“In a warehouse company, iPad-equipped workers use the device to carry their pick lists, complete the order, and then update the inventory database without ever having to go to a desktop machine, of which only a few are ever positioned where warehouse workers can get to them,” Ausick writes. “This saves hours a day of useless travel time between bins and computer workstations.”
Ausick writes, “The tablet device can also seriously reduce the amount of paper a company uses. Xerox Corp. estimates that for every dollar spend on printing another six dollars are spent on handling and distribution costs. At that rate, it doesn’t take long to justify the cost of a $499 iPad.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Joe Architect” for the heads up.]
iPad conquers all
It’s magical!
it’s an addictive little machine, can’t take my hands off of it.
was that TMI?
The computer ‘For the rest of us’…
If we can figure out how to make fossil fuels obsolete as fast as iPads (and their copycats) will replace paper, maybe civilization will have a chance after all
In my one man business it it great for showing my portfolio.
Got two jobs with it in the first week. $7500 each. Thanks Steve.
It ‘IS’ great. Editing please MDN. You could use it once in a while also.
MDN and others… do you not recognize the irony here?
Xerox pre-“Mac introduction”: We reject our own company’s PARC’s developments for the paperless office since our primary business is in paper.
Xerox post-“iPad introduction”: We embrace the iPad because it will seriously reduce the amount of paper our company uses.
Not at Raytheon. They re still stuck in the 1990’s. Running Windows XP, Lotus Notes, and Blackberries all around. Feel the iPad is a ‘security risk’. So much that they won’t let employees have them in possession even if for personal use in closed spaces. So much for the military being the most advanced in the world. The companies that make their stuff is still years behind.
You all have been there. In the doctor’s office filling out paper forms (with information they already have), then it is handed to the medical assistant to enter into the office computer and scanned into the paperless office records. Ok, guess who isn’t needed.
There are many more applications just like this.
With the iPad being so successful despite its limitations, the iPad-2 will set the world on its ear.
I just got back from a small convention where one of our organization’s members is already using iPads in his sales presentations. EVERYONE was talking about how great it looked and seemed to understand how they could use one too. This is just the beginning.
If this were a non-Apple fan site, there would be a massive flood of comments how Windows tablets have been performing the same function for the past eight years.
Obviously, such people couldn’t see the point if they stared at it in the face.
Only three months after being made available to the world, companies are finding ways to improve productivity with the iPad because it saves money and improves productivity. Windows tablets apparently did neither.
@singidunum
heres the thing, no one cared about the windows tablets because they weren’t cool. Yeah they did that job, or rather whatever one specific job they were tailored to do. Ipads do everything, its the difference between your company finally giving you a secretary and your secretary being a penthouse pet. One is cool one, one is not. like all things apple it is not what apple does, but how they do it. Microsoft is on the leading edge of technology most of the time, but apple is on the leading edge of usable technology.
Revisionist history would be rampant if this were a non Apple website. Nothing would be mentioned of the huge paving stones that were the legacy of windows tablets, their outrageous cost $2000- $5000. their limited capability ( usually they were made for tight vertical markets and had one function). A prime example of this is the barcode scanning tablets that UPS started using in the late 90’s to provide drivers the ability to scan packages as they were delivered and even captured signatures. I believe the operating system was MSDOS based an had a 4 line by 48 character dot matrix display.
How could an IPAD improve this? An optical scanner connected to the USB port allows scanning packages while loading the truck, upon full loading the IPAD calculates the most efficient delivery route taking into account the UPS edict of right turns only to minimize idling of truck engines. A signature capture app for proof of delivery and you’re set. With addition software, outboard scanner, some ruggedizing, it would probably cost UPS about $650 per unit. That includes paying retail for the IPads. Pay back time would probably be 6 months in just improved efficiency.
There is something about the closeness and interacting with the apps directly with your hands and fingers, that makes it special and more personal, not to mention the OS and software that make it so. You can hold it comfortably between 2 persons or even in the middle of a table of people to show off a brochure or your photos, and everyone can comfortably see it and touch it. Totally blows a laptop away for sharing information on a person-to-person level.
This is what Apple specializes in – how to DELIGHT people and make it seem so natural.
I’m waiting for the Nano to turn into a mini-phone like the communicator pin in Star Trek you can just velcro to your shirt.
What business need is a real tablet computer that’s not a itOy and is capable of doing business right.
From now on bing and decide. http://www.bing.com
I’ve got dome great photos of my 4 and 2 year old nephews, both holding the iPad with Angry Birds on, grinning like cheshire cats.
They love it. 1 hour maximum for them and there’s always a tantrum when I take it. I have to lie and tell them the batty has died. Haha, it’s still at about 60%, and this was at 6pm and I’d had it on a lot of the day.
These a$$holes act like this is all a surprise. Several years ago they were all saying Apple was dead, even after the iMac, OSX, and the iPod came out. No debt, over a $B in the bank and a fountain of transformational ideas. It was as plain as the sun overhead and they couldn’t see it. And now, big shock, a brilliant device as powerful as a desk-top, as simple and portable as an envelope, and as interactive as your fingers, is useful in a business environment. The most amazing thing is that some people still haven’t grasped the implications.
@ I’m a PC
If you want to troll effectively try brushing up on your grammer and spelling. ‘Need’ should have been ‘needS’ and ‘thats not a itOy’ should have been ‘thats not AN itOy’. Nice try though. Thanks for dropping by.
“With the iPad being so successful despite its limitations, the iPad-2 will set the world on its ear.”
I have just came across this word.
Funny!!!
ipad 2 will coming sooner or later.
And why not keep an eye on ipad spot( http://www.ifunia.com/ipad-column/index.html ) to get newly and simply imformation???
For that first “warehouse worker” example, it seems to me that an iPod touch would be an even better device. An iPad is relatively small and light compared to other “computers,” but is large and heavy enough to hinder the worker’s ability to carry other things. And iPod touch can be carried in a pocket, around the neck in some special case, or maybe even on some type of specail armband. For that application, I don’t think a larger screen would be too advantageous, and an iPod touch costs less than half as much as an iPad.
But I guess you can’t have “toy” recreational devices in a serious workplace.
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@ ditchdoc68
I don’t know if “I’m a PC” is being a Wal-Mart version of the immortal Zune Tang, but if you want to call up other people’s errors you may find it useful to check your own spelling first.
It’s “grammar”, not “grammer
Thing is, iPhone has worked just as well for such mobile-order-taking applications for a few years now. The iPad just gives more speed and flexibility, allowing for more complex operations.
Apple’s iPad has proven to some corporate buyers that the device can increase worker productivity…
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