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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), mobile app security, and other topics.
What’s Your Dialpad Solution?
As Heather Clancy explained in a recent article for FORTUNE, desk phones chain workers to one location. Businesses need phones, of course, but proprietary telecom equipment is expensive. Business telecom, it seems, is in need of a bit of a reinvention. Cloud startup...
Betting on IoT for future success? Not without EMM
According to a report recently released by British telecommunications provider Vodafone, 8 in 10 businesses are betting on the Internet of Things for future success. In fact, as Computer Business Review notes, half of those (4 in 10) are already fully up and running...
Navigating the Complex Enterprise Compliance World—With the Help of stackArmor
Last year, the App47 team was faced with a daunting task unlike any we’d come across before: meeting the compliance needs of a Fortune 500 company in the highly regulated healthcare industry. We needed to do it quickly, too. We were in the process of navigating a...
Solving Enterprise Mobility’s 3 Biggest Challenges
In a perfect world, companies would be able to move from ideation to execution of a mobile app program in a matter of days. But, as anyone who’s ever implemented a company-wide program knows, there are bound to be challenges and obstacles that extend the process. In a...
App47 Feature Update: Full iOS Crash Log Integration
For mobile app developers, few pieces of post-deployment data are as important as crash logs. It’s valuable to have information about who is using apps and how often, but if developers aren’t able to see why and how frequently their apps are crashing, long-term app...
App47 Feature Update: Changes to Geodata
For our clients whose businesses span city, state, or national borders, knowing exactly where their mobile apps are being used is essential. Having a way to look at who is using apps and where can provide valuable insight about an app’s adoption, and enables companies...
4Parents Releases New UI With the Help of App47
Brandon Frye and his team at 4Parents have been App47 customers for a long time. When we spoke late last year, 4Parents was just getting started. Today, we wanted to follow up to discuss some exciting recent developments from Brandon and the 4Parents platform. In case...
The 5 Best Apps for Making the Most Out of Your Summer
It’s hard to believe summer is already almost here. But alas, with almost half the year already behind us, it’s almost time for many of us to book a vacation and head to a beach, catch a flight overseas, or just get away for a few nights for a short trip to unwind....
You Don’t Have Users—You Have “Internal Customers”
Any company that’s ever been frustrated by low adoption rates of one of their enterprise apps knows just how important it is to have employee advocates. Of course, employees won’t be advocates for apps if they don’t believe the apps are worth advocating for. Creating...
Report: Two In Three Organizations Ban Employees from Using Public WiFi
Here’s some news that’s probably of interest to followers of the enterprise mobility industry: according to enterprise WiFi connectivity provider iPass, almost two-thirds of organizations ban their mobile workforce from accessing free WiFi hotspots. In their latest...
App47 Customer Success Story: AppNotch
We talk frequently about the features and functionality of the App47 platform. But as most customers know, it’s one thing to hear about how good a product is from the source—and it’s another thing entirely to hear positive comments from a happy customer. Our team...
What Employees Want (In a Mobile App)
What do employees want in a mobile app? Writing for CIO Online, Sarah K. White discusses how companies can create apps that employees actually want to use. As she sees it, enterprise mobile apps should keep the user in mind through every stage of development—just...
4 Signs MAM Is Right for Your Business
We talk a lot about enterprise mobility adoption rates, the benefits of mobile apps in the enterprise, and even what’s up-and-coming in the industry. But, as anyone who’s ever looked into enterprise mobility solutions knows, there are a number of different deployment...
5 Insights on Enterprise Mobility from the Enterprise Mobility Exchange
The Enterprise Mobility Exchange (EME) has long been a forum for companies implementing mobility strategies, as well as companies like ours which help enable enterprise mobility. As it turns out, they're also a great source of insight on the state of enterprise...
Infographic: Perception vs. Reality In Application Security
There's a significant disconnect between perception and reality in mobile health and finance app security. At least, that's the conclusion of a new study by app protection company Arxan, which just released its 5th annual State of Application Security Report [All...
What’s Next After Security In Enterprise Mobility?
A new study released by RightScale last month delivered big news about cloud computing: security is no longer the number 1 challenge related to deploying cloud solutions. Last year, 28% of IT professionals surveyed cited security as a challenge to cloud, while 27%...
Lessons from Mobile World Congress: “Mobile Is Far More Than Mobile”
Mobile World Congress wrapped up earlier this week, and although we didn't make the trip across the pond to Barcelona, we've been keeping a close eye on this year's events and insights. MWC 16 didn't disappoint in terms of new tech--from connected cars to VR--but it...
IDC: Mobility Spending to Rise to Almost $2 Trillion By 2019
Good news for the mobility industry: new research from IDC predicts that enterprise and consumer spending on mobile devices, software, and services will reach $1.85 trillion by 2019, up from $1.66 trillion in 2015. A key component in this spending, of course, is...
Mobile Apps Aren’t Just for Employees
When many companies hear “mobile apps,” they immediately think about the most obvious user group: employees. That makes sense. After all, we spend a lot of time talking about the benefits of mobility in the enterprise. From gains in productivity to cost savings over...
Employee Empowerment: The Key to Enterprise Mobility Adoption?
As more and more companies grow aware of the benefits of mobility, they’ll also realize a critical fact: that without engaged employees, enterprise mobility can never succeed. Put another way, unless employees embrace mobility and use the company’s mobility solutions...
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