Apple and IBM Unveil 10 New Enterprise Apps For iPad, iPhone And Apple Watch

Apple and IBM unveiled 10 new enterprise apps that would suit the needs of various industries that include tools for business travelers, government inspectors and service professionals on July 21. With these new apps, the number of iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch apps built for the enterprise sector under Apple and IBM partnership has totalled to 32.

Last year, in July, both the companies announced that they were working together to build apps that would suit the needs of various business verticals like healthcare, retail, insurance. Besides that, IBM had also revealed that it would sell and support Apple hardware, reports PC World. Apple and IBM rolled out the first 10 apps in December last year, after which it came up with the next set of apps in March and April.

The latest enterprise apps unveiled are enlisted below:

Shift Track for Managers: According to Tech Times, this iPad app includes intuitive dashboards and powerful analytics, which makes the scheduling and staffing tasks easier for managers. With this app, managers can remain updated with shift exceptions, time-off requests, staff schedules and employee hours.

Shift Sync for Employees: With this app for Apple Watch and iPhone, employees can interact with the intuitive dashboard and view their schedules, request holidays, decline or accept schedule changes. Besides that, employees can also keep note of their paid time off and sick leave.

Travel Plan for Business Travelers: This app allows users to plan their business trips with a lot of ease as the powerful analytics in the app scrutinizes the user’s calendar events and identifies frequent destinations and trip suggestions, besides recommending personalized travel plans.

Travel Track for Business Travelers: The Apple Watch and iPhone app integrates flight itineraries with local services. The app’s strong analytics connects and detects people traveling in a user's group.

Loan Advise for Mortgage Officers: The iPad app allows mortgage officers to collect information about their clients instantly. Besides that, it also offers precise product recommendations, making it easier for borrowers in appropriate selection and application for mortgages.

Loan Track for Mortgage Officers: This iPhone app allows mortgage officers to get a quick idea about the loans that are under process and the tasks that are required to complete a loan application. With this app, borrowers can get instant updates on any changes to their application status via email, text or instant message.

Expert Resolve For Field Service Professionals: The iPad app helps service professionals to resolve issue quickly. This app shows existing problems to the field professionals and also suggests ways to fix the problems based on similar historical cases.

Asset Inspect for Field Technicians: The iPhone app enables asset maintenance and inspections safe, fast and efficient by using predictive analytics that prioritizes probable cause scenarios for the technicians. With this app, field technicians can understand the problems easily as they immediately get access to manuals, work history and specifications.

Safe Site for Foremen: This app for iPhones allows foremen to describe a situation, document and broadcast unsafe conditions instantly with the help of cameras and microphones on the iPhone. Site managers can address the problems immediately. With the app, alerts can also be shared with nearby employees.

Field Inspect for Government Inspectors: The iPad app facilitiates necessary data required for specific inspection by government inspectors. With this app, inspectors can reach the correct government agency.

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