Mobile solutions and BPM
Mobile solutions are a major driving force behind process automation solutions. In this environment, there are no new technical options for mobile use. But a wide variety of options open up merely by enabling processes to receive input from people on the move, resulting in much faster throughput times. The advantages range from obviating the need to take notes on paper to simply being able to approve something while sitting through the coming attractions at a movie theater (this text does not discuss the influence of this technology on the private lives of these persons). The possibilities are very wide ranging, especially since the mobile devices' new sensors can be used—geolocation, card-based information, cameras, barcode scanners, or movement profiles, all of which improve process support. With regard to BPM, here understood as process automation, the following options arise concerning the use of mobile end devices:
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