Got your tax refund? Use it to make even more money!

What are you thinking of doing with your tax refund? How about reinvesting it into your business and in yourself? Consider this. If you use it to subscribe to ABUKAI Expenses to track expenses for your job or business, you'll be "buying back" hours of wasted time each month for the entire year. Think about it. More time to do those things that make you more money...and giving back your free time so you can enjoy life and suffer much less frustration! Who doesn't want to replace the time they spend on expense reports? And consider when next year's tax time rolls around. That ABUKAI Expenses purchase may be tax deductible as well. Sounds like too great a deal to pass up! Download ABUKAI Expenses now and get three report submissions free so see how easy it will be to "buy back" your valuable time.

ABUKAI at AppNation San Francisco 2011

This year’s AppNation in San Francisco brings together leading “App-erati” and tees up the key issues that are impacting their universe. ABUKAI’s CEO, Philipp Schloter, co-anchored a discussion entitled, “Building the New Enterprise: Deploying Enterprise Apps” on Wednesday, April 27 from 2:20 PM to 2:50 PM as a part of Track 3: MACRO TRENDS ACROSS THE APP ECOSYSTEM. The session is a featured discussion led by Patrick Houston, Editorial Director, NetShelter and featuring Roger Green, Executive Editor, CIO Zone and ABUKAI’s Schloter that frames the questions CIOs are asking as they find that in 2011 their businesses need to deploy apps to stay competitive.

Recent studies show that CIOs not only understand the importance of mobile applications for their companies, but they are taking active steps in 2011 to deploy mobile applications in their businesses. There are several drivers for this trend, but the overarching reason mobile applications are becoming a top priority for CIOs is because they provide substantial cost savings to their companies. Schloter lays out the productivity and integration factors that need to be addressed to maintain and maximize those savings.

Even large enterprises deploy mobile apps...to save money!!!

If you work for a large enterprise and are unsure whether deploying mobile applications like ABUKAI Expenses to improve your productivity is a) something you should do, and b) something you should do now, check out this posting by Eric Lai in his ZDNet Ubermobile blog. He summarizes a study by Kelton Research of companies that generate $100 million or more whether and why they were going to deploy mobile apps this year. 90% said they were (n = 250)! And the main reason to do it?  Saving money!

Eric comments,"It’s heartening, as it shows that mobilizing appears to be a fiscally sound strategy, not something something with a pie-in-the-sky ROI." He goes on to share that 2/3 (65%) of respondents said they’ll deploy 5 or more mobile apps this year and 21% say they are deploying 20 or more. He further explains how doing so provides these companies a fast, running start towards mobility that will likely help those companies leapfrog their competitors, the same way that e-business separated the innovators from the laggards.

Interesting reading for those planning to deploy mobile apps. Perhaps a wake up call for those who are not?

How much can you save?

If you don't know how much your company is "paying" to get expense reports completed, you may be seriously surprised. You may also be overlooking an area for a quick productivity payback, and no business can really afford to do that. The advantages of using ABUKAI Expenses are not only "soft" benefits like reduced frustration for your staff, but also actual measurable financial savings. With the ABUKAI Expenses ROI Calculator you can see for yourself how much money you can recoup for your company. Do you really want to keep ignoring the real impact of having their staffs complete expense reports by hand and keep overlooking sizeable opportunity.