The North American sales team for Level 3 Communications have all been given iPads loaded with software, Information Week reports. That’s a total of 1,300 iPads which are all set to improve the way the salesmen do their jobs.
Information Week details how Level 3’s iPad app will work:
Level 3’s service-oriented architecture lets its iPad app call on a number of back-end systems–from Salesforce .com’s cloud-based CRM app to Level 3’s legacy software for tasks like generating price quotes. Nick Taylor, senior VP of infrastructure and strategy, likens putting legacy apps onto an iPad to putting a Model T on a trailer so it can go 70 miles an hour down today’s highways. The SOA approach provides the trailer.
Level 3, which sells telecom and communication services, are reminding us how quickly tablets are moving into mobile workers’ lives, with many other corporations also turning to it for a mobile solution. One thing’s for sure, I would love to be a sales person in North America for Level 3 right now.