Applications

While the built-in Apps provide solutions for email access, calendaring and other basic tasks, the true power of iPad comes from the strength of third party developers whose apps push its capabilities much further. With over 65,000 apps specifically designed fro the iPad, and hundreds of thousands built for iOS, there are plenty of options to pick from to find exactly the apps that meet your workflow needs.

Navigating the universe of apps available for the iPad can be a daunting challenge, however, and picking the right one that fits your and your organization can be a time consuming task. The Foundation can help select applications and ancillary products to tightly integrate the iPad into your workflow, and if one doesn’t yet exist, work with you to build a custom application that suits your needs perfectly.

Application Management

iPad is an entirely new frontier of business technology, and new management techniques need to be implemented to handle company-owned software assets effectively. Since iPad can be a very personal piece of technology, employees issued company-owned iPads are likely to want to purchase apps to enhance their own productivity and find new ways to make iPad an even more potent business tool. Depending on your company’s intended use for your iPads, new challenges can arise that make effective management of apps somewhat challenging. We can work with you to build a comprehensive management strategy that works within your business’s financial requirements to provide the necessary tools, but can also empower your users to make their own purchasing decisions and app choices outside of defined business needs.

Custom Apps

While the massive expanse of apps to choose from fit many horizontal and vertical needs, there may not be an app that works exactly the way you’d like. Developing a custom app is an option and we are able to assist in designing, building and deploying your app.

Web Apps

The easiest way to create custom software for the iPad is to build a HTML5 website to run inside of Safari. While it may seem like ‘just a website’, these web apps can offer a native user experience, encrypted communication and even local storage to build powerful, full featured web apps with industry standard technologies like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.

Native in house

Native apps can harness the complete power of iPad and its unique capabilities can be fully leveraged with a custom native app. Native apps are built in Objective-C, but can utilize existing C and C++ codebases through Xcode to bring a native app online as quickly as possible. Thousands of APIs are at your disposal in a native app like camera access, gyroscope data, GPS location data, and many more. We can build your custom app from the ground up to suit your needs, help manage the distribution process for an app coded by your company, or offer consulting services for app development to guide you through the process. Once created, your custom apps can live in a private “Corporate App Store” where The Foundation or your company can have complete control over updates, distribution and access.