InterDev developed a leading edge mobility platform for one of Australia’s leading transport and logistics providers. The solution has allowed our client to extend these mobility services to more than half a dozen business units within the group. These independent business units can leverage off the group’s investment, in order to achieve:

• real time tracking of freight movements
• signature capture – available in real time to customers over the web
• total fleet visibility
• Job booking and pickup whilst ‘on the road’
• reduced time to market for new mobile applications

The initial problem
Our client required a solution that allowed mobile data applications to seamlessly integrate with multiple business systems. Previous mobility offerings deployed to the group were limited due to the following:

• batch based system
• proprietary development by third party vendors, limiting the opportunity to extend or change
• required to ‘reinvent the wheel’ each time a mobile solution was required
• not utilising internal resources to develop new mobile initiatives
• integration with internal systems required significant rework

A corporate mobility standard was needed to revolutionise the way business had been traditionally performed.

Solving the problem
Since the client was intending to use this system as a common mobility platform across multiple business units; delivering a reliable, efficient, and robust solution was paramount. Using standard technologies we were able to develop a distributed architecture which allowed for any business application to ‘plug into’ the core mobile infrastructure. In addition, the system provides:

• interface capabilities into multiple business systems
• full visibility of connected devices
• automatic software deployment
• support for multiple hardware types
• web based management and administration capabilities

This was all achieved whilst conforming to the corporate enterprise architecture and ensuring adherence to corporate security policies.