With the newest OfficeDrop update you can now see deleted files in the “trash” and restore files from the trash to you inbox!
Basically, if you click on the “Trash” you see in the top left of the new OfficeDrop web application you’ll see the files that you’ve deleted. You can either permanently delete them or restore them from the trash using the arrow drop down next to each file.
Hello OfficeDrop users! There is a major update to the OfficeDrop user interface and backend that was pushed to your accounts late last night! We are very excited about these changes, and we think they will make your online cloud storage experience even better.
Here is a three minute video that will walk you through some of the major updates to the application.
In addition to the updates to the user interface here are some important updates that you’ll notice:
Please contact our help if you come across any issues or if you have questions. We hope that you love the new improvements as much as we do!
So, anyone who’s read our blog recently knows we are excited about tablets. iPads, Amazon Kindle thingys, random Motorola devices that less than 5 people bought… we’ve got a lot of tablets.
Our CEO is a bit of a tablet nut. Or nerd. He’s written about how your small business needs a tablet. And we have funny pictures of him trying to use accessories to type on his iPad.
But it turns out that maybe we are onto something here. AllthingsD is reporting about how 93% of enterprise CIOs have interest in getting tablets into their enterprises. And from the following chart, it appears that something like 75% are already experimenting with tablets or have adopted them in some capacity.
So, now that big businesses are getting into the tablet game it’s time for small businesses to take advantage of the power of super mobile computer goodness that tablets offer. And once your small business had that new iPad, get the OfficeDrop iPad app to manage your documents on the fly!
OfficeDrop was on WBUR, a Boston area NPR station this morning! The piece was about startup real estate in Kendall Square, the leading innovation district in Boston.
I (Healy Jones) am interviewed by well known NPR reporter Curt Nickish about our quest to find new office space. OfficeDrop is growing, and we are striking deals with large companies, so we want to move into better digs.
The piece pokes a little fun at our dog-centric culture, and is a good listen to anyone who knows the Boston startup ecosystem.
PCWorld has a slideshow showcasing 20 apps that make great use of the cloud – and OfficeDrop is on the list! Click through to the 20th to see an image of the OfficeDrop iPad paper app and read what PCWorld has to say.
The article says:
“Why You Need It: This digital filing system handles any kind of paperwork. Imagine you’re at a business lunch, and you take notes on a napkin. With your iPhone, Android handset, or iPad camera, you can scan your napkin scribbles, a paper contract that someone else at the table needs you to sign, and the receipt for your meal.
OfficeDrop saves them all to the cloud as PDF files that are instantly searchable. While you sit there, you can share everything with your assistant back at the office.”
The press is starting to understand something that we’ve known here for a while at OfficeDrop – Mobile and Cloud Computing go hand in hand. Check out this chart on top reasons for an enterprise to adopt a cloud strategy:
Why Adopt Cloud Computing
Mobile is the top reason enterprises are moving applications to cloud computing platforms.
We’ve seen this here at OfficeDrop, with the success of our mobile applications and the huge engagement we get with our cloud connected mobile apps like the OfficeDrop iPhone PDF app and our Android scanner app. If you don’t have them yet, you should download them now – they are free and come with your OfficeDrop online cloud account – with both the paid or free accounts!
The article says, “With the increasing number and diversity of mobile computing devices, which have much less on-board storage than traditional end-user computing environments, there is a shift toward moving much of the functionality of an app into a centralized environment, like a cloud. This allows storage, computation, data access, security and management to all be handled in a centralized fashion.”
In other words, the cloud and mobile computing go hand in hand, where the mobile device can simply access the large amounts of data stored in the cloud at anytime, from anywhere.
Another great piece of information in the article comes from ABI research, who suggest that “240 million business customers will access cloud-computing services via mobile devices by 2015 and that number could approach a billion.”
The article goes on to talk about the difference between native mobile apps and cloud connected apps – “But applications that run on mobile devices are often limited in functionality and are generally not business-class applications; it’s very rare to find native smartphone apps used as serious front ends for database queries, for instance.
In contrast, mobile cloud computing applications run on servers that reside in the cloud. Application data also lives in the cloud and results are fed back to the mobile device via an over-the-air network such as 3G or 4G. Users access apps and data via the browser on their mobile devices.”
You should visit the Computerworld to read the entire piece here.
OfficeDrop iPad lover & cloud computing expert (and CEO) Prasad Thammineni was highly featured in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal in an article on the Steve Jobs Biography. The article starts with, “Prasad Thammineni, the chief executive of a file-sharing start-up called OfficeDrop in Cambridge, Mass., was no fan of Steve Jobs after Apple took a long time adding one of the company’s apps to its iTunes Store. But as he read the hefty biography “Steve Jobs,” the 42-year-old Mr. Thammineni found himself buying into many of the Apple co-founder’s management ideas.”
Appearing on the first page of the Management section of the WSJ, the article is a lot of fun. It highlights many of the take-aways that other CEOs have gleamed from the Jobs biography, including things like mastering communication among the team, motivating employees, and seeking perfection.
Thankfully, Prasad does not take the Steve Jobs emulation to the extreme highlighted by some of the CEOs in the article! It’s a fun read and worth checking out.
OfficeDrop is a CODiES 2012 finalist in the Document Management Category! This is big news!
The CODiEs are a very prestigious award presented by the Software and Information Industry Association that require a demo and testing by qualified judges. In the words of the SIIA: “The SIIA CODiE Awards recognize excellence in the business software, digital content, and education technology industries. All nominated products and services receive a thorough review from seasoned industry experts who can identify strengths and give significant insights for improvements.”
We are really happy that the judges liked our vision for helping small businesses manage their documents in the cloud. Our app strategy resonated with them, and the commitment to keeping our apps updated was also an important factor.
Wish us luck in this great competition.
OfficeDrop Android App
Last week saw updates to OfficeDrop’s mobile apps – both the android and the iOS apps. These updates fixed various bugs and have a few performance improvements. For the OfficeDrop iPhone app, there is now a better on-boarding to scanning process for new users. Existing users won’t see a change with this.
Android users, click here to the get OfficeDrop Anroid app.
iPhone and iPad users, click here to get the OfficeDrop iPhone and iPad apps.
Or get the Android app in the app store by scanning the QR code below. (Yup, the obligatory Android QR code!
OfficeDrop Android QR Code
You can also learn more about OfficeDrop’s mobile applications by visiting our site’s web pages on the apps.
Learn more the OfficeDrop android scanner app – the app that turns your phone into a scanner.
Learn more about the OfficeDrop iPhone PDF app here.
Gartner is predicting that everyone has a “personal cloud” by 2014. That’s pretty soon, but the idea is very interesting. At OfficeDrop, we see a huge drive toward small businesses using the cloud more and more, and agree with a few of the key themes from Gartner’s thesis (the following are quotes from the piece, followed by our commentary):
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