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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.
Survey Shows High Cost to Companies That Delay Enterprise Mobility Adoption
Why adopt enterprise mobility within your company? Aside from benefits like business transformation, gains in productivity and efficiency, and better user experience, a new survey by Webtorials and Mitel suggests that cost is an important factor, too. According to the...
App47 Turns 5: A Recap
Did you miss the big news? App47 turned 5 years old this month! To celebrate the occasion, we spent a few weeks looking back on our history—and looking forward towards where we’re headed. To close out the month of our 5th birthday (App47 officially turned 5 on January...
App47 Turns 5: Where We’re Headed
The big day is finally here: as of today, App47 is 5 years old! Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve celebrated this milestone by recapping our history and discussing our place in the market today. To build on that theme and wrap up our birthday series, we’re going to...
App47 Turns 5: Where We Are Now
With our fifth birthday as a company less than a week away, today, we’re going to continue our brief series recapping our history, current standing, and future. Last week, we talked about where we came from, so this week we’re going to continue and talk a bit about...
App47 Turns 5: Looking Back
Big news from our team: App47 turns 5 in just a few short weeks on January 21st! Over the next few weeks we’re going to celebrate this important milestone here on our blog with a brief series on our history—where we’ve been, where we are now, where we’re going, and...
What’s Ahead for Enterprise Mobility In 2016?
As we’ve done the last few years, we’re going to wrap up the end of the year with our outlook for 2016. And let us just say now: the New Year is shaping up to be a good one. The biggest trend we see ahead for enterprise mobility next year is one we’re already starting...
Happy Holidays from the App47 Team!
From all of us here at the App47 team, we’d like to wish you and yours a happy holidays. It’s been an exciting year for us. We hope the same has been true for you and your business as we turn the corner on another New Year in 2016. As Christmas draws closer, we hope,...
The App47 Year-End Blog Roundup
What better time than the end of December to review the most exciting things that happened this year? A lot happened for App47 in 2015. Our business is growing, our product is evolving, and the future is bright. And every week throughout the year, we’ve taken a bit of...
5 Holiday Apps You Won’t Want to Miss
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! We’re talking, of course, about the Christmas season. There’s no time of the year like Christmas. There’s cookies, gifts, time with family, cozy fires, and handfuls of other activities for spreading holiday cheer. Here at...
Opportunity for Enterprise Mobile Apps Lies Where You’d Least Expect It
What’s on the horizon for enterprise apps? We know there’s a bright future ahead. What you may not have known is how much opportunity there is for mobile apps in unexpected places. Recently, TechCrunch spoke with Byron Deeter, a venture capitalist at Bessemer Venture...
In Enterprise Mobility, “There’s An App for That” Is Not Enough
Watching the explosion of mobile apps has been, in a word, incredible. In less than a decade, consumers have gone from having low-tech cell phones to early-stage smartphones to powerful machines that house dozens of mobile apps that do everything from stream music to...
How Recent Mobile Technology Trends Affect Your Business
Mobile shopping is beginning to replace Black Friday, AdAge reported this October, citing Google data. According to Google, 54 percent of shoppers this year plan to do their shopping on their smartphones during free moments while eating or commuting, and 52 percent...
MAM: The Answer to Security Woes In Enterprise Mobility
As we mentioned last week, there’s a security problem in enterprise mobility. But the problem isn’t that it's impossible to have truly secure apps, or that stakeholders don’t value security. Neither of those statements is true. The problem is that many enterprises...
The Enterprise Mobility Security Problem
There’s a security problem in enterprise mobility. Don't believe us? Just ask other organizations trying to address security. According to a global survey of 900 IT decision makers by Gemalto, 95% of IT departments are battling with security challenges in their...
Optimize Your Website Across Devices
Apps and websites are more connected than ever. It frustrates users when a website isn’t optimized for a smartphone or tablet, as it does when an app has no sister website that can be accessed by a laptop or desktop user. All this means your business faces some...
MAM Deployment Models 101, Part V: Conclusion
This post is the last in a five-part series on MAM deployment models. For previous posts in the series, see: Introduction; Part II: Windows; Part III: Android; Part IV: iOS. Mobile Application Management (MAM) is more popular than ever before. Increasingly, clients...
MAM Deployment Models, Part IV: iOS
This post is part four in a five-part series on MAM deployment models. For previous posts in the series, see: Introduction; Part II: Windows; Part III: Android. They say to save the best for last, and while we’ll leave it up to you to decide which mobile platform is...
MAM Deployment Models, Part III: Android
This post is part three in a five-part series on MAM deployment models. For previous posts in the series, see: Introduction; Part II: Windows. When it comes to MAM deployments, Android is about as no-frills as they come. Unlike Windows Mobile, which requires Symantec...
MAM Deployment Models 101, Part II: Windows
This post is part two in a five-part series on MAM deployment models. For previous posts in the series, see: Introduction. Last week, we kicked off a new series with an introduction to MAM deployment models. And when we say “introduction,” we mean it: we want to go...
MAM Deployment Models 101, Part I: Introduction
The momentum gathering behind Mobile Application Management (MAM) has been great for our team. A couple of years ago, we’d have to explain what MAM was before we could even begin talking about App47. Now, people understand what MAM is before we ever talk—and that...