The best mobile apps for business: Announcing Tabby Awards /Business nominees for tablets and introducing first Mobby Awards /Business nominees for smartphones

While 56 Tabby Awards /Business nominees have been selected by an independent judging panel as the best business apps on tablets, 34 apps have been nominated in the new Mobby Awards /Business as the best apps on smartphones. Nominees include productivity and enterprise apps from Adobe, Bombardier, Breezes, Citrix, DocuSign, Gulfstream, Morningstar and Rosetta Stone.

The Tabby Awards /Business, the only competition for the best mobile apps for business and professionals, today announced the Nominees for 2015.

After testing over 150 apps, an international judging panel of 24 independent mobile experts selected 56 tablet-optimized apps as Tabby Awards /Business nominees. For the first time, they also selected 34 smartphone-optimized apps as Mobby Awards /Business nominees.

The panel is chaired by Carson Conant, CEO of Mediafly, a Chicago-based mobile technology company. “The innovation and creativity from this year’s participants was top notch!”, said Carson Conant. “Innovation has come through on all fronts; from broad-based productivity apps as well as from very niche, specialized enterprise apps.”

Here are the Mobby Awards /Business and Tabby Awards /Business nominees, by device class, OS and category:

 

Mobby Awards /Business nominees

Best business and professional apps on Android and iPhone smartphones:

 

Android phone – Collaboration and communications

Android phone – Enterprise

Android phone – In-the-field and data collection

Android phone – Productivity

Android phone – Small business and professionals

iPhone – Collaboration and teamwork

iPhone – Communications and contacts

iPhone – Enterprise solutions

iPhone – In-the-field and data collection

iPhone – Presentation and sales

iPhone – Productivity

iPhone – Small business tool

  • Control, by Control (Canada)
  • Kashoo, by Kashoo Cloud Accounting (Canada)

iPhone – Vertical market and specific business solution

 

Tabby Awards /Business nominees

Best business and professional apps on Android, iPad and Windows tablets:

 

Android tablet – Enterprise and vertical market

Android tablet – In-the-field

Android tablet – Marketing and sales

Android tablet – Productivity

iPad – Collaboration and teamwork

iPad – Data access and collection

  • QuickTapSurvey, by TabbleDabble (Canada)
  • SmartWool FSR, by SmartWool (USA)

iPad – Document and content creation & editing

iPad – Education, training and HR

iPad – Enterprise

  • App Roadmap, by Lextech Global Services (USA)
  • BitGenie, by Baker Hughes (USA)
  • Hanson Arvensis iPad app, by Hanson UK (United Kingdom)

iPad – Finance and accounting

iPad – Healthcare and government

  • iDetail, by Thingee (USA)
  • London’s Air Ambulance Dispatch App, by London’s Air Ambulance (United Kingdom)

iPad – In-the-field

iPad – Marketing and presentation

iPad – Productivity

iPad – Sales

iPad – Small business and project management

iPad – Vertical market and specific business solution

Windows tablet – Collaboration, communications and in-the-field

Windows tablet – Marketing and sales

Windows tablet – Productivity

Windows tablet – Small business and professionals

 

These nominee apps will now compete in the final round of the Mobby Awards /Business and Tabby Awards /Business 2015 competition. Winners in each category will be announced later this fall.