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Infographics is a graphical and visual representation of data used to present complex data quickly and clearly. Infographics can improve understanding by using graphics to increase its visual ability, patterns and trends. Initially it was used by technical writers, scientists, educators and mathematicians, but today its scope has increased across industries to visually display the details and benefits of their solution to their audience.

Features of Infographics:

• An independent message in a whole
• Viewer friendly in nature
• Timeline presentation of an event
• Involvement of signs, maps, charts and data presentation
• Motion images, audio and video messages
• User interactivity
• Dynamic in nature
• Shows cause-effect relationships of data

Components of Infographics:

Infographics consists of three main components: visual, content and knowledge. Visual component includes colors and graphics in it. Graphics visual contains two parts- theme and reference. Theme is a compulsory part of infographics and it decides how the data will be represented while reference uses icons to point out some important part of data. Statistics in the data form the content which can include census data, reports, etc. Knowledge contains facts related to data that is to be presented.

Absence of any one of these components may not create a good infographic. If there are no facts included it limits decision making. Visual components help you bind with your audience. Lack of proper content and statistics reduce popularity amongst viewers.

Benefits of Infographics:

• Easy understanding of connection between any two stages of an event
• Charts solves the problem of dealing with tables containing large quantity of numeric data
• Maximum data in minimum space with no loss in the quality
• Fast access to different websites by links on infographics page
• Data retention rate increases
• Conviction in lesser time

Future of Infographics:

Infographics has been gaining wide popularity and acceptability over the past few years. Design is done in such a way that a concept is understood in one glance only. With every day passing it is getting more refined. Initially only static images were being used but now motion images and animations are also a part of infographics. Animations provide a self-explanatory narration of data. Voice overs can be combined with animations making infographics very eye-catching. Increased use of social media and mobile devices gives rise to interactive infographics. With the widespread use and multiple benefits, very soon infographics will evolve as THE medium interactivity and user- generated content.

You've handled project management issues, managed deployment timelines, got change management in place and solved the nightmare of data migration. All with a single, best-of-breed ERP implementation. However not much has been said and done about Service Management as part of your ERP's best practices. What do you do to meet customers' needs?

Core Service Management functionalities in your ERP will allow you to develop agreements and subscriptions, define resources, handle service orders and customer inquiries, and manage service delivery.

In spite of these basic features service personnel face business challenges such as:

• Inefficient management of after-sales service
• Improper segregation of service types
• Classification and arrangement of AMCs
• Inability to automate addition of new clauses in service
• Haphazard engineer-specific allocation of service issues and problems
• Inability to generate service reports with precision

So how do you go about making the most of Service Management from your ERP implementation?

If your ERP does not meet these requirements, consider a service management add-on. Essentially the add-on should facilitate seamless fully-connected after sales service. An efficient Service Management module should also allow you to:

• Optimize your service supply chain with complete inventory tracking
  
• Provide superior customer service checking on customer's warranty agreement and the relevant issues
  
• Efficiently create and close agreements for service maintenance and other after-sales services
  

Must-have features include:

• Support tracing & tracking of service requests
• Manage contracts, invoice and pricing
• Appendage of new fields on new tasks allocation
• MIS reports for assessing SLA and order level

Good-to-have features include:

• Support multi-level object maintenance
• Sales order reference management for identifying service
• Real-time statistics on cost and revenue

Once you've incorporated a service management add-on that helps you accomplish most of these features you can expect to equip your business to manage after sales service activities efficiently, control overall costs, boost service performance management and proactively provide after-market services.

Mobility solutions have provided great support to the dynamic work environment in today’s fast-paced world. But some IT directors hesitate to implement mobility solutions due to certain reasons. Some points of concern include data Security, increasing costs and chances of improper integration with the company network. But the fact remains, that enterprise mobile implementation will not only help organizations save on future costs but will also offer immense flexibility to mobile employees.

Data Security

A recent market survey of the IT industry indicates that majority of senior IT executives were concerned about data security if mobile solutions are implemented in the enterprise.

With mobility solutions, enterprises can protect important organizational data in several ways. These security options include data encryption, strong password protected system, restricted access to important data etc. These security measures relieve top level decision makers about security and integrity of data.

ROI of Enterprise Mobilization

A typical mobile enterprise plan must look into the procurement costs, the remote accessibility of devices and mobile app platform creation. One needs to look into all the factors collectively along with the essential factor of scalability for the success of the implementation. The ROI of enterprise mobilization can be realized once the costs associated with maintaining a mobile workforce is taken into the equation.

Integrating Multiple Devices

In the current work environment, the concept of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) is growing rapidly. Employees either use their own devices or use company-sponsored gadgets to perform several day-to-day tasks. Laptops, latest mobile devices, tablets, iPads and the like have become an integral part of job for employees who are required to visit client locations as part of their routine schedule. Mobile apps provide comprehensive functionalities to stay updated with current market place on a real-time basis. Enterprises need to implement mobile software in their sponsored devices which support multiple platforms too. This is where the importance of cross platform mobile application comes into play. Implementing smart mobility not proves to be a cost-effective option for enterprises and helps the BYOD trend in many ways!

The development and implementation of an enterprise mobility approach in diverse organizations might prove to be costly and time-consuming. A custom asset management system can boost ROI of enterprise mobility by enhancing information security and promoting third party device integration.