"Home, Home on the Range..." A CEO Goes Back to His Roots - (but he did forget his boots)!

As the fall season approached, Greg Clary and I went on a road trip out west to visit with folks at the Idaho State Police (ISP) – Brand Board Office, a staff of professionals who oversee millions of cattle each year. We timed the visit based on the office staff going live with the new Mi-Corporation Livestock Identification, Brand Recording and Disease Traceability Software System featuring the... Read More »

More Than Just the Basics: GIS Mapping Within the Mobile Impact Platform

A few months ago, I introduced the GIS mapping feature that was released in version 12 of the Mobile Impact Platform. Now, I want to take the time to revisit this feature and show something that is more feature rich than just the basics. Don't forget to check out our video for a deep dive into mapping within the mobile impact platform. Read More »

Report Customization Feature Offers Expanded Capabilities

The ability to populate PDF reports has long been an essential feature of the Mobile Impact Platform. However, the fixed nature of PDF documents can make it difficult to display data of variable size, such as the contents of a grid. Additionally, data often does not fit a static one-to-one mapping from a form field to a PDF entry. Enter Report Customization, a new feature released in Mobile... Read More »

Mapping Comes to Version 12 of the Mobile Impact Platform

There’s little doubt that Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping technology has transformed how people interact with geospatial data in their personal and professional lives. In agriculture, states and enterprises use it routinely for tasks such as precision farming, disease control, and food security. A little closer to home, you might have used it to see if your neighbor’s fence is... Read More »

Previewing Mobile Impact Platform v12’s Mi-Analytics Data and Visualization Modules

If you’re reading this, you’re in for a treat, because we don’t usually give away previews of upcoming features, but we thought this one was so important that you just had to know. Ready? Great, strap in, because you’ve been asking for it for a long time. Read More »

Mi-Corporation Releases Mobile Impact Platform v11.9

Look, I get it, December is a busy month. Even with 2018 featuring the longest possible time between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the last month of the year just has a way of flying by. And then just when the holidays are over, the New Year is upon us and we’re all back to work catching up on everything we were supposed to do last year. So, I forgive you if you missed our not one, but two product... Read More »

Every Journey Matters - Mobile Deployment for Cleanliness and Condition Inspections of Buildings and Assets

If you have ever traveled to the UK, you know how impressive, massive, and efficient their transportation infrastructure is. Londoners have grown to expect nothing less than timely, affordable, clean, and safe public transportation. Whether by car (taxi), bus, rail, or the Underground Tube for work and pleasure, Transport for London (TfL) seems to have mastered it. That is by design, not by... Read More »

Is your Mobile Enterprise Stuck in the Past or Ready for the Future?

The one thing we know for certain when it comes to mobility, there is constant change afoot. A blog article I recently read took me back to August 2014 and it got me thinking how much has changed in just the last 36 months. What did our landscape look like then? Read More »

How Can I Be Sure That My Mission-Critical Data Is Safe?

I've helped others implement a number of mobile data projects during my career at Mi-Corporation. One of the questions that managers have is how can I be sure that my mission-critical data is safe? It's a very good question - the need for data security is obvious. Their data is critical to the mission of their organizations. Data compromises can lead to lost productivity, lost revenue and even... Read More »

True Offline Mobile Data Capture Has Never Been Easier with NextGen Designer

One of the features I’m most excited about in our new NextGen Designer release is what we’ve dubbed Frictionless Data Replication or FDR for short. FDR aims to solve a problem that plagues just about all mobile development projects, how to get data to mobile devices in a simple way that allows for its offline use without having to reinvent the wheel. Read More »