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Why MAM Is the Answer to Current Trends In Mobile Security
In a recent article for TechBeacon, industry insider Matthew David examines how mobility is evolving in a "pandemic-driven work-from-home" environment. In the article, he describes how, in this new work environment, it's more necessary than ever to have a way to...
Consumers Spent a Record $32B on Apps In Q1 2021
According to an industry survey by App Annie, consumers spent a record $32B on apps and in-app purchases on iOS and Android in the first quarter of 2021. This is apparently the biggest quarter since record-keeping began, and is up 40% over the same time last year. On...
Work-From-Home Or Not, Enterprise Mobility Is Here to Stay
It's no surprise: in a work-from-home world, enterprise mobility is a must-have. The companies we've seen be most successful in the unprecedented transition from office life to an at-home workforce during the pandemic have, unsurprisingly, been those with the most...
Survey: Unsecured Cloud Configurations Put User Data at Risk
These days, just about everything relies on the cloud in one way or another. Infrequent as they are, outages of major cloud providers—like the AWS outage last November that knocked out a number of apps and services—serve as a good reminder of just how interconnected...
UK Signals Departure from GDPR
Remember GDPR? Okay... for those of you in IT, GDPR is probably impossible to forget. The EU's General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is a sweeping set of user privacy rules that went into effect in early 2018. We wrote about the new law way back in May of 2018,...
Mobile Productivity Apps See Huge Growth In 2020
We've been saying it for months: in a work-from-home world, good mobile technology is a must for companies of all shapes and sizes. (Just last week, we explained why it's essential these days to ensure that your mobile tech is up to par.) The long and the short of our...
Want Remote Work? Make Sure Your Tech Is Up to Par
According to new research by remote desktop solution provider LogMeIn, IT leaders are increasingly concerned about the security and long-term reliability of remote work tools they put in place at the start of the pandemic. The study, completed in collaboration with...
Google Resumes Updating Its iOS Apps After Months Off
Just last week, we wrote about an emerging controversy unfolding between tech giants Google and Apple: since Apple announced that it would require app "nutrition labels" in early December 2020, Google had updated only three of its 86 iOS apps. Of course, speculation...
The Guardian: Just 3 of 86 Google iOS Apps Have Been Updated in 2021
Late last year, Apple announced that it would require "nutrition labels" effective early December 2020 to help users understand what information apps collect. While many developers have complied, The Guardian reports that only one of Google's 86 apps on the iOS App...
PYMNTS Confirms: With Mobile Apps, User Experience Is Everything
According to a PYMNTS survey about mobile banking apps, more than a third of consumers are frustrated by a lack of functionality with the apps they use. PYMNTS, a news site with a focus on the future of payments and commerce, recently conducted a survey for its 2021...
Revisiting MDM vs. EMM
Despite what you may think, it isn't too late for your company to get into the enterprise mobility game. But understanding the difference between MDM and EMM is critical to making sure that you choose the right solution for your business. In a new article...
Survey: Companies Don’t Have the Right Tools to Manage Mobile Issues
According to an industry survey from last fall, only a tiny fraction--around two percent of all the IT professionals surveyed--of IT pros feel that their MDM or EMM solution gives them the visibility they need to properly resolve mobile issues. This is in spite of the...
Why 5G Will Make Enterprise Mobility More Important Than Ever
We've talked before about how one of the best ways to future-proof your business is by embracing enterprise mobility, and it turns out that that advice is only getting better by the day. As it turns out, the rollout of 5G seems likely to make enterprise mobility an...
Looking Forward: What’s Ahead for App47 in 2021
At the end of each year, like everyone else, we turn our focus to next year. Where do we go from here? Today, with New Year's Eve just a day away, I'd like to take some time to highlight a few key areas that we at App47 will be focused on in 2021. While this doesn't...
Merry Christmas from the App47 Team!
It's hard to believe it's Christmas Eve, but here we are: the Christmas holiday is almost upon us. As we touched on last week, this year has been difficult, but we've still found much to be grateful for as the year has unfolded and we've all had to navigate our own...
2020: App47 Year In Review
2020: oh, what a year. Every year on our blog, we usually spend late December looking back on what happened over the last year and highlighting any exciting developments at App47 or in the mobile application management market. However, fitting with a pattern for 2020,...
5 Christmas Apps to Get You In the Holiday Spirit
We get it: after everything that's happened in 2020, you might find yourself having a hard time getting in the Christmas spirit. Here at App47, we're taking the opposite approach: we're using the difficulties of this year as extra motivation to get excited for the...
Happy Thanksgiving from App47!
From all of us here at the App47 team to you, Happy Thanksgiving! While Thanksgiving--or really, the entire holiday season--looks very different this year, we hope you still find a way to enjoy the holiday this year. In fact, it may be more important than ever to sit...
Survey Finds 95% of Companies See Room for Improvement In Mobile App Security
Think that most companies have their mobile app security procedures under control? Think again. According to a new Guardsquare report, titled "Mobile Apps Aren't Secure Enough, Despite Dev Teams' Priorities," some 95% of employees report room for improvement in their...
Our 5 Favorite Cooking Apps for the Holiday Season
Let's face it: this has been a tough last few months. But at a time when it feels like our country is more divided than ever, and when it seems like there really just isn't much to look forward to, there's one thing that we can always count on to bring us together:...
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