New VMware iPad apps: SlideRocket Player, Socialcast
Posted by: Colin Steele
VMware
The portfolio of VMware iPad apps is growing.
VMware today announced new iPad apps for SlideRocket and Socialcast, two services the company acquired earlier this year. SlideRocket is a hosted presentation application similar to Microsoft PowerPoint, and Socialcast is a collaboration platform designed to bring social aspects to enterprise computing.
The free SlideRocket Player iPad app lets you view and download SlideRocket and PowerPoint presentations, and it provides analytics about who else has viewed your shared presentations. With the Socialcast iPad app, which is not yet available, Socialcast users can update their status, send messages and share files even when they’re not at their desk. (VMware also plans to update the Socialcast Android app to include the same features.)
The big caveat here is that VMware’s offerings have to be better and easier to use than unsanctioned cloud services. IT’s blessing doesn’t matter to employees. They’re going to use whatever tools make them most efficient. And if VMware’s tools don’t do that, they’ll never get off the ground.
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