Good Technology's Enterprise app for Windows Phone releasing soon

By Daniel Rubino
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We reported a few weeks ago that Good Technologies was planning on releasing their Secure Enterprise Messaging app for Windows Phone in a deal with Microsoft giving business users a new tool in their arsenal.

This morning Good is evidently alerting users that their app should be hitting the Marketplace in the next 24 hours:

"Good announce Good for WP Good for Enterprise™ Windows Phone® Available Tomorrow!Good Technology is pleased to inform you that Good for Enterprise – Windows Phone will be available tomorrow for download from the Marketplace. This release will support Microsoft Exchange and will be available for Windows Phone with OS version 7.5. Most features require upgrading to the latest Good Mobile Control and Good Messaging servers for Exchange. To ensure that your users can take advantage of the new Good client features, we encourage you to upgrade your Good for Enterprise servers."

That's some good news (morning pun!).

As we previously mentioned, Windows Phone has not been the strongest contender for enterprise even with Exchange support. Giving companies the additional option of having Good Technology on board in combination with the extremely popular Nokia Lumia 900 seems like a win-win for Microsoft in getting their mobile OS the attention it deserves and a nod to enterprise.

The full feature set for the Good for Enterprise™ Windows Phone® app is listed after the break. We'll keep you posted when it goes live in the Marketplace.

Thanks, WPMan, for the heads up

 

Good for Enterprise™ Windows Phone® Key Features included in this release:

EMAIL

  • Email push notifications
  • Message synchronization status bar
  • Folder subscription with email history
  • Type-down Addressing to select email address
  • Move messages between folders
  • Filter messages by unread, flag or Urgent
  • Flag for follow-up
  • View image attachments
  • Search email folders
  • Bulk email/move/delete
  • Out of office auto-reply
  • Customize email signature

CALENDAR

  • Calendar reminder notifications
  • Show meeting as free/busy/tentative/OOO
  • Busy-meter in month view

CONTACTS

  • Corporate directory lookup
  • Add, edit and delete Contacts
  • Search Personal and Directory Contacts
  • Pin up to 9 favorite Contacts

New feature updates to the first release of Good for Enterprise – Windows Phone will be available in the near future! Stay tuned!

Daniel Rubino
Daniel Rubino
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Daniel Rubino is the Editor-in-chief of Windows Central, head reviewer, podcast co-host, and analyst. He has been covering Microsoft since 2007 when this site was called WMExperts (and later Windows Phone Central). His interests include Windows, laptops, next-gen computing, and for some reason, watches. Before all this tech stuff, he worked on a Ph.D. in linguistics, watched people sleep (for medical purposes!), and ran the projectors at movie theaters because it was fun.