Increasing efficiency

Mobility is a great opportunity for your business. Or a fast way to fall behind.

The integration of mobile technology can increase efficiency for your business. But are you keeping up?

It's no exaggeration. Mobility is changing the way we live and work. With the spread of mobile devices and mobile apps, the world is taking up mobile technology rapidly, and the rate of adoption is accelerating.

For those in business, it's generally understood that mobility will affect your activities more in the future than it does today. And some of the benefits are already plain to see. Giving your people access to the right information, delivered on the spot, is clearly going to make decision making more efficient. But the questions remain: how can you keep up with the pace of change, and how can mobility create real value for your business?

These are the questions being asked across a range of sectors - healthcare, banking and finance, industry, logistics and public sector. Obviously business needs vary widely, but from the discussions we've had with our customers, a few common issues emerge.

People Health Care

Creating unity and opportunity

The new generation of mobile devices bring their own interfaces through which users can access information. Yet in business, it must be possible to mix information from different systems. And for businesses employing cloud computing, information must be accessible by many different means. It follows that existing systems and interfaces need to be brought into line with the new devices and handheld working environments. While that's happening, there's also an opportunity to develop new ways of handling, sorting and filtering business information more efficiently.

Management and security

A great many mobile devices are finding their way into organizations without official blessing. Employees bring their own devices to work often because they find the consumer products easier to use and more efficient than those provided by the business. It's vital that business owners find a way to manage these new devices and make them into a secure and effective work tool.

Relevant cases

How Sandnes Sparebank became a mobile bank

Sandnes Sparebank has been working actively since 2009 on offering its customers a quality application on a mobile platform. The applications that were available on the market a couple of years ago were considered and found to light. Primarily, the bank wanted its mobile banking application to meet its customers' needs for simplicity of use, functionality and a good user experience.

Just before Christmas 2010 Sandnes Sparebank was introduced to the new Mobile bank 2. It was very easy to decide that this was the solution that Sandnes Sparebank wanted to adopt.

The importance of timing in the market

"The delivery time was especially important for Sandnes Sparebank. The bank wanted to launch the product before the summer, both to give its own customers better accessibility during the holiday period, but also to stay competitive in a very competitive market. The creative process had to be kept strictly under control in order to achieve this target. "As a result of excellent project management, Sandnes Sparebank, was the first bank out, and launched a mobile bank 2.0 solution to the market on June 15th," says Thomas Nygaard, Sandnes Sparebank's marketing director.

So how did the market respond?

The reception the product got, both internally and externally, exceeded all expectations. Internally, it created pride and enthusiasm. And our customers praised it to the skies. Considering that Sandnes Sparebank has less than 50,000 customers, it was remarkable that by July 1st there had been nearly 2,000 downloads to iPhones and 800 downloads from Android Market.

All of the reviews in App Store have given the app five stars.

***** ”Setting the standard for banking apps!!!!”

Best thing since sliced bread! I'm on top of my finances with super easy access. Won't need to use my laptop log in again! This is the best in the market, well done to the Sandnes Sparebank team! Just add international transfers and I will give it 6 stars”