NederlandsQuality Online, has collaborated with Syngenta, a global agribusiness in crop protection and commercial seeds, to deliver a Mobile Approvals application for hand-held devices.
The BlackBerry Personal Digital Assistant is standard equipment for Syngenta's personnel. To address issues around team member absence and workflows, Syngenta worked with Quality Online to develop a mobile application to enable authorisations via the BlackBerry. With Quality Online's Mobile Collaboration applications, managers can give timely approvals from wherever they are in the world. The application aggregates information necessary for decision making and then reformats Quality Online's authorisation function for PDA screen display, before sending it as an email to a BlackBerry or any other brand of PDA. After an authorisation takes place, the relevant details are sent automatically to alle the appropriate people, so that the project can continue.
"The integration of the BlackBerry makes the decision making process much simpler and more efficient. It also makes it possible to reach an important group of users, who only want key information when they are making a decision. The first responses to Quality Online's new mobile applications are very positive. "This online service strengthens the involvement in the process," said Tjeerd Klaassens, Global Application Manager Quality Online's at Syngenta.
Peer Reinhard, CEO and Founder of Quality Online said that, "The scope for optimising applications for mobile working are almost limitless. This project is a good example of how fast we can integrate new devices and other technologies into the Quality Online platform and applications."
Syngenta is one of the world's leading agribusinesses with more than 24,000 employees in over 90 countries. It employs world-class science and its global goal is to advance the development, production and productivity of crops, and to market flower, vegetable and agricultural seeds.
Quality Online has an established track record of innovating integrated Enterprise Process Applications. For over ten years, the company has specialised in web-based solutions and professional services creating robust, scalable and easy-to-configure products and services for managing key business operations within single source, centrally-managed systems.
Quality Online's client base includes KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Vopak, Syngenta, SenterNovem, NedTrain, and Nutreco, among others.