Making Business Work with Apple iPad Apps
Businesses of all kinds need to ensure that their workforces remain mobile and flexible, ready for anything the market may bring them. Increasingly businesses, particularly small businesses, are realizing the unique potential that tablets have, allowing their work forces to get the right tools for the job, increase communication and collaboration in the field, and maintain their critical business data even while away from the office. In a recent Forrester survey of 10,000 information workers across 17 countries found that 24% of the small business workforce is currently using a touch-screen tablet to facilitate their work processes. [i] This is likely to rise even further as more and more business apps are designed to take advantage of the technological qualities that made the Apple iPad such a phenomenon in the first place.
Indeed, the large majority of productivity apps on the market today are tailored for the iPad. This should come as no surprise, considering the iPad’s dominant market share among tablet users. One analyst has affirmed that a full 72% of the businesses employing tablets in their workflow are using the Apple iPad.[ii] One of the greatest aspects to utilizing tablet technology in a business is the surprising degree of options that users are given. An iPad user of today has more options to explore ways in which they can realize productivity gains through business applications than the average laptop user. Additionally, the quick, touch-sensitive controls help facilitate the kind of rapid multitasking that has increasingly become essential to businesses today, whose speed and flexibility often are the key advantages that distinguish them from their larger competitors.
Tablet Apps for Mobile Businesses
The list of potential ways in which mobile apps can be utilized on tablet devices such as the Apple iPad or the Android tablet is nearly unlimited, including the examples below:
- note-taking/voice-recording apps
- customer relationship management (CRM) apps
- in-the-field payment-processing (eCommerce) apps
- document-sharing and intranet apps
- task management apps
- business analytics apps and dashboards
- cloud-computing apps
Tablet computers’ ability to communicate over cellular networks allows businesses to coordinate data transfers with their centrally-located PCs in real-time, offering some of the richest potentials that can be found among mobile business apps in this category. Cloud computing has only increased the feasibility of such business models, and with the increasing levels of security available to both mobile devices and cloud computing software, there are more reasons to employ such technologies—particularly in businesses that thrive with in-the-field customer interactions. Additionally, employees will be able to monitor analytics of their and their team’s performance in real time from anywhere, as the business information gathered in their devices interacts with the company’s conglomerated business data to produce performance analytics nearly instantaneously.
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