The GoodReader app has become the Swiss Army knife of apps for some of our users, and so I wanted to share some of the capabilities of this software tool. You can also use GoodReader to connect to other cloud storage providers - Box, Dropbox, Google Apps, SugarSync - and other types of connections, including FTP/SFTP and AFP servers. In this way, we’re basically using our WebDAV server as a private cloud. In a previous article, I described how we use the GoodReader app and the Cisco An圜onnect VPN app to connect to our WebDAV server to get documents onto the iPad. One of the challenges we’ve worked to overcome is determining which apps we should purchase and roll out across the iPads in our enterprise environment. Tablets are great for consuming content, and it’s recently coming into its own as a creative tool, but what will become our primary apps for tablet computing? As enterprise tablet users, where do we start? Historically, our Windows PCs have come to rely on the Microsoft Office Suite as one of our primary tools for creating and viewing knowledge work. Paul Strobeck takes an introductory look at GoodReader for iPad, an inexpensive app that's become a primary tool in his enterprise.Įvery day, there are hundreds of new applications added to the various app stores. GoodReader for iPad: An inexpensive, powerful app for the enterprise