Mobile is changing how I work: Today, one productive meeting turned into three when my client care appnotified me of other customers within a five-mile radius of my location.
Mobile is giving my more ways to better serve my customers: My client’s husband is allergic to the rose bushes we planned to use in their new landscape feature. My product management app identifies low-allergen options in stock in my shop and with my local growers so I can offer an alternative in minutes – and reserve the rose bushes for another client.
Mobile is protecting my data and my company’s data: When my work tablet – containing my credit card information and patients’ data – was being attacked by malware without my knowledge, it could have been devastating for me and my practice. Luckily, my company discovered it immediately and was able to wipe the data, protecting me and my patients.
Yet we know that delivering on the promise of mobile technologies presents a challenge.
Your line of business peers are asking for apps to meet their objectives and those of your organization. They expect to use mobile apps to deliver value to your customers, prospects, and employees.
But they don’t consider the challenges. Development, security, operations, and engagement have to be managed effectively. Dealing with those challenges can be a drain on time and resource. That time and resource would be better spent on improving how apps perform and the value they bring to users and your organization.
Use a mobile platform so that you and your team can focus on adding value rather than spending time on mobile infrastructure (“plumbing”).
IBM offers capabilities to extend and complement the MobileFirst Platform.
IBM MobileFirst Protect integrates comprehensive security to enhance employee productivity on their mobile devices and give organizations the confidence that their sensitive data is protected.
There are four (4) key solution bundles for total enterprise mobility:
Our foundational IBM MobileFirst Protect Advanced Mobile Management, enables organizations to manage and secure enterprise-owned and personal BYO smartphones, tablets and laptops. It simplifies deploying private and public apps by delivering an easy-to-use enterprise app catalog with full security and operational lifecycle management.
IBM MobileFirst Protect Secure Productivity Suite, delivers a comprehensive set of cross-platform solutions to isolate and contain work emails, Web access and app data to prevent data leaks. It is the only complete solution that enables employees to securely access corporate data while preserving the mobile experience on their devices.
IBM MobileFirst Protect Mobile Enterprise Gateway, offers simple and secure access to behind-the-firewall business resources, such as SharePoint, Windows File Share, intranet sites and databases.
IBM MobileFirst Protect Secure Document Sharing, provides a secure, encrypted container and productivity suite to distribute, view, create, edit and share documents on mobile devices, giving organizations the control they need and employees the access they demand.
All these services work together seamlessly and provide multiple layers of management and security, and granular level policy options for you to configure.
IBM Experience One helps CMOs, Commerce and Analytics managers drive mobile customer engagement by understanding their customers, delivering relevant content and offers to them on mobile devices, and supporting seamless m-commerce.
IBM ExperienceOne, is a set of software capabilities supported by technology and services expertise to deploy and use these in customer engagement solutions.
Offerings include Tealeaf, Mobile Customer Engagement, Presence Zones, and WebSphere Commerce. These capabilities allow you to:
Increase opt-ins and ‘stickiness’ of mobile apps via intelligent personalization and context-awareness
Deliver fine-grained segmentation for optimal targeting, with ability to design and manage mobile campaigns
Provide in-depth analysis of mobile app usage to facilitate optimization of the mobile client experience
Integrate with enterprise customer data, as well as external information such as weather, location, etc.
The Five Biggest Challenges Faced by Organizations Wishing to Build & Deploy Mobile Apps
The MobileFirst Platform supports mobile development and operations with four components
Efficiently develop and integrate. It enables you accelerate the development of native, hybrid, and HTML5 mobile applications. It supports your choice of development approach and complements your existing practices and tools by providing tools to streamline connectivity, test, simulation, build, and share apps across development and test teams.
Easily secure. The Platform leverages security standards and the mobile operating systems’ security capabilities, and enables you to control which users, apps, and devices can access your corporate services. This helps to prevent leakage of sensitive corporate or user data.
Personalize the engagement. Helps you create a more personal and relevant experience with each of your users. It enables you to benefit from the wide variety of devices, user access methods, and sensors, to empower your users with the right data and actions to do business with your or to work more efficiently.
Continuously deliver. The MobileFirst platform facilitates the iterative process of mobile application development, supporting the delivery and operations phases steps necessary to ensure continuous quality engagement with your users. It enables you to keep improving the quality of your user engagement and to ensure that day-to-day operations are under control.
MTR is one of the world’s largest passenger transport systems, providing 1.82 B passenger trips per year in Hong Kong, across 84 heavy rail stations and 68 light railstops.
THE SITUATION:
Behind the scenes, MTR is always at work maintaining trains and stations, providing better services and monitoring conditions that threaten to slow the system, from typhoons to traffic. But field employees across job roles were bogged down by job-critical paperwork. For example:
Engineers on MTR construction sites had to print and take to job sites all project deliverables, as well as documents from 3rd party contractors.
Customer Rapid Response Units carried roller cases with reference manuals needed to help passengers in real time.
MTR needed a better way for employees can respond more quickly to urgent service issues and provide passengers with instant information.
BUSINESS NEEDS:
Improve engineers’ productivity with real-time access to project and vendor data
Enable customer service teams to quickly and effectively respond to passengers in a crisis
Make it faster and easier for maintenance teams to report safety concerns and repair needs
SOLUTION:
Mobile project management app (created the IBM MobileFirst Platform, formerly IBM Worklight) provides a full and current view of construction plans
Mobile emergency toolkit delivers real-time crisis updates
Mobile maintenance app automates repair processes
RESULTS
Engineers can now quickly check plans, specs, and budgets; collaborate with other groups; and respond to contractors while onsite
Customer service teams can now quickly respond to passengers with commute updates and resource availability
Maintenance teams can now photo-document, flag and track repairs “on the fly”
Improved employees productivity and data accuracy
MTR’s employees can work anytime, anywhere with just an iPad or iPhone installed with mobile app
Traditional paper work/report are no longer needed, latest information/data can be collected in the Mobile App
Faster, more efficient systems for better emergency response, construction maintenance, and passenger information
Summary:
Banking firm Tangerine (formerly ING DIRECT Canada) was looking for a nimble, fast and responsive way to respond and adapt to customer preferences in the rapidly changing consumer mobile banking market.
Tangerine’s solution was to work with IBM Global Business Services on a new online and mobile infrastructure, called Orange Snapshot, which lets the bank fast-track delivery of new features and advanced security for consumers. It gives Tangerine the flexibility and scalability to respond to changing customer demands.
And it gives mobile consumers complete and simplified ways to view of all their accounts, pay bills and email money transfers.
As a result, Tangerine has seen banking on mobile devices grow from 0 to 18% in 2 years.
For the bank’s customers, the mobile ‘small sacrifices’ feature has resulted in 52% of them saving money on non-essential purchases by helping them see the impact of their spending habits.
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Full story:
Client Background:Toronto-based Tangerine Bank is the direct banking subsidiary of Scotiabank. It offers savings accounts, Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs), Guaranteed Investment Certificates (GICs), Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs), mutual funds, mortgages and no-fee checking accounts. The new name for the bank was revealed in November 2013 and was rolled out in April 2014. Tangerine employees almost 1,000 people, serves nearly two million customers and holds nearly USD40 billion in total assets. Tangerine is known as Canada’s most prominent online bank in that it does not operate out of traditional brick-and-mortar bank branches. Instead the organization provides banking services over the phone, on the Internet and on mobile devices. The bank claimed top prize as “Highest in Customer Satisfaction Among the Midsize Retail Banks” in J.D. Power’s 2013 Canadian Retail Banking Customer Satisfaction Study. Business Need:Tangerine Bank’s goal is to provide simplified, convenient banking to its customers. The bank reached the point at which it could not accomplish this goal internally. To become “best in class” through customer service, the bank needed better insight into how customers were using the banking apps and how to improve the customer experience with mobile analytics. Tangerine sought to cut the time it spent configuring and managing software, preparing test environments and developing mobile environments. The bank also wanted to decrease the time to market on delivery of mobile apps and functions from six weeks to closer to two weeks. Expertise from IBM would tie together mobile development, architecture and infrastructure to provide best-in-class, fast-paced mobile banking.
Solution:Tangerine worked with IBM to implement the IBM PureApplication System, which specializes in delivering a cloud application platform right out of the box and offers infrastructure integration, configuration and management. The solution can automate deployment and lifecycle management for a broad range of applications. Through the PureApplication System, Tangerine hopes to gain insight into how customers are using its banking apps and how to improve the customer experience with mobile analytics, moving toward thought leadership on biometrics in mobile.The solution also included the IBM MobileFirst platform application development environment to simplify deployment. As a proof of concept (POC), IBM helped the Tangerine IT team integrate new capabilities, such as voice identification, into the bank’s mobile app.The solution implementation included patterns for IBM Worklight, IBM Tealeaf CX, IBM WebSphere DataPower and IBM API Management applications, along with various IBM Software Services for WebSphere offerings.
Benefits of the Solution:The real benefits of the solution that IBM provided were not just centered around mobile development agility but also around cutting out Tangerine’s infrastructure overhead. The IBM PureApplication System performed a bulk of the infrastructure integration work, and Tangerine used IBM MobileFirst software to put together a sophisticated group of use cases. Using the MobileFirst platform’s set of products along with the PureApplication System allowed the bank to coordinate its infrastructure with the development.Using repeatable PureApplication System patterns, the bank’s IT team can fully replicate an operational hardware and software stack in about 30 minutes instead of taking days to set up and configure an environment. By using the MobileFirst platform as a test facility, pilot users can toggle between different versions of a mobile app, providing feedback the bank can use to decide if the app is ready for release to the public. Provisioning, scaling, security, high availability and other application attributes are automatically managed across apps and system resources, leading to expected overhead cost reductions in the future. Tangerine can also upgrade its application server and implement two environments side by side. The solution accomplishes the following:- Deploys and runs mobile applications based on customer insights- Proactively monitors site and mobile processes to resolve usage issues faster- Speeds response times to increase customer satisfaction
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The MaaS360 platform delivers a complete enterprise mobility management solution.
This one platform integrates comprehensive mobility security including:
Secure Mail
App Security
Secure Document Sharing
Secure Browser
And complete mobility management:
Mobile Device Management
Mobile Application Management
Secure Document Sharing
Mobile Expense Management
All these services work together seamlessly and provide multiple layers of management and security, and granular level policy options for you to configure.
It truly is the most comprehensive enterprise mobility management platform in the market.
Here are some amazing results that our customers realized with our product.
We surveyed our customers late last year and this is the type of success and value they’ve achieved using MaaS360.
We asked them how long did it take you to set up, configure, and deploy MaaS360?
60% percent of customers said it took less than 4 hours.
75% percent of customers said it took less than 8 hours.
That’s rare for enterprise software, and especially for MDM. And you don’t need any professional services to do it.
We’re also delighted that we have a 97% renewal rate for MaaS360.
We also asked our customers to tell us the annual cost savings by implementing MaaS360. This includes hardware, software, and staff resources for initial start-up, training, and ongoing support. And we’re most excited by the fact that 86% of customers said they saved between $30-150K per year with MaaS360.
In this new mobile age, time to value and time to trust is more critical than ever because things change so quickly and unexpectedly.
What if you could manage and secure your mobile devices and apps this fast and with this type of ROI?
What would that mean for your business?
We have helped our customers with a diverse set of use cases across highly regulated to non-regulated industries.
Our customers span across industries of all sizes.
In Manufacturing we helping large, global companies like Dupont and General Motors to increase employee productivity on-the-go.
In Healthcare, we helping to mobilize the sales teams of multi-national pharmaceuticals companies like Pfizer and AstraZeneca, as well as hospitals and medical centers, like Yale New Haven Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, by providing doctors and nurses with information at their fingertips at the point of care, while adhering to strict regulatory HIPAA guidelines.
Consumer brand companies, like Phillips-Van Heusen and Campbell’s, are enabling their employees, not just in the executive or sales teams but up and down their company directory, to give them access to enterprise data at anytime and from anywhere to make critical business decisions.
Financial Services firms, like BNY Mellon, World Bank and Independence Blue Cross, appreciate the mobile security that MaaS360 delivers to comply with SEC and other regulatory rules.
In federal, state and local government organizations, like the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and Department of Commerce, administrators understand the importance of creating efficiencies in work flows and processes to reduce budgets, while maintaining the highest security standards.
Across many other industries, like in Retail, Commercial Services, Law, and Education, organizations understand the value and importance of mobilizing their employees and delivering exceptional customer experiences.
At Casear’s Entertainment, they dramatically enhanced the productivity of a broad base of Caesar’s employees as an integral part of a global corporate mobile initiative (Corp and BYOD), while simultaneously complying with enhanced security and regulatory policies. One of their many use cases include a casino service called “iBeverage”, where the wait staff takes drink orders with iPads on the gambling floor, the drink order is electronically delivered to the bar, the bartender mixes the drink, the wait staff person picks up the drink that is waiting for her/him and delivers it to the customer. Caesar’s was able to reduce drink serving times from 2 minutes to just 3 minutes. This new workflow with tablets enabled by MaaS360 translated to significant and tangible increased casino revenues and dramatically improved customer experience ratings.
What use cases can we help you enable in your organization?
So why choose IBM for your mobile initiatives?
Because we can help you turn business challenges into competitive advantages. You saw that from MTR, Rhode & Schwarz, and Tangerine.
We know that it takes a combination of technology and business expertise to get value from your mobile initiatives. Our expertise has been recognized by analysts such as Gartner and Forrester for mobile development platforms, mobile management suites, web analytics, and mobile app development.
Wherever you want to start or continue your mobile initiatives, IBM has the capabilities to help you.
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Additional notes
Build and deploy apps – IBM MobileFirst Platform
Easier to use and integrate compared to DIY approaches
Recognized as a leader among mobile platforms
Supports all devices and development approaches
Protect devices, apps, and data – IBM MobileFirst Protect
Fastest to deploy; 75% deploy in 8 hours or less
Recognized as a leader among mobile management suites
Sales and customer support included, 24 x 7 support
Engage your customers in context – IBM ExperienceOne
Used by leading banks, retailers, financial services companies, automotive manufacturers
7th consecutive year with more US Top 500 online retailer sales than any other 3rd party e-commerce solution provider
Recognized as a leader in multi-channel campaign management and web analytics
Transform business models and infrastructure – Global Business Services and Global Technology Services
Deep industry and track record of delivering innovative applications and experiences
IBM Interactive Experience, our digital agency, is the world largest and it holds more than 450 patents on user experience
Recognized as a leader in Mobile Application Development, Testing, Management and Infrastructure Services