SNAPPS (http://www.snapps.com), 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 has 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, says Rob Novak, president of SNAPPS.
SnappFiles is available 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.