ViziApps

  • Announcing the release of ViziApps® Studio 5.0 - Powered by LogicBuilder™

    We’ve been busy here at ViziApps. On December 11, 2018, we announced the release of ViziApps Studio 5.0 – Powered by LogicBuilder (read blog post). Our focus in the December 11 announcement was on LogicBuilder – the brains behind ViziApps no-code mobile app logic development, but there is more to the ViziApps 5.0 release.

    ViziApps Studio 5.0 now comes with a significant new user interface update, based on customer feedback. Studio 5.0 offers all new button icons, a refined color design, and improved tool panel layout.

  • Build your Mobile-First app using Native Mobile Features with No Coding

    When developing your mobile-first app, take advantage of all the features built into your mobile device to optimize the capabilities of the app, e.g. camera, geo-location, mapping, wayfinding, audio recording, that aren’t easily accessible from a laptop.

    ViziApps Studio offers a list of mobile device actions from which you can select as you build your mobile app. With ViziApps, you can use all the device features in your mobile app - with no coding.

    For a complete list of mobile device features supported see our ViziApps Features page.

    Let’s look at how important device features are in a typical mobile workflow example.

  • Five requirements for creating effective mobile-first business workflow apps

    You’re on the road, getting ready to make a sales call. In fact, it’s one of several this week. How do you get prepared? How do you get access to the information you need, when you need it? How can you best leverage your company’s data and business workflow applications, securely, all from the touch of your phone? You want those apps in your hands without the need for an extra device like a laptop. You want the apps developed for mobile-first, not as an afterthought.

    You can picture the scenario. You’re at the client’s site. You have access to their profile including the products they currently own and the client’s history with your company. Your client asks you a technical question that you can’t answer, but you know of a subject matter expert (SME) you can call on. Right then and there, within the app, you initiate a video conference call with the SME. Question answered. Problem averted. Client satisfied.

  • Mobile-first apps help put back-end data in the hands of field service workers

    Is any part of your company’s business based on serving customers in the field? You’re likely challenged with how to enable your field service personnel with the right tools and information to make certain they are productive, efficient, and deliver quality service to ensure customer success.

    There are millions of field technicians employed in service industries worldwide. The number is expected to grow.

    Optimizing mobile worker workflow and real-time data capture and reporting increases productivity and efficiency. Platforms like Quickbase make it easy to create desktop solutions that streamline these processes supporting on-premises workers, capturing real-time data and improving company operations.

    Your field service employees need to execute their workflow in concert with your in-office personnel, but they don’t need the weight of a web-based solution. They need to have secure access to the same data sources (cloud and/or on premises) and business workflows but focused on their specific needs. The mobile app shouldn’t be just a mobile dashboard or responsive-mode client to a cloud-based or on-premises server application. It needs to be designed for mobile-first. These task-specific apps work in conjunction with and complement the in-office, web-based solutions.

    With ViziApps, mobile-first apps can have access to cloud and on-premises databases including SQL Server, MySQL, 35 other SQL databases, Quickbase, Google Sheets, and even PTC ThingWorx and AT&T IoT data. Through the use of mobile-first apps developed using ViziApps, key business process information is updated and stored for ready access by on-premises workers. And these mobile apps can contribute device-accessed data such as photos, barcode scans, and GPS geo-location which can be used in real-time in the mobile app workflow logic.

    Mobile-first apps developed using ViziApps with Quickbase can also provide your field service technicians with support for offline operations in poor connectivity locations. New or changed data is automatically synchronized and updated when the technician is back online.

    The benefits are clear. Learn more by viewing our tutorial videos

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  • No Code Platforms Give Rise to the Mobile Citizen Developer


    Business use of mobile apps is exploding and with good reason. As a result, many mid-market and enterprise companies now need dozens to hundreds of business workflow mobile apps for their workers. These mobile apps can yield big benefits in cost reduction, increased productivity, and worker job satisfaction.

    But many of these organizations can’t keep up with the demand for a high number of custom-coded mobile business apps. It’s simply too costly and takes too long to go the custom-coding development route.

    And in many cases, it’s not necessary to use custom coding, because new Rapid Mobile App Development (RMAD) platforms empower citizen developers who have just modest technical skills to create robust mobile apps for a fraction of the time and cost of custom coding. Gartner Research predicts that by 2022, 70% of software interactions in enterprises will occur on mobile devices and that more than half of all business-to-employee (B2E) mobile apps will be created by enterprise citizen developers using code-less tools.

    Forrester Research projects the market for such citizen developer mobile no code/low code platforms will grow to $15 billion by 2020.

    This is a big deal.

  • Visually Design Your App’s Custom Logic with No Coding

    In last week’s post, we talked about the five requirements for creating effective mobile-first business workflow apps.

    The benefits of an effective business workflow app developed from a mobile-first perspective can significantly minimize transaction times, shorten approval cycles, reduce data-entry errors and accelerate sales customer service resolution cycles, thereby reducing costs and improving customer satisfaction.

    So, how do you get business processes off of laptops and desktops to the smartphones and tablets right in the hands of your mobile workforce? You start by designing the optimum mobile workflow logic, then rapidly transforming that into the mobile app with ViziApps.