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BlackBerry smart phones have changed the mobile phone industry with revolutionary functions that turn your phone into a mini computing device. In today’s fast-paced business environment, Blackberries are ideal for multitasking as they support emailing and instant messaging, enabling business people to stay in touch with clients and colleagues while on-the-go. But there are many other interesting Blackberry applications specifically designed for businesses. Following are some must-have BlackBerry business apps to organize your contacts, create and view documents, manage your work and keep track of expenses, all from the palm of your hand.

Contacts: Gwabbit
Price: Free (paid version: $9.99/year)

Say goodbye to cutting and pasting contacts one field at a time from your emails into your address book. Gwabbit automatically scans incoming BlackBerry emails, finds contacts, and transforms them into contact records within your address book. This award-winning technology monitors opened emails, and if they include the signature of the sender, the information is sent to the server for processing. The server then returns the results to the client and if a signature is found, the client prompts the user and asks if the user wants to save the contact information. Gwabbit is compatible with current generation BlackBerry devices with 4.2 OS and higher.

Documents: Documents To Go
Price: $49.99

Documents To Go gives users the ability to view, edit and create Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files and attachments as well as view PDF files all on their BlackBerry smartphones. In a recent study conducted by Brighthand, they found that Documents To Go does a significantly better job of handling Word and Excel documents than  a Pocket PC using Pocket Word and Pocket Excel. Documents To Go includes Slideshow To Go, which supports Microsoft PowerPoint presentations (something Microsoft does not offer in its Pocket Office suite).

Management: Maximizer Mobile CRM Software (Blackberry OS 4.6 or higher)
Price: $229

Maximizer ‘s mobile CRM software is simple to use and manage and gives you real-time wireless access to your entire Maximizer CRM database. This means access to all your business accounts, sales deals, notes, leads, sales opportunities, service cases and schedules all while you’re on- the-go. You can monitor the status of your business and team performance with real-time dashboards and reports on your BlackBerry. It can work as a stand-alone CRM program, or with your company’s desktop and browser-based products.

Finances: Expense Manager
Price: $14.99

Expense Manager by Total Wireless Solutions helps you keep track of your daily expenses. It supports multiple accounts and generates customized expense reports which are then transferred by email or saved to a memory card for integration with Microsoft Excel or other spreadsheets. You can set a monthly budget for each account, category and payment method so not only is it helping you track your expenses, it is also an effective budgeting tool.

Sherweb also offers hosted Blackberry services so that businesses of all sizes can synchronize wirelessly to Outlook and get instant access to e-mails, calendars, notes, tasks and contacts, with encrypted technology that secures all information.