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Survey: Companies Don’t Have the Right Tools to Manage Mobile Issues
According to an industry survey from last fall, only a tiny fraction--around two percent of all the IT professionals surveyed--of IT pros feel that their MDM or EMM solution gives them the visibility they need to properly resolve mobile issues. This is in spite of the...
Why 5G Will Make Enterprise Mobility More Important Than Ever
We've talked before about how one of the best ways to future-proof your business is by embracing enterprise mobility, and it turns out that that advice is only getting better by the day. As it turns out, the rollout of 5G seems likely to make enterprise mobility an...
Looking Forward: What’s Ahead for App47 in 2021
At the end of each year, like everyone else, we turn our focus to next year. Where do we go from here? Today, with New Year's Eve just a day away, I'd like to take some time to highlight a few key areas that we at App47 will be focused on in 2021. While this doesn't...
Merry Christmas from the App47 Team!
It's hard to believe it's Christmas Eve, but here we are: the Christmas holiday is almost upon us. As we touched on last week, this year has been difficult, but we've still found much to be grateful for as the year has unfolded and we've all had to navigate our own...
2020: App47 Year In Review
2020: oh, what a year. Every year on our blog, we usually spend late December looking back on what happened over the last year and highlighting any exciting developments at App47 or in the mobile application management market. However, fitting with a pattern for 2020,...
5 Christmas Apps to Get You In the Holiday Spirit
We get it: after everything that's happened in 2020, you might find yourself having a hard time getting in the Christmas spirit. Here at App47, we're taking the opposite approach: we're using the difficulties of this year as extra motivation to get excited for the...
Happy Thanksgiving from App47!
From all of us here at the App47 team to you, Happy Thanksgiving! While Thanksgiving--or really, the entire holiday season--looks very different this year, we hope you still find a way to enjoy the holiday this year. In fact, it may be more important than ever to sit...
Survey Finds 95% of Companies See Room for Improvement In Mobile App Security
Think that most companies have their mobile app security procedures under control? Think again. According to a new Guardsquare report, titled "Mobile Apps Aren't Secure Enough, Despite Dev Teams' Priorities," some 95% of employees report room for improvement in their...
Our 5 Favorite Cooking Apps for the Holiday Season
Let's face it: this has been a tough last few months. But at a time when it feels like our country is more divided than ever, and when it seems like there really just isn't much to look forward to, there's one thing that we can always count on to bring us together:...
Signs Your Mobility Management Solution Is Out of Date (and Why App47 Isn’t)
Worried that your mobility management solution is out of date? You should be. Writing for Mobility Management Solutions Review, tech writer Daniel Hein walked through just that issue, detailing four signs that your mobility management solution may be out of date. This...
Happy Halloween from the App47 Team!
Let's face it: very little about 2020 has been normal. Unfortunately, Halloween--in most parts of the country, at least--is included in that statement. Due to the pandemic, all around the country, Halloween is likely to look very different this year. Trick-or-treating...
New Study Evaluates How Gen Z Spends Time With Mobile Apps
If you want to know how best to position your company's IT infrastructure to prepare for the workforce of tomorrow, it's probably best to start by taking a closer look at the usage habits of the up-and-coming generation. A new study by mobile app analytics provider,...
What Makes for Good Mobile App Design?
What makes for good mobile app design? Or, more accurately, what types of things grab our attention when we're using mobile apps? Aalto University in Finland recently conducted a study regarding mobile app design, and the results regarding what grabs attention and...
Managing Security Risks In a Work-From-Home World
According to a recent industry survey, some 80% of employees said that they do not want to return to the office full-time. As a recent article in Help Net Security notes, "the COVID-198 pandemic has clearly changed the way people work," which has, as we all know,...
5 Mobile Apps for a Safe Halloween 2020
We get it: pretty much nothing about 2020 is normal. And yet, if you're anything like us, you're probably trying to find ways to make everything feel a little bit more normal. Upcoming holidays--Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Hanukkah--seem to provide the...
Mobile Apps: A Good Way to Train Your Workforce?
By now, we think it's safe to say that most white-collar workers utilize some type of technology in the workplace. Whether that's legacy technology like desktop computers, or newer but still ubiquitous mobile devices, or IoT equipment at leading-edge firms, our sense...
More COVID-19 Tracking: Telehealth Goes Mobile
Promoting better communication between squad leaders and their soldiers. Managing employees inside a 16,000-person organization. Contact tracing in the middle of a pandemic. What do all of these things have in common? They're all accomplished using mobile apps. Ever...
Mobile Apps Bring COVID-19 Tracking to the Workplace
Last week on our blog, we talked about how the U.S. Army is deploying a new mobile app to squad leaders in an effort to help them better connect with soldiers under their command. We always like seeing innovative new uses for mobile apps in the "workplace," wherever...
Mobile Apps: Coming To A U.S. Army Squad Leader Near You
Here on our blog, we talk regularly about the advantages of deploying mobile apps in the workplace: they help you meet employees where they are, they make your entire organization more productive, and they provide you with critical data about how people in your...
Is UEM the Next Frontier In Enterprise Mobility?
You've heard of MDM. You've heard of MAM. 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...
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