No paper trails with Blackberry adoption

Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 28 April 2009 16:26

Business IT - Technology

Paper has been consigned to the wastepaper bin with Melbourne company Tracknology migrating its entire operation to paperless trading with the adoption of a BlackBerry solution, including the use of RIM smartphones.

Director of sales and products at the mobile data software solutions company, Stephen Walsh, says the business has taken its own advice to clients, and completely eliminated the need for the use of paper in its day-to-day operations, administration and sales activity.

Walsh says the company sought the assistance of RIM to go to paperless trading and has eliminated all paper from its business, including going to the extent of getting rid of all printed business cards. Now, instead of getting their business cards in the usual cardboard box, the company’s sales field-force is sent a V-card straight to their Blackberry smartphone.

According to Walsh, the company’s laser printer hasn’t been powered up since December last year, and as of the end of March no paperwork has been generated by the company, except for one small exception – hard copy invoices from suppliers that are scanned and stored to a server before they are filed away.

Walsh says the company is regularly assisting its own customers to migrate to paperless trading for field personnel, so it was “important to showcase what we take to market.”

Tracknology’s Blackberry solution includes use of the Blackbery Bold smartphone, and Walsh says the company’s mobile workforce uses applications and web enabled systems to complete their day-to-day tasks, generating and accessing documents or materials they need electronically through wireless technologies.
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