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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) and mobile app security.
Our 5 Favorite Christmas Apps Right Now
We're just two weeks away (give or take a day or two) from Christmas! Soon, offices around the country will thin out, folks will take vacations or travel to see family, and we'll wrap up 2018 and head into the new year. But in the meantime, there's still Christmas...
10 Must-Haves for Your MAM Platform
Sometimes, when talking to prospective clients, we find that they know they should have a MAM solution but aren't sure about what exactly that solution should entail. That's ok! Everyone has to start somewhere. If you're thinking about implementing a MAM solution at...
The WhatsApp Dilemma: Managing Consumer Apps at Work
Ever since the dawn of the smartphone (and perhaps even before), companies have had to wrestle with employees' use of consumer apps at work. From Facebook messenger to Dropbox and everything in between, it can be challenging for employers to navigate this landscape....
Happy Thanksgiving from the App47 Team!
From all of us here at App47 to you: Happy Thanksgiving. While we try always to be thankful, Thanksgiving is a particularly good time to be mindful and say thanks. We're thankful first and foremost to our family and friends who have stuck with us on our journey here...
App47 Feature Spotlight: Azure SSO and New App Store Curation
Here at App47, we’re always looking for meaningful ways to add functionality and value to our platform. Today, we’re happy to share with you a couple new ways we’re doing just that. First, we’ve added Azure SSO capability to our existing end points of OAuth, OpenID,...
On This Veterans Day, a Thank You from App47
This coming Monday, our country will celebrate Veterans Day, honoring those who have served in the armed forces. We'll skip the usual business and get right to the point: thank you to those of you who are serving or who have served our nation. It's because of your...
Tune In to Executive Leaders Radio Next Week to Hear App47 CEO Chris Schroeder!
App47 founder and CEO Chris Schroeder recently joined Executive Leaders Radio on-air host Herb Cohen, as well as a few other company CEOs and presidents, for a taping of the show. We’re happy to share that Chris’ interview is slated to air next week in the D.C. area...
Enterprise Mobility Management: More Than Just Hype
These days, you'd think it would be obvious to most companies that they need enterprise mobility management. And yet, time and time again we're shown that that's not the case. While there are of course numerous reasons that a company may choose not to implement EMM,...
App47 Feature Spotlight: SSO Group Synchronization
As we’ve mentioned before here on our blog, a key part of the App47 model is our ability to customize the last 5% (roughly) of the product to better meet our customers’ needs. That looks different for every customer, of course. For some, it’s meant tweaking the...
Is EMM Dead?
"Put simply, Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) is dead and focus has shifted towards a unified IoT solution." Those were the words of SOTI CEO Carl Rodrigues in an interview with Enterprise Mobility Exchange's Jason Koestenblatt in which the two discussed mobile...
WhiteHat Report Finds Security Flaws In Most Mobile Apps
Bad news for app developers: according to a recent WhiteHat report, some 85% of mobile apps violate one or more of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Mobile Top 10. In other words, 85% of apps have security vulnerabilities that could be exploited....
CCISDA Wrap-up: App47 Goes Out to the Ballgame
Last week, App47’s Director of Business Development, Rob Manfredi, went out to San Diego to take part in the CCISDA’s fall conference. After our (ongoing) work with Ventura County, we thought it would be great to have an opportunity to interface directly with senior...
How App47 Helped Ventura County Achieve Its Security Goals
Ventura County is in California with the city of Ventura serving as the county seat. Washington Post called it the country’s most desirable place for living. The wave of digitizing the various processes for the benefit of the public has been strong in the region. The...
We’ll See You In San Diego (at the CCISDA Fall Conference)!
Our bags are packed and our tickets are booked. (Okay, so maybe our bags aren't packed just yet.) App47 is headed to San Diego! From Sunday, September 16 through Wednesday, September 19, the California County Information Services Directors Association, or CCISDA for...
What’s Holding You Back from Digital Transformation?
Every year, Deloitte conducts a global survey of CIOs at companies across industries with the goal of understanding how those CIOs operate, and accordingly how their companies are performing in the digital space. As Deloitte points out in their 2018 survey,...
The MAM Revival
Picture this: it's 2008. All across the country, everyone from tech geeks to regular Joes are getting familiar with the new kid on the phone block, Apple's iPhone. Just as the iPhone is all the rage, so too are the apps that people are starting to get familiar with....
What’s Your Shadow IT Situation?
Shadow IT is looming. While most organizations likely realize that they have a problem with shadow IT--apps, devices and the like used without company knowledge or approval--chances are, they're underestimating just how pervasive shadow IT is. In a new piece for...
Custom Deployments Are No Problem with App47
A recent demo and conversation with a medical eHealth company got us thinking: there are a lot of ways to make a mobile deployment work. This company provided a particularly interesting and complicated use case. With a focus on electronic health, they've begun...
A Mobile Device Is Not a Mobile Strategy
“There’s a difference between having mobile devices in your workplace and having a mobile strategy. You might have invested in a thousand devices. That doesn’t mean you’ve mastered mobility. What happens when the devices break? When it’s time to refresh? What about...
5 Back-to-School Apps to Make Your (and your Student’s) Life Easier
The back-to-school season is loaded with to-dos and, for many of us, stress. There's the stress of finding school supplies, the stress of summer slowly fading away, and for some parents, the stress of their students heading off to college for the first time....