Home About Shipping Solutions Knowledge Library Blog Contact Customer Portal Mobility: Got it? Want it? … Need it? John Wills • Oct 16, 2021 The evolution of mobile for business Since the advent of the modern Mobile phone (and most date that as Steve Job’s introduction of the original, non 3G iPhone in 2008), enterprise software vendors have had a love/hate relationship with them. As a jobbing CIO and strategic advisor to a variety of businesses and charities at this time, I saw both vendors and consumers of software go through something akin to the five stages of grief at the disruption that first iPhone bought: Denial: It’ll never catch on! People working off a phone! Hah! Even BlackBerry cannot make that work! Anger: These upstarts in consumer electronics! Imagining that they an displace Nokia! The Arrogance! Bargaining: Well, maybe iPhones will be OK for email, but they’ll never get this whole ‘ecosystem’ and app store-thing off the ground! That’s the preserve of people like us! Depression: Well, they are doing OK right now, with these fancy iPhones and now Android things, but it’s a grave misstep: Wait till Windows Mobile comes along with it’s enterprise-level tools, that’s when we’ll be back on top. Acceptance: Look, if mobile ecosystems are now a thing, then I suppose I’ll have to give my customers what they want. Even if they are wrong about this whole mobile malarky . Where are we now with mobile? We are (obviously) now deep into that Acceptance phase, but it’d be hard to argue that everyone has gotten their heads entirely around what Mobility means in the context of their products: we’ve all seen scenarios where vendors are so desperate to tick the ‘Mobility’ box that they start considering launching (just as an example) CAD solutions for an iPhone. This ignoring of context/use-case is something that we’ve been careful to avoid doing at ShipNet. This doesn’t mean that we don’t want Mobile- quite the opposite. What we want is Mobility, but done right. As evidence of this, we present our first native mobile app- Launched in August this year. It is an accompaniment to our DryDocking Cloud solution. That product runs neatly on any mobile device already (it’s a PWA, or Progressive Web App), but what it doesn’t do was work offline, nor does it leverage most effectively the media and video functionality of mobile devices. So we built a Native app so engineers could use it in areas where mobile functionality was not available (like inside a ship in DryDock). See? The mix of technology and use case improves the offer, not distracts from the proposition. What's next? Forthcoming mobile apps also play in that same butter zone- Inspections will follow later this year, and that will give anyone with a mobile phone the ability to do xx and yy whilst onboard a vessel (an environment where connectivity is never a given). Analytics- allowing anyone the opportunity to view and interact with the Dashboards in ShipNetOne- is also coming too, allowing users to review all aspects of their business’ performance even when onboard a plane or in similar ‘off net’ situations. So that’s our commitment on Mobile: we do it, because people want it, but they only need it when it’s done right. More to come in 2022 on this. Let us know what you think Get in touch with us if you have any questions but also if you have anything that will help us develop better products. Its only by working with people like you we can get better at what we do. If you need to ensure reliable 24/7 remote access to your ShipNet Commercial, Technical or Financial solutions, contact us today. Contact Us Name: Email: Phone: Company Message: Newer Post > < Older Post Share Tweet Share Mail ShipNet Blogs Product Roadmaps – Discuss! By John Wills • 12 Nov, 2021 • Why is a product roadmap for business? Find out how we did in 2021 with our ShipNet roadmap, and see what we have in store for next year in our latest blog The impact of MEPC 76 on the shipping industry By John Wills • 16 Oct, 2021 • What impact will the recent MEPC 76 meeting have on the shipping industry? Our latest Shipnet blog takes a look at the future of responsible maritime operations and working to meet environmental targets. Analytics SE the new solution for business from ShipNet By John Wills • 28 Sep, 2021 • Analytics SE Analysis definition:} The detailed study or examination of something in order to understand more about it… So what? The so what is that if you don’t understand enough about what’s going on in your business, you will never be able to improve it, change it or make the most of it. Basically, you’ll never really be able to get any better. The ShipNetters have had their thinking caps on for a while now and in line with all the exciting things we are doing, this is probably one of the most important. We’re pretty excited here at SNHQ and hope you are too! (Drum roll) Please welcome Analytics SE into the ShipNet family of solutions to help drive your business to be better. Apart of from all the great features to give you a better understanding of what’s happening on your vessel and a simple way to interrogate the data you have, you can use it anywhere on any device. Handy when you are away from your desk, stuck in transit, or in a meeting and you need some insight quickly. As experts in marine technology, we work closely with our customers, listening to what they need to add real value and ensure they get products that help solve their own very specific set of problems and this solution is another demonstration of our commitment that. What does it do, I hear you cry! Comprising dashboards within ShipNetOne, Analytics SE shows you how changes you make to your organisation are viewed against a baseline of historical practice. Most businesses have valuable data lost in operational systems, but no integrated way of managing and displaying that information. With over 100 standard dashboards immediately available, you can identify areas of strategic interest, establish quickly and easily performance over time, and observe changes in performance in real time as the impacts of strategic change are realised. This means that ROI and benefits can be identified and measured as they happen, taking the guesswork out of managing major change, ultimately helping you; Deliver tactical value This can be as simple as identifying where best practice already exists through comparative analysis. If one ship consistently outperforms it’s sisters in terms of fuel economy, this can be easily seen through analytics and efforts to replicate that success (and multiply the savings) can begin. Plan strategically At its heart, analytics is any data-driven process that provides insight. It can encompass both historical and predictive information, and its goal is to transform data in to insight that aids the your business and the plans you have for it. Create competitive advantage It’s a fact of life that businesses with the best insight move faster and further in a competitive environment, often achieving goals and returns that simply wouldn’t be attainable without those analytic tools. In a business with razor fine margins, such as shipping, it’s more important than ever that all costs are minimised, and all revenues maximised. Simply put, every little counts. So don’t just know your business, really understand it and make your business brilliant. Look what we’ve been up to – see the new ShipNet Dry Docking App By John Wills • 16 Aug, 2021 • We all know the power of the app, the ease it brings to our daily life, performing actions much faster than a mobile website and that is why, we here at ShipNet, have been working behind the scenes to make life better for people like … Read More The post Look what we’ve been up to – see the new ShipNet Dry Docking App appeared first on ShipNet. How to reduce paperwork in Ship Planned Maintenance & Safety By Basujit Chakravarty • 18 Dec, 2020 • Your Fleet Management teams generate an overwhelming amount of paperwork when performing their maintenance routines or submitting their monthly forms. According to a recent report, up to 79% of seafarers felt that repeated tasks required too much documentation and paperwork. They cited that excessive admin … Read More The post How to reduce paperwork in Ship Planned Maintenance & Safety appeared first on ShipNet. How to achieve TMSA 3 Compliance for elements 10, 11, 12, and 13 By Basujit Chakravarty • 14 Dec, 2020 • In this final article in our series on achieving TMSA 3 Compliance we review the last 4 elements: 10, 11, 12, and 13. Our previous article looked at elements 7, 8, and 9. These elements cover management of change, incident reporting, investigation and … Read More The post How to achieve TMSA 3 Compliance for elements 10, 11, 12, and 13 appeared first on ShipNet. How to achieve TMSA 3 Compliance for Elements 4, 5, and 6 By Basujit Chakravarty • 24 Nov, 2020 • In the first article in this series on TMSA 3 Compliance, we reviewed how Tanker Companies can achieve compliance for the first three elements consisting of: Leadership and the safety management system, Recruitment and management of shore-based personnel, Recruitment, management, and wellbeing of vessel personnel. … Read More The post How to achieve TMSA 3 Compliance for Elements 4, 5, and 6 appeared first on ShipNet. How to achieve TMSA 3 Compliance for Elements 1, 2, and 3 By Basujit Chakravarty • 18 Nov, 2020 • There is increasing pressure on tanker companies and their technical teams to ensure safety by achieving TMSA 3 compliance. The program encourages companies to assess their safety management systems against key performance indicators while providing a minimum expected level (as well as three additional … Read More The post How to achieve TMSA 3 Compliance for Elements 1, 2, and 3 appeared first on ShipNet. Why now is the time to implement your Business Continuity Plan By John Wills • 16 Nov, 2020 • Cast your mind back to March 2020. World leaders announced enforcements of lockdowns worldwide to combat the spread of COVID-19. Therefore, many businesses in the industry have now adopted a new remote working strategy as part of their business continuity plan. Moreover, it … Read More The post Why now is the time to implement your Business Continuity Plan appeared first on ShipNet. ShipConnect Video By John Wills • 09 Nov, 2020 • The ShipNet ShipConnect and MRV solution combines the ability to easily deploy and capture all performance-related information from your vessels which updates your shore staff directly, with no manual duplication of work. At the same time enabling performance analysis and reporting More Posts CONTACT US Grensevningen 9, 0661 Oslo, Norway sales@shipnet.no Phone: +47 21 01 92 00 See our Global locations © 2021 All Rights Reserved | ShipNet USEFUL LINKS Home Shipping Solutions Knowledge Library Blog Contact Privacy LET’S CONNECT Looking for something? Use the up and down arrows to select a result. Press enter to go to the selected search result. Touch device users can use touch and swipe gestures. Website design by head on creative copy and design ©