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A better mobile browsing experience thanks to a new "contemporary view" which renders sites in HTML5 and works with the most recent mobile IE, Safari and Android browsers.If you plan to adopt SharePoint 2013, these are some of the new and improved mobile features you'll encounter: Of course, this involves upgrading to SharePoint 2013, which many companies may not be planning to do right away. He estimates that SharePoint 2013 mobile features will meet the current requirements of about half of organizations. "Get one of your developers to test the native mobile tools in SharePoint 2013, and if that's good enough for your use case, you're done," Gilbert says. While mobile features in the two previous versions-SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010-are clearly insufficient, SharePoint 2013 offers significant improvements. That means a first step is to evaluate the new and improved mobile features in SharePoint 2013, the latest version of the product released a few months ago, according to Gilbert. "You don't jump into cost and complexity unless you have to," he says. Microsoft has been responding to mobile on SharePoint, but the response has been sluggish overall," says Mark Gilbert, a Gartner analyst.Īccording to Gilbert, don't necessarily assume that the solution to the problem will be expensive and complicated. Like many peers in companies around the world, Klichinsky and his team embarked on a process of evaluating alternatives for expanding and enhancing mobile access to SharePoint. and parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. "It was inconvenient for our executives when they traveled because they'd have to bring both their tablets and laptops," says Ed Klichinsky, IT manager of mobile development at AAA Mid-Atlantic, the AAA motor club that serves Delaware, Maryland, Washington, D.C. The only way to access SharePoint 2010 documents from outside of the firewall was via a VPN system on employees' laptops. That's what happened at AAA Mid-Atlantic, which uses SharePoint 2010. However, CIOs and IT directors whose companies are heavy SharePoint users are increasingly fielding requests from employees who want to tap the product from mobile devices. SharePoint, Microsoft's all-purpose collaboration server, has never had strong native functionality for mobile access to its features and content.įirst launched in 2001, SharePoint wasn't built for a world in which smartphones and tablets are ubiquitous both at home and at work.