Integrators, vendors, pre-media companies and publishing houses are looking for ways to develop their own individually branded and customized iPad apps, to present content on iOS devices. HELIOS Software GmbH, a leading developer of cross-platform file, print, image, proofing, remote collaboration, and PDF server software, simplifies this trend with its new iPad Document Hub publishing platform and app for iOS, which will be presented at drupa 2012 (Hall 09/D04).

The HELIOS iPad Document Hub publishing platform is a scalable, secure, and powerful client/server solution for building unrestricted apps, and for unlimited publishing of content without any charge per app, content or use. Customers can securely host all content on their own server to be synchronized to app users on Apple iPad or iPhone.

“We talked to customers, integrators and vendors. Everyone wants to develop their own iPad solutions to publish documents and media files,” explained Helmut Tschemernjak, President and founder of HELIOS Software.

“Businesses don't want to be locked into a single vendor’s publishing and hosting platform or to be limited in app features.” According to Tschemernjak, “Customers want to “own” their apps entirely without any restrictions or foreign copyright notices.”

For this reason, the complete app source code will be available as a foundation to encourage custom app development, with the benefit of huge development savings and faster time to market. The iPad Document Hub publishing platform has no dependency on vendor hosting, and is free of any annual charges.

Details and further benefits will be presented in daily drupa seminars in the HELIOS booth, Hall 09/D04. Register for the "iPad Document Hub" seminars on the HELIOS web site. Attendees are also welcome to discuss their needs and feedback with HELIOS at drupa.

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HELIOS UB2 Unbreakable Server Solutions deliver mission critical server solutions to enterprise, government, university, and prepress sites. WebShare, EtherShare, and PCShare provide integrated cross-platform networking for Mac, Windows and Web clients, with advanced file and print server features, and easy remote server administration. HELIOS ImageServer, PDF HandShake and PrintPreview bring high efficiency and advanced capabilities to design, prepress and printing operations.

HELIOS products run on powerful and scalable servers including Apple Mac OS X, IBM AIX, Linux, Oracle Solaris, and Windows systems. HELIOS products provide reliable cross-platform support for Mac, Windows, Web and UNIX-based clients.

Distributors sell HELIOS products worldwide to value-added resellers who provide complete networking solutions to customers. HELIOS also works with many strategic partners that incorporate HELIOS server software to provide powerful third-party archive, asset management and workflow solutions.