By Caroline Scarborough
The world's top companies are discovering that wireless technology is a lot more than just equipping their sales force with laptops and cell phones. With the recent advances in wireless technology, smart companies are incorporating mobile solutions throughout their business processes to help improve customer service, streamline the supply chain, manage assets and inventory, and stay in touch with roving executives.
Driving this move to the wireless enterprise: increased global competition, time pressures and productivity demands. Adding fuel to the trend: successful and aggressive adoption by the public groups and agencies such as law enforcement and public safety organizations. And adding impetus for increased technology: reports from Strategy Analytics that the mobile e-commerce market worldwide could be worth $200 million by 2004.
Even in the early stages of the technology, there's a mobile computing solution to fit most company's needs. On these pages, 10Meters.com takes a look at how early-adopters are pushing the wireless envelope:
