Local government is responsible for a wide range of field and mobile services in areas such as education, leisure, property, emergency services, environmental and social services with information needs for professional, managerial and front-line staff and specialists. Mobile devices also enable employees like executives, district managers and field inspectors do their jobs while on the move.

To meet key cost and service level targets all these areas need to improve productivity, accessibility, knowledge and information sharing as well as to increase accountability and security. Increasingly, mobile and remote solutions can be deployed to meet critical business and technical requirements by extending information and applications to anywhere they are needed - anytime