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Many mobile apps let users add material to the app’s database. Think notes apps, reminder apps, or photo albums, for example. Can you do this with ViziApps? Yes.

I took advantage of this capability for an app that listed BBQ restaurants around Austin, TX, which I created for a conference in the Texas capital. I started with a list of restaurants in the database, in a Google Docs spreadsheet. Conference attendees could list the restaurants by name or city by tapping the appropriate button on the app page. Then, assuming that no Texan would trust a Yankee’s assessment of BBQ restaurants, I added a social media element that let attendees add their own listings. How did it work?
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Charles Carroll Financial Partners, which manages over $30 million in assets, selected the ViziApps online tool over other mobile development solutions because of its simple, straightforward design process.  The iPad app Charles Carroll created with ViziApps eliminates the need to carry a large set of documents to client meetings. In this way, it has streamlined business processes to the point where employees no longer rely on a paper-based approach to opening and closing discretionary management accounts.
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According to just-published survey results from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) “56 percent of Americans believe that technology has made it easier to spend money and only three out of 100 say it has made it easier to save.”

Perhaps that 3 percent was thinking about mobile apps designed to help you save money when you spend.
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Check out the new video in the ViziApps Studio. It will help you get a jump on your mobile business app.

First, sign up for a free ViziApps account (or log into your account), then set aside about 90 seconds to watch our Quick Start video. In the time it will take you to read this blog post, you’ll see how easily you can create an eye-catching mobile app for your business.
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According to a new IDC report, Worldwide Mobile Worker Population 2011-2015 Forecast, we can expect the global workforce to become increasingly mobile in the coming years.

“Our forecast shows that the worldwide mobile worker population will increase from just over 1 billion in 2010 to more than 1.3 billion by 2015,” said Stacy Crook, senior research analyst for IDC’s Mobile Enterprise Research program.
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Professional Investment Advisors are looking to mobile apps as a way to deepen connections with clients. They are also employing them to showcase their brands, with current clients, as well as prospects.

In a recent article in RIA Biz magazine (a publication for registered financial advisors), Bill Hayes, principal of Charles Carroll Financial Partners, described the ViziApps-built iPad application he uses to work more efficiently. Now, instead of carrying around lots of paper, Hayes uses the app to access the various types of documents that his clients need to complete or review and approve when he meets with them.
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Realtors have always been part of the mobile workforce. Checking out new property listings, hosting open houses, and meeting with prospective home and office buyers and renters are just some of the activities that keep realtors on the road.

To help address the challenges of managing a realty business for people who sometimes spend more time in their cars than in their offices, ViziApps has created a template that makes it easy to build a mobile app designed especially for this market.  Providing a drag-and-drop approach to designing and creating mobile business applications, ViziApps lets realtors quickly and easily build a custom mobile app they can carry everywhere – on an iPad, iPhone or Android device.
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The Real-time Electronic Access for Caregivers and the Homeless (REACH) Challenge will award a $25,000 grand prize for a mobile app for smartphones and tablets that can help the homeless, as well as caregivers and caseworkers who serve them, locate resources in their communities. In addition, the top five finalists will each receive $10,000. The contest is sponsored by the U.S., Department of Veteran Affairs, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Jon Bon Jovi’s Soul Foundation.
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Despite all the conveniences smartphones provide, users still have concerns about the security of the messages and files they exchange with their mobile devices.

Now Carnegie Mellon University CyLab researchers have come up with a smartphone app designed to help mobile phone users retrieve information from trusted sources safely and privately.

The problem they are tackling is one mobile device users face every day:  how to safely “sling information” over the Internet. The researchers say that their app, dubbed SafeSlinger, establishes a secure channel that enables both secure messaging and file exchange.
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In this blog, we’re helping you consider building mobile apps in a different way.

The conventional approach to building mobile business apps is expensive, complex and time-consuming. Teams of developers can spend months planning, designing, building, and testing – all to meet the business and technical requirements of just a single mobile app.

ViziApps tackles mobile apps from a different perspective, taking a visual, building block approach. As a result, organizations that lack the time, budget or technical skills to take on a complex custom engineering project can build custom mobile apps themselves.
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