Apps for Business Travel
Posted on April 18th, 2011 in Computers & Technology | No Comments »
Let’s imagine for a moment that the screening of airport security does not exist and there is no such thing as a flight delay or grounding. In this fantasy in mind to consider the fact that a business trip has never been so easy as now. Service is now truly mobile, not just because notebooks and laptops. The smartphone is leading the team save time, digital devices in its ability to manage business tasks on the go. Accounts can be made by email, paid and synchronized with the home computer. Calendars tell you where and when, what to wear and how to get there. Costs of projects and time spent with customers are tracked and documented. All of these everyday forms of assistance that will be useful anywhere, but if you are traveling away from home There are many other applications that can make your business trip more efficient. Let’s take a look.
Flight Update – Operational
As noted earlier, one of the most frustrating parts of traveling for business or personal is a flight delay. Flight Update your up to date, live monitor flight schedules and changes to more than 1,400 flights around the world. Simply enter your airline, flight number, date of travel and the application will keep track of the flight. If there are delays or changes, you will be warned. But this is only the beginning. There are weather forecasts, information, baggage, SeatGuru, to help you in choosing and finding a place to search for other flights, if you feel cancellation and easily send your itinerary to anyone in your contacts. You can even keep track of flights as they travel across the continent. This application is designed for the active tool for business trips, rather than reactive. In addition, we hear a developer of customer service excellent.
AroundMe
This application is designed to find everything you need in your immediate vicinity, whether at home or abroad. Locater GPS in the phone tells the application where you are and quickly download business information, maps and contact details. Need a rental car? Follow the instructions. Want to place electronic and telephone number to colleagues? No problem. Need dry cleaning, which is next? Easily. There is even a feature that allows you to use Wikipedia as a search engine to find points of interest around you. Never again will you be lost in an unfamiliar city.
ShoeBoxed Tracker Preparation and Reader
If you’re not an accountant, most people who travel for business hate the thought of compiling and recording all the expense receipts, when the trip ended. There is at least one that got lost, or that you forgot to claim. And, if you are an experienced expert from the claims, is the inevitable phone call from the company’s accountant (or worse – IRS) with a request to get to go with this $ 50 client dinner, you have (this is the one that got lost). Now imagine that the client pay for dinner, and before leaving the table, you seamlessly take a snapshot of receipt and register it in ShoeBoxed. Receiving application reads and enters them into its own expense forms, so when you return to your office to just print the pictures and the expense form. Digital revenue even accepted IRS! No more lost receipts! No more calls from strict accounting!
WorldCard
Do you have a memory of a goldfish? When meeting someone new you’ve forgotten your name before the handshake is over? Here’s a hint: ask them a business card, scan it with your iphone. WorldCard then convert all of the map to the text and enter it into your contacts – correctly! No more embarrassing “I’m sorry, that’s your name?” or loss of business cards of important business contacts.
This is just a few applications available for the average business person traveling – there are literally thousands. Reviews of the above applications were from real users, and all were very positive. Try them, that’s the worst that could happen?