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Continuing our series on iPad applications for businesses, this week we take a look at apps for IT professionals. This is one category of worker most often tasked with doing remote work, often during emergencies. The tablet form factor is attractive to many grizzled system admins on the go, and there are plenty of apps designed just for them. We take a look at SSH, remote desktop and VNC, remote support and server administration apps.

Personal databases are typically small database management systems designed to be used by only one person to organize information (see our guide to data terminology for more information on what databases are and how they work).

We've previously looked at project management and SharePoint apps for the iPad. Personal databases can provide similar functionality, but give individual professionals more control over how they organize and work with information. We'll look at apps for accessing larger scale databases in the future.

The iPad isn't just a hot new consumer device, it's also an increasingly popular tool for business. Each week we take a look at the new or updated business apps for the iPad, and highlight trends in how tablets are being used in the enterprise.

This week week we look at a new app for doing invoices, new Zendesk features and more.

This week at Citrix's Synergy event the company announced a version of its remote troubleshooting tool GoToManage for the iPad. The company also announced XenServer monitoring for GoToManage and high definition video for GoToMeeting.

GoToManage gives IT staff the ability to remotely administer user desktops for troubleshooting purposes. According to the announcement, the iPad app "will have the ability to connect to and control unattended computers, conduct in-session chat sessions, and track and report on their support activities."

The iPad isn't just a hot new consumer device, it's also an increasingly popular tool for business. Each week we take a look at the new or updated business apps for the iPad, and highlight trends in how tablets are being used in the enterprise.

This week week we look at a couple more office suites for the iPad, an iPad app that aims to improve the patient registration experience in doctor's offices and more.

Continuing our focus on business apps for the iPad, today we look at tools for visualizing data and information. The iPad's interface begs to be used for manipulating visual information, and it certainly delivers. And if you're used to creating charts and diagrams at your desk with Microsoft Excel or Visio, these five apps will deliver comparable tools that you can use from anywhere.

The iPad isn't just a hot new consumer device, it's also an increasingly popular tool for business. Each week we take a look at the new or updated business apps for the iPad, and highlight trends in how tablets are being used in the enterprise.

This week week we look at the newly released Adobe Photoshop Touch apps, a couple tools for managing your tasks and more.

This week Oracle added iPhone and iPad support for Oracle Business Intelligence.

Last year Gartner predicted that by 2013, 33% of BI functionality will be consumed via handheld devices. Some of you thought this number was too conservative. Earlier this year, we did a round-up of BI tools for the iPad, and found most of the major players have already release an iPad app or iPad optimized site, and many other startups are in the space as well. Oracle, one of the largest BI vendors, was one of the only ones missing (though you could use third-party tools like Roambi instead). With Oracle now filling this gap in its own offerings, it seems that there's little holding mobile BI back.

Are you using mobile BI tools yet?

Project management seems like an obvious use case for iPads, so we were surprised to see a relatively small number of professional project management applications. But we found a few. For this article we decided to focus only on native iPad applications - we'll look at tablet-optimized Web apps another time.

Which of these is your favorite? Are there any you think we should have included?

The iPad isn't just a hot new consumer device, it's also an increasingly popular tool for business. Each week we take a look at the new or updated business apps for the iPad, and highlight trends in how tablets are being used in the enterprise.

This week week we look at a new way of building iPad apps with Adobe InDesign, an iOS optimized version of Tom's Planner, the ways tablets are changing e-commerce and the state of Apple in the enterprise.