The Top Five Greatest Professional Apps For You and Your Business

Almost anyone that has a smartphone or tablet is continuously looking for ways to improve their professional life through apps. To get things done efficiently every day, you should be equipped with the right digital tools.  Apps that show you a financial dashboard or that can pull up your travel itinerary right away can prevent you from having to scramble for data from thousands of e-mail attachments in your inbox.  Read the list of the five business apps that are highly recommended for any professional.

Office Mobile For Office 365 Subscribers
Just like the flagship desktop version of Microsoft MSFT +0.69% Office, Office Mobile for Office 365 subscribers is a bit pricey. The price is very much worth it if you spend a lot of time using Microsoft Office on your desktop already.  Office Mobile For Office 365 simply makes the process of creating and editing documents more convenient by syncing in the cloud through multiple devices. The Office Mobile app works on iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
Office Mobile For Office 365 Subscribers can access, view and edit your Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint documents while on-the-go. The documents look like the originals since it supports charts, animations, graphics, and shapes. As you make edits and add comments to a document, the formatting and content will remain intact. Cloud sharing works through SkyDrive, SkyDrive Pro, or SharePoint.

Cisco WebEx Meetings
The Cisco WebEx Meetings app for iOS, Android and BlackBerry lets you have meetings wherever you are. Through the WebEx app, you can join any web conference through 2-way video and a camera switcher.
What distinguishes WebEx from other video conferencing services is that files can be attached to a meeting space.  This means that you can pitch a presentation or discuss numbers from an Excel spreadsheets in real-time while video-chatting with your contacts.

TripIt – Travel Organizer
If you travel a lot, then TripIt is a must-have app. TripIt makes it easier to organize and share travel itineraries, especially for people that travel every week.  As you receive confirmation e-mails from the different services that you book with, you will need to forward them to plans@tripit.com.

Dropbox
Want to automatically have your files synced as you edit them? Dropbox is one of the most popular cloud storage companies that exists today. Best of all, Dropbox offers 2GB of storage for free. You can earn up to 3GB of additional free space by automatically syncing photos and videos with Dropbox.
Every referral you make with a free account gets you 500MB up to 18GB. Dropbox sells Pro accounts with a lot more space for between $8.25 per month to $41.60 per month.  I use Dropbox every single day to sync my documents.
The Dropbox app is compatible with Android, iOS, BlackBerry, and the Kindle Fire.

Evernote
Evernote is one of the most essential apps to keep you organized across all of your devices. Using Evernote allows users to store notes, photos, to-do lists, ideas and voice reminders. The notes are completely searchable.  Evernote works on the Android, iOS and Windows Phone.