Benefits

Increasing globalization, flat budgets, and growing customer demand for immediacy are leading organizations to use mobility as a way to gain business advantage. Mobility solutions can potentially help you increase revenue and control costs, to facilitate:

Increased customer responsiveness
Faster reaction to market events
Competitive edge through real-time data access

Wireless networks are a key component of a mobility solution, helping to increase productive time inside the enterprise:

Wireless networks facilitate real-time access to people, applications, and network resources across campuses, branch offices, and remote locations using a variety of devices
Solution providers recognize the demand and are offering new, innovative wireless services
As high-speed municipal networks and public hot zones expand, rich enterprise application experiences are becoming available to mobile workers, whether they're on transportation systems or in cafés, restaurants, or hotels

Industry Benefits

Organizations in a wide range of industries can benefit from empowering their mobile workforces:

Education: Wireless networks allow schools at all levels to provide a wide range of applications throughout their facilities without expensive rewireing, giving students and staff access to benefits such as e-learning, voice communications, and high-bandwidth Internet access, to enhance learning, improve administration, and enhance research efforts.
Financial Services: Financial-services firms can give mobile employees instant access to industry trends, customer data, and financial information, helping firms dramatically improve customer service and more quickly deliver products and services.
Government: Public-safety and law-enforcement agencies can have uninterrupted, secure access to crucial information, helping them respond more quickly and efficiently to a crisis or day-to-day operations.
Healthcare: Caregivers can access real-time patient information or medical research from the patient bedside to make more accurate decisions more quickly and continue providing quality healthcare. Wireless LANs also help to track valuable medical equipment for security and timely availability.
Manufacturing: Wireless access to the networked supply chain helps manufacturers allow employees to share real-time data on the factory floor and support timely assembly.
Retail: Wireless networks help retailers improve store staff flexibility and efficiency, check out customers faster, and give customers access to relevant promotions, product information, and online ordering.
Transportation: Airlines, railroads, commercial trucking firms, and other businesses are using wireless networks to make their workforces more mobile. Wireless LANs improve efficiency of cargo handling, warehousing, and shipping through automation, which improves customer service and enhances security.