THE DALTON SCHOOL : Education - USA

Equipped population : 105 students

Equipment : Macbook notebooks

Recognized as one of the “top schools” of New-York, the modern and independent school was at the beginning of its computerization, equipped with desktops. Then, the laptops equipment has resulted from the fact that the school wanted to mainly develop the intellectual independence and the responsibility of its 6th Graders students, by allowing them to take home their micros. A willing which could not exist without a MOBILIS Protectis® shell, in order to avoid lost of money and time for students and technicians. By the way, pupils are not allowed to take their laptops out of its shell. The main reasons for choosing this protection and its shoulder straps, was its easily of use and its adjustability according to the students needs. Even if they do not treat them very nicely, the results are very satisfying: after 1 pilot year, only 3devices on 105 have been returned in maintenance! “I imagine the breakage rate without the shells would have been 10 times bigger, and regarding the savings, I think the Protectis® shells have saved us a lot of money but we have overall to remember that also the headache has its own price!” said the Director of Technology. “I’m also very satisfied of the MOBILIS service quality: everything is as promised and the process is very quick.”

E-ON® : Power & gas - UK

Equipped population : Field Sales force

Used material : Fujitsu Siemens Pen tablet PC

Headquartered in Germany, E-ON has 40 million customers over the World and some 88.000 employees. E-ON is the second largest energy generator and distributor network in the UK. We could imagine that some of its power is its personnel itself! That’s why Mobilis as been called to help some field sales people to save their energy – at least from the hardware problems. Indeed, with some 4.9 million customers in Central England to take care of, the sales force has to be on the field every day to serve them. In their daily work they use a Fujitsu-Siemens pen tablet PC to collect information. As the IT Manager of E-ON UK tells us: “Taking care of their hardware is not a simple task – if the pen tablet breaks, its owner can’t go back to work at least for the next 24 hours!” “We used to have some leather cases but the protection level was not on the one we expected” - notably because they were not water resistant. “We didn’t need anything that would make the hardware completely waterproof, and the answer of the Mobilis’ protective shells seemed just right.” The portability and the protection provided by the shell is a very good combination even with some drops and bumps. We could deduct that the field sales people are satisfied by the solution because if “they haven’t much feedback to give, it only means that there is nothing to complaint about! They care of their device because they need it to work well…”