ALK Technologies Inc. has partnered with Apacheta Corp. to deliver mobile enterprise applications with integrated voice-guided GPS navigation and vehicle-specific routing.
With this joint solution, customers will benefit from the flexibility and productivity gains inherent in Apacheta’s mobile workflow applications, while leveraging ALK’s CoPilot software to reduce fuel costs and out-of-route mileage, increase efficiency, and improve driver safety, the companies said.
Through this partnership, Apacheta will resell ALK’s CoPilot Live Professional and CoPilot Truck Professional, embedding CoPilot’s turn-by-turn directions as options in their TransportACE, RouteACE, MerchandiserACE and ServiceACE mobile workflow applications. These products provide a complete solution for transportation, pickup and delivery, merchandising and field service operations, they added.
ALK’s CoPilot Truck Professional provides voice-guided GPS navigation with industry-standard PC*MILER truck-specific routing to help reduce out-of-route mileage and increase driver efficiency. Offering an easy-to-use interface with spoken turn-by-turn directions and non-distracting guidance displays, it calculates efficient truck routing based on vehicle profile information, routing parameters and load type, including hazardous materials. CoPilot Live is a full-featured GPS navigation system that runs on iOS, Android and Windows Mobile platforms. Its advanced features include 3D maps, Lane Assist arrows, millions of POIs, multi-stop trip planning and more, ALK said.
Apacheta markets and develops a suite of flexible mobile workflow applications that can be easily tailored to a company’s unique business processes. Apacheta applications implement industry best practices to automate and streamline operations for direct store delivery, route sales, merchandising, field service and transportation. All Apacheta applications are available on Windows Mobile and Android rugged handhelds, smartphones and tablets, Apacheta added.