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Five productivity apps to make the BYOD experience more productive

Are you bringing your own devices into work with you? What apps have you found useful?

Great insight into useful apps for the BYOD space. We've found a lot more of our clients using a BYOD model for their IT and deploying our software on a variety of devices so its good that this is being highlighted further as i can only see it growing further.

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I always look for app that will help my at work or on a job. Anyone have any more ideas? i use a lot of these now. If you were to bring a device to work would you rather bring a smartphone or tablet?

This list is great but most of these apps are missing a holistic approach. I want to work on my devices, iPads, whatever, but also laptops and wherever I am. Plus, I need to be plugged into my business systems. A complete platform like Nivio (nivio.com) makes your work desktop available on any device, so you can have fully functional MS Office on your Mac, or iPad or Chromebook.

LightArrow, Inc. has built a complete organization app for iPhone / iPad that I believe you will find useful for BYOD. If you want to manage your entire schedule, tasks, and to-dos (both personal and business) in one place on your tablet or iphone, LifeTopix is ideal. LifeTopix brings in Evernote, Dropbox, Google Docs/Drive, Google Tasks, Toodledo Tasks and Notes, and Asana Tasks into this single organization app covering 12 life topics. More at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lifetopix/id399076264?mt=8

Well I have an office app that works pretty well called Office2 (squared), sorry I couldn't put a superscript in your comment editor that cost $5.99. There are a few minor problems with it so I am always in the market for a better one, especially if it is free. This is the second such app that I have seen previewed on a tech website, I think both were tech republic. So far though the online recommendations are 0 for 2. The other app Documents just doesn't work well, even the $.99 version, the free one of course was worse. As for Kingsoft Office, well since all of the fields on the screen that comes up are apparently in Japanese I really didn't get a chance to test it much. iOS 6 on an iPhone 4s BTW. I don't think I'll bother with any of the other apps you list as being sooo productive.

By an alternative definition, BYOD, does mean "bring your own disaster." Just the mechanisms involved--both hardware and software almost ensures the alternative definition.

These are all great apps! One more for the list Notability which has handwriting, PDF annotation, typing and recording features.

I'm a sales rep and we recently started working with iPads. Right now, the most important app that my company is using is a sales rep app (www.wrnty.com) which made the sales process drastically more efficient in addition, after reading this, we also went ahead and purchased Touchdown (we were using Outlook before). Thanks for the great app advice Jack!