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Must-have apps to stay productive while on-the-go
Businesses are becoming more mobile with increased cross-country team collaboration. So it is important that companies maintain productivity by making sure employees can access documents anytime, anywhere.
Many businesses are expected to be on the ball at any given time and place. But what does it mean when it comes to collaborating effectively, efficiently and in real-time? Here's a look at various apps that will do the job.
Making collaboration easier
Powered by Google Apps for Work (now known as G Suite), ONEOffice is a web-based office solution that boosts productivity with email, calendar, documents including slides, sheets and forms, sites, eSMS and eFax services.
When multiple people are revising the same document, such as contracts or proposals, it is easy to end up with multiple iterations of the one file, slowing down the collaborative process. ONEOffice Doc files are shared as a link to access the file instantly rather than an attachment, ensuring that team members are consistently working within the one file, while also saving email space and bandwidth. Project teams or departments can also keep their members in-the-loop of business information and events with ONEOffice sites, a secured team-specific intranet sites..
Working anytime, anywhere
Many SMEs often have to handle their office needs on-the-go whether it is with scheduling, communication or even real-time collaboration. The easy to use Office 365 suite of solutions makes this process a lot easier for users.
For jobs that see employees constantly working on-the-go, significant time is lost getting from one place to another. With 1TB of space in the cloud to store, backup and easily share files, staff are no longer limited to accessing and editing documents on their computers, but can now work on the same file on their mobile devices while on the move. More importantly, Office 365 gives you added security especially when your laptop fails. As it is a cloud platform, it readily backs up the data ensuring that you can work on it again from where you left.
Employees will also find that working anywhere is much easier to handle video and audio conference calls because Office 365 includes Skype for Business.
Eliminating the need for external drives
Launched in June in 2014, Google Drive for Work offers the familiar storage, sync and share experience of Google Drive with some extra elements to meet business needs.
One of the best features about Google Drive for Work is the unlimited email and document storage. This is especially useful if employees are on the move or travelling. There is no need to worry about bringing along external drives that could be easily lost or corrupt as everything is backed up on Google Drive for Work.
So wherever work may take you, these apps will best suits your business needs and offer more features that will benefit you in your job:
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ONEOffice is thrifty with its memory space, easing collaboration by sharing links to files that will ensure the same file is amended when there are multiple stakeholders
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Microsoft Office 365 makes the familiar Microsoft suite accessible at all times, with multiple communication tools for seamless communication
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Google Drive for Work gives users unlimited storage and therefore eliminates the need for external drives to hold important documents.