productive does just that. It sounds obvious, right? The thing is, you have to get the whole company on board with using the programs in order to reap the benefits. If the app goes unused and only collects digital cobwebs, it’s not going to do anybody much good.
The key to this? Lead by example. Management needs to use productivity apps if they expect any of the other employees to as well.
Reaching Everything, By Anyone, From Anywhere
A study by Gartner reports that 50% of business processes that involve human tasks require “near-real-time-responses that are mobile enabled.” Half of all worker functions will require instant reactions. Web apps give you and your employees the ability to respond instantaneously to any arising issues , whether you are at your office computer or on your smartphone.
More importantly, with the app development plan, you don’t have to switch back and forth between a slew of programs trying to organise the job. Ideally, you would have one front end application give you access to all of your back end data; which provides you the tools to get job done at all times, from anywhere.
Seriously, anywhere. To put things into perspective, imagine your field service employee not being able to access the data because he or she is, well, on the field Or just remember the countless times you were on a plane, without access to some information you really needed? This is when”push” technology comes into the picture.
You probably know push technology as the annoying alerts that make you keep checking your phone. However, they are instrumental for controlling what data gets sent from the database hub to the app. A notification will alert the user that they have to sync their phone, and after they do, they will have access to the data they need from wherever they are. However, certain limits can be placed on transmitted information for security purposes.
Getting More Bounce From Your App Ounce
If your company has already invested into a system that doesn’t include web or mobile apps, don’t fret. It is possible to use an enterprise-grade mobile backend, which essentially ensures that you can use some apps with your old system.
How does this work? If you’ve got a room full of servers, you might be wondering how a less capable machine like a phone can handle that information without getting overloaded – let alone in a timely fashion.
Enterprise apps are FULL of data. Depending on what you use your programs for, all of the information that flows through your entire company on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis might be stored on servers.
The key is to have an efficient app. You and your staff want to be more productive. Therefore, your app needs to be more productive, too. If the app is efficient, it will filter bits of data into the handset, rather than overloading the thing with years worth of storage. In fact, according to Information-Age, the size of the data transferred through each app session should only be about 1 MB.
That’s megabyte with an M; not gigabyte, and certainly not terabyte!
Speaking of huge rooms full of wall to wall servers, you need a team just to run all of those things. Why? Because something always goes wrong. You can never access the right file when you need to. The hardware is old.
The list goes on, and the operating costs can be immense.They will cut right into your profits, complicating not just the budget, but your work environment as well. This sombre scenario can be dodged with a little help of web apps, as they make it much easier for you to migrate your company into the cloud.
Bear in mind the cloud isn’t just less expensive in terms of front costs. Without the maintenance costs of a bloated, overworked IT department and a room full of servers, it is cheaper to pay for cloud storage in the long run.
What do steadfast computers, less time wasted, and lower operating costs lead to? You guessed it. More profit, and an easier time getting there, too.
