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Here's the full text of the Press
Release we issued earlier today,
and is making its way across the Apple and Web-centric online publications.
Those who have been following me on Twitter
have heard about the soft launch after Lotusphere, this is the official
release of SnappFiles, the story of how it was born and an announcement
of support for Filenet P8 ECM in addition to both flavors of Lotus Quickr!
Oh yeah, and it's free. More coming soon (Monday and Tuesday)...
SNAPPS and IBM Work Together to Bring
IBM Lotus Quickr and Enterprise Content Management Products to iPhone,
iPod Touch and iPad
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- SNAPPS, a
long-time IBM Advanced Business Partner and new Apple Development Partner,
identified an opportunity for synergy between the enterprise business software
giant IBM and the hip, cool consumer-focused Apple and decided to actively
link them together. The first offering, SnappFiles, demonstrated by IBM
at MacWorld in San Francisco last week, is a free app available on the
Apple App Store that delivers secure access to and collaboration on corporate
documents stored in IBM Lotus Quickr or Filenet P8 ECM systems. With work
underway to support other IBM ECM systems such as IBM Content Manager and
Lotus Connections Files next month, SnappFiles is designed to be a single
point of entry into corporate document management systems.
"We've designed complex business systems, workflows,
and critical customer-facing applications in our tenure working with IBM
products," said Rob Novak, president of SNAPPS. "Bringing these
processes outside the corporate firewall and into the hands of Apple customers
is a natural progression. We have several applications in development,
and plan to bring our years of experience to bear on real business solutions
for Apple customers."
Inspiration for SnappFiles came from the most unlikely
place - unless you happen to have a teenager. Novak explains: "I was
helping my 14-year-old son set up his new iPod touch six months ago and
noticed he had a mesmerizing game called Paper Toss - the objective of
which is to toss a crumpled piece of paper into an office trash bin. It
occurred to me that if you could throw away paper on this cool device,
why couldn't you retrieve documents securely?" The next day, SNAPPS
joined the Apple Developer Program and started work on SnappFiles. Work
on an iPad-optimized version is underway, since the form factor of the
iPad will, according to Novak, make "corporate document management
the killer business app for the iPad."
"SNAPPS' work with our open APIs has produced some
very timely and astounding results for the iPhone and iPod touch,"
said Jeff Schick, Vice President of Social Software, IBM Lotus. "We're
convinced that IBM's social software solutions and SNAPPS' innovation will
produce some impressive apps for all the Apple devices."
SnappFiles is available now in the Apple App Store, free
of charge. A professional version with enhanced capabilities is in the
works, as are several other apps linking IBM's Lotus software to Apple
devices. SNAPPS also develops custom solutions for Lotus Quickr applications
and makes free templates available. For more information about SnappFiles,
visit http://snappfiles.snapps.com,
and for information about SNAPPS, visit http://www.snapps.com.
About SNAPPS
SNAPPS, an IBM Business Partner since 1997, has long focused
on high-end collaboration strategy, development, and education. The company
has advised progressive-thinking enterprises on deployment and design of
collaborative business processes. SnappFiles is the first of many planned
efforts to empower iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users with access to their
business resources.
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