Ideavise In The News - The State of the Slate - Wild Blue Yonder Magazine

THE RIGHT TOOL FOR THE JOB

In fact, if the iPad is any indication, the tablet as business tool has enormous potential. Consider, for example, the case of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), the non-profit organization tasked with testing the nation’s Olympic athletes for prohibited substances. Looking for a paperless tool to give its agents in the field, the group turned to Ideavise, Inc., a marketing and technology solutions company.

Together, they came up with a plan to purchase up to 75 iPads and create a dedicated app so field agents could complete forms, capture athlete signatures and transmit the appropriate data to labs and USADA headquarters—all at a fraction of the cost of the purpose-built machines and software the group had been considering.

“You could do the same thing with a laptop or a netbook, but the interface is kind of clunky,” says Ideavise founder Brian DeLong. “For this use case, and probably a lot of other cases, the iPad is a game-changer.”

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