Having the office in your pocket. It is with these words that we can briefly describe the concept of Corporate Mobility. Essentially, it is about enabling daily business processes to be carried out without being tied to a specific place and time, and best of all, with information in the palm of your hands and with a few taps.
Currently, around 3.9 billion people access the Internet through their cell phones. In Brazil, according to a survey by TIC Domiciles 2018, released in 2019, 71 million Brazilians access the internet only by cell phones, which corresponds to 56% of the users (until 2016 there were 46 million, and they already represented 43% of the market, which shows a great growth).
In addition, a survey conducted by the National Confederation of Industry revealed that 70% of Brazilians wish to have more flexible hours and 73% would like to work at home or in alternative locations, mostly because of time optimization.
It is from these signs that we can conclude that every day the world is more computerized, fast, and flexible, which also demonstrates the enormous need for the application of corporate mobility strategies, after all, modern problems need modern solutions.
What is corporate mobility?
Corporate mobility is a concept that brings innovation, flexibility, time optimization, and savings for companies, by aiming to insert all the technologies and benefits that mobile devices and cloud computing together can offer within corporate daily life.
The transformation that corporate mobility aims to implement ranges from access to an internal email by someone who is not in the office, to be able to perform all daily activities while traveling, visiting, or at home, without having to use a specific device or network. This transformation is positive both for companies and for their professionals because it brings them cost reduction and increased productivity, as well as better quality of life for the employees.
In order for this to be possible, it is necessary to computerize work, in a way that employees can access their work areas through websites and applications whether they are in their companies or not, providing them with greater flexibility and freedom. In this manner, they can have all the necessary information to perform their tasks with a few clicks or taps on their laptops and smartphones.
It is also important to think about security, since company data can be crucial to the business’s full functioning. Often, data on hard disks, the famous HDs, end up being deleted due to malfunction or loss, and it can also be stolen more easily than data present in the cloud, which is also one of the solutions presented by corporate mobility.
Cloud computing allows data to be stored in secure locations accessible to authorized persons, making the experience of information management within the corporate environment much safer and easier both in terms of data storage and sharing.
But how to implement all this, anyway?
When we talk about the deployment of enterprise mobility strategies in a company, a few terms come up. Among them are BYOD, home office, virtualization, and security.
BYOD and Home Office
BYOD is a corporate policy that stands for “Bring Your Own Device”. As such, it consists of allowing employees to use their own smartphones, computers, and tablets to perform their activities. BYOD brings benefits to both sides of the coin.
The company will have infinitely lower infrastructure costs, keeping in mind that each employee is responsible for his or her own device. For the employee, it’s better because since the devices are his he has no restrictions on upgrades or modifications, or even device changes. Also because of this, it is easier to adopt measures such as Home Office or Remote Working, allowing the employee to perform his function in a more flexible way, without necessarily being present at the company.
In fact, remote work can be a solution for companies that have activities that do not depend on specialized machinery and that seek to have low infrastructure costs, hire employees who work remotely, or be exempt from risks in case of social isolation as experienced in 2020.
Virtualization and Security
For employees to be able to enjoy the benefits mentioned above, it is essential to have virtualized company processes and documents, keeping in mind that employee outsourcing will depend on internet access and will be done by computers and smartphones.
There are applications for this such as the Fusion Platform which features solutions for Process Management (BPM), Documents (ECM), and Indicators (Analytics), they help turn processes that depend on physical documents into forms within processes modeled by the customer according to his business rules and needs. They can also serve as storage and perform the cloud computing function when it comes to document management and indicators with ECM and Analytics.
Another factor that is fundamental for everything to work smoothly is security. Without protection against malware and hackers, the damage generated by an incident can be significant. For this reason, it is necessary to rely on software and server multifactor authentication, layered permission levels according to time and place, data encryption, and protection against possible viruses.
These safety measures have to be done in two ways: with the use of tools such as protection software, and with qualified information security professionals to be able to monitor the company’s infrastructure security. Awareness and employee education are also needed in order to prevent mistakes from becoming everyday occurrences that could compromise the organization’s security and infrastructure.
Enterprise Fusion and Mobility Platform
One of the current tools that bring the concept and offer this type of service is Fusion Platform, the best option in information management. Comprised of modules that perform Process Management (BPM), Documents (ECM), Indicators (Analytics), Portals & Social, and Capture in an integrated manner, Fusion Platform helps companies to make the management and operation of your business more agile, assertive, and innovative.
Through its web and mobile platforms, Fusion pushes the much-desired digital transformation further and enables corporate mobility to its customers. By accessing your company’s portal, employees can perform their activities, follow the process’s progress, and access documents, among other possibilities. All through the web platform or on the Android or iOS apps, without having to be in fixed locations and with all the security and infrastructure precautions.
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