The OpenHand focus - (2009-01-15)

The worldwide recession has proven to be good news for OpenHand. UK sales Director Tony Foote (speaking to journalist Paul Clapham) commented “the last quarter of 2008 saw a significant increase in enquiries and sales of OpenHand. Speaking to our customers this directly relates to a need to increase productivity but at a realistic price. We have seen a large percentage of our existing clients significantly increasing their user numbers”.

“Without doubt the ROI for mobile email has been well and truly justified with companies who don't use mobile email at a significant disadvantage to their competitors who do. Worldwide, the accepted time saving per employee is around an hour a day that over 12% increase in productivity”.

“The economic downturn has really accentuated the need for mobility and with it effective customer response times. Our £11.00 per month offering is really hitting the right note with our partners and their customers”.

Asked what functions in particular were creating the increase in productivity (other than the obvious mobile email) Foote responded “Without doubt Server Side Forwarding - the function which enables you to send documents, brochures, plans etc of any size direct from your public folders and files via your remote device for fractions of a penny and of course Shared Calendars which maximises productivity and efficiency”.