SharePoint Documents for iPad – Updates to Moprise
Our Moprise SharePoint application is the fastest and easiest to use iPad app to your documents on Office365 & SharePoint. Based on extensive customer feedback and hundreds of thousands of users, we have made BYOD access to SharePoint documents easy and carefree. 90% of SharePoint users primarily need access to their corporate documents and Moprise delivers that with a streamlined interface and no changes required to your SharePoint or Office365 servers. Simple configuration allows access to Office365, BPOS, or on-premise SharePoint using your corporate credentials. Streamlined access to documents including Microsoft Office formats keeps team members on top of what’s important. Documents and links can easily be shared via email.
Our latest update makes Moprise’s iPad access to SharePoint even easier.
1) In landscape mode, the folder & file list disappears to give you a full screen to access your document.
2) You can easily sort the folder & file list by title or date to make finding new content faster.
3) In case of updates to the site, you can refresh your iPad view of SharePoint by simply pulling down the list.
4) Configuration changes to SharePoint or Office365 settings can require confirmation to prevent inadvertent deletion of sites.
5) A collection of bug fixes to further improve stability and weed out corner case crashes. We are proud that our customers can have multi-hour meetings viewing documents from SharePoint without crashing.
This update is available in the App Store today.
The fastest and easiest way to access Office365 & SharePoint on your iPad
Coaxion + BOX is your solution to paperless iPad Meetings
A company revolves around two things: email & storage. One of the storage systems many customers had in common was BOX. Everywhere we turned, customers, departments, or entire corporations were already using or 
beginning to use BOX in addition to internal, behind the firewall systems like SharePoint. And they needed a mobile solution that could bridge these storage systems. It made perfect sense to integrate BOX into the latest Coaxion, now available in the App Store.
In the past, we’ve written about the “scattered document” problem. This problem can increase in scope when a new storage system comes online and documents are copied between the two systems to remain accessible to everyone. This results in chaotic business workflow, inadequate compliance checking, accidental use of outdated documents, and leakage of corporate IP.
To facilitate paperless meetings and prevent document duplication, Coaxion can now access your BOX documents for secure sharing and synchronization across iPhones & iPads. If you use SharePoint only mobile clients like SharePlus or Moprise or BOX’s iPad client, your teams will copy documents between the storage systems to keep them accessible. With Coaxion, you can leave your documents on one storage system and temporarily share them with your colleagues through Coaxion discussions. And when the meeting is over, close the discussion and Coaxion will remove the documents from all the devices, leaving the truth on the correct server.
Our Box support within Coaxion also enables offline storage, editing and upload back to the BOX server.
As seen in the Apple @ Work section of iTunes, Coaxion + BOX is your solution to paperless iPad meetings. Contact us if you want more information on enterprise features to use Coaxion for a paperless boardroom or for your paperless sales portal.
Dropbox is here to stay – even in the Enterprise
Dropbox won the Crunchies award for best overall startup last night. This is after raising $45M in venture funding 
with 45M active users, representing at least 20% of the ~250M iOS devices still in use today. Dropbox also has a strategy to give away additional storage for every friend you invite to sign up for Dropbox. This high level of use, referrals, and recommendation makes it impossible to remove Dropbox from devices and personal computers. At this point, instead of fighting it, enterprises must learn to work with it not against it.
The value proposition for Dropbox is making content easily accessible across devices (iPad, iPhone, Android, etc) and PCs. We’ve spoken with many users who use Dropbox to save content discovered while browsing on their iPad and make it available for insertion into documents or email on their personal computers. Additionally, users create documents on their PC and review and fine tune them on their iPad, using Dropbox for easy cross device sharing. Simply put, Dropbox helps users get their work done.
Denying access to Dropbox makes your scattered document problem worse
When piloting Coaxion with corporate users, access to Dropbox became a frequently requested feature. Users wanted to bring their work back into the enterprise, edit and iterate on the document with others, and upload their documents back onto their corporate servers, allowing them to delete the documents on Dropbox. The scattered document problem became worse when corporations disallow access to Dropbox. Users already had documents on Dropbox for updating across devices but now they were forced to email the documents to their work accounts, creating multiple copies in personal email accounts as well as new documents in their work accounts. As these documents changed, the emailing would happen again and again, causing documents to be saved across personal and work email accounts – adding to the security exposure, corporate email storage costs, and making the scattered document problem worse.
With Coaxion, users easily access their Dropbox documents, share it with others for collaboration, and bring the final version back into their corporate storage system. Documents no longer build up in personal or work email and can be quickly deleted from Dropbox.
Apple’s Q1 FY12 Earnings
37M iPhones sold (up 128%), 15.4M iPads (up 111%), 5.2M Macs (up 26%). 85M users iCloud
$46B in revenue, $13B in earnings
Apple announced their earnings on Tuesday and their numbers blew everyone away. And Apple’s Enterprise 
penetration is no less remarkable:
- Nearly all top companies are using iPhone in industries including financials, consumer products, transportation, healthcare, and insurance.
- Nearly all top companies are using iPads in the field from pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, hospitality, consumer products, healthcare, financial services, to retail.
- Education is selling 2x iPads as Macs with 1.5M iPads already in use.
The tablet app ecosystem is very strong, healthy, and key to Apple’s lead: 550K apps with 170K iPad apps drives the sale of iPads over other eReaders and people pay for the ability to do multiple tasks on iPads.
iPhone is now the best selling smartphone in the world with demand for iPhone 4s exceeding discounted iPhone 4 and free iPhone 3GS.
Solving the Scattered Document Problem
Today’s cross-functional project teams need to remain nimble. As enterprise file sharing and document management systems become increasingly popular, businesses have started to run into what Moprise calls the scattered document access problem: how to effectively provide access to documents stored in a variety of content systems without compromising document access security.
Rather than selecting one exclusive content platform, we have found that corporations and individual departments often have their critical business documents scattered across a variety of hosted and cloud-based file repositories,
including SharePoint, Dropbox, and BOX.net. Naturally, one could use a combination of iPad applications to download and view these files (e.g. Dropbox client + SharePoint client + PDF reader), however, usability is lost in the process of switching between so many different applications on the device.
Coaxion’s unique value proposition is that Coaxion solves the scattered enterprise document problem, allowing employees to share select documents while a project team is active, rather than granting access to all of their content in a folder. In addition, Coaxion provides a consistent user interface to access/view/edit these documents stored in remote file repositories from within the same application.
To experience seamless integration with Dropbox and SharePoint, try the free version of Coaxion available in the iTunes store. Upgrade to the Pro edition to access Box.net folders and edit documents on your device using QuickOffice.
Microsoft Office Document editing with SharePoint, Box.Net, and DropBox
Since the beginning, Coaxion has had superior integration with the Microsoft back office and document formats. Coaxion has the fastest, best looking, and easiest to use integration with SharePoint, in the cloud or on premise. Coaxion automatically converts Office documents to PDF so that you can read them with full fidelity – your annotations, charts, and graphs look great in Coaxion. And today we build upon that foundation with excellent Microsoft Office document editing on the iPad.
We partnered with QuickOffice to make it easy to edit and “save back” your Office documents into any of your enterprise storage repositories. We recognize departments optimize their storage service to the needs of the team and critical business documents are scattered across a variety of hosted and on-premise file repositories including SharePoint, Box, and Dropbox. One could use a combination of iPad applications to download and view these files but security, usability, and interoperability is lost in this process. In one reliable, secure, and easy to use app, Coaxion Pro supports Office document editing and saving to SharePoint, Office 365, Box, or Dropbox.
Use our in app upgrade to get the “Pro” version of Coaxion and take advantage of easy document editing and save back capabilities with your favorite editors including QuickOffice and Documents to Go. Today, editing of documents stored in “My Documents” is supported and you will be prompted to “save back” to Coaxion and “upload” to your corporate document server.
Within Coaxion, view a "My Documents" document in full screen mode and select "Open In". Select QuickOffice from the list to edit your document.
When done editing, tap "Close" in QuickOffice followed by "Save Back" and "Coaxion". This will save the document in Coaxion and switch to Coaxion. Coaxion will prompt you to update the documents in SharePoint, Box, or Dropbox.
Microsoft’s Q2 2012 earnings – the Microsoft backoffice remains strong
Once again Microsoft reported better than expected revenue pf $20.9 Billion in this quarter. The business division reported $6.28B in revenue, a 7% increase over prior periods excluding one-time revenue. Revenue in SharePoint and Exchange grew by more than 10% and Lync and Dynamics CRM grew by 30%. No new results were issued for Office365 beyond the current 5M+ seats and 100,000+ businesses sold in 3 months ending November 2011 and 22M education users (100% y/y increase). All this reflects the continued strength of Microsoft’s technologies in the back office.
The PC market declined 2% to 4% reflecting a change in client computing from PC centric to mobile centric. This was especially apparent in the Consumer PC space which was down 6%. Business PC purchases grew 2% suggesting businesses are continuing to refresh their PCs while they evaluate mobile devices.
Introducing Coaxion for iPad
Coaxion makes it easy to read, share and synchronize critical business documents across iPads. Two key features of Coaxion are its ability to access critical business storage systems like SharePoint and to 
easily synchronize the documents with your team’s iPads no matter where they are.
Documents and storage are incredibly siloed within corporations. Corporations have spent billions on on-premise storage systems from HP, Dell, EMC, Microsoft, and Oracle. Years of optimization, security & compliance systems, business processes and applications have been built around these systems and they are impossible to shed just for mobile benefits. Additionally, SaaS companies like Google, Salesforce, Atlassian, and Box provided cloud storage systems that provided incredibly compelling value to some departments that it was worthy of migration. These departments usually pay a per user, per month fee for specialized applications and storage systems such as Salesforce provides for sales teams.
The end result is today’s corporation has documents spread across on-premise systems and cloud systems, with licensing, organizational, and security boundaries preventing sharing of documents using a single native storage system. Often companies resort to sharing by email or sharing by printing.
Coaxion for iPad allows executives and teams to easily read and share documents on iPads independent of their storage systems. With Coaxion, the truth remains on your servers and we take care of distributing only the documents you intend to share to the iPads & users you specify.
Powerful security and privacy features insure only the documents you share are securely sent to trusted users. Product launches, board meetings, HR and compensation issues, customer reports, and many other items within a corporation are extremely confidential and should only be shared with private groups. These are scenarios where Coaxion excels with its ability to efficiently deliver content to iPads, where your teammates are most inclined to consume it.
Apple’s Q4 2011 Earnings and the Enterprise
Apple once again released stellar earnings on October 18th. Let’s see what it means for the enterprise:
Apple sold 17.1M iPhones vs 14.1M in the previous September quarter – 21% growth. This was off because of rumors of the iPhone 4S release.
iPhone continues to be adopted as the standard across the enterprise with 93% of the Fortune 500 deploying or testing the device, up from 91% last quarter and 60% of the Global 500 testing or deploying iPhone, up from 57% last quarter. A recent example of iPhone’s enterprise success is Lowe’s. Lowe’s is in the process of rolling out over 40,000 iPhones with a custom application to allow their store associates to execute realtime inventory checks, product orders and interactive customers with how-to videos.
Additional examples of companies around the world supporting iPhone on their corporate networks include L’Oreal, Royal Bank of Scotland, SAP, Texas Instruments, Jacobs Engineering Group, Tenet Healthcare, Jaguar Land Rover, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Lincoln National and CSX Corporation.
11.1M iPads were sold in the September quarter compared to 4.2M a year ago, 166% growth.
It’s been just 18 months since we introduced iPad and the pace at which businesses worldwide are adopting this technology is unprecedented. Today, 92% of the Fortune 500 are testing or deploying iPad within their enterprises, up from 86% last year. Internationally, 52% of the Global 500 are testing or deploying iPad, up from 47% last quarter.
Every day, we learn about innovative new ways our enterprise customers are using iPad. The airline industry is a great example of the momentum we’re seeing. United Continental Holdings is putting iPads in every cockpit to replace heavy, paper-based flight bags. In Japan, All Nippon Airways is now using iPad in training programs for flight attendants.
Sonic Automotive is using iPad for customer check-in at the service department and also to provide analytics to regional managers. Aflac, Biogen and General Mills have developed internal apps that their field sales teams leverage daily, and technicians of Siemens Energy are bringing iPads along when they do maintenance work at the top of their wind turbines.
Secure business and personal apps with iOS
Today another new Android vulnerability was discovered such that all your email addresses, phone numbers, SMS messages, and log files can be access by any application that requests permission to access the internet. You can read more about it here. Additionally there has been android malware in the Marketplace that captures and reroutes your personal data to 3rd parties.
It’s useful to ask why Apple’s iOS doesn’t face similar threats. I think there are three reasons for this:
1) With the Macintosh, Apple differentiated itself from Windows by claiming there were no viruses or malware on its platform. This feature resonated with customers in a big way and Apple knew it must carry this forward. However, in the PC era, Mac’s malware resistance really was just marketing. As Apple thought about new models for computation, they realized strong technical firewalls would be needed to more fundamentally prevent these threats from harming users.
2) iOS has a curated application store with very end-user favorable rules that app developers must follow such as not using undocumented apis. Apps are actively scanned for viruses and malware behavior before they can get into the store. If a bad app ever leaks into the store, Apple has the technology to remove an offending app from the store and from devices before it infects everyone. As this is the only path for getting apps onto devices, Apple is like a bouncer at the bar actively keeping unwanted apps out while ejecting misbehaving apps that got in.
3) iOS has a very strong sandbox between apps and a very rigorous api that prevents applications from interacting or sharing data with each other except through a very few well protected apis. First, unlike Android, an application cannot access the code or data of another application. All sharing is done via a few well-defined iOS apis – so there is a spigot and drain approach to sharing that is controlled by the app, the user, and the OS. It is iOS that prompts you before sending email, making a phone call, or sharing a document between applications so that even allowed commands require user confirmation.
With these technologies, business apps can co-exist side by side with consumer apps on the phone. iOS guarantees the business apps cannot be accessed or changed by any other application on the phone. As well, your personal apps & data are safe from corporate scrutiny. In addition, via iOS apis, the business apps can limit their data sharing to other trusted business apps and recently introduced AppConnect technology from Mobile Iron appears to be a start in this direction.
The iPhone & iPad truly have the fundamentals to support one device that delivers work and personal utility while balancing the security and privacy needs for both sides of our lives. Ray Ozzie captured a good summary of iOS a few years ago: Apple internalized that people really understand and like an appliance-style model for their phone & pad. Appliances don’t get viruses, they don’t data share, they do one function and do it well.
