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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 Outlook On Enterprise Mobile Security?
Last week, we kicked off our series on enterprise mobility with an overview of the many different types of enterprise mobility clients. Ranging from completely inactive (somewhat of a unicorn these days) to full-scale private app deployment, enterprises these days can...
What Type of Enterprise Mobility Client Are You?
Even though enterprise mobility is maturing and evolving heading into 2015, there’s still no one-size-fits-all set of needs in the space. Thanks to differing business structures, industries, client needs, and more, different businesses have chosen to tackle enterprise...
4 Trends on the Horizon for App47 in 2015
The end of the year is getting closer every day, and that means a lot of things for the team here at App47. Certainly, it means that we’re getting excited for visiting family over the holidays and maybe—if we’re lucky—taking a few days off of work. More importantly,...
Happy Veterans Day 2014
Departing from our normal blog strategy for a bit, I'd like to take a moment to wish all of our country's veterans a happy and safe Veterans Day 2014. My father served for 23 years in the military; my brother-in-law served for 21; and my sister just retired from the...
What We Learned at Enterprise Mobility Exchange 2014
Several flights, six time zone changes, lots of handshakes, and a handful of presentations later, the App47 team is back from the 2014 Enterprise Mobility Exchange. And we have to say, we certainly learned a lot. We promised a few weeks ago that we’d come back with...
Our 5 Favorite Apps for Halloween
Halloween is yet another holiday that can be made better through our do-all smartphones. From games to recipes and everything in between, these Halloween apps give us all something to do over the scary holiday (which falls on a Friday this year, by the way). Have a...
Help Us Out By Taking Our Brief Survey On Enterprise Mobility!
Next week, we’re headed out to the Enterprise Mobility Exchange in Las Vegas. As we’ve talked about the last couple of weeks on our blog, we’re excited about this opportunity to learn more about what’s new around the industry and to bump elbows with some of the big...
The Enterprise Mobility Exchange Is (Almost) Upon Us!
Last week, we announced that the App47 team would be headed to Las Vegas for the Enterprise Mobility Exchange on October 27-29, 2014. And with the conference a little more than a week away, we thought we’d take another opportunity to talk a little more about our game...
App47 Is Headed to Vegas! (for the Enterprise Mobility Exchange)
We have exciting news, everybody: App47 is headed to Vegas! No, we’re not planning a bachelor party or going to see a Cirque de Soleil show. We’re headed to Vegas to attend the Enterprise Mobility Exchange, a three-day event that brings together 100 CIOs, VPs and...
What’s Your Ideal Solution for Identity Management?
Ask any business these days what their biggest concern is, and we think you’d be hard pressed to find one that didn’t mention security. With more devices, apps, and logins than ever, security is top of mind all across the enterprise. One security dilemma we’ve run...
Why Mobile App Analytics Are Almost at Critical Mass
The other day, someone asked me what needs to happen before mobile app analytics are relevant on a broad scale. I didn’t have to think for long before responding that the time he was asking about is just around the corner. For MDM, the point of critical mass was when...
How Much Will Your Mobile App Cost?
Browsing LinkedIn, I recently came across an article I thought was worth sharing: “How Much Your Mobile App Costs.” Though as Mobidev notes, ‘vague’ is often used to describe the costs of a software product, it’s not altogether impossible to tell how much time and...
Commerce-Based App Stores 101
One of our long-standing customers, ProPack (formerly known as CloudLink), is a great partner of ours. For one of their projects, ProPack, a productivity app provider for Android, needed an app store. Their needs were unique, however, because they also wanted to...
2 More Ways Companies Are Using App47
A large food manufacturer uses App47 to curate useful apps for producers all over the country. Businesses can use App47 to do A/B testing of apps, in real-time. And many of our clients use App47 to streamline app deployment and app store enrollment across their...
The State of MAM in 2014
2014 has been a very exciting year for us. We’re growing, which is always a plus. But there’s more to it than that. All around the industry, there have been continued signs that mobile apps and MAM are in the big leagues, from Apple’s acquisition of TestFlight earlier...
Business Phones: iPhone 5s or Galaxy S 5?
When it comes to every day work, there is one thing every business woman needs: her phone. Two of the best made-for-business phones on the market today are the iPhone 5s and Galaxy S 5. So, which one is right for you? It could come down to just one feature or many....
Our 5 Favorite Back to School Apps
Most of our work here at App47 revolves around the enterprise and mobile apps for large businesses. But hey—we’re parents too. And with the startup of school just around the corner (or already passed for some), we thought we’d take a minute to shift our focus and...
BYOD an IT Manager Can Get Behind
Mel Leith of Cognisec, a single sign-on IT solutions provider, recently wrote an article that we felt compelled to comment on. The article—“Hassle Free BYOD”—covers a BYOD solution that’s more forward-thinking than many solutions you may be familiar with. Rather than...
Judging the Impact of BlackBerry’s Big Move
BlackBerry announced in June that users of its BlackBerry 10.3 operating system will have access to the 240,000 Android apps in the Amazon Appstore. BlackBerry CEO John Chen said the move satisfies two needs: greater app availability for customers and enhanced...
Yahoo Acquires Flurry—But What About Your Data?
Just a couple days ago, Yahoo announced that it would be purchasing Flurry, a mobile analytics, monetization, and advertising company. This is big news for a lot of reasons. To start, congrats to the Flurry team—well done! This is undoubtedly one of the most exciting...
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