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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Gearworks and Motorola Combine Workforce Management and Location-Based Services
MINNEAPOLIS, and LIBERTYVILLE, Ill., Dec. 9 --
Gearworks, a Minneapolis-based provider of wireless mobile workforce
management solutions, and Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT), a global leader in
providing integrated communications and embedded electronic solutions, today
announced a joint marketing agreement to provide new location and mobile
productivity solutions to the enterprise workforce.
Motorola and Gearworks will develop and market solutions based on
Gearworks successful etrace(TM) mobile workforce management service and
Motorola's VIAMOTO(TM) suite of location-based services.
Gearworks etrace combines a GPS-enabled mobile application that runs on
Java-based phones with a hosted, web-based application for dispatching,
mapping, tracking and reporting. Motorola's VIAMOTO delivers text or audible
route guidance prompts to users, literally "talking" users through directions
to a destination, speaking street names and maneuvers along the way.
Motorola's VIAMOTO server is continuously updated and integrated with traffic
conditions and point-of-interest databases to provide users accurate and up-
to-date navigation services.
"This is a leading edge enterprise solution that will reduce costs and let
workers perform their jobs more effectively and efficiently, especially in
travel-intensive markets like field service," said Neal Campbell, general
manager of location services for Motorola's Personal Communications Sector.
"Businesses ranging from large scale delivery services to real estate agencies
will benefit by connecting their workers to vital customer, work order and
traffic information, in real time over their mobile phones."
"Gaining real-time knowledge of mobile worker time, location, activity and
events can transform the economics and expectations of field service and
services-based businesses," states Todd Krautkremer, senior vice president of
marketing and business development at Gearworks. "The product offerings
planned from Gearworks and Motorola will enable service-based organizations to
manage operating costs and improve productivity and customer satisfaction."
About Gearworks
Minneapolis-based Gearworks ( http://www.gearworks.com ) provides wireless
and Web-based applications that improve business at the point of delivery -
the last mile of the supply chain where dispatched mobile workers deliver
goods or services to customers. The company's flagship product, etrace(TM),
runs on standard mobile devices and allows businesses to automate and manage
transactions, data collection, customer relations and communications with
dispatched workers, etrace also provides a real-time connection back to
enterprise systems to expedite billing, tracking and other operations. The
results for customers are shortened job cycles, improved communications with
customers and mobile workers, and reduced operating costs.
About Motorola
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) is a global leader in providing integrated
communications and embedded electronic solutions. Sales in 2002 were $27.3
billion. Motorola is a global corporate citizen dedicated to ethical business
practices and pioneering important technologies that make things smarter and
life better for people, honored traditions that began when the company was
founded 75 years ago this year. For more information, please visit:
http://www.motorola.com .
MOTOROLA and the Stylized M Logo are registered in the US Patent &
Trademark Office. All other product or service names are the property of
their respective owners.
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