Android has seen astounding growth in both the consumer and enterprise
markets, but the iPhone and BlackBerry have dominated
enterprise-specific app development. That may be starting to change.
Today Box.net released its cloud storage app for Android, and other
enterprise-focused apps have been released recently as well. Given the
enterprise interest in the iPad and the fact that several Android
tablets are supposedly just around the corner, we could start seeing
more enterprise Android development. Here are a few apps that are
available now.
One interesting trend to note: many of the clients for enterprise apps
are actually created by third party companies.
Box.net and Dropbox
The newest of the bunch, Box.net just released its native Android
application to the Android Marketplace today. Box.net has had an
iPhone version available for some time now, so an Android app is a
welcome addition. Box.net competitor Dropbox was an Android early
adopter.
QuickOffice and ThinkOffice
Mobile office suites QuickOffice and ThinkOffice both offer Android
apps and enterprise licensing.
CRM Clients
Several third party companies have released Android apps for major CRM
platforms, including:
MintFly Salesforce - a Salesforce.com client from MintFly. This has
gotten poor reviews.
Mobile CRM+ MS CRM - a client for Microsoft Dynamics. There have been
very few downloads and no reviews of this rather expensive ($99) app.
OnTheGo Sage SalesLogix CRM a Sage client from Net@Work. There are
have been no reviews and very few downloads of this app.
RhoLogic SugarCRM a SugarCRM client built with Rhodes by RhoLogic.
Citrix Receiver
Citrix has been one of the most enthusiastic supporters of enterprise
mobility, quickly releasing clients for major mobile operating
systems. Citrix Receiver is a XenApp and XenDesktop client.
Confluence and JIRA
NIC Labs publishes Mini Confluence Enterprise, a plugin for
Atlassian's enterprise wiki Confluence that enables mobile access. NIC
Labs has also released an Android app for accessing Confluence on the
go, but it requires the plugin.
There are at least three third party Android apps for Atlassian's JIRA
bug tracking platform:
Bugbox for JIRA
Open Jira
Pocket JIRA
Others
MangoSpring is ahead of the enterprise collaboration pack with its
MangoSpring Mobile for Android app - beating competitors like Chatter
and Jive to market. We covered MangoSpring here and here previously.
Yammer, the enterprise microblogging platform, is also an early
entrant to enterprise Android applications.
The popular SaaS help desk Zendesk has released a Android app.
What Else? And What Do You Use?
What apps did we miss? Which enterprise apps do you use?
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