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Field Technician Notes Part 4: Thoughts on Technology

Posted by sumairdutta on Mar 30, 2016 2:18:21 PM

One of my favorite quotes of all times: “The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.” Often attributed to Cicero or Mark Twain, this was originally used by Blaise Pascal to highlight the challenges with being brief.

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Topics: augmented reality, mobile field service, Field Service, Perspective, IoT, field service technology, field technicians, Virtual Reality

Calm Technology and Field Service

Posted by sumairdutta on Nov 13, 2015 11:28:23 AM

At a recent HubSpot conference in Boston, I sat in on a session on Calm Technology led by Amber Case (@caseorganic, or web). Fascinating stuff really and the best talk at the conference in my opinion.

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Topics: mobile, mobile field service, Field Service, Perspective, calm technology

Field Service Still Undervalued as a Discipline

Posted by Sumair Dutta on Apr 30, 2015 7:03:22 PM

Today we heard the news that ClickSoftware was being acquired and taken private by Francisco Partners. Personally, I have covered ClickSoftware and worked with their team over the course of the previous 10 years and wish them the best as they enter this new journey. ClickSoftware has been, and continues to be, a key player in the field service automation space, and I look forward to tracking their progress moving forward. Over the course of the previous 12 months, two major software providers focused on field service, in TOA Technologies (by Oracle) and ClickSoftware, have been acquired. Most of the field service providers that started off as scheduling optimizers have now been accounted for. There aren’t many independent enterprise-focused field service software companies left.

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Topics: field workforce, mobile field service, News, Field Service, Perspective, IoT, clicksoftware

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