SNAPPS, a long-time IBM Advanced Business Partner and new Apple Development Partner, identified an opportunity for synergy between the enterprise business software giant IBM and the hip, cool consumer-focused Apple and decided to actively link them together. The first offering, SnappFiles, demonstrated by IBM at MacWorld in San Francisco last week, is a free app available on the Apple App Store that delivers secure access to and collaboration on corporate documents stored in IBM Lotus Quickr or Filenet P8 ECM systems. With work underway to support other IBM ECM systems such as IBM Content Manager and Lotus Connections Files next month, SnappFiles is designed to be a single point of entry into corporate document management systems.

“We’ve designed complex business systems, workflows, and critical customer-facing applications in our tenure working with IBM products,” said Rob Novak, president of SNAPPS. “Bringing these processes outside the corporate firewall and into the hands of Apple customers is a natural progression. We have several applications in development, and plan to bring our years of experience to bear on real business solutions for Apple customers.”

Inspiration for SnappFiles came from the most unlikely place – unless you happen to have a teenager. Novak explains: “I was helping my 14-year-old son set up his new iPod touch six months ago and noticed he had a mesmerizing game called Paper Toss – the objective of which is to toss a crumpled piece of paper into an office trash bin. It occurred to me that if you could throw away paper on this cool device, why couldn’t you retrieve documents securely?” The next day, SNAPPS joined the Apple Developer Program and started work on SnappFiles. Work on an iPad-optimized version is underway, since the form factor of the iPad will, according to Novak, make “corporate document management the killer business app for the iPad.”

“SNAPPS’ work with our open APIs has produced some very timely and astounding results for the iPhone and iPod touch,” said Jeff Schick, Vice President of Social Software, IBM Lotus. “We’re convinced that IBM’s social software solutions and SNAPPS’ innovation will produce some impressive apps for all the Apple devices.”

SnappFiles is available now in the Apple App Store, free of charge. A professional version with enhanced capabilities is in the works, as are several other apps linking IBM’s Lotus software to Apple devices. SNAPPS also develops custom solutions for Lotus Quickr applications and makes free templates available.

For more information about SnappFiles, visithttp://snappfiles.snapps.com, and for information about SNAPPS, visit http://www.snapps.com.

NonLinear Software Inc. today announces the world premier of a new software application called “appOmator” that will make it easy for bands, artists, and anyone else with a creative idea to quickly and cheaply design iPhone Apps to promote their albums and other products or services.

The appOmator software let’s you drag and drop images, video, and audio files to create a multimedia presentation you can then output as your own custom iPhone App. Of note, the software lets you control how your application looks – there’s no templates or set design styles.

Create custom menus with buttons that link to tracks with audio, video, images, and chapter index markers for seamless playback of your albums, DJ mixes, or other multimedia presentations. Designed by Martin Sitter (founder of software tutorial-video vendor macProVideo.com), the appOmator software promises to be a full-featured development tool that allows artists with no programming background to easily created custom iPhone Apps.

According to Martin, “At macProVideo.com we have a huge user base of audio producers. I discovered many of these people wanted to release their albums and other projects on the iPhone, so I created a software application to make it easy for then to realize this dream.” With the appOmator software, you can design your iPhone App on your Mac, then upload your finished project to the appOmator.com website for processing into a finished iPhone App.

For a small fee you may then either download your app and post it to the iTunes App Store (Apple Developer Account required) or choose to have appOmator.com host and manage your app for you. Designed specifically for artists and other people with no computer programming background, appOmator.com provides a simple and efficient way for you to get your albums and other art out on the iPhone. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.appOmator.com