Documentation Development Systems
Almost everybody has a smart phone or tablet and we take advantage of this. Ag Partners Southwest is a custom provider of services to make your documentation needs easier, accessible, and less stressful for field personnel, supervisors, and management. We do this by creating easy, simple, cloud based applications that meet YOUR specific needs.
Changing times
While farming is certainly no easy endeavor, the demands for real data, fast access, and simple distribution are real. Before the advent of current technologies, all the field practice forms such as irrigation records, rodent logs, planting schedules, tractor work, and chemical inventories were accomplished on paper. Management people knew what needed to be done, field people were aware of what had to make its way into the ground and back to the office, and delays were inevitable. Add to the delays errors in reporting, old figures, wrong data, or lost forms altogether and an administrative mess is now present. And this says nothing of the produce season and its incessant scheduling demands and pace and the changes that simply come with the territory.
With the help of Ag Partners Southwest, your documentation needs will not change but they will get easier. We know the difficulty in getting info from the office to the field. We know the stress of office people waiting on information from field personnel. We are cognizant of the challenges that face leafy green farmers for compliance with regulatory agencies. We're aware of the losses that come from poor record keeping. And all this says nothing of the stress that comes from unexpected audits or inspections that demand current, up-to-date information that is not immediately accessible!
OUR PROCESS
ANALYZE
DESIGN
REFINE
DEPLOY
Through our documentation development process, we design custom applications for the small or large farmer alike. By analyzing your current data you desire to distribute and collect, and through knowledge of the requirements from governing agencies, Ag Partners creates simple to use apps to replace paper systems. These apps are not only easy to operate and to distribute to employees and personnel, but are robust in their feature sets. Your employees who have smart phones, tablets or laptops can access your apps with ease. Office personnel can access the data in the same manner with the same devices, or through their desktop PC.
ANALYZE
After meeting with you in person at your farm to discuss your documentation needs, we will determine exactly which features are necessary to make this app fit your system. It is important to us to establish a structure that integrates each necessary factor.
DESIGN
While creating your app we carefully consider the user experience so that you may quickly access key features within your documentation system. It is our goal to make maintaining your data, logs, and maintenance schedules as streamlined as possible.
REFINE
Every documentation app development goes through an extensive quality testing process ensuring smooth and simple documentation. This task allows us to weed out any bugs or issues before we deliver the final product to you.
DEPLOY
Finally, we will integrate your new app into any of your already existing systems and train you in on how to use it like a pro. And of course, we will always be here to answer any questions in the future.
Integration and security
With more and more cell phone coverage that provides data access, our apps for your farm can be utilized with ease. These apps are YOUR applications and the data is yours! You have access to it anytime you have a data connection via Wi-Fi or any other protocol. And what about security? Want to control the access to certain people? Easy. Need to limit what sections on your forms can be manipulated by certain personnel? We can do that. Want to send customized reports of your data in PDF, Excel, CSV, or other formats to necessary receivers? All this and more is possible.
APPS FOR ANY FORM
Some sample apps that can be created for your farm include planting schedules, irrigation logs, pre-season forms, sanitary surveys, field and canal check forms, pre-harvest forms, daily equipment servicing, fertilizer application logs, tractor work logs, seed planting forms, and trucking dispatch applications. And want to add other functionality such as integrating bi-directional, real-time access/updating to an Excel spreadsheet in the office? No problem. And would you like to coordinate fertilizer applications and 1080's in real time from CDMS or Ag Verdict so you are not triple and quadruple entering data and doing so days beyond the actual application? We can do that too through API or direct ingestion of reports from your PCA's.
Want a demo?
If you would like a demo on any of our apps or services, please take a moment and tell us what current struggles you face in regards to data access and we will get back with you to schedule a personalized demo of potential solutions to your concerns.
