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AirClic Allowing Organizations to Adopt Best-in-Class Mobile Solutions
Company Addresses Major Adoption Barriers Outlined by Aberdeen Research; 2006 Highlighted by Worldwide Growth, Product Breakthroughs and One Billionth Scan
NEWTOWN, PA, January 23, 2007—AirClic®, a leading provider of business process mobilization solutions, today announced that by leveraging the market demand while addressing barriers to adoption, the company has seen a 150% growth in revenue in 2006. AirClic closed out the year with new product breakthroughs and a number of global partnerships and customer wins, all indicating that adoption rates for mobile solutions are reaching new levels.
A recent Aberdeen Group study entitled "Location. Location. Location. Does it Matter in Field Service?1" outlined that nearly 70 percent of respondents were looking to purchase or upgrade technology solutions. The study further stated that the four major barriers to field service mobile solution adoption were: integration with corporate back-office systems, the high cost of mobile hardware and software, lack of internal IT resources, and user inexperience with technology.
AirClic solutions are designed to address all of these barriers, as evidenced by two of its customers that participated in the Aberdeen study. Keystone can now track the status of its 300 daily installations in real-time as well as document the truck used, service route and time spent on each job site. Konica Minolta has gained real-time insight into service calls by 1,500 technicians, thereby improving its first call fix rate, decreasing inventory shrinkage and increasing breadth, accuracy and frequency of captured data.
"As indicative of the recent Aberdeen Group study, AirClic is in a prime position for growth and expansion in 2007," said Tim Bradley, CEO for AirClic. "Clearly, companies are realizing the need to mobilize their operations, particularly their business processes and location-based field services. AirClic provides a low cost, user-friendly solution that improves communication between the field and office."
AirClic Realizing Domestic and International Growth
Over the past year, AirClic signed several new global customers and partners and celebrated its one billionth scan. Highlights include:
- One Billionth Scan — The company celebrated its one billionth scan using an AirClic-enabled mobile device at Triangle Warehouse, an AirClic customer specializing in storage, consolidation, distribution, and cross docking needs for many leading retail and manufacturing brands.
- DAXKO Partnership — DAXKO is a leading provider of web-based, on-demand software for non-profits nationwide and is the leading provider of operations software and services in the $4.6 billion YMCA market. AirClic has partnered with DAXKO to automate paper-based attendance tracking by incorporating AirClic mobile attendance tracking application in DAXKO's Site-Scan™ solution. Using mobile phones equipped with a bar-code scanner, the YMCA eliminated the need to manually count attendance.
- CellScan Solutions (Pty) Ltd. Partnership — CellScan Solutions is a South African-based provider of AirClic solutions for leading industry applications including Courier, Transport & Distribution, Office Automation & Maintenance, Field Maintenance, Asset Tracking & Management, Time & Attendance, Sales Order Management, Inventory Management, and Vending Services. CellScan Solutions has partnered with AirClic to market AirClic in South Africa and sub-Sahara countries utilizing the Sony Ericson handset.
- American Circulations Innovations (ACI) Partnership— ACI is a full-service circulation solutions provider that offers distribution, audit and verification, warehousing, mapping, demographics and product assembly for the newspaper industry. ACI has partnered with AirClic to provide applications to track newspaper delivery and returns from stores and racks. Joint customers include Metro, Los Angeles Times, Rumbo, Hoy and San Francisco Examiner.
- AD Columbi Partnership — AD Columbi is a Scandinavian-based provider of enterprise field service management solutions including mobile data capture. AirClic has partnered with AD Columbi to resell AirClic's AC11 bar-code scanner, developed and distributed by AirClic for Sony Ericsson handsets, with their AD Columbi's M_Solution product line.
AirClic Introduced New Solutions for Every Market
In 2006, AirClic announced two new solutions to the market — AirClic Time Management and AirClic MP5.
- Time Management is the only mobile application in the market combining the paperless collection of mobile time and attendance, payroll and project information with a robust time and labor management application, allowing users the first seamless collection and processing of mobile payroll and project data. The new application is designed specifically for field service-based businesses to help them track and better manage their labor resources, replacing outmoded, error-prone processes like hand-written time sheets.
- AirClic MP5 is the industry's most comprehensive platform for automating and tracking mobile business processes. The AirClic MP 5 provides cell phone users advanced, two-way data exchange capabilities often found in expensive and more complicated PDAs. As a result, field workers have an easy device that provides them with direct and immediate access to corporate data needed to complete their mobile tasks.
AirClic Gains Industry Accolades
In 2006, AirClic and its customers have received numerous awards and industry recognition for its business process mobilization solutions. Some recent highlights include:
- PricewaterhouseCoopers Eastern Technology Council "Companies to Watch:" AirClic was recently named a 2006 "Company to Watch" on December 5 at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. The award honors the outstanding achievements of MidAtlantic's most prestigious technology and life sciences companies and their leaders.
- Mobile Star Awards: For the second year in a row, AirClic received two Gold Stars in the enterprise software category of the Mobile Star Awards. AirClic products awarded were AirClic MP for "GPS Tracking" and AirClic Time Management for "Mobile Middleware." In the success story category, AirClic customers Konica Minolta and Keystone were awarded for success in "field service" and "asset management" respectively.
- Mobile Enterprise Mobilizer Awards: AirClic customer Konica Minolta was recognized by the Mobilizer Awards as one of the most effective mobile technology deployments that has improved the work processes of field service or field sales employees.
1 Source: Aberdeen Group: "Location. Location. Location. Does it Matter in Field Service?" September 2006.
About AirClic®
Headquartered in Newtown, PA, AirClic is a leading provider of mobile business process solutions that offer organizations real-time visibility to the "who, what, where, when and why" of their entire field operations. Using AirClic-enabled wireless devices, managers and workers can easily and economically capture, exchange and access critical data that represent people, assets and activity. With its unsurpassed user-adoption rate, AirClic is driving new levels of accountability and improved customer service for many of the world’s leading companies.
AirClic is a registered trademark and AirClic MP is a trademark of AirClic, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are property of their respective holders.
For more information, contact:
AirClic
Matt Matsui
651-222-9791
matt.matsui@airclic.com
Lois Paul & Partners
Jolene Hajj
781-782-5849
jolene_hajj@lpp.com
