SharePoint’s Mobility Pains Repaired by Third-Party Apps

In this highly modern world of technology, workforce is always on the go like closing deals, taking important calls, preparing presentations and more. These days, it becomes extremely common to work remotely from mobile devices as most of the employees expect access to their most serious business applications from anywhere on any device.

Recently as per the Gartner, the worldwide tablet sales has reached 195.4 million units in 2013, and the taking on of tablets in the enterprise is set to missile, so all the businesses need to be prepared themselves. According to an AIIM Market Intelligence Report, 45% of organizations cite mobile access to content as an important business function while lots of consumers are still driving force behind tablet purchases.

Today’s businesses have invested lots of money in SharePoint so that they can allow employees to work better together. When it comes to talk about the SharePoint, it is an extensive technology within the enterprise.

Frequently, it is quite difficult for employees, who are outside from the company firewall, to access and show the content that they want for any work, so SharePoint is central store for storing all these stuffs. Moreover, businesses also need to expand the functionalities of SharePoint to mobile as it allows to third-party integration to solve their mobile growing pains.

SharePoint Mobility – Space for Enhancement

Recently, Seismic, the most popular enterprise mobile content management solution, conducted a survey of the 2014 SharePoint Conference global attendees. Approximately 30% of business professionals believe that mobile capabilities will drive the adoption of SharePoint that revealed by the findings.

There are lots of SharePoint users, who are accessing the CMS through computers, tablets and smart-phones as they are constantly experiencing pain points with mobile. However, the major problem to access SharePoint on mobile devices includes:

• Lack of an official SharePoint app
  
  
• Difficulty editing fields and navigating content
  
  
• Trouble getting internet access
  
  
• Inability to populate content with SharePoint data
  
  

When it asked to majority of people that if tablets will be used for SharePoint in more business functions in 2014 or not, most of the people said yes. So, we can say that tablet is the most important for delivering a differentiated customer experience.

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