Google Finally Releases A Native Android App For Google Docs (GOOG)

Google has introduced an Android app that will let users access and edit documents stored in Google Docs.

The app -- which is not available on any other platform -- could help Google leverage Android's popularity to sell its online services to businesses. Earlier this month, Google added several other services that connect the platforms, including an Android contacts lookup app that works with Gmail.

It also shows how Google is hedging its bets when it comes to the "native vs. Web" debate for mobile apps. Previously, the only way to edit Google Docs (and spreadsheets) was through a mobile browser-based interface. But native apps tend to offer a better experience for users, and a lot of new companies building mobile services are focusing on native apps first.

The new app lets you search for documents across multiple Google accounts or open them directly from Gmail, then edit them right on the screen and share them with other Google contacts.

However, editing only works with Google Docs-formatted files. Users can view Office documents and PDF files by uploading them to Google Docs first -- but won't be able to edit them unless they convert them.

The app also lets you take pictures of text and automatically convert them into a Google document using optical-character recognition.

More info about the app, including a QR code that lets you download it directly to your Android phone, is available on Google's enterprise blog.

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Groupon Releases A Mobile App For Merchants To Handle Redemptions

Groupon has developed a mobile app for merchants to handle redeeming and tracking deals sold on the site, the company just announced.

The app, available for free in the Android Market, and soon in the iTunes App Store, will let merchants scan Groupons from mobile devices, and to track their promotions' performance in realtime. Groupon says it will send out thousands of Android phones and iPod Touches with the app preloaded, to make handling Groupons as simple as possible.

Training merchants is a serious issue for daily deal sites. When staff at a restaurant aren't prepared for a Groupon and don't know how to handle it, users get angry. Small business owners aren't always all that tech-savvy, so creating an app and shipping them devices to walk them through it all makes a lot of sense.

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Accounting in the Post-PC Era: ADP Releases Mobile Payroll App

Chalk another one up for the post-PC era: ADP recently launched RUN, a slick-looking mobile version of its popular payroll application. The app integrates with the desktop version of ADP's software and enables fiscal staff to: review and enter payroll, edit hours and pay rates, manage direct deposits, enter vacation and other time off, calculate taxes and more. Interestingly, ADP chose to release this for iOS before BlackBerry, but ADP is planning BlackBerry and Android versions by the end of the year. The free app may herald the future of enterprise computing dominated by mobile applications instead of desktop software.

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Matthew McKenzie at Enterprise Efficiency points to an IBM survey that found that the majority of the 2,000 enterprise IT professionals responding thought "within the next five years, more developers will be working on mobile applications and cloud-based architecture than traditional computing platforms for enterprise."

McKenzie notes, "It's not a group I would consider vulnerable to hype-mongering, especially when this is the sort of trend that promises to turn their careers upside down in a very short time."

Forrester reported recently that business tasks other than e-mail, contacts and calendar are still fairly rare on mobile devices. But we're seeing more and more specialized software coming to mobiles. For example, LeapFactor's SAP-based expense approval app. The new mobile version of Adobe's LiveCycle is also geared towards created simple, mobile apps for common business tasks like expense approval.

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