Mobile Application Design Environment

Create and implement mobile enterprise applications quickly and easily with mDesign Studio

CommonTime has developed the complete mobile enterprise solution which provides employees with the tools and resources required to work as efficiently and effectively away from the office as in the office. This solution encompasses a development tool for mobile applications, called mDesign which allows organizations to create future-proof, fully integrated mobile applications, along with the management and infrastructure tools required to administer them.

mDesign allows you to create mobile applications quickly and easily, without the need for technical programming skills. The tools have been specifically built for users that have knowledge of how business processes work, but don't necessarily have software development skills.

The solution contains a rapid application design and development environment called mDesign Studio, which utilizes a powerful, yet easy to use, drag-and-drop interface for an intuitive application building experience.

A library of pre-designed business process templates and design elements (process snippets) are provided for users to customize and adapt using the intuitive tools.

mDesign puts the power to create solutions in the hands of the individuals who best understand the problems that need to be addressed, allowing you to accelerate your mobility projects while keeping the costs and complexities under control.

mDesign  is our complete mobile enterprise application development solution and allows an organization to have complete control over the design and development of their mobile applications.

An alternative option for organizations is to leverage our experience through the use of packaged business applications. We will work with you to mobilize your business; consulting with you throughout the design and development process.
Learn more about our Packaged Business Applications »

Features & Benefits

Features

• Customizable pre-designed business templates and process snippets

• Graphical application building process

• Drag-and-drop business process modeling interface

• No technical programming skills required

• Applications can be built from the ground up (using code if required)

Benefits

• Use robust business process logic - mDesign Studio provides customizable business process templates built from 15 years of experience in designing enterprise mobile applications.

• Increase the productivity of your mobile workforce immediately - modify and adapt CommonTime’s business process templates in hours, mobilize complex business process in days.

• Reduce development time - mDesign allows you to design mobile applications across multiple device platforms and operating systems this means that you only design once.

• Reduce the cost of lengthy and complex development cycles - CommonTime’s strategic and rapid application development approach means that the cost of implementing mobility applications is typically 70% less than traditional development approaches. 

Architecture

Design

Users can create applications by adding process snippets to a new workspace or by amending an existing business process template. The configuration of snippets can be changed, new fields can be added and captions, labels and other attributes can be amended. Control is always with the user.

There are existing snippets for many design elements such as authentication, customer information, surveys, questionnaires, inspections, remote data lookup, workflow, photographs, voice memos, and location information. New snippets can be created manually and added to the library for re-use. CommonTime is continually developing both business process templates and snippets, so you will continue to benefit from evolving expertize.

Integration

CommonTime mDesign has flexible and tiered integration capabilities that range from simple direct integration with existing SQL data and Web Services, to using bespoke elements such as stored procedures to ensure data integrity can be tightly maintained and controlled by its owners.

Any information your mobile workforce captures is integrated with your back office systems, removing the need for any re-keying and delivering both time and cost savings.

Deployment and Management

Once a mobile application has been created, a client is deployed to devices in the field. The mDesign Client is a runtime environment that is installed on a mobile device and provides the infrastructure to run applications created in mDesign Studio.

mDesign integrates seamlessly with CommonTime’s comprehensive mobile device management solution, to provide secure over-the-air deployment of applications, as well as ongoing management after the initial deployment.
Learn more about CommonTime’s Mobile Device Management solution »

Screenshots

The structure of snippets in a typical inspection process, displaying individual process elements and their relationships. 

An individual process snippet- in this case a Visual Inspection providing a diagram to annotate with damage information on the device.