While You Were Out (Cloud application)
While You Were Out is an enterprise messaging and content management application, that allows an executive to receive his or her messages on a digital tablet device like the iPad. It is colloquially referred to as "WYWO" (pronounced Why-Woo).
History
WYWO was originally developed in 1994 for the Zoomer, a PDA released by Palm Inc. and Casio. The screen looked and felt like the piece of paper that an executive was accustomed to. It used a user-friendly design that foreshadowed the advent of graphically rich applications like those that have been developed for the Apple iOS.[1] Originally, "While You Were Out" was specified, designed, coded, and tested over a 256 character based paging network, While You Were Out has matured through mobile device platforms, wireless technology, and the worldwide adoption of the internet.
Capabilities
- The "While You Were Out" application allows a user to capture and integrate messages from several sources in a single, organized, intuitive, and familiar interface. Messages can be forwarded as voice-mails, telephone calls, faxes, e-mails, text and picture messages, Twitter alerts, and Facebook updates, e-mails, faxes, or played back through text-to-speech technology.
- Users can attach files that may be relevant to that particular phone call, and can also view incoming faxes as attached PDFs.
- WYWO also features a call planning system named Make a Call. This feature enables a user to plan telephone calls, which are then automatically connected at the scheduled time.