This is the third post in our five-part series. We’ve previously looked at how dashboards can provide easy information access to your team members based on specific roles and how self-service business intelligence (BI) and reporting can lighten the load on IT resources.
Today, we’ll discuss the impact on users when they can benefit from having mobile access to their business data.
Making everything mobile should be the key goal of nearly every business. Mobile access to your data will provide your business with that little oomph it needs to guarantee its success. Why? When you give your employees the same flexibility and functionality in their business systems that they get in their personal lives, they use something familiar, which, in turn, would make them happier, more productive and your business reaps the benefits. And when it comes to business insight and reporting, you can put the information team members need in the palms of their hands, anytime they need it, wherever they are.
Employees will have it easier when they have to collaborate on a project and you, the manager, will be able to keep a closer eye on how things are developing. Furthermore, in a time of crisis your response time would be much, much quicker than it would be if you weren’t mobile.
How does it work? A MS Dynamics business solution uses Office and Microsoft SharePoint as a platform for collaboration and distribution and extends access to key information and reports so that users can easily work from their phones or tablets. And with Microsoft SharePoint or Skydrive, users can securely save their reports to the cloud, access them from their personal devices, and easily share them with other members of the team.
This safe and easy way to share data and insight will reward you with increased productivity and a level of service that will make your competition completely unaware of what exactly hit them.
In our next entry, we’ll talk about what Big Data really is for small and mid-sized businesses AND how you can make it work for your company.
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