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Stay up-to-date on the latest news, insights, and analysis from the App47 team including discussions of timely and relevant topics regarding enterprise mobility, Mobile Application Management (MAM), mobile app security, and other topics.
Happy Memorial Day from the App47 Team
Starting this weekend and continuing through next Monday, when Memorial Day is commemorated, it's easy to get distracted by the deluge of holiday-related sales. Sure, this weekend might be a good time to pick up a grill, and many will use their day off to crack open a...
What Mobile App Management Means In the Enterprise
You might think that, having been in business since 2011, the Mobile Application Management, or Enterprise App Management, or Enterprise Mobility Management spaces would be well-understood and known in the marketplace. We've thought that ourselves here at App47 many...
App47 Internships: A Great Way to Give Back
As a business owner and CEO of a venture-backed company, there are many things to consider and worry about on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. But now that we've reached May, it's time for something that brings our team a lot of joy: bringing in a new group of...
Tailor App47 to Your Liking With the Feature Requests Page
No one knows your product like your customers. And that's the case with the App47 platform, too. Our customers use our platform every day. They know the ins-and-outs of what they like, what they dislike, what they think could be made better, and what they know makes...
Is UEM the Next Frontier In Enterprise Mobility?
You've heard of MDM. You've heard of EMM. But what about UEM? UEM, or unified endpoint management, seeks to shift from EMM towards a more holistic solution. As tech writer Ravi Kumar explains, "a UEM solution is able to manage a device from the top down and able to...
Self-Service Is Easy In App47’s App Store
In the new App47 App Store (V3), one thing we've made significantly easier is self-service. Put another way, we've added new features so users don't always have to contact an admin when they have questions. This is easier for users--simple changes no longer require...
The App47 App Store User Experience
For the last couple of weeks, we've been focusing on our Enterprise App Store UI, Version 3. So far, we've covered the many great ways for users to discover apps in your enterprise app store that is fully branded with your logo, fonts, and colors. Once the user has...
How iOS 12.2 Affects Enterprise App Users, and What to Do About It
While testing the final release of iOS 12.2 by Apple, and in the midst of walking through their latest features, we noticed a nice new "feature" for enterprise users onboarding their iOS device with the App47 App Store. Yes, we say "feature" with all sarcasm implied....
Webinar: Break Ties with your MDM using Advanced App Level Security
On April 3, 2019, App47 presented this webinar on the topic: Break Ties with your MDM using Advanced App Level Security. Enterprises around the world have been tied to their costly and cumbersome mobile device management (MDM) products for one reason only, Security....
How to Use App47’s New UI
We get it: change is hard. Especially for your users. They get used to finding and doing things a certain way, and when that path is changed, they don't always "get it" right away. Even if the new path is better! We have good news on that front with regards to our new...
Organize Your App Store With App47’s New UI
Last week, we started to update you on all the great features of our new Enterprise App Store User Interface Version 3, or EAS UI V3. This week, we'll continue down the same road, as so far we've only talked about the home page! In our discussion of the home page last...
7 Great Features in Our New Enterprise App Store UI
We've spent the last couple of months talking about the gory internals of mobile apps: security, app shielding, re-signing--all done in the cloud. (Click here to see our previous posts on those subjects.) That said, we've also been hard at work on an updated...
App47 Product Features: Secure App Signing
If you've been following our blog, you know that our focus for the last several weeks has been on mobile app security. As a mobile app management vendor, we're always focused on security. But, in talking with a recent customer, we discussed a different process: the...
Now Live: App Wrapping in the Cloud
We've been talking about mobile app security and cloud-based app wrapping for the last couple of weeks. Well--cue scene from Frankenstein--it's alive!!! The App47 team has been hard at work for the last couple of months getting all the pieces in place, triple-checking...
Mobile App Security: Series Wrap-up
Last month, we kicked off our series on mobile app security with a look at where App47 is today. Our key focus there was the fact that today, folks are looking for better ways to secure their data than the MDM "sledgehammer." We talked for a bit about version...
Mobile App Security, Part V: 4 More Emerging Security Threats
Last week, we began the wind-down in our monthlong series about mobile app security with a discussion of 4 new security threats on the horizon that you ought to be aware of (and how App47 is addressing these threats). While we wish the list of security threats ended...
Mobile App Security, Part IV: 4 New Security Threats Ahead
My very first job after college was for a government systems integrator, where both data and physical security were high priorities. Great measures were taken to achieve both. I'll always remember my first facilities security officer telling me, "the only way to truly...
App47 Turns 8: 8 Years of EMM
It's hard to believe, but App47 turns eight this month! Eight years ago, in 2011, we had the bright idea to start a company designed to help businesses navigate the then-nascent industry of enterprise mobile applications. The market was noticeably different then than...
Mobile App Security, Part III: App Wrapping Going to the Cloud
To continue our series on mobile app security (see last week's installment here), this week, we're highlighting a change to our app wrapping capabilities. While we've always had app wrapping for iOS, some customers have expressed concern that it has to run on a Mac,...
Mobile App Security, Part II: What’s Next
We kicked off our series on mobile app security last week with an overview of a couple key security features that are central to the App47 platform, including version management and authorized user controls. This week, we thought we'd continue the conversation with a...
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