Photo credit: John Deere John Deere’s cloud-based data management tool, Operations Center, has new navigation, planning features, and a renamed mobile version the company announced mid-January. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic adoption rates of this technology have jumped dramatically, says senior product manager Kyle Plattner.
Consistent navigation Navigation of Operations Center has been improved to be more consistent between mobile and web versions. “We know farmers are always on the move, which makes the mobile app version of Operations Center more important than ever,” says Jennifer Badding of John Deere. “That’s why John Deere has made improvements to both versions, web and mobile, to make them look and function in a similar manner, so farmers have clear and easy access to their data from any device.”
Photo credit: John Deere Kyle Plattner has spent his career at the intersection of technology and agriculture. He’s had a foot in both worlds nearly all his life. Plattner earned a computer science degree from Eureka College and a master s of information systems from Robert Morris University. He
spent nine years working for Precision Planting and The Climate Corporation on the FieldView cab team. Since 2019, he’s been using that passion to improve John Deere’s Operations Center mobile app as the senior product manager. At the beginning of 2021, he sat down with Successful Farming for an exclusive interview as part of the virtual Consumer Electronics Show.