These systems tie together entire organizations and allow for sharing of information across such diverse departments as sales and accounting, finance and marketing. As well, the past 10 years have seen the proliferation of the desktop platform of productivity tools including word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software and other tools. This has created an environment where entire organizations create, share, transfer and store much of the entire corporate memory in such computer files, somewhere on a Local Area Network location. Often the most important documents to workers exist in folder communities on these systems, and access to them is critical to the everyday functioning of the corporation. They enable organizations to create entire workflows for internal as well as customer-facing processes.
Integration is at the core of the value proposition of such systems.
Unfortunately what ends up happening is organizations commit to significant corporate spending on such systems, while realizing that more and more of the workforce is becoming increasingly mobile. Many executives, middle managers, and mid-level staff are often away from their desktops and unable to access the corporate memory, or to keep such systems up to date as they work from somewhere in the field. As well, they lack access to corporate files on the LAN without hunting down a wireline connection to dial in to a server. The Benefits of Wireless Wireless technologies available today reacquaint these mobile workers with their corporate access and enable the organization to continue to provide access to such workers in a mobile environment. Now, the field personnel who are responsible for managing inventory or sales and distribution, can be kept in touch and have access to such systems while away from the office.