
Business Tools for iPhone
Jonny Evans, MacworldThursday, January 31, 2008 9:05 AM PST
HyperOffice has launched a public trial of its
business collaboration tools that connect the
iPhone to corporate email, contacts, calendars, tasks and notes.
The collaboration tools are built into HyperOffice and operate as an
alternative to Microsoft Exchange. HyperOffice
synchronizes the iPhone email client with Microsoft Outlook,
giving business users wireless access to secure corporate messaging and
collaboration services. The public beta includes a 30-day free trial of
HyperOffice.
"People really want to use the
iPhone as a business tool,"
said Farzin Arsanjani, president of HyperOffice. "You can't do that
until you solve two problems. First, it is difficult for the large
enterprise to deploy the iPhone to corporate road warriors without
native support for Microsoft Exchange," said Arsanjani.
"Second, if you are using Outlook to run and grow your business, how do you begin
sharing calendars, contacts, documents and tasks - not just email - without Exchange, especially when the iPhone does not work with Exchange?
"These are the two stumbling blocks that HyperOffice removes."
The developer's HyperShare is a gateway tool built into HyperOffice, iPhone users can continue to use Outlook, but
share calendars, contacts, documents and tasks - both with and without Microsoft Exchange.
Web
application HyperShare is a one-time download to the desktop. It
migrates Outlook contacts, calendars and email folders, then
automatically delivers email to the email application built into the
iPhone, replies and new messages are relayed back to Outlook or to the
corporate Exchange server.