The former smartphone-giant is now a fledgling company – Some options as to what they can do.
Over the past year, we’ve seen RIM’s stock price drop from $30 to $7. It’s no secret that RIM is struggling to find a place in the smartphone market. According to a recent study, BlackBerry US market share has dropped from 24 percent two years ago to just under 10 percent this year. Can BlackBerry pull off a comeback? Not many think so. Being such a big company and falling from such a height has been devastating for the company and its finances, and it’s not likely they can make a turnaround. We love talking about BlackBerry here at ProOnGo and here are a few options of the direction we think Blackberry can go:
Slim down the phone offering Slimming down the phone offering would mean cutting a lot of the phones they plan to release. This makes a lot of sense considering they release multiple versions of the exact same phone every single year. Can you tell me the difference between the BlackBerry Bold and the BlackBerry Curve? How about the BlackBerry Bold 9930, 9900 and 9790? The fact of the matter is there is barely any difference between these devices and the manufacturing costs surely trump the additional business they get from users that prefer there to be millimeters of space between the keys on the keyboard, and those that don’t.
Keep the software side BlackBerry software’s security is rivaled by none other. That’s why BlackBerry has been the #1 choice for IT departments for the past decade. So they’ve got that going for them — which is nice — but is security enough to maintain a footing in the smartphone market? It’s certainly possible that BlackBerry could maintain a presence in the smartphone market if they are able to slim down their expenses and look to other manufacturers to produce their phones. Manufacturers like Samsung and Nokia have been willing participants to take on other operating systems.
Keep the hardware side After announcing the ability to launch Android application on BlackBerry’s, as well as the speculation that BlackBerry and Microsoft could team up, RIM could end up ditching its software side and keeping its role as manufacturer. In this case, they greatly reduce the size of their company, but can still maintain a presence in the market because they are not married to any OS’ outcome. However, RIM bought the QNX platform a couple years ago for A LOT of money, and we think making the decision abandon such an expensive investment would be a tough decision for RIM’s board.
Abandon ship – sell the pieces The last option is to abandon ship and sell off the pieces. End the company, hire a moving company, put stuff in cardboard boxes. However, who will buy it is a completely separate issue
If you’ve updated to the latest version of our Android application, 3.0.103, you have witnessed the new face lift for our expense editor! We made some big changes to our Mileage, Time, Income and Regular expense editors to catch up with our iPhone UI. 2012 will certainly be the year of the Face Lift for ProOnGo. We’ve got some exciting changes that are slated to go live within the next month.
Download the new update and tell us what you think: Support@ProOnGo.com
Since our expense solution for QuickBooks has gained popularity, we’ve been receiving a lot of requests to support Classes. We just went live with our Class support for both QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks for Windows.
Just login to the ProOnGo Web Portal with your Intuit ID and we’ll automatically download your Classes as a new metric to label your expenses with. If you have any questions or any other requests so we can properly track your QuickBooks expenses, send an email to QBINFO@ProOnGo.com. Thanks!
We just launched a new video on our YouTube channel, Youtube.com/ProOnGoLLC, that demonstrates the device sync feature in ProOnGo, as well as shows a manager approving employee expenses from their iPad. Check out the video and make sure to browse to our YouTube channel to see more demo videos.
If you’ve been a ProOnGo Expense user for a while now, you might have noticed the last time you went to launch the ProOnGo Expense app, that we’ve made a change to our launch icon! Congratulations! You have sight!
If you’ve been a long-time user, you might have noticed that we’ve been putting in some effort at making our user experience a little more clean and graphically pleasing. This new icon change continues this new campaign, so we hope you like it.
If you have any questions/comments/feedback, don’t hesitate to shoot us an email: Support@ProOnGo.com
Have you been taking advantage of our email-in option?
If you’re a ProOnGo subscriber, you have the ability to email us your receipts and we’ll process the receipt through our Receipt Reader service. So the receipts that you receive in your email inbox can be forwarded to your secret email address, and ProOnGo will automatically extract the merchant, date and total amount to create a new expense for you.
We’ll even turn the HTML receipt into an image so it’s easier to save and include in expense reports.
Also, with your secret email address you’re able to attach receipt images to an email and we’ll process them through our Receipt Reader.
To find your secret email address, login to the ProOnGo Web Portal at www.ProOnGo.com. Under the Settings tab, select ‘Other’ and you’ll find your address.
New with the build this week for Android and Blackberry is a button, under the Expense Data category in the Options menu, that allows users to remove the expenses from their device, but not delete them. So now you can remove the expenses that no longer concern you without having them thrown in the trash can. Download the app and check it out!
Login to the ProOnGo Web Portal to gain complete control over your employee’s reimbursement rates
If your company is signed up with ProOnGo to manage your business expenses, you can now adjust your employee’s reimbursement rates from the ProOnGo Web Portal. Under the Settings tab, there you’ll see an option called ‘Employee Rates.’ From there you’ll be able to adjust the billable time reimbursement rate, as well as the mileage reimbursement rate for your employees, and even deny them permission to edit the reimbursement rate themselves.
Sign up for a ProOnGo Business Package to get your entire business set-up free for 30 days. Any questions? Send them to Business@ProOnGo.com
ProOnGo Expense has been a leading expense tracking app for small businesses for a while now; we’ve made expense reporting as simple as taking a snapshot. Thanks to our handy app, professionals no longer have to waste time and effort on creating expense reports. With the hectic pace of running a small business especially, admins agree that their time shouldn’t be wasted on going over stacks of expense reports either. It was with these hard-working bosses in mind that we at ProOnGo unveiled a new feature today. Now ProOnGo Expense allows admins to approve or deny their employees’ expenses instantly from their Android device. This allows for faster employee reimbursement, too, so everyone’s happy. Not to mention, the ability to instantly approve expenses keeps your books up to date and accurate.
It’s easy to use, too! Just follow three simple steps:
Log in to your management account.
Select an employee to view their expenses.
Chose an expense, and press either “Approve” or “Deny.”
That’s all there is to it! Did we mention that ProOnGo Expense is the only app that offers this feature for your Android? You don’t have to thank us, Android users; we enjoy being the most comprehensive expense reporting app out there.
Expense admins can now view their employee expenses from their mobile device! Just open up the ProOnGo Expense application and select the employees button in the upper right-hand corner to select which employee expenses you’d like to view and Approve/Deny.
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