When our clients build an app with us, they want to grab the opportunity to implement it quickly while still getting the full functionality needed in a particular role, in a specific industry. Any time these companies save on implementation and the onboarding of the team, they can immediately translate to increased productivity and profitability. They have been enjoying the benefits of the ready-made building blocks based on Scolvo’s industry-specific expertise in financial services, utilities or retail – you name it.

But we have also understood that the same simplicity and ease of use that building blocks provide is necessary for updates, too. Despite all due diligence during the implementation, the needs for new features or data options unavoidably emerge. Datasheets are incomplete. Not enough space for adding new assignees. Status update options not satisfactory. That’s just business as usual.

In a typical scenario, the updates mean a lot of hassle. Take an example from logistics: the sender takes on delivering a unique cargo and decides to require additional identification criteria from the recipient, to make sure the shipment is safe. So it wants to add another field to the app, for an ID number.

No big deal, you think? The traditional solution is to rewrite the code, to redefine the database, and to issue a new version of the app for all the users to make the changes visible. But our mantra of simplicity and the Scolvo app that we built accordingly doesn’t allow us to settle for something so long and complicated.

To prove our app’s value even in this situation, we have recently opted to store and manage the data using a more flexible method: a semantic database. It is driven by a configuration file that is in charge of telling both the backend and the admin interface how to handle the information. So when the client asks as to add a field, we expand the configuration file, and it tells the backend how to structure the new data and tells the web admin interface how to display it.

The semantic data management also makes maintaining data consistency simple. A “flow engine” keeps the modifications in order even if the network doesn’t allow for instant synchronization. In our logistics example, status updates for the loading and discharge of shipments will always appear in the order set by the workflow, regardless of network availability. When several changes happen in the offline mode, like the tasks of loading and unloading a truck get done, the flow engine will make them wait in line until it accesses a network and will make the updates in their original order. Because of keeping all modifications this way, they can instantly go live without causing chaos in the management of previously and recently added data.

For the clients, this background procedure is mostly invisible. They only see that the app can be seamlessly updated and they can manage the workflows or users correctly even when they add some new data to the mix.

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Germany

The beginning of 2017 was about to get a deeper understanding of the German market. After our entry last year, we would have liked to know more about our prospective clients and personally present our products’ capabilities to the professional audiences.

Therefore, we participated in three important international events. At the Mobile Tech Conference in Munich, SCOLVO had a stand and our Head of Sales, Krisztian Toth, presented a unique, live app-building demo. As one of 25 selected companies, we were also lucky enough to exhibit within the Hungarian stand on CeBIT (Home for Innovation) in Hanover. Soon after, Düsseldorf also welcomed us, and the other winners of Budapest Enterprise Agency’s Be Smart contest, at a presentation held in the Vodafone headquarters in Düsseldorf.

The highlight of our self-organized event series was the Munich Meetup, where we held a presentation together with Quanto Solutions about all the possible advantages a mobile application can offer to businesses as well as to partner organizations.

Hungary

On the Hungarian market, we have focused on product developments and increasing client engagement. Our clients now include Raiffeisen Bank and the Sopronvíz, Bácsvíz, Alföldvíz, Nyírségvíz regional waterworks. We have strengthened our cooperation with two major retailers as well: Penny Market and Rossmann.

We paid special attention to the financial sector’s needs this year, with a focus on personal sales. That resulted in two successful pilot projects and the launch of the implementation of the first SCOLVO Sales app supporting insurance agents.

During the summer, SCOLVO also underwent some organizational changes: Kálmán Boda took over as CEO of the company and we moved to a new location. There, we can now provide enough space to accommodate some more mobile and backend developing capacity.

With the new colleagues, the team can now be more productive in developing SCOLVO products that are even easier to customize and implement. We have developed new modules for the SCOLVO app, like a gamified client assessment tool, and we have given a fresh design makeover to our website.

EXTRA! We are soon to publish a demo version of the SCOLVO app to download on the two major mobile platforms, for everyone to see what we can do!

Our most popular blog posts in 2017:

• • IDD: The insurance sector’s new regulatory nightmare
  • 5+1 Apps from Millennials that Double as Popular Workplace Tools
  • What is the Real Potential of the Enterprise Mobility Market?
  • Mobile App Implementation: The Quickest Method No One Is Using!
  • 3 Tips for Banking Sales Heads to Stretch Their Mobility Budgets

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SCOLVO hosted its second partner event in Munich, on 16 March 2017, together with Quanto Solutions, to offer prospective partners and other interesting parties an insight into a new era of enterprise mobility and to officially launch SCOLVO’s products on the German market.

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In case you couldn’t make it to Munich, here’s a little recap of what happened that day in the cozy atmosphere of the Alte Hopfenpost branch of Satellite Offices:

Enterprise Mobility as Key to Market Success

To have an enterprise mobility solution in the selection of offers is without a doubt essential to stay in the competition. But only those companies that can provide the most efficient solutions in the shortest amount of time will survive in the long term. According to recent studies, presented by SCOLVO’s Head of Sales Krisztian Toth, the value of the enterprise mobility market is expected to nearly double at $128mn, in the next five years.

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Enterprise Mobility from the Perspective of an IT-Consultant

Next up was Kristopher Messerig, senior consultant of our first German partner, Quanto Solutions. Kristopher presented some interesting case studies of the mobility projects Quanto contributed to as a consultant and compared different solutions for enterprise mobility management.

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He stressed the importance of standardization in the mobilization process: it is an efficient way to manage the complexity of these projects, makes it easier to integrate new processes. When it comes to standardizing businesses cases, it also makes the enterprise leaner and more sustainable.

A New Era of Enterprise Mobility: Mobilize Your Business Processes Within 72 Hours!

We made our audience totally forget about the traditional procedures of mobilization with cost-intensive delays, employee rejection, and useless functions. A great closure to the workshop part of the event was a live demo, presented again by Krisztian Toth of SCOLVO. In only half an hour, he proved the simplicity of “assembling” a mobile application for the business, with the help of SCOLVO’s ready-made modules.

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As much as the year 2016 was an eventful one, and a good one, for our industry, it all reflected in what we have achieved. These are the major highlights that SCOLVO is especially proud of:

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New market

Arguably the biggest event this year was expanding our business to a new market: Germany. As the single largest software market in Europe and one on the verge of the digital transformation of its business processes, Germany is a key market for SCOLVO.

In the autumn this year, we launched our activities there to explore “the potentials of productivity increase and simpler workflows,” as our CEO Csaba Csepeli put it. Exciting times to follow!

New partner

Along the lines of market expansion, we could announce our first partnership in Germany, with SAP-consultancy Quanto Solutions, that has seven branches in the country, including its Stuttgart headquarters.

Quanto praised our products, SCOLVO Process and SCOLVO Sales, as being easily configurable and therefore saving time and costs for their customers during the implementation.

We will support them in customer acquisition and project management, from the start to the actual implementation. In an effort to build a strong partner network, we offer the same support for all system integrators, consulting companies, software and mobility specialists that join us.

New website

At SCOLVO, we wanted to open a new chapter in our life and welcome our new partners and clients to this chapter. So we redesigned our website that better reflects what we stand for and what we aim to accomplish: to make it easy to connect with us. We have added some social channels, too!

We wanted it to promote the simplicity and easiness SCOLVO apps have to offer, in a beautiful way. It became a place not only to showcase our products but also to offer you, the reader, professional resources that help you succeed in mobilization. See for yourselfand tell us what you think!

Hungarian market expansion

Meanwhile, in Hungary, SCOLVO was busy with many new projects this year, for old and new clients alike. Our successful cooperation earlier with Sopron Waterworks led to another one of their projects entrusted to us – you can read about it in this case study here. We have also signed some new clients, such as Raiffeisen Bank or Rossmann, with exciting new projects, and we have partnered up with Innosmart as well.

Product development

On a less spectacular, but not a bit less important note, we have been working hard the whole year on further developing our products. While we still can not go into details, we make sure to add new, innovative features to the second release and to make our products compatible with new, yet-to-be-seen technologies. Expect to hear from us with some big announcements early next year!

Until then, the whole team of SCOLVO wishes you a peaceful holiday season with lots of friends and family love to charge you for the year ahead!

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