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App47's ability to customize our platform to look (and feel) like a tailor-made solution for your business is a key point of value for our customers. If you happen to have a product that runs on the Android platform, we can take that customization one step further...
Enterprise Integration with App47
Although we've talked about it before, enterprise integration, as we call it, is a critical part of App47's ability to scale quickly while still looking like a tailor-made solution. We hinted at this last week in our post about how App47 appears built to fit your...
App47: Built to Fit Your Business
Just last September, we floated an idea: despite being an off-the-shelf solution, App47 can behave like a tailor-made solution within your business. In fact, we ran an entire series on customization within the App47 platform, stressing the idea that we are able to...
Strengthening Mobility In Your Enterprise
A simple upgrade in technology is not enough today to address the challenges of deploying and managing too many incompatible devices that perform different functions for different users. Those are the words of Lisa London in a piece for IndustryWeek last year. As...
Are You Ready for GDPR?
Are you ready for GDPR? The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is set to go into effect one week from today on May 25, 2018. It's been making headlines around the tech community, including here on our blog, where we've discussed both what the GDPR-related...
Changing Our Agent Technology for GDPR
If your company handles personally identifiable information of any sort, chances are, you've heard about the general data protection regulation, or GDPR. As we mentioned on our blog last week, GDPR goes into full effect on May 25, and will force companies that handle...
GDPR and App47: An Update
On May 25—just three weeks from today—the data privacy landscape will change radically. Three Fridays from now, the grace period for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), passed in April 2016 by European Parliament, will expire, and the hope is that...
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 a recent interview with Enterprise Mobility Exchange's Jason Koestenblatt in which the two discussed...
Reminder: MAM Isn’t Dead
If you've been keeping up on news from around the enterprise technology sector, you might be convinced that MAM, the mobility approach that started it all, is dead. Even on our blog, we've been talking about just about everything except MAM. With up-and-coming...
2018 Internet Security Threat Report Shows Mobile Malware on the Rise
As the world has grown increasingly interconnected, so too has it grown increasingly vulnerable. While the 'mobile era' has undoubtedly produced more positive outcomes than negative side effects, it's more important than ever to keep a pulse on the security concerns...
Why App47?
Why App47? That's a question we were forced to confront recently. A company that uses App47 recently got a new CIO. He decided he wanted an app store--a feature of App47 that this client didn't use--and in going through the due diligence process, he had a number of...
5 Spring Break Apps to Make Your Getaway Even Better
Spring break season is upon us. Spring break, of course, means different things to different people. For some, it means flying to a faraway beach and sipping on a cold drink. For others, it means a road trip across the country. And for others still, it means sitting...
The Surprising Cost of Bad App Design
Ever wonder just how much of a negative impact poor mobile app design can have? Look no further than this recent online survey [PDF] by cloud communication provider RingCentral, "An Anatomy of App Overload." "In today's workplace, employees us an array of apps to work...
Will Web Apps Steal Native Mobile Apps’ EMM Crown?
Cost is frequently cited as a top reason why companies don't develop as many mobile applications as they would like. There are, of course, ways around this--many of which we've discussed here on our blog. Rapid Mobile App Development (RMAD), for example, turned...
Gartner Report: Unmanaged Devices Driving MAM Adoption
The news about enterprise mobility just keeps coming in. But in the context of our recently-announced shift towards embedded app stores, one piece of recent news is of particular interest to us. According to a new Gartner report, described in detail...
New Website, New App47
In case you haven’t noticed, things are changing at App47. The changes started (publicly) with our proclamation in January that 2018 would be the year of the embedded app store. In that blog, we mentioned that, while momentum around mobile apps continues to build,...
Now Live: Changes to Our Agent Technology
Last year, we announced that we were working on a handful of changes to our agent technology. Today, we're pleased to report that these changes (plus a few others) are live. Although we hinted at what was coming down the pipeline in that post last year, here's what...
The Enterprise Mobility Lifecycle: “Progress, Not Perfection”
Ever heard the saying that "perfect is the enemy of good"? It applies to many situations in the business world where quick decisions sometimes trump long deliberations. Still, not too many people would be surprised to hear that technology adoption moves more slowly in...
The Transition to the Embedded App Store Is Not as Complicated as You Think
On our blog over the last few months, we’ve been singing the praises of the embedded app store. Not only is the enterprise app store an exciting way to unlock the potential of your current product lines—it’s also not nearly as complicated as you think. As App47 and...
The Enterprise Machine In Action: Xloong AR Glasses
If you asked us to describe the benefits of the enterprise machine, one of the biggest would certainly be that it allows you to greatly broaden the potential of products you're already making. We can talk about that all we want, but few things are as good for showing...