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The Mission at MobileCon — Three Minutes to Make the Case for MAM
You probably remember the Pythagorean theorem from high-school geometry. If A = B and B = C, then A = C. It’s a tasty bit of mathematical logic that can work beautifully when establishing connections in all kinds of situations. Mobile application management is a...
This Year: A Seat at the MobileCon Big Kid’s Table for Enterprise Mobile Apps
Looking forward to this year’s MobileCon in San Jose, especially because it appears like it’s going to follow through on the strong enterprise mobility focus promised in years past. With respect to communications,an industry so often cited as being on the...
Don’t Settle for a Fifth of App Management Capability
Recently, I attended a conference hosted by a major player in enterprise mobile communications. Typical of these gatherings, it was an energetic, eager crowd. Lots of optimism about the industry, discussion of innovation, and the near-constant buzz about the devices...
What Does MAM Mean to Organizational Operations? In a word: Efficiency
As part of our continuing series on defining MAM beyond technical terms, we’re taking close looks at its impact on various functions throughout an organization. Last week we talked about MAM and marketing. This week, let’s dive in to how MAM is proving to be a...
For Our Friends at Apperian: Some Wisdom on the Free Enterprise App Store Front
We're giving a tip of the MAM cap to our peers at Apperian for getting in to the free enterprise app store game. The always insightful Ryan Faas gave them a nice writeup on Cult of Mac comparable to the one he authored on our behalf about a year-and-a-half ago. After...
The App Store as Brand Builder: What should a CMO know about MAM?
It’s easy to talk about enterprise mobility to an IT crowd. The tech-savvy types want to know what happens under the hood, and understand the way a mobile application management platform benefits enterprise mobility in terms of needs near to a CTO’s heart:...
The MAM/MDM Impact of Apple’s iOS Update – Is it time to call the bluff?
" . . . the new business features in iOS 7 will have a significant impact on MDM/MAM vendors, and Cortado is in the vanguard with support for Apple's upcoming mobile OS refresh.” So suggests a recent ZDNet article by Charles McLellan that details how Cortado’s...
Seven Essential Mobile Apps That Will Help You Tame Autumn Insanity
With the dog days behind us, we’re shaking off the summer mindset. Business, not the beach, is again everyone’s first priority. It’s also high season for family insanity. That means back-to-school responsibilities, coordinating soccer practice with piano recitals,...
Some Fun, Labor Saving Mobile Apps to Try After Labor Day Weekend
The three-day finale to summer is right around the corner, and our thoughts are already tracking toward firing up the grill and knocking back a couple cold ones. But before you fall completely into that long-weekend languor, check out the cool enterprise mobile apps...
Cars.com & Apartments.com Offer a Mobile Application Management Hat-Tip to App47
"Winging a mobile strategy isn’t smart policy. But 'wrapping' up mobile apps is. Today, mobile applications are being designed in a whole new way. In the old, container model, functionality was configured up front, leaving no room to address security or data...
Plenty of HTML 5 Buzz at MoDevTablet Meant We Were Definitely Not Sleepless in Seattle
The end of last week was a West Coast whirlwind of enterprise mobility insight. Spending three days at MoDevTablet, and being able to present on a few different topics, made for plenty of discussions and predictions. For me, the compelling takeaways were prophetic:...
Our Man in Seattle — CTO Andy Glover is Talking It Up at MoDevTablet
If you’re in Seattle for MoDevTablet, you can expect three things: cloudy skies, great coffee, and plenty of enterprise app dev insight from our CTO, Andy Glover. He’s on the schedule a full four times over the next few days, with a series of workshops speaking to...
Throw your favorite enterprise apps a bone during the Dog Days of summer
You probably know we’ve been talking a lot lately about our preloaded enterprise app store. It’s a great place to get started if you’re looking to launch one for your organization. Not only is it easy to stand up, it comes ready-made with a suite of productivity,...
What’s ‘Appening!! Episode 21 – CTO Andy Glover Makes the Connection Between App Plug-Ins and CSI
What does App47 CTO Andy Glover have in common with Ted Danson’s character on CSI? Well, aside from an awesome haircut, they both possess a keen ability to sift through a lot of information and arrive at convincing conclusions. The CSI experts can track down crooks...
You’re 30 Seconds Away from a Super Genius App Store
If there’s one thing Wile E. Coyote possessed (besides the remarkable ability to leave silhouette-shaped holes in the desert floor) it was incessant ingenuity. Give him some roller skates, strap a rocket to his back with a giant rubber band, and he was in business....
Need a Preloaded Enterprise App Store That’s Already Packed w/ Great Apps? It’s a Click Away.
Standing up an enterprise app store with App47 means your organization is ready to realize real mobile advantages with a lot less time, effort, and expense than anyone expected. But once you open the virtual doors to your store, you have to think about what apps...
Attack of the Summer Apps!
Coming down the home stretch of July and heading in to August means we have about one month left to get as much summer as possible. Hopefully, you've had plenty of beach, ballgame, and barbecue time. And whether you're planning to pack up the car for one last...
Still waiting to embrace enterprise mobility? You’re officially out of excuses.
This summer has been conducive to a lot of conversation about the approaching “tipping point” of enterprise mobility. As we’ve noted in previous posts, the Gartner prediction about app store implementation (conservative as we think it is) has plenty of people giving...
A Plug for Our Appcelerator Plug-In
We know plenty of people who have built great apps thanks to our pals at Appcelerator. We’re big fans of their Titanium mobile dev platform. We also work with their solutions directly, and recently had a cool CSI-style breakthrough, writing a plug-in to document an...
Gartner’s enterprise app store prediction is powerful, but why wait four years to build yours?
We have to give the Gartner gurus a bit of good-natured grief: Their prediction from the beginning of this year that 25 percent of enterprises will have an enterprise app store in the next four years might be the safest bet in the short history of of mobile IT...
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