Adopting mobile computing can keep your business on the competitive edge and bring compelling benefits to your organization. It improves operational efficiency, speeds up business transactions, and ultimately enables better customer service.

Workers can handle tasks wherever and whenever they need to while still having access to corporate resources for faster and more collaborative communications. Office-related activities, such as reporting emails, voice calls, email, texting, instant messaging, calendars, and scheduling, can be done effectively. Executives can access real-time information and applications to make more informed decisions in a shorter time.

It's time for every business to recognize the value of mobile computing and understand how it can create genuine value. But before you dive into implementing mobile technologies in your business, you need to know the main reasons it is essential.

Below are the top 5 most important reasons to adopt mobile computing for your business.

    1. Ease of Research and Data Collection

Consumers buying preference is causing the need for more business processes. Now you can change how your company collects data by using mobile computers. Usually, employees would have to go to the field, search for data and information, and feed it back manually into the system. But with mobile computers, workers can collect data directly into the system without making trips back and forth.

For instance, in an industry where you have employees going to customers' locations to provide quotations and complete service jobs. In such cases, mobile computers can collect customer information, create quotes, receive payments and clients' signatures; all this information will be in one device, updating the databases back in the office in real-time.

Additionally, mobile computers can help faster picking and sorting, accurate data recording, enhanced inventory checking, and business improvement—productivity in work-flow with the enthusiasm to perform and the passion for remaining competitive.

    2. Eliminate Paper Work and Improve Efficiency

The adoption of mobile computing simplifies business processes and brings productivity by eliminating duplicate efforts. Now, workers can complete tasks quickly and efficiently from any location.

Employees can access, evaluate, store and transfer data and critical business information quickly, accurately, and electronically. Devices like hand-held mobile computers, bar code scanners, mobile printers, etc., eradicate the burden of manually writing invoices and delivery receipts. Another good use would be in warehouses where stocks have to be maintained; here, mobile computing devices, including RFID tags, can help keep track of precisely what is coming in and what is leaving the warehouse with efficiency and ease.

Not only does this concept save time, cost, and effort, but it can also reduce errors. Ultimately, it reduces paperwork; your customers don't need to wait to print or fax documents. So, the human effort required to manage these systems is reduced while saving on power, paper, and ink consumption.

    3. Ensure Secure Connection

Security is one of the fundamental reasons to adopt mobile computing in your business. Without secured connections, anyone can quickly go through, in, and out of your company's computer network taking with them essential data such as login, passwords, and other private information.

The cost of a security breach to your business could be devastating, causing loss of customers, time, energy, and reputation. But with mobile computing, you can establish secure connections in your business, protecting the data being transferred from one computer to another to prevent third parties from getting hold of confidential information.

Secure connections validate the identification of the person who wishes to access and exchange data. Your company can even have more than one authentication to guarantee optimum security of the files in the company's servers. Also, webinars, seminars, and video calls can be secured with mobile computing. 

    4. Flexible Communicatio

With mobile computing technologies, employees no longer need to be in the same office to share their ideas. Irrespective of location, they can create checklists, set goals, appoint tasks, and monitor progress. 

Teammates can communicate effectively, participate in social networking, quickly review time-sensitive material, collaborate on documents in the field, and benefit from the ease and speed of working together on a single platform.

The development of mobile technology presents new opportunities to sell and advertise products and services. Businesses need to take advantage of this technology to stay competitive. Customers can quickly access personalized information about items, enabling your business to track consumers' journeys and develop marketing strategies that increase leads. Also, you can send customers and prospects specific information, photos, or videos and interact in real-time. This flexibility and portability can also lead to organizations better serving their customers.

    5. Smarter Customer Service and Relationship Management

Flexibility to access information using mobile computing solutions helps employees update customer information, resolve customer queries, check price and stock availability. Customers can also place an order online right from the comfort of their home or business, helping to cut down on time spent per customer. This concept makes the customer feel more comfortable and satisfied with the services and develops loyalty to your company.

Additionally, Mobile CRM (Customer Relationship Management) delivers a complete customer experience on smartphones, tablets, and other mobile computing devices. It allows customer service, sales, and marketing teams to access and manage essential information in real-time and work on the go.

Sales team members can travel between offices and locations to meet with prospects. Field agents can access schedules and work orders even when they're not in the office. All these are possible because mobile computing devices give users the freedom to work wherever they want. Departments across the entire organization can access the same data even if they aren't in the same building, department, or country, promoting a more collaborative work environment.

How Urovo’s Mobile Computers Can Help Your Business

Urovo’s mobile computers are designed to help your business flourish and operate more efficiently than ever.

Here below are some of our best-selling mobile computers:

1. Urovo DT50 5G - the first 5G enabled rugged mobile computer, which is designed for unprecedented communication speed and higher performance with its Octa-core 2.0GHz processor and Android 10.0 operating system;

2. Urovo DT50 -  the large 2.5D 5.7" bezel-less display with full HD resolution of this enterprise mobile computer is visible even under strong outdoor sunlight and meant for uninterrupted operation under all circumstances, including with gloves, wet hands, or a touch pen in any weather;

3. Urovo RT40 - an industrial mobile computer equipped with a unique super long-range scan engine designed to recognize high-shelf goods at a range of up to 15m and screen universal 1D/2D bar codes;

4. Urovo DT40 - an enterprise mobile computer equipped with a 4” screen, full keypad, Octa-core high-performance processor, optional memory configurations, and a 4500mAh large-capacity battery that lasts for a 8-10h whole-day operation;

5. Urovo i6200S - an enterprise secure intelligent terminal with a 4” industrial capacitive touch screen and a 3800 mAh, 3.8V large-capacity lithium battery for superior performance and even greater endurance;

In Summary

Mobile technology has promoted and improved businesses by ensuring that companies can track their trends and results, which can help them to improve their strategies and increase productivity. However, it is overwhelming to adopt the right mobile computing solutions to help keep your business competitive for years to come.

In that case, Urovo can help you find the perfect mobile technology strategy for your business and guide you all through the process of purchase and installation. Urovo is the pioneer and the world's leading mobile computing solution provider for customers in different industries, governments, and organizations.