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theCOMMSapp Launches theEMPLOYEEapp to Engage Workforces

Bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives, which are now being adopted by organizations, allow employees to communicate more effectively by making everyone accessible—whether they are on the premises or out in the field. Providing an application that is able to leverage mobile technology and streamline internal communications by making it available simultaneously and instantaneously can drive employee engagement and increase productivity throughout the organization.

In order to make this possible, theCOMMSapp, a native app technology platform for public relations, investor relations and the communications industry, has developed theEMPLOYEEapp, a native platform that allows organizations to push content directly to their employees smart mobile devices.

The new platform is able to deliver contents such as documents, audio and video on Android (News - Alert) and iOS devices. With poor employee engagement costing businesses around $550 billion annually in the United States alone, using the available technology to ensure everyone is in the same page is essential in a globally competitive environment.

This new application takes advantage of a technology that is ubiquitous among employees in the U.S., smart mobile devices. It gives organizations the ability to communicate with their employees by pushing relevant information through their mobile devices no matter where they're located. It strengthens the relationship between employer and employees with a secure cloud-based solution without requiring a corporate network or systems integration.

Companies that subscribe to theEMPLOYEEapp receive three development platforms for iPhone (News - Alert), iPad and Android mobile devices so they can address the vast majority of the worldwide mobile market.

"Since more and more employees are on the road, are permitted to work remotely and are not tied to a desk and desktop computer, they find it very difficult to ensure that important company information is received simultaneously and in a timely fashion,” said Jeff Corbin, founder and CEO of theCOMMSapp. “Moreover, these professionals are aware that ineffective communications and a disengaged workforce leads to lost revenue.”

Some of the features of the app include:

• A robust user interface and easy-to-use content management system (CMS)
• Easy integration with a company's active employee directory or database
• Secure authentication of all employees using the app - employees no longer employed by the company and removed from the database can no longer access the app
• Ability to restrict access of specific content to defined groups within employee database
• Hosting of unlimited documents and multi-media files
• Ability to stream live events and view content offline
• Push notifications sent when new content is published to the app
• Advanced analytics to track employee usage

Corporate Communications Apps (theCOMMSapp) allows organizations with a defined and targeted audience to have direct access to these important individuals and to optimize its communications content for iPhone, iPad and Android mobile devices. Companies can have their own application designed in only a few weeks to address these customers by providing company constituents with options to include presentations, videos, audio podcasts, photographs, media placements (print and broadcast), fact sheets and marketing materials on Apple’s App Store and Google (News - Alert) Play.