Case Study: PwC achieves rapid, cross-platform mobile travel tracking for Global 1000 customers with Appcelerator Titanium

PwC Builds Mobile Travel Solution For Global 1000 Customers Through 2-week Rapid Innovation Cycles

PwC, one of the Big Four professional services firms with more than 60,000 employees serving Global 1000 clients, needed a secure, easy-to-use mobile travel tracking solution to help enterprise customers monitor cross-border employee movement for tax compliance, withholding and project costing. The TravelWatch mobile challenge included creating an intuitive interface to drive adoption, capturing GPS location data, and integrating securely with PwC’s existing Microsoft/Oracle back-end systems while supporting iPhone and Android users worldwide.

PwC built native cross-device apps using Appcelerator Titanium and an in-house geo-location layer, enabling rapid two-week agile release cycles, ~60% faster time-to-market than conventional native development and ~80% code reuse across platforms. The result was a streamlined, always-available travel tracking app that automates location capture, reduces compliance effort for travelers, integrates with PwC cloud services, and positioned the product for large-scale uptake soon after launch.

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Ben Bahrenburg

Technology Director, PwC