Business Functions Where Tablets Could Be Useful

By Author: Jennifer Lewis
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The SMB or Small to Medium Business is passing through an era where its employees can use smart phones and tablets to take productivity to newer heights. This is because of rapidly advancing technology of smart phones and tablets allows users' to perform various tasks, cut costs, time, and the number of resources used by a company. In this write-up, I'll be focussing on some business functions, where the tablets and apps can create a different scenario altogether.

Shipping – Companies where business revolves around shipping and receiving good, tablets can cause a complete changeover. Companies like FedEx and UPS has their apps to help their workforce in simplifying their work. These apps are industry specific rather than company specific and entire SMB fraternity can use them on their iOS or Android based phones and tablets.

Contract signing and document signature – Contract signing is a field, where SMBs has to take special care but the advent of smart phones and tablet apps has released this tension too. Now it is easier for them to track and manage every contract and agreement paper. Tablets geared with ...
... cloud apps offer a more simplified and streamlined workflow solution, which is a big plus for business owners. Then, there are apps that allow users to sign documents securely right from their tablet's screen.

Invoicing and accounting – Tablets are equally helpful for SMBs in accounting and invoicing as well. However, they may not be able to crunch complex formulas but yes, many accounting and invoicing apps have been helping SMBs in managing their accounts in a better way.

Social media management – Managing social media resources is also very easy for tablet users because of numerous tools and apps that give a unique experience by offering more options for managing their social media channels.

Document reviewing – Reviewing paper documents is simply a waste of time that encourages cutting trees on a vast level. Here too, SMBs who are not working in traditional offices can play their part. They don’t want extra steps of document printing, annotate it, and then scan it to PDF before releasing to be read by the staff members. Few apps available with Apple as well as Google are powerful and flexible enough to allow tablet users to mimic paper-based reviews. Since, these apps are seamlessly available with both Apple and Google; anyone can use them irrespective of his phone make and OS on it.

Project management – SMBs can use tablets and apps to manage their ongoing projects. Apps present in a tablet allow project members to coordinate with each other and take a real-time project's progress report. This adds transparency and enhances the reciprocal relationship between the employees.

Wireless display kiosks – SMBs engaged in the retail business can use tablets and apps to display kiosks and inform customers about products and services offered by them. Apps made for this specific purpose can turn the tablet's screen into a highly interactive display. Apart from displaying Kiosks, tablets and mobile apps are becoming an increasingly popular solution for replacing Point OF Sale (POS).

Conclusion

Every business function that I mentioned above could be simplified by the help of apps and allow SMBs to become more productive. However, increasing productivity is something different from maintaining security. There are apps to secure the use of tablets by SMBs and allow them to march forward towards being the best without and apprehension or fear.

The author is associate with a reliable enterprise app development company. Backed by a team of extensively experienced iPhone developer Dallas Tx, it offers Dallas mobile app development solutions to meet the customized demands of the clients.