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The right office apps for the iPhone at work, round 2 [Video]

If your company allows employees to use an iPhone, here are the productivity apps that you should install on the mobile devices

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With Apple’s iOS 4 supporting corporate security requirements, companies are increasingly saying an explicit yes to iPhone use. Certainly, an iPad makes more sense as a lightweight laptop replacement (see InfoWorld’s picks for the best iPad office apps), but there are many times you can’t easily pull out a laptop or iPad but can use a smartphone. Just as companies typically install a suite of productivity apps (nearly always Microsoft Office), what should the iPhone equivalent be?

The answer can’t be Office because Microsoft has no iPhone-compatible suite. Microsoft’s Office Web Apps cloud-based suite doesn’t work on an iPhone either. Google Docs is also not usable on an iPhone.

InfoWorld.com first investigated the available programs in December 2010and put together a recommended business apps suite that should be the standard install on corporate …

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