Alliance Technologies

As technology advances it's no secret that more and more employees are moving out of the office to work on the road or at home, allowing businesses to move away from traditional office models. However, these transitions bring new challenges to employees and businesses, especially with communication. Good communication is much more important when face-to-face interactions occur less frequently, so here are some technologies that can help your business improve communication with your mobile employees.

 

Laptop computers and cellular phones allow mobile employees to access information anywhere they have cellular access. Smart phones provide employees with access to voice, email, and text messages. Some smart phone models can even be tethered to a laptop to provide the laptop with an internet connection out in the field. If tethering a smart phone isn't an option, a data card can be installed in the laptop instead to provide internet to an employee in the field.

 

Thanks to our recent partnership with i wireless, Alliance Technologies is now able to offer smart phones, data cards, and mobile contracts in select areas. If you are currently providing your employees with a mobile phone plan, please talk to us – we can build a custom plan for your business that could save you up to 40% over your current plan.

 

More and more companies are building the software and hardware to make video chat a possibility. Desktop cameras, webcams, laptops, and even front facing cameras in mobile phones are encouraging the use of this technology. Video chat allows for a real-time, face-to-face conversation over the internet and more businesses are using this technology for sales, product demonstrations, and remote management of employees. Within the next few years, this technology will be even more important to the mobile employee.

 

Through our relationship with Iowa Network Services (INS), Alliance is able to offer video chat at a reasonable price. We can set up the software and equipment, provide a testing environment, and even educate employees on its use. Video chat is a much more personal than a phone call, so please contact us if you'd like a demonstration of this technology.

 

Cellular phones are wonderful, but sometimes a landline is integral to the way your employees conduct business. However, since mobile employees often work in several different locations, installing landlines isn't always a feasible solution. Luckily a new line of VoIP phones has this problem covered. Many new VoIP phone models allow your employees to keep the same phone number anywhere they take their phones. As long as they have internet access, employees can take their phones home, to the office, or anywhere in the world – the phone number stays the same no matter where the phone is connected.

 

Through our partnerships with leading VoIP hardware producers we are able to offer VoIP phone systems and equipment, including the anywhere VoIP phones your mobile employees need to stay connected anywhere they go.

 

Ensuring that your mobile employees can access all the data they need from home or the road is essential to keeping them productive. There are many solutions to provide your employees with connectivity, including remote desktop and VDI technologies, which allow your employees to access their desktops from anywhere with an internet connection. These technologies can be augmented by equipment hosted in a datacenter, so the data is safe and redundantly connected. Another option is to configure a VPN on your employee machines to ensure that connection to the servers at your office or in the datacenter is secure and safe from hackers.

 

Alliance Technologies has the technical knowledge and hardware capability to implement any of these mobile data access solutions. If you're considering sending a few employees home to work or opening a new position out on the road, please talk to us today about how we can improve the work experience and productivity of your mobile employees through technology.