Mobile working. How Vodafone and Fujitsu make it a right-first-time Thing.

Mobile working: great idea, shame about the implementation. The path to this business panacea is paved with partial successes.

Mobile working? It’s a network thing.
Stands to reason. If you want your managers, road warriors and service engineers to be connected to the business, you talk to a business that does connections, right? They can organise the devices, the voice and data transmission and the bandwidth – they do it all the time. What about the content, the security and the integration with your corporate IT system? Can’t be too hard – the network company should be able to organise that, right?

Mobile working? It’s an IT thing.
It’s obvious. Connecting hundreds or even thousands of mobile workers to your corporate system is an IT issue. Without some very clever integration, you’re asking for trouble if you just patch everyone in. Then there’s backup and security. When people get mobile, they also get careless and the risks of data loss and compromised confidentiality increase tenfold. Better talk to some clued-up IT folks. What network? Well, there’s not much to choose between them these days, is there? The IT boys can organise that, surely?

Mobile working. How Vodafone and Fujitsu make it a right-first-time thing. Mobile working: great idea, shame about the implementation. The path to this business panacea is paved with partial successes.

Systems that are so flaky, you fear for the survival of the business, having long ago abandoned hope of seeing all the extra productivity that was promised. In some cases, data transmission is slow and unreliable. In others, the devices are inappropriate. In others, data security is so iffy, it’s like wrapping your strategic plan around a ticking time bomb.

Did you know that 10,000 laptops and other devices were lost or stolen in the London area alone last year, many carrying the seeds of a security nightmare for their owners? And then there’s ongoing costs. Did anyone mention that it’s about 25% more expensive to support a mobile IT user than her deskbound colleague? Not including disaster backup and device replacement?

Been there, done that.
What you need is someone who’s done it before – lots of times – has experienced the problems and worked out a fix for every one of them.

As it happens. there’s only one choice in Europe, and it’s two businesses: Vodafone and Fujitsu.

About a year ago, both partners opened discussions on a unique collaboration that would resolve the two-sided mobile working equation.

They worked together on pilot projects (notably for a big bank and the UK government), analysed the problems and the risks, the surprises and the opportunties. Then they dealt with them together, finishing up with a process that redefines the reliability of mobile working and delivers its promise first time, every time.

It begins with neither networks nor IT, but a human being.

Two businesses, one contact
Instead of the ‘he said, she said’ to and fro of dealing with different specialists, you’re advised by one team, with one leader at all times. Central to this approach is true discovery of your business objectives.

Tried and tested IT
Fujitsu’s remarkable TRIOLE standardisation approach delivers a robust IT infrastructure and application set that cuts implementation time and cost, while delivering industrial levels of reliability. There are even guarantees that give you certainty of business outcome.

Informed device advice
Who’s likely to know most about mobile devices? The world’s biggest mobile network, that’s who. No-one has closer connections with Nokia, Blackberry, Motorola and the like. No-one is consulted sooner when designers are dreaming up the next generation.

The biggest data network on the planet
For business purposes, there most certainly is a difference between networks. Vodafone covers 99% of the UK and provides service in more countries than anyone else.

8 days a week and other unfair advantages
Enough of the sales talk, what can this mobile-working dream team do for your business?

Well, how about a Mobile Field Force offering that delivers an average of 15% extra productivity from your salespeople, engineers, delivery people, community nurses, cash collectors? That’s over an hour a day, or an extra day a week. And all you pay is a fixed, monthly fee per user.

Or what about the Mobile Professional service? Use our consultancy expertise to define your approach to giving your mobile users access to email while on the move. Whether you go for a BlackBerry, Smartphone or Windows Mobile 5.0 device, we can provide you with the managed mobile service to meet your business needs.

Give us a call

If you’d like to know more about the Vodafone Fujitsu co-operation and what it can achieve for your business, first time every time, contact Ask Fujitsu on 0870 242 7998 or email askfujitsu@uk.fujitsu.com