Caseworks is destined for an exciting time as we start to roll out our Android Product. I thought it was time to lift the covers and give readers a glimpse of what is coming.
We have been much more ambitious with the Android project than we were (or were able to be) with the previous Windows product. This one is not going to be locked into any single function, not even going to be useful only for ASB Casework. By looking at the broad range of functions which our customers will want, we are looking for a completely customisable product which will work for Environmental Issues, Estate Inspections, Estate Scoring, Tenancy Audit and ASB Interview recording.
Readers may be asking why we are investing in new products, when it is clear that we have entered an Austerity Age, which could well last for the next 5 years and will kill Public Sector spending.
We believe, that despite the cuts - and possibly because of them - government will have to keep on investing in the latest technology in order to deliver the same services with less resources. Mobile Technology has the potential to make much better use of staff time, by getting rid of those hard cover note books, and the time spent keying into a computer system in the office. It has to be the way forward, and Tablets (probably not iPads), are bound to become the mobile computer of 2012.
However, we arent stopping at rebuilding our Mobile Application. We are also going to release the next major version of Caseworks during 2012. This will NOT be an upgrade, but a complete rewrite, based on .net technology, more flexible, more customisable, more modular than the current version and potentially not restricted to the principle of "casework" - maybe we will find a niche for it in the Private Sector.
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