Your iPad just became a real work tool

Today, Alfresco has announced that Alfresco Mobile 1.2 (for iPhone and iPad) is available immediately in the app store.  Feel free to read the press release and go ahead and download the new apps.  But let me sum this news up for your:  Alfresco Mobile is the FIRST mobile enterprise content app with the ability to edit office documents on the fly and “save back” your changes to the repository as a new version.  All with a few simple clicks.  Documentum doesn’t have this.  OpenText doesn’t have this.  Box.net doesn’t have this.  In fact, nobody else has it.

In order to get this done, we worked closely with our partner Quickoffice, the company behind the leading mobile office productivity apps in the Apple App Store (#1 all time paid business apps).  Here’s how it works:  when you open the Alfresco mobile app and find the document you want to edit, you simply click “open in” Quickoffice.  Your document opens up in Quickoffice, where you can make changes like you would in any other productivity app.  Then, when you are finished, you click “Save Back” to Alfresco.  Your document re-opens automatically in Alfresco and magically saves itself as a minor version (1.1, for example) back into Alfresco.  As always, you can revert back to the previous version if you ever need to.

Basically, with Alfresco Mobile 1.2 and Quickoffice, I can now directly edit documents that I have permission to in the repository, saving me time and useless steps (download, check-out, etc.).

Oh, and one more thing:  Alfresco Mobile 1.2 now supports multiple Alfresco repositories right from the user interface… including the (almost here!) Alfresco Cloud.  Special thanks, as always, to our mobile development partner and Alfresco Platinum Partner Zia Consulting for their partnership on Alfresco Mobile.

Tagged as: content collaboration, content creation, edit, mobile, open source, quickoffice, tablet, zia