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Wishing You a Great Fourth From App47
Couldn't make it to the fireworks stand before the cookout? Wondering what beach to hit over the long weekend? How about tips for achieving steak-grilling perfection? All those Independence Day priorities have mobile apps. Seriously, you can pull a full-blown...
Does building your own app store mean you can put BYOD concerns to bed?
The short answer? Yes. Someone has to say it: Let’s acknowledge that the lingering workplace concern about Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has gone on long enough. The simple truth is that BYOD is no longer worth worrying about. Enterprise mobility innovation as...
If MDM is Superman, MAM is Batman. (You decide who’s cooler.)
Rob Patey wrote a blog post earlier this week equating Mobile Device Management with the Man of Steel himself. He conjures up cool imagery, with mobility playing something of an IT nemesis -- but a noble nemesis that will ultimately benefit users. As he says: Users...
An Enterprise Mobile App By Any Other Name . . .
Boundaries are being drawn in the app dev world. Champions of consumer apps, advocates of enterprise apps -- they’re forming distinct camps, and the implication is that each requires different developmental approaches, but for us, mobility is mobility is mobility....
To Reiterate, MAM Means More than Deployment
A StateTech article from earlier this week offers sound advice about how to choose MAM software, and while it tees things up nicely, we need to offer some follow through. As we suggest in the comments: Deciding to go with a MAM solution is a first step, but along with...
What’s Appening Episode 20 — How Are Government & Enterprise Handling Mobility? Windward ITS CEO Sean McDermott Explains
In the latest episode of What's Appening, App47 CEO Chris Schroeder sits down with Windward IT Solutions CEO Sean McDermott for a heavyweight conversation on enterprise mobility. Government agencies and top-tier corporations alike are embracing mobility -- and many...
Full systems management for enterprise mobility? That’s right and it’s from App47.
We're happy today to proclaim the distinction that App47 has evolved from humble beginnings as a Mobile Application Management (MAM) innovator, into a full-tilt enterprise mobility systems management solution provider. We think the progress is worth noting, because...
Zynga Troubles Demonstrate the Risk of Putting Too Much Stock in Mobile App Downloads
It’s’s been a tough week for Zynga. The Farmville founders had to show 520 people the door, and will be closing offices in Dallas, New York, and Los Angeles. As explained in Mike Snider’s article in USA Today: Two troubling trends have hit Zynga; for starters, fewer...
What’s Appening, Episode 18 – Breaking Down BaaS with Kinvey CTO Morgan Bickle
For today's podcast, App47 CTO Andy Glover sat down with Kinvey CTO Morgan Bickle to talk about Backend as a Service, better knows as BaaS. True to form, Andy wastes zero time in asking Morgan just what the heck that is. The answer, of course, requires a bit of...
IntegriCell Adds Serious Muscle to App47’s MAM Security Capability
Thanks to our just-announced partnership with IntegriCell, we now have another dog in the enterprise mobility fight -- SyncDog, to be specific. That's the name of the company's IT security correlation solution, and it means a big enhancement to all the apps deployed...
App47 CTO Andy Glover Takes the Hill
Capitol Hill, that is. This week he again participated in the Association for Competitive Technology's (ACT) Annual Fly-In. Upwards of 50 top tech execs met with DC representatives of Silicon Valley companies determined to learn about the potential impact that pending...
Going Global: Let’s Expound on App47 Evolution with USA TODAY
The weather’s finally getting warmer (with overdue consistency). That’s typically been the time where we take a look at how the enterprise mobile app industry is evolving, as seen through the lens of how our own clients are managing their mobile application interests....
App47 an “Industry Pick” by SaaS Newswire
We wanted to send a quick word of thanks to SaaS Newswire, a Reston, VA-based information source committed to helping "technology professionals and journalists in technology forums by giving them one dedicated newswire and online source for SaaS companies [and]...
Latest What’s Appening: App47 CTO Andy Glover Details His Trip to China and Hong Kong with MoDevAsia
A kid in a candy store has nothing on Andy Glover at MoDevAsia last month. He was in one of the world's mobility hotbeds -- where consumers demand the latest devices with a frenzy that's way ahead of any curve we have stateside. Curiously, however, enterprise mobility...
With Enterprise Mobility, The Federal Government Leads the Way (Seriously)
The popular perception of IT within Government might be one of glacial innovation and even slower adoption -- but we think the Feds are getting a bum rap. When it comes to embracing enterprise mobility, Uncle Sam is no wallflower. In fact, he’s ahead of the curve. Our...
App47 CEO Chris Schroeder In the Spotlight on Latest Episode of What’s Appening’
It's time again for us to turn the proverbial podcast tables on our CEO, Chris Schroeder. While he typically handles hosting duties, for this episode he's the special guest, taking time to talk about App47's strong start to 2013. This first quarter has been noteworthy...
Less is more! CTO Andy Glover taking a swipe at mobile app dev design.
Our CTO Andy Glover is featured this week on the IBM developerWorks blog, where he offers advice on how to engineer mobile apps. He emphasizes the need to break from web app thinking. It makes sense when you consider that mobile app users are -- understandably -- on...
App47 User-Driven Enhancements Continue with Self Service Registration Capability
We recently discussed crossing a significant threshold as Mobile Application Management solution providers. Two years ago, we launched our platform based largely on solid experience and solid intuition about what MAM should entail. As of this year, however, we started...
My MoDevAsia Ah-Ha Moment? Asia Means Major Opportunity for Mobility
Just back from an amazing trip to MoDevAsia, taking in the experience that is Hong Kong and touring mainland China as well. That represented the ends of a kind of mobility adoption spectrum for the continent, with HK representing that wide-open market, ripe with...
App Store Options Abound
Our CEO Chris Schroeder snagged a guest post over at the blog of our friends Big Nerd Ranch. They asked him to talk about one of his favorite topics (besides lacrosse and computer science) -- the diversity of enterprise mobile app store options that exist beyond the...
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