The Customer Magazine 3|2010
The Joy of Cirque
From its modest beginnings in a remote town in northern Québec to Broadway and Vegas, Cirque du Soleil has rocketed to international acclaim as one of the most innovative global entertainment businesses.
Turning Challanges into Opportunities
Emerging economies need strong government leadership to drive socioeconomic development. According to Dr. Philemon Mjwara, director general of South Africa's Department of Science and Technology (DST), there is significant evidence that information and communication technology (ICT) can stimulate this process.
The New Digital Wonderland
Web 2.0 is already passé, at least in comparison to the impending Internet of Things and Internet of Services. These phenomena will radically change the business world and our everyday lives - including providing new opportunities for growth.
19.02.2010
Best Business Apps for iPhone
By: Frank Völkel
Business apps are becoming increasingly versatile, making office data, CRM functions, BI analyses, and data storage available from practically any location. SAP.info presents the best iPhone apps for business on the go.
Business-Apps for iPhone (photo: Frank Völkel)
Nowadays, not only field sales employees need to have the right data at their fingertips. Managers are also well advised to have easy access to detailed information – for instance, when concluding important agreements. And it makes an even better impression if you don’t have to dig out your notebook or make a call to colleagues at headquarters – see also SAP.info for iPhones and BlackBerrys.
The number of doubters and skeptics debating whether smartphones in general are capable of performing universal and everyday business tasks is dwindling – see IT Business Trends 2010. Hence, there are now many CIOs who take the topic of server access and data sharing seriously and are enabling database access for smartphones. For data communication between a smartphone and the database or company network, a software app is required, which – in the case of the iPhone from Apple – is available exclusively from the iTunes Store.
And the iPhone has now definitely found its place in the business world. Not only its embedded applications – such as contacts, calendar, e-mail, and Internet browser – have made it a multipurpose gadget, but also a whole host of other useful software. Nevertheless, it isn’t easy to identify the most suitable tools among the thousands of applications. Lists of most-wanted apps frequently comprise gimmicks that are of little practical use. Here, we’d like to show you applications that have all been tried and tested for business use on a day-to-day basis. This may lead to notebooks being increasingly left at their docking station – but that’s a completely different matter.
The prices of the software apps shown range from free-of-charge through $449.99. On the following pages, we present to you the six apps we believe to be the most important:
- App 1. Quickoffice Mobile Suite 3.0
- App 2. MyAccountsToGo for SAP Business One
- App 3. BusinessObjects Explorer 1.0
- App 4. iAnalytics for SAP Business One
- App 5. ebf.Connector 2.0.1
- App 6. Drivers 2.1.1
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