{"id":20738,"date":"2015-11-09T12:23:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T04:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=20738"},"modified":"2015-11-09T12:29:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T04:29:04","slug":"pldt-smart-enterprise-expands-portfolio-of-m2m-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2015\/11\/09\/pldt-smart-enterprise-expands-portfolio-of-m2m-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"PLDT\/SMART Enterprise expands portfolio of M2M solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PLDT \/SMART Enterprise expanded its portfolio of machine to machine (M2M) solutions for enterprises, just as more enterprises are embracing M2M technology with more and more devices now being used to collect or generate data.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/PLDT-Alpha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-722\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/PLDT-Alpha-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"PLDT Alpha\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/PLDT-Alpha-220x300.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/PLDT-Alpha.jpg 752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>As one of the early proponents of M2M &#8211; starting with the launch of the first mobile POS service via PLDT SWUP in 2006 &#8211; SMART has since added to its suite of M2M solutions to provide an end-to-end package utilizing the best mobile applications and devices and connected to SMART\u2019s nationwide network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSMART Enterprise M2M Solutions are designed to empower enterprises by facilitating the easy sharing and collection of data,\u201d said Jovy Hernandez, first vice president head of PLDT ALPHA Enterprise and Smart Enterprise.\u00a0\u201cHaving critical information easily available not only helps increase productivity, it also enables employees to make intelligent and critical decisions in a more timely fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The portfolio includes: SMART Enterprise\u2019s M2M Merchandising, which tracks inventory and reports stock movements straight to a SMART-powered mobile device; SMART Enterprise M2M Credit, which gives financial institutions an end-to-end M2M solutions package to manage on-field credit investigators and process loan applications; and other M2M solutions designed to monitor productivity of sales and marketing activities, manage the daily task of field personnel, create digital forms and push to mobile devices, and facilitate the sending and receiving of real-time updates and reports from the field.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>To know more about SMART Enterprise M2M Solutions, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pldtalpha.com\">www.pldtalpha.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLDT and SMART Enterprise expanded its portfolio of machine to machine (M2M) solutions for enterprises, just as more enterprises are embracing M2M technology with more and more devices now being used to collect or generate data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3735,1854,1856,379,1718,96],"class_list":["post-20738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-connected-devices","tag-m2m-solutions","tag-m2m-technology","tag-pldt","tag-smart-enterprise","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}