The 5 Best Business Apps for Windows 8

You have a Surface RT tablet in hand and you want to take a plunge into the business world, can you do it? Well, this is possible now. You can do bundles and bundles of your office work from your smartphone or tablet.

Thanks to the selection of apps in the Windows Store, a line of business-friendly apps have been discovered in Windows 8. These apps transforms your Windows device into a viable productive powerhouse.

Skype

Skype offers everything that you normally expect to get from a leading communication service. Instant messaging, video calling, video conferencing and what not – this modern mode of communication provides you all. This being an appropriate Windows 8 app, you can dock Skype on the sides of your screen. This is really advantageous! Do you know how? This docking enables you to tackle the sales calls and at the same time perform all the other tasks in the main window.

Box

The SkyDrive storage area offered by Windows 8 is great for storing personal musings and photos, but this does not work well when it is about storing of business information. For cloud storage in business, companies prefer to opt for Box. The cloud lockers mostly focus on the consumers while the Business and Enterprise option provide some worker-friendly features such as –

• 99.9% uptime guarantee
• Document collaboration
• Full text searching
• Restorable version of history
• Integration of Salesforce.com

Robust features are on offer for you…

Package Trackr

Although this is not a glamorous app, it works exactly the way it advertises. It keeps dibs upon the parcels that travel across the world. You also keep on getting notifications from Windows 8 when the status of your parcel changes. This app can support as many as 60 global carriers. There are some extra features as well like –

• Integrated Bing map
• Complete tracking history
• Capability of pinning particular packages to Start screen

This is not the end…You have so many new features to operate.

Evernote

Are you not in the habit of using Evernote? If you are not, let me tell you, you are seriously missing something. This is a powerful service which keeps a note, audio recordings, pictures and other such things and then syncs them in different mobile, desktop and operating system in the same way. This software also has the capability to catalog and search texts in pictures of the handwritten notes. You know, its service is so much flexible that you can run the whole business with the help of this Evernote.

Invoice 360

This is straightforward and simple app from Windows 8. This app offers you a handful of invoice templates that you can easily customize and make one professional-looking bill within a few minutes. Securing transaction details and company information enables you in plugging information to subsequent invoices. With this app, you get support for soft-copy sharing, PDF generation and printing.

Author’s Bio: Paul Smith is an online business executive. He loves to use new apps for enhancement of his business. While using the different Windows apps, he ensures that his system has internet network security to the fullest.

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