Apple iPhone 3.0 More Business Friendly

March 26th, 2009 by Erin Posted in Business | 1 Comment »

Blackberry is out. iPhone is in.

If anyone ever had any complaints about the Apple iPhone in the past – well, it’s time to take another look.

This week Apple released a beta version of its next generation software and it will no doubt heed to the newly emerged apps craze.

Aside from new peer-to-peer connectivity, turn-by-turn directions, and a much anticipated cut and paste feature, the Apple iPhone 3.0 is essentially a third-party developers dream – and could become quite the little handy device for businesses.

Right now, there are already more than 25,000 applications in the Apple App Store; buy ‘em and download ‘em just like iTunes. In an effort to fuel the craze even more, iPhone 3.0 software will include more than 1,000 new application programming interfaces.

Developers need not worry about finding work in this economy. Apple’s got them covered.

Here, though, is the real highlight of the 3.0 upgrade: business support.

Until now, it had been thought that iPhones were just cool consumer devices and inappropriate for business. Now it seems business software companies are clamoring to get in on the apps action.

Here’s a look at what some of the bigger names in business software are doing:

-Workday, a provider of hosted business software, plans to post an application on the Apple App Store that will let customers tap into their human resources and financial systems from iPhones.

-Sybase, which has already released a mobile client “in-box” for e-mail, data security, and business processes for Windows and Symbian devices, plans to post an iPhone version on the App Store next week.

-Oracle now has five apps on the App Store. It’s most successful one, for accessing Oracle business intelligence software, has been downloaded by nearly 44,000 iPhone users.

Wow! Imagine what we’ll see in future upgrades? I guess it really is okay to bring your iPhone to work.

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One Response to “Apple iPhone 3.0 More Business Friendly”

  1. Stature Software Blog » iPhone Apps Give Businesses A Boost Says:
    July 6th, 2009 at 8:11 am

    [...] just for the 20-something hipster. If you have a small business to run, some very essential iPhone business applications make it a better option over the [...]

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