A recent "Tech Report" in Heavy Duty Trucking features AirClic's state-of-the-art mobile tracking solution that gives Wessin Transport real-time visibility of their shipments throughout the upper Midwest and Eastern seaboard. Find out why Wessin's Manager of Information Systems declares, "We've been waiting for something like this for 30 years!"
Business Fleet Magazine describes how Intermountain Express, an auto parts supplier serving repair shops in 300 Western US cities, has radically improved its freight tracking system using AirClic’s customized mobile tracking solution. The AirClic system saves Intermountain between $15,000 and $20,000 every month in lost freight expenses.
This article from Mobile Enterprise magazine highlights Alaska Airlines' use of AirClic's technology, from its cargo division to several other operational areas of the company. Kim Hantz, senior manager of cargo strategy and business systems at Alaska Airlines, shares the problems the company was facing with its cargo tracking and how they went from hours of time wasted looking for individual packages to a 20% savings on claims payout costs and increased customer satisfaction. The airline continues to find other innovative ways to use AirClic's technology even today.
Michael Vizard from eWeek's Channel Insider singled out AirClic in "10 Technologies and 20 Vendors You Should Know for 2008." In the article, Vizard mentions AirClic as an example of useful smartphone technology.
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Konica Minolta was honored at CIO Magazine's 20th annual awards celebration for achieving the highest levels of operational and strategic excellence in information technology. Senior executives at Konica Minolta emphasized AirClic's seminal role in helping them develop more cost-effective inventory management, and increasing the breadth, accuracy, and frequency of captured data.
The June 2007 issue of Integrated Solutions features a story on AirClic's solution for Worldwide Flight Services (WFS). It illustrates how AirClic has helped the company significantly increase accountability and credibility with British Airways, leading WFS to be named one of the airline's valued partners and a recipient of the coveted British Airways Innovation Award in 2005 for its outstanding use of technology in meeting its service commitments.
This story, which appeared in the May 21 issue of Computerwire, highlights AirClic MP Tracker 2.0's improved GPS capabilities as well as its superiority over its competitors' solutions.
A feature in the May 14 issue of Computerworld highlights Konica Minolta's use of the AirClic solution. By implementing AirClic, the company has been able to reduce asset and inventory shrinkage and create competitive and profitable pricing models for service agreements.
Allen Concrete was highlighted in Business Fleet Magazine in an article on GPS tracking. The company has successfully implemented the AirClic solution to help them track time and attendance from their remote work sites, efficiently, accurately, and instantly.
The November issue of OPTIMIZE, Information Week’s journal for CIO’s, featured Konica Minolta’s highly successful deployment of AirClic MP. Since rolling out the application to its 1,500 field service workers, Konica Minolta has accelerated its repair service; reduced paperwork, gained real-time management of its customer service process, and decreased inventory shrinkage by a factor of five. Read the article
According to the recently published report Location, Location, Location, Does it Matter in Field Service?, service organizations that use location-based solutions — such as GPS, GIS and AVL — see marked performance upticks, including a 17% boost in service revenues.
Mobile Enterprise magazine has awarded AirClic customer Konica Minolta with an Honorable Mention in its annual Mobilizer Awards issue, which honors the most effective mobile technology deployments.
Alaska Air Cargo was the subject of the September insert of Integrated Solutions which highlighted the customized tracking and monitoring system designed and deployed by AirClic. The solution has given the airline real time visibility of all shipments, and as a result, has virtually eliminated time spent searching for missing cargo, and has radically reduced customer claims reimbursements.
Learn how Wessin Transport, an AirClic customer, deployed a wireless proof-of-delivery and GPS-reporting solution that surpased the advanced technology used by UPS and FedEx—at a fraction of the cost.
New Jersey-based digital imaging company Konica Minolta has been working with mobile automation firm AirClic Inc. to allow its service technicians to more quickly enter details about jobs with just their mobile phones.
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…GPS remains a viable option. Spring Valley ISD outside of Houston says its system is more than up to the task of providing state-of-the-art and non-proprietary student tracking capabilities to meet the growing needs of school district accountability.
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MRM software is also useful in monitoring workers. Companies that once could impose nothing more than an honor system to trust that their long-haul truck drivers were taking the most direct routes and only reasonable break times, can now track them with GPS systems to record how long it takes them to leave the lot in the morning, break for lunch, and even sleep at night.
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One of the leading manufacturers of vinyl windows and doors in the United States, Silver Line Windows currently employs more than 7,000 people. Its customers include Home Depot, 84 Lumber, and Norandex. Strategically located facilities allow for timely delivery and first-rate customer service for the approximately 500,000 windows shipped each month.
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AirClic, Inc. has received $2.86 million in venture captial to fuel
its expansion.
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For mobile workforce vendor AirClic Inc., 2005 was a banner year. The company welcomed new CEO Tim Bradley last March, introduced its AirClic MP mobile platform that same month, and went on to post sales increases and customer growth of 300% for the year.
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Like many other industries, some scrap recycling companies are turning to more sophisticated equipment and communication devices to help improve their bottom lines.
Sure, you can move it around. But can you find it? Can you say for sure where you left the stuff? For distribution companies, transportation enterprises and a range of other businesses, it's a pressing question.
"You have a field force out there repairing and installing items. You have delivery trucks on the road. You have transportation processes, you have distribution, but what is the status of all those things?" Tim Bradley asks.
As CEO of AirClic, Bradley has made it his mission to help others answer questions like this.
“Small- to medium-sized businesses want the ability to know, instantly, what is happening in their mobile operations and want to respond to frontline needs in a timely manner,” Tim Bradley, chief executive officer of AirClic, a provider of mobile process automation software and solutions based in Newtown, Pa., told Wireless World.
This week AirClic debuted a new technology called the AirClic MP Xpress, a solution designed to capture data about mobile activities and assets and text message them back to a call center or headquarters, all in real time. The technology is based on a combination of software and hardware and is being used by customers for an array of business activities like inventory tracking, asset tracking, proof-of-delivery, time tracking and security, said Bradley.
An appeals court in Arizona this week ruled that a federal law that bans autodialing to call mobile phones also covers unsolicited text messages—even though text-messaging technology did not exist when the legislation was crafted.
Many enterprise customers of mobile phones install proprietary software on handsets to avoid being spammed with unwanted text messages, said Tim Bradley, chief executive officer of AirClic Inc., a Newton, Pa., mobile phone applications developer. “Nobody wants that garbage interrupting their work,” Bradley said.
Symantec and VERITAS. AT&T Wireless and Cingular. HP and Compaq. Consolidation usually means new products or capabilities that capitalize on the combined strengths and product lines of the merging companies. New solutions often combine features of what were previously two or three different systems or features of a system. As a CIO, you know the technology you're using now is not the technology you'll be using in a few years. In addition to maintaining your company's current systems, you must also keep a lookout on the ever-evolving industry.
AirClic Inc. has been contracted to help Océ North America Inc. keep track of service parts in the field.
The Newtown, Pa., company will equip up to 1,000 of Océ's service technicians with mobile phones equipped with bar-code scanners. When the technicians scan the bar codes on parts, the information contained in the codes will be transmitted to AirClic's servers and downloaded into Océ's parts inventory database.
AirClic’s new scanning attachment, the AC25, is designed specifically for select Motorola mobile phones and employs the AirClic MP Application, which allows mobile workers to monitor and transfer transactions and shipments, while still using the voice and data capabilities of a Java-enabled mobile phone.
AirClic, a provider of mobile process automation solutions, announced the availability of the Motorola AC25 barcode scanner—a new scanning attachment designed specifically for Motorola'a phones for iDEN networks that was developed to allow mobile businesses to have barcode scanning paired with voice, data, and application capabilities of of Java technology-enabled Motorola iDEN phones.
The organizations that have a complete view of mobile activities and respond quickly and efficiently to challenges in the action field, possess a competitive advantage: mobile intelligence, the new way to achieve efficiency and customer satisfaction
The founding partners of GSMexpress, a speedy nationwide and international courier messenger & package service Mexican company, clearly understood from the beginning that one of the required elements to enter, position themselves and remain in the market, is technology.
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AirClic Inc. has removed the word "interim" from Tim Bradley's title.
The Newtown company last month named Bradley CEO. He had been serving as interim CEO since October.
Prior to Bradley's arrival, AirClic was run by two presidents: John Parker, who joined the company in 2000, and Peter Ritz, who helped found it in 1999.
When IT professionals think load balancing, they think of hardware and software that keeps network traffic from overrunning a single server. For St. Louis first responders, load balancing means ensuring hospitals don't become inundated with patients in the event of a disaster.
Last April, the St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Response System launched a $500,000 system developed by Waltham, Mass.-based Raytheon Co. that helps first responders, doctors and other emergency personnel trace patients from the scene of an accident to the hospital.