Workshare To Give Away iPad 2 at Legal Tech New York
Legal Tech New York attendees should be sure to stop by the Workshare booth (#124) to see the latest product innovations for document comparison, metadata removal, PDF and SharePoint. Workshare Point version 1.2, will be on display. See how the solution supports Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010. The latest release also enhances access to Microsoft's FAST search functionality which is easily accessible in Outlook and the Workshare Point user interface. Attendees who stop by the Workshare booth may enter their name into a drawing for an iPad 2.
Workshare Online Update by Chia Ling
I am the product manager for our forthcoming cloud solution and was pleased to see the recent blog by PeninsuLawyer about the comparison functionality we’ve been working on. They raise an interesting question about our plans to make the platform available on iPhones and tablets.
Here at Workshare we’re very conscious that the world of tablet devices has moved on considerably in the past twelve months. It’s amazing to think your neighbour, grandmother, five year old child and, of course, you have all probably had their hands on an iPad.
After using an iPad myself for the past couple of years there are three conclusions I have made about using it in a business environment.
One is that the iPad, or more generally tablet devices, are here to stay. We have seen an entire ecosystem of business software and peripherals built around these tablets and there are no signs of the momentum slowing down. This means better and more ways we can all try to be productive with these devices no matter that my screen shows more game apps.
Secondly, it is nearly impossible to be a touch typist with an iPad. What this really says is that trying to edit a document or write a document with a glass surface for a keyboard is not the most productive way to work and may never be. Yes it is possible, and some of you might even be able to hammer out 100 words per minute. Others have perhaps experimented with foldable keyboard but for the majority either way is an exercise in frustration. One way of looking at this is that software vendors have to accept users as having only two fingers rather than ten when designing the interface into their applications. Short cuts, gestures and voice shouldn’t be used just to complement a keyboard, but where appropriate replace them.
Lastly, our apparent addiction to tablets may mean shortcomings of the various input methods are simply accepted. Typing with a full keyboard may take five minutes compared with 15 minutes using the iPad (damn the autocorrect!) but I can do it walking the dog, on the treadmill or maybe some of you have even typed it skydiving. Try doing that with a laptop!
I am pleased to read that the PeninsuLawyer thinks Workshare Online on an iPad would be useful. This is the start of Workshare’s cloud solutions and we will continue to address how users want to compare and review their documents on their chosen devices.
By Guest Blogger: Workshare
