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App47 Summer Lecture Series, Dog Days Edition: Find Your VPP Payback Point

Volume Purchase Programs (VPP) have that “necessary evil” reputation when it comes to enterprise mobile application management. They can be as frustrating as the apps themselves can be empowering, but many resign themselves to suffering along with VPP for the sake of accessing all the productivity-improving power that mobile apps afford. If you’ve seen our […]

Our Latest Infographic Shows How to Pump Up Your Volume Purchase Program (VPP)

If you’ve ever bought apps by the bushel for your enterprise employees, then you probably know about Apple’s Volume Purchase Program or VPP. At first glance, it’s definitely a measure better than expecting everyone to buy and manage their own enterprise mobile apps. But we know we can do better. Check out our latest infographic, […]

Stuff We Like: ClickSoftware’s Great App-Splosion Infographic

If you’re looking for a perfect summer Friday time-killer, we recommend sifting through this great infographic conveying the magnitude of today’s booming enterprise applications marketplace. It’s packed with impressive info: Mobile app dev? Expect it to out-pace native PC projects 4-to-1. Venture capital invested just in the first half of last year alone? A cool […]

What’s ‘Appening!! Podcast: This Week We’re Talking Enterprise Mobility in Healthcare with The Healthcare IT Guy

Healthcare is one area where the advantages of enterprise mobility are literally measured by how good we feel. Mobile app innovations and mobile medical device breakthroughs are improving the way medicine works. Developers and clinicians alike are wrapping their heads around the best ways to improve patient services, manage workflow — even make diagnoses and […]

The Velvet Hammer of App Version Updates

Kicking off the first installment of App47’s Summer Lecture Series, we want to examine the critical importance of managing app versions and updates. We’re in the midst of working on a platform feature improvement that further streamlines app management, so the topic is top of mind lately. One thing we’ve learned to emphasize with almost […]

App47’s Summer Lecture Series: Going Deep on Mobile App Management

First, the earth cooled . . . and then there were enterprise mobile apps. Okay, there’s more to it than that, and getting granular on the features and issues solved by Mobile Application Management is going to be our mission for the rest of the summer (and on through fall, maybe winter). You’ve heard us […]

Ready to develop an enterprise mobile app? Our latest whitepaper is a must-read.

Many people are ready to shout “Mission accomplished!” when their enterprise mobile app is deployed. But deployment is just the beginning of the mobile appdev lifecycle. If you’re about to start building an app, you need to think — from day one — about managing that app once it’s launched. Don’t wait until the build […]

Candor on App Store Cost and Control

A few days ago, I read and commented on Shane O’Neill’s article in CIO.com/InfoWorld prioritizing the five must-avoid mistakes of enterprise app store deployment. Admittedly, I’m an advocate of app stores, especially when they can be easily implemented, with no need to self build. But as a quick comment exchange in the article revealed, there […]

Cause for Celebration: One Year of App47 Solution Success

In this episode of our What’s ‘Appening!! podcast series, we turn the tables and make our usual host, Chris Schroeder, the subject of the interview. As founder and CEO of App47, we figured giving Chris a little air time to reflect on the past year, and to offer some thoughts on the year ahead was […]