Couldn’t make it to the fireworks stand before the cookout? Wondering what beach to hit over the long weekend? How about tips for achieving steak-grilling perfection? All those Independence Day priorities have mobile apps. Seriously, you can pull a full-blown fireworks display right out of your pocket. Check out these fun apps the tech-savvy patriots […]
The short answer? Yes. Someone has to say it: Let’s acknowledge that the lingering workplace concern about Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has gone on long enough. The simple truth is that BYOD is no longer worth worrying about. Enterprise mobility innovation as epitomized by the app lifecycle control afforded by MAM has effectively eliminated […]
Rob Patey wrote a blog post earlier this week equating Mobile Device Management with the Man of Steel himself. He conjures up cool imagery, with mobility playing something of an IT nemesis — but a noble nemesis that will ultimately benefit users. As he says: Users aren’t trying to overthrow ITs sovereignty as part of […]
Boundaries are being drawn in the app dev world. Champions of consumer apps, advocates of enterprise apps — they’re forming distinct camps, and the implication is that each requires different developmental approaches, but for us, mobility is mobility is mobility. We’d like to step in and say that it’s time to abandon that bifurcated thinking. […]
A StateTech article from earlier this week offers sound advice about how to choose MAM software, and while it tees things up nicely, we need to offer some follow through. As we suggest in the comments: Deciding to go with a MAM solution is a first step, but along with deployment there are several phases […]
In the latest episode of What’s Appening, App47 CEO Chris Schroeder sits down with Windward IT Solutions CEO Sean McDermott for a heavyweight conversation on enterprise mobility. Government agencies and top-tier corporations alike are embracing mobility — and many people think it’s a pretty big tiger to tame. As Sean explains in the podcast: “The […]
We’re happy today to proclaim the distinction that App47 has evolved from humble beginnings as a Mobile Application Management (MAM) innovator, into a full-tilt enterprise mobility systems management solution provider. We think the progress is worth noting, because while we are all about MAM, we’ve come to champion the fact that MAM is, in effect, […]
It’s’s been a tough week for Zynga. The Farmville founders had to show 520 people the door, and will be closing offices in Dallas, New York, and Los Angeles. As explained in Mike Snider’s article in USA Today: Two troubling trends have hit Zynga; for starters, fewer people are playing Zynga games, with the number […]
For today’s podcast, App47 CTO Andy Glover sat down with Kinvey CTO Morgan Bickle to talk about Backend as a Service, better knows as BaaS. True to form, Andy wastes zero time in asking Morgan just what the heck that is. The answer, of course, requires a bit of backstory. Morgan explains how mobile developers […]
Thanks to our just-announced partnership with IntegriCell, we now have another dog in the enterprise mobility fight — SyncDog, to be specific. That’s the name of the company’s IT security correlation solution, and it means a big enhancement to all the apps deployed via our MAM platform. As explained by our CEO, Chris Schroeder, “Our goal with […]