1. mDesign Studio
CommonTime
mDesign Studio
Design, develop, deploy and manage
dynamic mobile applications quickly
and easily.
The Challenge
In a bid to achieve the many business benefits that enterprise mobility
can deliver, organizations are increasingly looking to mobilize business-
critical processes. Projects range from simple e-mail to specialised field
workforce implementations such as Sales Force Automations, Field
Service Automation, CRM, Sales Order Processing and many others.
Industry research specialists, Gartner, suggest that the requirement for
organizations to deploy multiple applications will grow considerably
over the next three years.
As organizations have gained the capability to mobilize multiple
business processes, complexity, security and cost have become a
Well implemented mobile concern. These concerns become more acute as deployments expand
rapidly across multiple departments, this leads to an exponential
applications can deliver many increase in the number of disparate systems running independently
business benefits including:
The challenges organizations face when attempting to mobilize
mutliple business processes include management & security of
different device types, synchronization of data, development &
• Improved productivity management of applications and back office integration.
• Business process efficiency
Purchasing and maintaining individual applications from multiple
• Timely and accurate information
vendors, or developing applications in-house using device operating
capture specific SDKs (Software Development Kits) further increases the
• More informed decision making complexities and cost involved.
• Staff satisfaction and retention
• Customer experience “mDesign Studio puts the power to create solutions
improvements in the hands of those who best understand the
• Improved internal and external problems.”
communications
• Enhanced corporate image The Solution - CommonTime mDesign Studio
CommonTime mDesign Studio is a design environment that allows the
rapid development of enterprise mobile applications. This environment
makes it easy to mobilize business processes and has been designed
specifically for people who manage them.
mDesign Studio gives business process managers the tools to design,
develop, deploy and manage dynamic mobile applications without the
need for complicated coding.
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2. mDesign Studio
How it works
mDesign Studio provides a simple drag-and-drop business process modeling interface and an intuitive
application building process that can be used to mobilize complex business processes quickly and easily.
CommonTime’s library of customizable business process templates can be modified and adapted in hours, and
complex business process can be built from scratch in days.
mDesign Studio - Mobilizing Business Processes
Business Process mDesign Client Back End System
Templates mDesign Studio Integration
Mobile Application
Rapid Application Design & Execution Environment
Development Environment
SalesForce
Automation
SQL Server
Complete
Retail & POS Business Process Oracle
Field Service Complete Domino
& Inspections Business Process SAP
Survey & Complete Various CRM
Data Capture Business Process Other
Other
Templates
Design
A library of pre-designed business process templates and components (called process snippets) are provided for
users to customise and adapt using simple drag-and drop functionality.
Users create applications by adding process snippets to a new workspace or by amending existing process
templates. The configuration of snippets can be changed; new fields can be added and captions, labels and
other attributes can be amended.
There are existing snippets for authentication, customer information, surveys, questionnaires, inspections,
remote data lookup, workflow, photographs, voice memos, and location information. New snippets can be
created manually and added to the library for reuse. CommonTime is continually developing both business
process templates and snippets, which are available to download online.
Deploy
Once an application has been created, it is crucial that it can be tested and deployed efficiently to get mobile
workers operational. mDesign Studio integrates seamlessly with mSuite, CommonTime’s comprehensive mobile
device management solution to provide secure over-the-air deployment of applications, as well as ongoing
management after the initial deployment.
Changes to applications can me made quickly and easily within mDesign Studio and instantly pushed out over
the air to the devices in the field.
Integrate
mDesign Studio has flexible and tiered integration capabilities that range from simple direct integration with
existing SQL data and Web Services to using bespoke elements such as stored procedures to ensure data
integrity can be tightly maintained and controlled by its owners.
Any information your mobile workforce captures is integrated with your back end systems, removing the need
for re-keying or further data integration work.
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3. mDesign Studio
The Interface
mDesign Studio ‘s simple drag and drop interface makes application development quick and easy. The
screenshots below show business process snippets and the way that they flow together for a typical inspection
process, in this case, vehicle inspection
The structure of snippets in a typical inspection process, displaying
individual process elements and their relationships.
An individual process snippet, in this case a Visual Inspection, provides a
diagram to annotate with damage information on the device.
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4. mDesign Studio
The Benefits of mDesign Studio
CommonTime mDesign Studio provides a wealth of tangible benefits for organizations and their workforces.
• Simple design environment - easy to use, mDesign Studio allows drag and drop creation of mobile
applications, providing a simpler learning curve and faster, more efficient application development and
modification.
• Multiple applications across multiple platforms - mDesign Studio provides a truly cross platform approach-
design one, deploy to many.
• Design from templates - CommonTime’s 15 years experience in mobile application development instilled in
the provided templates
• Back-end integration - applications designed using mDesign Studio fully integrate with back-end systems,
providing streamlined, seamless data transfer.
• Future proof investment - mDesign Studio creates applications that work across multiple platforms and
device types. As new devices are released, our compatibility grows, providing the solution for all your
mobile working needs.
• Reduce costs - the cost of mobilizing applications with mDesign Studio is 20-30% compared to traditional
development approaches
CommonTime MEAP CommonTime Mobile Enterprise Application Platform
CommonTime mDesign Studio is a key
mSuite mSupport mDesign Studio
component of the CommonTime MEAP
(Mobile Enterprise Application Platform) Complete Mobile Device Real-time over- Rapid Application Design &
Solution. Management Solution the-air support Development Environment
The CommonTime MEAP provides full
assistance and
Interrogation
& Inspections
File Retrieval
Data Capture
annotations
Field Service
Retail & POS
and Device
Automation
Distribution
Mobile VPN
Encryption
On-screen
Security &
SalesForce
device management, real time over the
Policies &
Calendar
Survey &
Software
Settings
Email
air support, the highest levels of security,
and mobile application design and
development.
For more information about the
mSuite Client mSupport mDesign Client
CommonTime MEAP, or any of its
components, please visit Mobile Device Client Mobile Application
www.commontime.com Management Software Execution Environment
For more Information About CommonTime
To find out more about CommonTime mDesign Studio or the We are experts at mobilizing workforces,
CommonTime MEAP, please visit our website www.commontime.com with experience in developing and
contact sales@commontime.com or call us on: deploying line of business applications
CommonTime Ltd. for mobile devices. Our customers
UK: +44 (0) 1332 542 028 range from local businesses to large
multinationals, across the public and
USA: CommonTime Inc. private sectors.
Tel: 866 706 0609 (toll-free)
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