For a fresh and detailed examination of key distracted driving issues, download our Risk & Liability white paper, which was written in collaboration with a national law firm specialized in defending corporate clients in complex litigation.

Forrester Research's recent report predicts that annual sales of tablets will reach almost 400M units within 4 years and 20% of those will be enterprise purchases. The tablet is the fastest-ramping technology device in history.
 
Stephanie Blanchard of Mobile Enterprise recently wrote, "As tablet use is on the rise, many enterprises are adopting the form factor to enhance and replace business processes and improve the bottom line. Field workers in particular, whether in service or sales, are using tablets more than ever. Driver safety is a top concern as it is and distracted driving is a liability for business. It is the cause of 9 deaths and 1,060 injured individuals in the U.S. - per day - according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The agency's 2011 study showed that 31% of U.S. drivers (ages 18-64) had either read or sent a text message while behind the wheel. Adding tablets to the mix has the potential of running those numbers up, if users take their eyes off the road, or take their minds off driving."
Aegis has developed the leading solution for ensuring the legal and safe use of tablets in vehicles while whitelisting applications required for productivity and cost savings such as navigation. Read more about the Aegis solution for tablets in this blog post and this customer success story.

Aegis was recently awarded the Frost & Sullivan 2013 Customer Value Leadership Award for Distracted Driving Solutions. The award is presented each year to the company that has demonstrated excellence in implementing strategies that proactively create value for its customers.

Nandini Tare, Frost & Sullivan's lead analyst said, "FleetSafer from Aegis Mobility is the broadest portfolio of solutions to address distracted driving. Given the diverse needs of corporate fleets, this breadth of offering is critical to delivering the best possible value to enterprise clients. Importantly, the Aegis products are managed under a single portal, which provides powerful and easy-to-use administration, analytics and reporting. These are the reasons that Aegis was chosen as the 2013 award recipient and these are the reasons that Aegis has earned the industry leadership position with an approximate 75 percent market share." 

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We've been hard at work enhancing the industry leadership position of the Crossroads Reporting portal, our web-based analytics hub for presenting distracted-driving data reported by the FleetSafer clients.

Crossroads Reporting presents dashboards at the organization and driver levels that chart the frequency of distracting events while driving. Sliders make it easy to change the date range to focus on specific periods.



Drilling down is supported, allowing examination of the details of each driver's trips and events. Thresholds can be set to color values according to severity, and alerts and notifications based on configurable thresholds can be integrated with email and other enterprise communication platforms. Trips and events can be plotted on maps. Data can also be exported for analysis using other tools.

To see for yourself, contact us and set up a demo!

Impactful Distraction article

Nathan Seppa of Science News authored an excellent article entitled "Impactful Distraction - Talking while driving poses dangers that people seem unable to see." Read the article and get Aegis CEO Paul Zimmerman's take on it in this blog post.

 

From One Second to the Next documentary 

Our friends at AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile sponsored the creation of the documentary "From One Second To The Next" so that more people might effect change in their lives before facing their own personal tragedy related to distracted driving. Read more and watch the video. 

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