
Taking the native app route, Workday recently launched an iPad app and updated its iPhone app. I had a chance to take a look at the iPad app (disclosure, Workday provided iPads preloaded with the app for evaluation) at the recent Workday analyst tech summit just prior to Dreamforce. The new app includes:
“Organizational Swirl” – lets users navigate organizational hierarchies and drill into employee profiles to view job info, talent info, job history and compensation history.
“Workfeed” – Workday’s version of an activity stream that includes alerts and approvals
- “Real time business intelligence” – real time reports and analytics that support workforce planning, compensation management, financial management and talent management including drill down capabilities.
- Google maps integration that provides employee work locations
The app makes good use of the rich visual interface of the iPad, particularly in it’s drill down capabilities. In the updated iPhone app Workday added the ability to capture receipts with the iPhone camera. For all mobile apps Workday extended its SAML framework which makes authentication consistent across all Workday clients.
Box.net is taking a hybrid approach to enterprise mobile with both some native device support and web apps. In August Box added a native Android app optimized for tablets, an app for RIM’s Playbook and a HTML5 mobile web app, m.box.net. These solutions add to already released iPad, iPhone and TouchPad apps, and provide a mobile portfolio that covers all existing mobile OS’s.
Overall these three vendors are providing mobile access to a much broader set of functionality than ever before. In the case of Salesforce.com it is a significant improvement over its existing iPhone, Android and Blackberry apps, which have a very limited feature set. If vendors want to get wide enterprise use they have to find an approach that provides most laptop functionality optimized for the specific mobile experience. More and more workers want to have the ability to use and access enterprise resources from a diverse set of mobile devices. The tablets are particularly good at displaying and interacting with data, so are proving to be in high demand among executives as full information systems. This of course is dependent on more and more robust real time business analytics, optimized for the tablet experience. Expect to see more vendors taking advantage of those unique display and analysis capabilities as well as increasing features and functions to match much of the full client experience.
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