SharePoint Options for iPhone and iPad
May 24, 2012
Mobile devices are moving from a business necessity to a formal mandate. While apps exist for most major functions, tackling mobile access to SharePoint is a bigger creature to tame. We may have a breaking development in, “Use SharePoint on your iPad or iPhone,” by Dave Johnson.
Collaborating with an iPad in a corporate environment is sometimes challenging, because the ubiquitous tablet hasn’t had the same access to SharePoint as laptops and desktops. Sharing a document, then, has meant sending attachments, and iPads were blocked from accessing the vast stores of corporate documents already archived in SharePoint. Now harmon.ie delivers substantially the same SharePoint experience as your desktop PC provides.
The free harmon.ie app offers an upgrade to a premium addition for a slim $20. And while accessing an existing SharePoint infrastructure via an iPad or iPhone is now possible, the usability and efficiency is still in question. How much work can actually be accomplished by forcing SharePoint to fit the mobile mold?
For those who are high mobile users, we would recommend a smart third-party solution that integrates a mobile offering into their primary solution. Fabasoft Mindbreeze Mobile is one such option.
Smartphones and tablets are constant companions, indispensable in the business world. Information needs to be able to be exchanged at all times and wherever you are. Easily. Quickly. Securely. Fabasoft Mindbreeze Mobile makes company data available on all mobile devices, regardless of whether you have a BlackBerry®, iPhone®, Windows Phone or Android™ Smartphone or a tablet such as the Apple iPad, Samsung Chromebook/GalaxyTab or Blackberry Playbook. You can act independently and freely – yet always securely. Irrespective of what format the data is in.
Perhaps most importantly, security is never compromised with the Mindbreeze compliance and industry-vetted solution. So while some apps will let you access your SharePoint installation, Fabasoft Mindbreeze is built to make your mobile access fully functional.
Emily Rae Aldridge, May 24, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
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harmon.ie Mobile is the new face of business engagement, because it delivers the same easy-access to SharePoint document collaboration and social networking features, wherever you work – in the office or on-the-go. Right now, editing documents on the go is not yet a popular mode of work, but the ability to see what your colleagues are working and to weigh in during the process is absolutely a business need today. The ability to have the same access (and the same user experience) on the PC or on a mobile device is a key consideration in getting business users who are reluctant to learn new tools on board.
But don’t take my word for it; check it out – the Lite version is free!