{"id":569,"date":"2010-02-09T13:42:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T20:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mobileframe.com\/?p=569"},"modified":"2010-04-01T09:12:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T16:12:03","slug":"mobile-project-gone-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileframe.com\/blog\/mobile-project-gone-wrong","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Project Gone Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple of weeks I have had multiple discussions with organizations that tried to go mobile, only they weren\u2019t successful. (FYI &#8211; None of these organizations have ever been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobileframe.com\" target=\"_blank\">MobileFrame <\/a>customers)\u00a0 After hearing about all of the obstacles they tried to overcome, I realized that they all have a few problems in common.<br \/>\nProblems Encountered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Endless Professional Services Cycles (i.e. Development)<\/strong> \u2013 One company said that they have been trying to get their pilot started for the last year and a half. They\u2019ve spent $100,000+ on Software and another $40,000+ on Hardware.\u00a0 The hardware is still sitting in a corner collecting dust.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Difficult to use Development Environments<\/strong> \u2013 Some of these groups purchased development environments that claimed to be easy to use. They weren\u2019t. This naturally lead to issue #1 which is the need to pay for a lot of money for Professional Services.<!--more--><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lack of Product Documentation<\/strong> \u2013 This is something that most people don\u2019t think about until its too late, but ALL of the organizations with failed implementations said that the lack of product\u00a0 documentation (how to\u2019s, wiki\u2019s, frequently asked questions, installer guides, \u00a0etc.) rendered the already difficult to use Development Environment useless, which lead to the need to pay for Professional Services\u2026<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hidden Costs <\/strong>\u2013 one customer told me he thought that the provider he chose to develop his application was going to be the perfect fit &#8211; relatively affordable, solid, great product vision, and support.\u00a0 However, when he needed to make a very simple change to his application (i.e. changing the label on a text box, and increasing the size of buttons), he was charged with 40 hours of development time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If any of the above describes your organization I have good news\u2026.. MobileFrame can help you. Our development environment is easy to use.\u00a0 Don\u2019t believe me? <strong>Challenge us, send us your paper form, and we\u2019ll build your application and demo it to you live on our very first phone call.<\/strong> Additionally, our professional services group has thousands of successful mobile implementations under their belts and can deliver your pilot in 2-4 weeks.\u00a0 Not to mention we have a full suite of product related documentation, sample apps, online training, and support.\u00a0 With the MobileFrame Platform, your company has the power to make changes to your application with our 100% code free mobile computing environment and deploy the changes out to the field in minutes. There are never any hidden costs and no need to pay us to make changes to your application.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in having MobileFrame help you salvage your mobile project, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogbackend.mobileframe.com\/contact-us\" target=\"_blank\">contact us<\/a> today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple of weeks I have had multiple discussions with organizations that tried to go mobile, only they weren\u2019t successful. (FYI &#8211; None of these organizations have ever been MobileFrame customers)\u00a0 After hearing about all of the obstacles they tried to overcome, I realized that they all have a few problems in common&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[25,24,120,121,32,44,20,426],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goingmobile","tag-choosing-a-mobile-solution","tag-enterprise-mobility","tag-failed","tag-implementation","tag-mobile-applications","tag-mobile-computing","tag-mobile-device-management","tag-mobile-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfOsuQ-9b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileframe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileframe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileframe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileframe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileframe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileframe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileframe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileframe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileframe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileframe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}