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Want to Measure the ROI of Your Enterprise Mobile App? Take a Good, Hard Look at Analytics
Despite the increasing interest in mobile apps at the enterprise level, we’ve realized something interesting in our time within the industry: many companies have no idea what it costs to create and support an app (for the record, from development, to testing, to...
Apple Acquires TestFlight. What’s Next?
Just last Friday, word got out that Burstly, who makes the popular mobile app testing platform TestFlight, was acquired by Apple. This news came just after an announcement that Testflight would be ending its Android support on March 21st, that it was discontinuing its...
5 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Cloud Computing
Less than two years ago, 51% of consumers believed that inclement weather would interfere with cloud computing. Although there hasn’t been a follow-up survey to determine that number today, we hope that the general public has made progress in their knowledge of the...
An International BYOD Policy: Is It Right for Your Growing Business?
A BYOD (bring your own device) policy that enables employees to work outside the office on their own devices works well for many companies, big and small. If you're looking to expand into foreign markets, a BYOD policy provides several advantages, including increased...
Four Mobile Apps to Help You Survive Valentine’s Day
Love is in the air. Or maybe that’s just us imagining the smell of the fresh flowers that are definitely going to be delivered here to the office later this week. Either way, love it or hate it, Valentine’s Day is almost upon us. For many of us, that means date night,...
App47 Celebrates Three Years as Leaders in the Enterprise Mobile App Management Space
It’s that time again. Time to celebrate another year as enterprise mobile app management pioneers. For App47, it's our 3rd anniversary since starting in January 2011. Business these days is great, but on a broader level, we’re seeing very good things across the...
Mobility Is the Future—And It’s Going to Be Everywhere
What’s the definition of mobility? If you ask me, that question used to be a lot easier to answer. We had our standalone PCs, and then we had cell phones, and eventually, smartphones—but that was it. There was a static element in the PC, and a mobile element with the...
The App47 Software Deployment Model Roundup
Over the last few weeks, we’ve covered the three most common software deployment models in use today: the public cloud, on-premise, and managed service. Each deployment model got its own detailed post, but we get it—sometimes you just want a simple, no-frills...
Software Deployment Models, Part III: Managed Service
When we posted part II of our series about software deployment models last week—about on-prem deployment—you may have thought that we were done, and that on-prem and the public cloud were the only two options available to companies looking for an enterprise mobility...
Software Deployment Models, Part II: On-Prem
When we continued our series on software deployment models last week, we discussed a very popular option for most of our clients: deployment via the public cloud. But in terms of available software deployment models, the cloud only tells part of the story. Prior to...
Software Deployment Models, Part I: The Public Cloud
Last Friday, we kicked off our series about software deployment models with a brief introduction to the three main deployment models you’ll find in use today: the public cloud, on-premise, and managed service. Although we provided an introduction to each, there’s a...
An Intro to 3 Common Software Deployment Models
The history of web servers and networks is fascinating. IWeb’s hosting blog has a great history of servers in pictures, from 1981 to today. Going all the way from BITNET mailing lists on the IBM Virtual Machine, to RLX’s first blade server in 2001, and into today’s...
8 Mobile Apps to Get You Through the Rest of the Holiday Season
Even though we’re more than halfway through December, there’s still plenty to do this holiday season. From last-minute shopping, to figuring out what to cook for the office party, to picking up the in-laws from the airport for their week-long stay, the next few weeks...
App47’s 10 Best Blogs from 2013
It’s been a very exciting year for all of us here at App47. Even when we predicted back in January that 2013 would be the year that enterprise mobility arrived, we couldn’t have predicted how well things would go this year. MAM has become a critical part of the...
Mobile Apps Make it Easy to Tackle the Many Challenges of Thanksgiving
To brine or not to brine? That is one of many questions. And let’s just avoid the whole “stuffing vs. dressing” debate. If you’re looking for culinary answers, there’s a cornucopia of great apps to help you with everything from recipe searches and wine pairings to...
Before the Bird, Tackle A Few Pre-Holiday Questions About Enterprise Mobility
We’re all just a little more than a week away from Thanksgiving. We wanted to get everyone’s attention before our brains became overwhelmed by stuffing recipes, Black Friday strategies, and backyard football game plans. As mentioned last week, we’re on a constant...
Taking MAM Understanding to the Next Level for Authentic Enterprise Mobility
We’re trying to find out who said, “to be early is to be on time.” Probably Ben Franklin? Google is vague at best on this one. In any case, the adage applies to App47 and the importance of MAM in the complete context of enterprise mobility management. App47 was...
Lessons in Determination From our Ironman Finishing CTO
Our CTO, Andy Glover, went for a run last night. That might not seem like a big deal. He’s an avid runner, logging double-digits every week. What’s worth noting, however, is that it’s his first run since finishing the Ironman Triathlon in Panama City, Florida this...
Enough BYOD BS
The conversation about Bring Your Own Device has been sputtering along for a couple years now, essentially degenerating into the vanilla sentiment that you need to pay attention to what mobile devices employees bring to work, and how they use them to access sensitive...
Today’s Mobile App Enlightenment: It’s Not “Deploy Then Manage.” It’s “Deploy & Manage.”
Last week, I talked about my mission at MobileCon: I had three minutes to make the case for MAM in a room full of savvy venture capitalists. Getting right to the point, I tried to get right to the point. And I learned that in such a compressed timeframe, there’s...
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