Fixed Mobile Convergence

ClickSoftware Technologies Ltd. recently announced the launch of its ClickAppStore, consisting of advanced business apps and visual development studio that will effectively enhance enterprise mobility.

The release will help combine discrete apps into composite apps, and allow the sharing of context as well as in managing optimized workflows.

"For over a decade, we have been developing and deploying business mobility solutions for some of the most advanced enterprises in the world,” said Dr. Moshe BenBassat, Chairman and CEO of ClickSoftware (News - Alert). “We have taken our experience, knowledge and technology, repackaged it for the modern mobility world, and are now making it available for all mobile workers – from office workers who travel occasionally, to mobile workers who literally spend all their working time in the field; and from line staff to managers and executives."

ClickSoftware includes starter packages for basic mobile workers within the ClickAppStore solution. The package contains a subset of integrated apps which address basic requirements like clock-in and clock-out, daily schedule, among other needs for mobile workers. Also included in the solution is an integrated visual development studio, which allows developers to drag and drop apps from ClickAppStore, which can then be configured and interconnected into optimized workflows with the starter package apps.

"Collaboration and communication among the mobile workforce has grown rapidly in recent years as a variety of industries leverage the availability of smartphones and tablet devices,” said Nicholas McQuire, Research Director, Mobile Enterprise Strategies EMEA for International Data Corporation (IDC (News - Alert)). “ClickSoftware's development of an enterprise AppStore will significantly improve the ability for organizations to manage and unify their mobile and field services workforce. The ClickAppStore will be an attractive option to a myriad of industries looking to overcome the 'Bring Your Own Device' issues that are a fast rising headache for IT departments."

Keeping in mind budgets and organization sizes, ClickSoftware's mobility solutions and ClickApps are available as on-premise, on-demand or as a hybrid offering.  ClickSoftware also provides customers with infrastructure, usable in the creation of customized app-store for their company.

“We are enabling businesses of all sizes to take advantage of the new tablets and smartphones to boost their productivity and improve customer service, by transmitting and sharing data and decisions in real time, and we extend communication outside of the enterprise as well – to the customers of our customers, contractors and suppliers,” added Dr. BenBassat.

Author Michele Pelino in a February 2012 report by Forrester Research (News - Alert) Inc., entitled "Corporate App Store Environments Open New Market Opportunities," wrote that, "Corporate app store vendors must offer enterprises a range of delivery models to address demand for both on-premises and 'as-a-service' delivery."