Software : Good Technology launches a solution designed to improve mobile workflows |
- Good Technology launches a solution designed to improve mobile workflows
- Google's Android Wear may have a serious paid app problem
- Microsoft makes Yammer available for Midsize and Education Office users
| Good Technology launches a solution designed to improve mobile workflows Posted:  Good Technology has launched a solution designed to allow enterprises to combine mobile applications in order to improve business operations. The Good Mobile Workflow Builder gives IT departments the flexibility to deploy multiple independent mobile apps with one cohesive usage process. In other words, users will be able to integrate data across applications so that they don't have to continually open and close apps to develop a comprehensive overview of whatever they're working on. Good Technology has a partner ecosystem of more than 1,200 business applications. With the Mobile Workflow Builder, Good clients can augment these apps in order to better suit their business needs. The importance of mobilityMobility has become crucial for all businesses. Not only do mobile devices provide organizations with additional opportunities to communicate with employees and with customers, but the devices also provide faster and more convenient ways to access, improve upon and use information. A recent AT&T study revealed the time saved by small businesses that use mobile devices in their day-to-day activities is equivalent to $67.5 billion (about £40.2bn or au$71.8bn) a year. Mobile apps save 599.5 million hours and $15.6 billion (about £9.3bn or au$16.6bn) a year, according to the study. The study also found that more than half of small businesses use mobile applications, the majority of which estimate they save $500 (about £298 or au$532) a month by using the apps. The use of mobile apps by small businesses has increased by 65% the past two years. Good has more than 5,000 clients in 184 countries. Clients include AT&T, Barclays and the US Department of Homeland Security. |
| Google's Android Wear may have a serious paid app problem Posted:  It seems everyone has had an unfortunate run-in with digital rights management (DRM) at one time or another, and now Android Wear users are having theirs. Early adopters of Google's smartwatch standard have found that paid apps simply don't work on Android Wear devices, according to Android Police. Currently there are no standalone apps for Android Wear devices; apps with Wear features need to be downloaded to an Android phone, which then sends the relevant part of the app to the smartwatch via Bluetooth. Unfortunately, it appears the encryption keys that are sent to an Android phone when a paid app is downloaded from Google Play aren't making it over to the smartwatch. A strange oversightThis means Android Wear devices that receive app data from smartphones have no way to decrypt that data unless the app was free to begin with. One solution is for developers to make their Android Wear-compatible apps free, though obviously that's not ideal. It's definitely still early in the saga of Android Wear, but this is a strange oversight that should definitely have been caught before now. We've asked Google when the bug might be fixed, and we'll update this story if we hear back. |
| Microsoft makes Yammer available for Midsize and Education Office users Posted:  Microsoft has added Yammer Enterprise to all Office 365 Midsize Business and Education plans, the company said in a blog post. All existing Office 365 Midsize Business and Education customers will receive licenses for Yammer Enterprise. Additionally, customers who would like to have their own clients or external workers on the platform will no longer have to purchase additional Enterprise licenses. Microsoft says the update will help to reduce "the friction in cross-organization collaboration" and "enable...users to work with customers, partners, and parents and students without having to worry about additional costs." What is Yammer?Yammer offers businesses a private social networking platform. With an interface similar to Facebook's, the system, which is used by more than 200,000 companies, allows workers to privately collaborate, share content and communicate with one another. Microsoft made Yammer available to all Enterprise customers in November. In 2012, Microsoft purchased Yammer for $1.2 billion, roughly four years after David Sacks, a former PayPal executive, launched the social networking company. |
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