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Net tablets and its relevance in India

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BANGALORE, INDIA: The key feature of NetTabs is their intuitiveness and ease of use. They remove the typical complexity that comes with full-fledged multi-features computers and focus on the key tasks that they do.

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Additionally, the NetTabs will eventually come at a lesser price than fully features computing terminals. NetTabs also connect to the internet over WiFi, are portable and hence can be easily carried by the users and allows users to use it in a host of places than just an office complex with networking infrastructure.

This would help users at remote corners of the country to enter data and send to eGovernance and corporate applications running on the Internet. It would also enable outsourcing of data entry tasks to home workers.

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Example.

The State of Oklahoma has replaced many of their desktop PC’s with tablets equipped with wireless internet cards and changed working practices to permit social workers to operate from their home one day each week.

This approach replaces the traditional ‘hub and spoke’ nature of a working day. This more loosely coupled arrangement, in which office visits are much less frequent and are undertaken when face-to-face contact is truly needed, rather than being driven by the need for data entry. 

In geographically dispersed areas, the savings associated with such a strategy in terms of time and fuel expenses can be significant.

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In secondary sales, this allows retail outfits and stores at remote locations to make use of Wi-Fi networks such as the BSNL WiMax. The operators plan to rollout these Wi-Fi networks across India including rural areas.

This would allow their PoS systems and other sales terminal applications converse with the ERP/SCM applications online.

In secondary sales, this allows retail outfits and stores at remote locations to make use of Wi-Fi networks such as the BSNL WiMax. The operators plan to rollout these Wi-Fi networks across India including rural areas.

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This would allow their PoS systems and other sales terminal applications converse with the ERP/SCM applications online.

In e-Governance, NetTabs allows usage of applications like payment of bills, issue of birth certificates, land records, and vehicle registration. Another window to this point is remote surveillance, communication (diseases, natural calamity) and improving roadway safety.

For natural calamities, the devices can be used to send updates to the appropriate channels, just like the Haiti earthquake and internet’s role in spreading correct information in the real-time.

The author is Executive Director at Deloitte.

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