CHALLENGES: • The majority of AES’s workforce is in the field and in extraordinarily remote locations – ranging from oilfields on the North Slope of Alaska to drill ships where the nearest port of call may be thousands of miles away in Southeast Asia. • Some employees don’t have access to a computer or email for weeks at a time, making it difficult for AES to communicate with its workforce. • In the oil and gas services industry, it is critical to have an instantaneous and reliable communication tool in case of an emergency or disaster. SOLUTION: One of the first things to be installed on ships or in remote oil field locations are cellular towers. As such, since Wi-Fi is available, the company realized that a mobile app solution to communicate with their dispersed emp

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