When your business moves, your software should too
Most of the businesses we work with don’t start out needing a mobile app. They start out needing to solve a problem — and at some point it becomes clear that the solution needs to work in the field, on the floor, or in the customer’s hand, not just on a desktop in the office.
That’s usually how mobile development starts at RMR. Not with a mobile-first strategy document, but with a practical question: how do we get this working for people who aren’t sitting at a desk?
What We Build
The mobile apps we build tend to fall into a few recurring patterns.
Customer-facing mobile apps. Your customers want access to their data, their orders, their accounts, and they want it on their phones. When your web platform or internal system holds that information but has no mobile front end, we build one. It connects to your existing backend so the data stays consistent across every channel.
Field and floor applications. Your workforce isn’t always at a computer. Whether it’s staff collecting samples in the field, packagers on a production floor, or store employees fulfilling online orders, the work happens away from a desk. We build the mobile tools that bring the right workflow and the right data to wherever the work actually happens.
Internal management tools. Supervisors and managers who need real-time visibility into operations shouldn’t have to be tied to a desktop to get it. We build mobile dashboards and management tools that put live operational data in the right hands regardless of where those people are.
How Mobile Fits Into a Larger System
The mobile apps we build almost never stand alone. They connect to web platforms, databases, ERP systems, point-of-sale systems, and internal tools, pulling data from the systems that already run your business and presenting it in a format that works on a phone or tablet.
This means two things. First, your data stays in one place, the mobile app reflects the same information as everything else, without creating a separate database to maintain. Second, adding a mobile component doesn’t require rebuilding what you already have. We work with your existing systems and extend them to mobile.
See It In Practice
Two of our case studies involve mobile applications built exactly this way, one for field-based sample collection, one for production floor time tracking. Take a look at how they came together. View our case studies.
Ready to talk through your situation?
If your team or your customers are working away from a desk and your current software isn’t keeping up, we’d welcome a conversation. Get a free consultation.