Welcome to our winter edition of Field Views – wow, where did the year go?!  Time certainly flies when you’re having fun, and we’ve had a busy year helping blue-chip customers improve field worker efficiency.  We’ll be talking more about these projects in our Spring edition.  We’ve also been busy adding to our mobile expertise with five new staff joining us this year and more in 2012.

Reports of bleak economic conditions are unavoidable these days and worse is forecast for next year.  So we thought this would be a good time to focus on return on investment. Mobile solutions continue to be a rare ray of sunshine in stormy skies, and anyone looking to get the most from a squeezed budget can be confident that investment in mobile working pays back a lot more than you spend.  We hope you find the stories of how others made their business case useful.

We’re also expanding into new markets with very encouraging starts in emergency services and construction. To underpin our growth in enterprise data management we’re investing in new technology partnerships to enhance GeoField’s integration with the asset management, ERP and CRM systems our customers use. It is great to have IBM as a new partner, adding to our Microsoft, Ordnance Survey and Esri credentials, and we’ll be announcing more next year.

Merry Christmas & best wishes for 2012. We look forward to working with you in the year ahead.

Paul Reid | Managing Director