Axonator : For Business Users

Technology Is Redefining The Way We Live And Work

The world as we know is changing at an unprecedented pace. Acting as a catalyst to this change, the raging pandemic has redefined the way businesses approach to tackle challenges posed to them and adjust to the new normal. Most of the businesses have been forced to adapt or perish to the changing realities of the business environment, impacted severely by the great lockdown and the wave of protectionist measures enacted by governments the world over to tackle the resulting economic recession. In this context, factors like technological evolution, the rise of automation and the impending fourth industrial revolution, emergence of big data and the proliferation of smartphones with advanced capabilities and computing power are shaping up a new social fabric based on utilizing these entities for enhancing productivity, creating more value and increasing the quality of life.

Acting swiftly is the key for businesses to survive and thrive

No doubt, technology is the stepping stone through which we are breaking barriers and eliminating the problems that have been plaguing us since time immemorial. And yet newer challenges are rising each passing day, especially related to our environment, governance structures and the way businesses function. The rapid pace with which technology is evolving with the emergence of automation, the importance of being able to make strategic decisions faster and accurately by utilizing the vast quantities of information generated is dramatically changing the way businesses operate. Tech companies are raising the bar by devising new ways to utilize the tremendous amounts of information created to derive valuable insights for companies to raise their efficiency and overall performance. Acting swiftly is the essence for companies as they strive to deliver new products and services in the market in a way that is faster and more streamlined. This enables companies to serve their customers better, make themselves more competitive and change their offerings to suit the ever changing customer needs and a rapidly evolving market.

The mobile phone industry is leading the charge with app development

The rapid proliferation of mobiles is playing a major role in this scenario, as more people are accessing the internet using a smartphone than a desktop. Leading the charge are interfaces like Android and iOS, who are riding the wave of creating mobile apps as the primary software solution for their users. However, as billions of apps are being downloaded each year by consumers, projected to reach 258 billion in 2022 as per Statista, revenues generated are also in billions of dollars, but the rate of failure is also staggering.

Complex and bulky apps developed with the traditional app development approach fail to make the cut

Not only is the cost of app development is rising, with the average cost of developing an enterprise app being half a million dollars, there is a growing rate of abandonment, which is a huge setback for businesses. Businesses aim to leverage the power apps to make their workforce mobile to let their employees access the tools they need when they are away from their workplace. A successful app can also help businesses to improve their processes, increase productivity, enhance their customer experience and cut costs.

To achieve these goals,businesses, especially large ones, tend to build complex apps with loads of features and options, which confuse the users. The pressure to get the maximum returns from their huge investments in app development, companies tend to develop apps packed with a number of functionalities, resulting in a complex interface that is hard to use, slow to load and reduced functionalities. This leads to such behemoths being discarded within a short period of time, thus, failing the entire purpose for which such apps were developed in the first place and resulting in huge cost and time overruns.

Micro App Strategy as the Stepping Stone for Success

To counter this, companies are now increasingly turning to the micro app strategy, which advocates the development of small (micro) apps designed to solve one specific problem. So, instead of investing resources in developing a monolithic app that is complex and takes a lot of time before it can be used, companies are now switching to micro apps that are simple, can be developed fast and readily adaptable to changing business requirements. This enables companies to gain the necessary capabilities not only to act swiftly in a highly competitive business environment by getting quality business insights, but also gives them the edge over their competitors by offering products that cost less, are simple to use and can be easily modified as per the arising need.

What is Axonator?

This is where Axonator comes into the picture. Based on the effective implementation of the micro-app strategy for companies, Axonator is democratizing enterprise mobility by letting businesses of any size build their own mobile apps. The way Axonator platform is constituted and considering the vast range of functionalities being offered, it is the world’s most dynamic and powerful mobile form and workflow builder. Axonator is used by companies that employ field staff to conduct sales, inspections, and audits to automate their business processes and transform their operations into being more efficient, accurate and cost-effective. By letting companies to replace the outdated and error-prone pen-and-paper method by mobile forms solution, Axonator helps companies to embrace the micro app strategy. This lets companies develop mobile apps faster and cheaper, by using the code-less drag-and-drop method and achieve their objectives in a much shorter timeline as compared to using the traditional approach towards mobile app development, which is both time consuming and costly.

How the Axonator Platform Helps Companies Transform?

The beauty of Axonator platform is that it enables businesses to adopt automation and emerging technologies in a phased manner. Businesses are able to clearly make the transition from utilizing deterministic functions to the predictive stage and subsequently to the cognitive stage in their journey of transformation related to the present business, that demands agility and flexibility. In the deterministic stage, companies focus on automating repetitive tasks to improve productivity. This stage becomes the gateway to further evolution where businesses mature to leverage technology by making use of an analytics-driven approach to predict possible business disruptions and failures and taking steps to avoid them. Finally, in the third and last stage, the companies reach the level where they utilize cognitive abilities to make better use of data and convert it to valuable information that helps them in making better business decisions.

Benefits of the Axonator Platform

This transformation translates into immense benefits for companies and lets them to divert their resources from complex digital initiatives and invest them into being more focussed on their core strength areas and strategizing to leverage their expertise. By helping companies to streamline their business operations, Axonator helps businesses to be economical, competitive, and efficient. This leads to a dramatic decrease in errors by the elimination of manual and outdated processes, increase in customer satisfaction and optimization of functioning.

What Differentiates Axonator from Typical Mobile Form Building Platforms?

What makes Axonator the most powerful enterprise mobility platform is the fact that companies are equipped to gather valuable business insights from the analysis of real-time field data, reported on a dashboard, which differentiates it from the typical mobile form building platforms. By knowing what is going on in the field, companies can make faster decisions, making them agile and impacting their bottomline positively. Moreover, the razor sharp focus of Axonator platform on delivering mobile apps that possess an excellent user interface and design helps companies to leverage the power of micro apps for achieving their business goals, without having to rely on any coding expertise and by just using the drag-and-drop functionality of the Axonator platform to make their app.

The Highly Versatile Axonator Platform Offers Multiple Benefits that Companies Cannot Ignore

Other benefits of the Axonator platform include the facility of storing the data generated by the apps on the cloud. Companies need not worry about creating infrastructure for storing their data and its maintenance. The cloud storage is highly secure and there is no threat of losing the data, and can be accessed anytime, anywhere. The Axonator platform supports multiple device types, so be it a tablet or a smartphone running on Android or iOS, the apps created can work on any operating system. The apps are designed to work offline as well, and field staff can carry on using their app in places without internet connectivity. Data generated by mobile forms created on the Axonator platform can be stored locally on the device and synchronized with servers once connectivity is available.

Axonator Platform Translates Into Infinite Possibilities

Axonator platform is a versatile tool that translates into infinite possibilities, and can create automated business apps with comprehensive forms, streamlined workflows, or granular permissions. Whatever the requirement is, companies can opt for pre-built templates that are available in the Axonator App Store or build an app from scratch, without any coding.

The Underlying Philosophy of the Axonator Platform

A brainchild of Jayesh Kitukale, CEO & CTO of WhiteSnow, the parent company of Axonator, follows the philosophy of ‘fitting the app platform to the business needs of companies and not the other way around, where efforts are focused on fitting the business to the apps being created’. Recognizing the potential of the micro app strategy early on to change the way mobile applications are developed, Jayesh is a firm exponent of building flexible, easy to use, and codeless mobile apps that people love to use. By replacing the traditional approach of building complex systems that are difficult to comprehend and crammed with too many functions that confuse the users, Axonator has totally changed the way mobile applications are built, and the effective implementation of the micro app strategy ensures that the apps stand the test of user acceptance and a constantly changing business landscape.

Able Leadership and a Highly Skilled Team are the Most Valuable Assets of Axonator

Backed up by a highly skilled team which is passionate about changing the world of enterprise mobility by building the world’s most powerful tool, they strive hard for providing their customers with the best solutions and unparalleled service & support to fulfil their every requirement. This availability of a great pool of talented individuals nurtured by Jayesh helps in making Axonator a highly dynamic and a versatile platform engineered with a solid architectural foundation, setting it apart from its competitors.

Applications of Axonator Platform

Being a highly customizable and a versatile platform, Axonator creates infinite possibilities for its use and it can make a huge difference in the way companies function. Various use cases of the Axonator platform are discussed in this section that demonstrate the vast array of capabilities it is equipped with.

Data Collection

Axonator creates mobile forms and apps that can collect various types of data easily on mobiles. Storage of the collected data is securely done on the cloud and it can also automatically generate reports and send them to the relevant stakeholders in real-time. Data can be also collected offline and the auto sync feature helps in directing the data to the server without any manual intervention.

Designed for companies who deploy employees on the field to collect data for various purposes, the Axonator platform replaces the outdated paper forms with mobile forms to enable automated approvals, allocation of tasks, and various other functions like displaying compliance regulations and building workflows that trigger follow-up actions and notifications for effective monitoring and implementation. Signatures of team members or customers can also be captured on the mobile forms, increasing the authenticity of the collected data.

Incident Reporting

Standardized incident report helps companies to manage health and safety violations on the various sites/locations where their employees are working. Remediation processes can be created for every violation after inspection, and such incident reporting can be analyzed effectively by using the intelligent dashboard to identify trends and ensuring better compliance.

With Axonator, data can be collected real-time to map the incident with the exact location and time. Images and other attributes can also be captured that help in understanding how the incident occurred and ways to prevent a recurrence. This helps in mitigating risks and ensuring the safety of personnel.

Asset Inspection and Process Audits

Mobile apps created by using the Axonator platform can be deployed for inspecting objects, facilities, equipment, and other entities. Reference information can also be embedded for better understanding and refinement of data. Similarly, process audits can also be carried out and functionalities like GPS can be used to identify locations as per their performance on the maps.

Integration with Legacy Systems

Mobile apps built by using the Axonator platform can easily integrate with any of the existing systems that companies may be using like CRM, Salesforce, Google Drive, SAP and others. Importing and exporting the collected data from such varied systems can be done easily, leading to seamless integration and reduced time and costs.

Performance and Trend Analysis

The versatile Axonator platform helps users to make informed decisions based on the collected data through intelligent analytics. Supply chains can be tracked and corrective measures can be taken to remove any bottlenecks in the process. In addition, by leveraging workflow automation and the dynamic capability of mobile forms, users are able to respond faster and keep track of the ground situation. Analytical capabilities arising by a rigorous analysis of various metrics can help in strategic decision-making.

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