NewsGator Unveils iPhone and iPad Clients for Microsoft SharePoint
NewsGator, the company making SharePoint social, today released two new important Enterprise 2.0 tools: SharePoint’s first native social iPhone client and social computing’s most sophisticated microblogging suite.
The iPhone client, and a companion client for the soon-to-be-released iPad, provide on-the-road users with direct access to their enterprise social computing environments without the need for a browser, an extra layer of software that can complicate a work session. As a mobile client for NewsGator Social Sites, the social computing environment most deeply integrated into the SharePoint collaboration platform, the iPhone client accesses all the relevant updates from the user’s colleagues and communities.
For the first time, mobile users can use an iPhone to:
- send status updates, videos and photos to Social Sites;
- comment on and “like” valuable updates;
- see notifications when others comment on or like your updates;
- participate in community discussions;
- target a question to a person or group;
- see the updates that you’re radiating to others;
- view updates from a specific colleague or community;
- look up contact info for colleagues;
- and more.
NewsGator will release the native iPad client for Social Sites with all of these capabilities when the new tablet device hits the market this spring.
A more powerful brand of microblogging
Microblogging is more than just tweeting ideas into the ether in hopes that someone benefits. That’s why NewsGator has fully integrated microblogging into its comprehensive social computing environment. Integrating personal status updates with automated streaming of enterprise activities addresses the strong preference for microblogging in context: By 2012, more than 50 percent of enterprises will use activity streams that include microblogging, but stand-alone enterprise microblogging will have less than 5 percent penetration, according to the Gartner research firm.
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