The problem with the Cloud is that it's a network and as we all know a network can go down, leaving you without your Point of Sales Program, Printers, Internet...
The Portable should be the network buddy...
Like you would have a battery operated plug in hand held vacuum ready to pick up quick messes, would you have a portable ready to go to do the business...
There is no reason that you couldn't have a portable device that plugs into the network that gets updated as the day goes on.
The portable could use the network devices like printers, but if they aren't available you can email it using 4g.
The portable would have all the front of house programs loaded on it that would sync data in real time and could be used as an Internet connection to keep emails going.
Software should start designing for Electronic Signatures in the case that someone designs the network buddy or if you want to make your software portable...
That's another benefit of portables today is the ease of mobile business...no more heavy batteries, heavy cables and short battery life.
You could have a bay of portables that are scanned for malware immediately when they are returned from the field, then synced.
This would show accountability for the devices and will have a nice place to store them that doubles as a charging device...
Your daily computers will be used when you are in the office leaving portables to live up to their name...portable ;-)
If you keep the customer comfortable with your ability to multitask in the case of network failure, you'll have a customer for life...and that's a fact!
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