ODIS Capabilities

Specialists in Mobile Enablement focus on helping companies achieve the full business value of mobile technology.

• For a retail company, this may mean real-time tracking of every item in inventory using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to minimize inventory costs and consistently meet demand.

• For an automotive company, this may mean enabling drivers to access real-time traffic, directions and diagnostic support from anywhere in the world.

• For an information company, this may mean optimizing the layout and navigation of existing Web content for any end-user device, whether it’s a phone, PDA or laptop.

• For any organization, it means allowing staff and customers to use mobile devices to interact with the organization in a ubiquitous, personalized and location-sensitive manner.

• Auto-ID technologies are expected to be driven by lower costs and a standard architecture. IBM’s radio frequency identification technology tools can help construct and implement end-to-end business solutions.

• E-healthcare benefits from IBM’s wireless and pervasive tools, which can help improve delivery of patient care by effectively delivering the right information to the right place at the right time.

• Location-based services can help companies employ location information in keeping track of assets, gaining insight and providing added value for end users.

• Mobile application delivery specialists help clients build mobile applications that take advantage of cutting-edge technologies. For example, IBM can provide high-quality speech recognition performance across communication channels, which can improve the usability of mobile services and lead to increased revenue. IBM can also create proof-of-concepts or first-of-a-kind solutions for companies, based on existing IBM assets.

• The mobile asset management specialty focuses on solutions geared toward increasing efficiency of resource usage and maintenance. IBM’s technology can help monitor, track and effectively use mobile resources, such as vehicles or packages.

• The mobile infrastructure management specialty helps companies gain access to solutions that handle and optimally integrate the huge diversity of mobile devices into their infrastructures.

• Telematic solutions include conversational technologies and expertise that help provide drivers with intuitive interaction and control of their vehicles. Resource management tools and expertise help provide drivers with relevant information. And data privacy protection tools and expertise help make it possible for drivers to share data with the automotive company (and vice versa), while helping ensure the privacy and security of user information.

• The workplace transformation specialty has the tools, methods and expertise to help support an increasingly mobile workforce and to design custom solutions – even for companies with the most complicated workplace problems.