Achieve the  benefits of mobile working and field force automation

Reduce Overheads - Improve Service Delivery - Increase Productivity - Empower People

Our mobile applications team enables local government, NHS, service providers and commercial organisations to achieve the business transformation benefits of field force automation and empowerment.

Formed from the acquisition of Integral Mobile Data, our team are pioneers in enabling communications between handheld devices and databases.  If your organisation has PDAs, BlackBerry smartphones, laptops or tablet PCs, we can connect them, securely, to your data.

Our skills in systems integration support the information sharing agenda by allowing field-based staff to have a single view of a service user's history, gathered from disparate systems, and integrated at the point of service delivery.

Speak with experts

To discuss your next mobile project - whether for the tools to develop mobile applications yourselves, the development skills of a mobile solution specialist, information sharing through mobile devices or certified security enhancements to your current systems - why not contact our team now?   Please click here or call us on 01865 887 428.

Business transformation

Organisations all over the world are discovering the benefits of mobilising their workforce. They understand the service performance and productivity gains in enabling their mobile and remote teams to constantly access and update their systems - live, in real time, regardless of location.

The benefits go far beyond service improvement and efficiency gains, with organisations securing savings from travel costs (thereby contributing to the demands of the 'green agenda'), head office efficiencies (with the end of double entry of data), and huge savings in real estate needs (by enabling service providers to connect to all core systems remotely).

We also have a strong track record in working with service providers and application vendor partners - such as SunGard Public Sector, SciSys, WPS, InterNETalia and others - for providing solutions that range from social care, social housing maintenance and management, CP12 gas inspections and regulatory compliance and enforcement.

Integral mForms®

Integral mForms® is Hytec’s Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) with an integrated Rapid Application Development (RAD) toolset for creating and prototyping software swiftly and efficiently.

Applications developed using Integral mForms® allow users to work from their handheld devices (PDA, BlackBerry, tablet or laptop PC), whether online or not.

Connectivity, communication and integration are largely automated, allowing the development of adaptable and future-proof solutions with low cost of ownership, as updates and further development can be undertaken inhouse.  

Integral mForms® solutions meet the range of an organisation's mobile requirements through the ability to provide connectivity with multiple databases to a wide choice of mobile hardware devices, providing a Common Mobile Gateway.

This is reinforced by:

Integral Xchange™ – the integration gateway

Integral Xchange™ is our integration gateway. This unique information sharing facility allows mobile applications to access and update records held across a variety of databases. As a result, field-based staff are able to have a single view of a client or patient’s history, gathered from disparate systems and integrated at the point of service delivery.

Enhanced security

Security is an important consideration when potentially sensitive data is held on a mobile device. With 128 bit RC4 encryption of data held on the device and in transmission, allied to over-the-air disablement of the device, applications developed in Integral mForms® are sufficiently secure for most user needs.

However, with the advent and introduction of secure government network requirements (such as GCSx); we are able to provide the following certified (GCSx approved) enhanced security options:

• End-point security: 128 bit (minimum) AES encryption to protect data on the device at rest, compliant with FIPS 140-2
• Mobile VPN: 128 bit (minimum) AES encryption of data in transmission with optional two-factor user authentication - also delivers significant user productivity benefits linked to application session persistence and inter-network roaming capabilities.

Scoping and design consultancy

Our technical and business consultancy services can help customers to scope mobile solutions, including back-end integration with different applications. Many customers use our services to aid their initial business planning and the subsequent introduction, deployment and evaluation of their mobile working technology.

Mobile applications development

For those organisations that do not wish to develop their own mobile applications, we can help with applications development and integration skills on a turnkey project basis. Our approach is to use the tried and tested MoDIS™ methodology (Mobile Design and Integration Strategy) which exploits the Rapid Application Development capability of Integral mForms® and involves an iterative approach to solution design that is highly responsive to end-user feedback.  This approach helps to secure staff buy-in to any changes in working practice - essential to the success of mobile working projects.

If required, our team can provide a full turnkey development involving: application scoping, functionality design, code development, systems integration and data sharing, solution implementation (including user documentation and training where required) and provision of a full support and maintenance service.

Click here for further information on Hytec's mobile applications development.