BSBRES401A Business Research: Evernote for IT Outsourcing Teams

This report explores the potential of Evernote as a mobile-friendly application for improving project management and team communication within a large IT outsourcing provider with a geographically dispersed workforce. It summarizes Evernote's features, including note-taking, task listing, and archiving capabilities across various platforms like Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. The report highlights Evernote's impact on enhancing team organization, secure information sharing, and overall productivity. It also discusses the cost-effectiveness of Evernote, with options for free usage and premium packages offering increased bandwidth and enhanced features. The report concludes that Evernote is a valuable tool for organizations with distributed teams due to its cross-platform accessibility and recommends exploring similar applications for additional benefits. Desklib offers a wide range of study resources, including past papers and solved assignments, to support students in their academic endeavors.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Summary of the application.............................................................................................................2
Platform used...................................................................................................................................2
Impact on communication and efficiency for project teams...........................................................3
Cost for using the application..........................................................................................................3
Conclusion and recommendation....................................................................................................3
References........................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
The large IT Outsourcing provider organization has the task of coordinating projects
across this geographically dispersed workforce. There is a need of using mobile-friendly
applications that would help this modern organization achieve better project management and
team communication. The present report discusses the utility of the application Evernote and its
potential to be used by the workforce.
Summary of the application
Evernote is an application that had been designed for tasks listing, note taking and
archiving. The Evernote Corporation, California, USA developed it that allows the users to
create notes. The notes can be text, a photograph, a webpage or webpage piece, a voice memo, or
a handwritten "ink" note. In addition, he notes might have file attachments, and these notes have
the ability to be sorted into a notebook, edited, tagged, annotated, searched, and exported.
Evernote is known to provide the users with a strong platform for note taking together with
expanded capabilities through add-ons and customization. In addition, the version for businesses
is affordable and straightforward.
Platform used
Evernote clients are available for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Windows mobile,
WebOS, Android, iOS (iPod touch, iPad, iPhone), Blackberry and Google Wave. There are
portable versions of Evernote available for U3 drives and flash drives. There are no officially

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supported native clients for BSD or Linux. There is a major variation in supported features on
different platforms, which is noteworthy1.
Impact on communication and efficiency for project teams
The prime value of Evernote lies in the fact that individuals can capture, organize, and
share notes from anywhere. The ideas shared by individuals would be securely saved and always
in sync. The focus of all teams is to be organized and collect information into a single hub, as
organized teams have more productivity. If Evernote is made the team hub, all ideas starting
from initial brainstorming to finished project can be organized precisely, and productivity bliss
would be achieved.
Cost for using the application
Evernote can be used for free for up to 60 MB per month, and the data cap of the
Premium package is of 1 GB of bandwidth each month. This can be availed for approximately $5
per month or $45 per year. With this bandwidth, one can get faster performance, enhanced search
capabilities and better security. The application gives IT administrator additional collaboration
options, for $120 per user per year2.
Conclusion and recommendation
Evernote can be used in the organization since it is a cross-platform one, and individuals
from diverse locations can access the data stored in sync. This would be highly advantageous in
the present case as the organization in question has a geographically dispersed workforce. It is
1 Hall, Kimberly. "Evernote: 77 Steps to Help You Master Evernote And Organize Your Life Better-Evernote,
Evernote Essentials, Evernote for Beginners." (2015).
2 "Get Organized. Work Smarter. Remember Everything. | Evernote". 2018. Evernote. https://evernote.com/.

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recommended that other similar applications are to be explored in future for gaining additional
benefits.

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References
“Get Organized. Work Smarter. Remember Everything. | Evernote". 2018. Evernote.
https://evernote.com/.
Hall, Kimberly. "Evernote: 77 Steps to Help You Master Evernote And Organize Your Life
Better-Evernote, Evernote Essentials, Evernote for Beginners." (2015).