Paul Reid explains how GeoField can generate instant on-site reports

‘Give me a couple of days to write up the report and I’ll email you a copy once it’s done’. Surely a common scenario as field workers leave a customer or job site to get on with their office-based follow-up work? How much of an advantage would it be to your business to instead be able to say ‘Give me your email address and this report (or proposal/contract etc) will be in your inbox within seconds’?

By making use of GeoField’s instant on-site report generation, some of our customers already appreciate the advantages they have over more traditional approaches to delivering follow-up reports. Aside from the obvious benefit of time and effort saved by not having to return to the office to write up site reports, additional advantages can be gained in terms of customer service and satisfaction from such an efficient and professional approach to follow-up actions.

‘Right first time’ is a message we communicate to potential users of GeoField. Having the ability to visit the site, do the required work, and then deliver the follow-up report with associated sign-off in one single site visit is a great example of this in action.

With on-site report generation, any information captured in GeoField during the site visit can be automatically placed into an associated report template. Location maps, photos, form data, sketches and digital signatures can all be inserted at the appropriate place in the report template, and then saved to PDF or other document formats.

Once generated, the reports can be sent back to the server for processing in GeoField Exchange. Based on job type, or some other configurable attribute, they can either be automatically emailed to a specified recipient or distribution list, imported into an appropriate corporate database, or fed into your document management system.

Improving the efficiency of field operations is a goal for most organisations, and the deployment of GeoField’s instant on-site report generation facilities can cut several office-hours from the typical working week of each field worker. Less time in the office equals more value from your field operations.

Instant on-site reports are easy with GeoField