VWorkApp
Encyclopedia
vWorkApp is an online dispatch and scheduling product for small and medium-sized businesses. The product is sold and distributed over the Internet using a distribution model commonly known as Cloud Computing
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, who founded New Zealand’s highest-traffic website TradeMe
in 1999 and sold it for NZ$700 million in 2006.
, step-by-step job instructions, automatic data synchronization
, electronic signature capturing, and built in reporting. The vWorkApp smartphone application is currently only available for the Android OS and iOS
.
With vWorkApp, a dispatcher
can create and schedule jobs for mobile workers via an account on www.vworkapp.com. After a dispatcher schedules a job, mobile workers receive real-time push technology
notifications with job details on their smartphones.
The dispatcher will receive real-time updates when a mobile worker edits job details, completes a job, etc. within the smartphone application.
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
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History
The company was founded in 2008 and has offices in Auckland, New Zealand; Brisbane, Australia; and San Francisco, USA. The Board of Directors includes Sam MorganSam Morgan (entrepreneur)
Sam Morgan is best known as the founder of TradeMe, New Zealand's largest online auction site, which he sold in 2006 to Australian media company Fairfax for over NZ$750 million.- Personal history :...
, who founded New Zealand’s highest-traffic website TradeMe
TradeMe
Trade Me is the largest Internet-auction website operating in New Zealand. Managed by Trade Me Ltd the site was founded in 1999 by New Zealand entrepreneurSam Morgan who sold it to Fairfax in 2006 for NZ$700 million...
in 1999 and sold it for NZ$700 million in 2006.
Product
vWorkApp is an online job dispatch and scheduling product for transportation and services industries. Some of vWorkApp's features include GPS trackingGPS tracking
A GPS tracking unit is a device that uses the Global Positioning System to determine the precise location of a vehicle, person, or other asset to which it is attached and to record the position of the asset at regular intervals...
, step-by-step job instructions, automatic data synchronization
Data synchronization
Data synchronization is the process of establishing consistency among data from a source to a target data storage and vice versa and the continuous harmonization of the data over time. It is fundamental to a wide variety of applications, including file synchronization and mobile device...
, electronic signature capturing, and built in reporting. The vWorkApp smartphone application is currently only available for the Android OS and iOS
IOS
iOS is an operating system for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV.IOS may also refer to:-Companies and organisations:* Illinois Ornithological Society, American state-based bird club...
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With vWorkApp, a dispatcher
Dispatcher
Dispatchers are communications personnel responsible for receiving and transmitting pure and reliable messages, tracking vehicles and equipment, and recording other important information...
can create and schedule jobs for mobile workers via an account on www.vworkapp.com. After a dispatcher schedules a job, mobile workers receive real-time push technology
Push technology
Push technology, or server push, describes a style of Internet-based communication where the request for a given transaction is initiated by the publisher or central server...
notifications with job details on their smartphones.
The dispatcher will receive real-time updates when a mobile worker edits job details, completes a job, etc. within the smartphone application.