Leveraging HTML and JavaScript, Microsoft has introduced a new app model for developing with and extending Office 2013, known as Apps for Office. This platform allows developers to create powerful and interactive features to enhance the Office experience. At Falafel Software, we’ve used this new platform to deliver two exciting new apps to our EventBoard Mobile customers. The new apps simplify the process of both building your conference’s mobile application, and analyzing the survey and conference data afterward.
EventBoard Mobile Conference Builder
To help event organizers get their event listed in EventBoard Mobile quickly and easily, we provide an Excel spreadsheet with several sections to be populated with the conference data. This allows all of the content, such as Speakers, Timeslots, Tags, Sessions, etc., to be imported in a single batch instead of manually entering each bit of data using a proprietary platform. Using the Apps for Office model we were able to enhance the Excel template with several new, important features.