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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.
Andy Glover Talking App Management and Analytics on the Other Side of the Globe
Our CTO Andy Glover is about 12 hours ahead of us right now, over in Hong Kong explaining to attendees of MoDevAsia 2013 that a top challenge facing enterprise mobile apps is to examine their performance in the complete context of the entire mobile application...
Mobile App Adoption is “Not There”? Please Allow Us to Push Back.
Keeping up with enterprise mobility news, I was skimming a Jack Madden blog post, and about halfway through I had to look back at the top to make sure I didn’t have the date wrong. It said March 22, 2013, but I thought I’d been reading something from the archive. The...
Take Your MAM Understanding to the Next Level With Our Latest eBook
A few weeks back, we released, The Meaning of MAM, the first eBook in our Understanding MAM series. We were planning to hold the second book back until the end of April, but we had such positive response to that initial release that we decided to make MAM in Action...
The Latest Version of App47 is a Hit!
The reviews are in. Clients old and new are singing the praises of the most recent round of App47 solution enhancements. There are plenty of affirmations. Some of our favorites: “The new store capabilities are excellent. I'm taking advantage of them to make the store...
By Popular Demand — We Have You to Thank for Our Latest Solution Enhancements
The latest iteration of our MAM solution owes some gratitude to our users. We added features and enhanced performance based in large part on your feedback -- fine-grain analytics, improved UI and app store improvements and much requested Windows Phone compatibility....
Pardon us, but when it comes to app stores and app management, we’re the one to watch . . .
Getting mentioned in ITWorld this week as a competitor to one of the Top 10 Cloud Startups was definitely cool. But we have to take some exception to being cast in the same light as a company that "provides cloud-based infrastructure that enterprises can use to launch...
Next Monday: App47 CTO Andy Glover Offers a Database Reality Check at the Open Analytics Summit
How do you deal with a new terabyte of data per month? It’s definitely a learning process, and our always engaging CTO is going to share the gory details next Monday, March 25th at IKANOW’s Open Analytics Summit in Arlington, VA. In a presentation entitled Lessons...
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Bringing you the week's highlights in Enterprise Mobility, with MAM, MDM, EMM, and BYOD insights from the industry's premiere pundits and prognosticators, it's App47's Enterprise Mobility Review. Fresh editions are out every Friday at 11 a.m. EST. Watch for it via...
Partnership with SpydrSafe Takes our MAM Security to the Next Level
We like to think our advocacy of MAM speaks for itself -- but at a time when plenty of providers make MAM out to be just an MDM add-on, we keep strengthening it's capability and speaking out about its advantages. We've recently partnered with SpydrSafe, a mobile...
The Meaning of MAM, Mobile Application Management, eBook
We don't want to imply that our explanation of Mobile Application Management (MAM) is the the standard of understanding to which the entire enterprise mobility industry should aspire, but we have absolutely no problem saying that MAM is a lot more than a measly mobile...
The 16th Episode of our What’s Appening Podcast: Old Dogs, New Tricks and the Mobility Skills Gap
Our “Sweet Sixteen” edition of What’s Appening features a spirited conversation with Greg Mummah, product manager for mobility solutions at Rocket Software. Our always engaging CTO Andy Glover conducts the interview, which takes a hard look at how mobility has changed...
The bull’s eye on mobility: Mobile for the masses
Since joining App47, I’ve been laser focused on mobility; consequently, I’m pleased to announce that a new mobile development series has debuted on IBM developerWorks! The inaugural article, ”A gentle introduction to Android”, begins by exploring the mobile landscape...
Just A Couple Weeks Until the New App47 Release
We tried to wait until the release date to make noise about the next App47 iteration, but we can’t keep quiet. In large part, it’s because we’re building in a series of refinements directly informed by customer feedback. We’ve said from day one that you’re among our...
A Big-Box Epiphany — Best Buy Evolution Confirms Mobility Mojo
Anyone who knows me knows I have very specific go-to hardware resources. The idea of hunting through the inventory at some strip-mall store is laughable at best. A few weekends back, however, for reasons rooted in a combination of errand running and time-killing, I...
Nerds Get Revenge on Time-Consuming Mobile App Distribution & Management
"We're busy enough meeting client needs for programming boot camps, corporate training, and app development. We wanted a MAM solution that made it easy to manage all our apps from a single dashboard and get them into the hands of the right people, whether instructors...
The Definition of MAM – Standing Our Ground
Last week, we kicked up a bit of controversy with our post, Myth Busting Mobile Application Management (MAM). The post was picked up by a few industry outlets, generating chatter that both supported and questioned our claim that MAM needs to be defined in terms of the...
Myth Busting Mobile Application Management (MAM)
There’s a half-truth blazing its way through the enterprise mobility marketplace. Organizations are being told, by vendors who are at best uninformed and at worst being dishonest, that having an app store means you have MAM. This deception needs to end, now. Mobile...
Talking MAM: CEO Chris Schroeder Says Plenty in TechDecisions
Writer Julie Knudson recently caught up with our CEO to talk about Mobile Application Management, app stores, and the MAM/MDM connection in the latest edition of HospitalityTechDecisions. Favorite quote: ". . . .a strong MAM solution allows for greater visibility into...
App47 in Action: USA TODAY Optimizes & Monetizes Its Mobile Experience With MAM
Last year, leadership at the nation's largest daily newspaper after the Wall Street Journal recognized an interesting trend: People were stopping by newsstands less and less, opting instead to access content on their mobile devices. Maybe everyone was getting tired of...
The CodeMash Consensus? Best. Conference. Ever.
One of the best developer conferences in the country is great for a few reasons. First, there’s a giant indoor water park (America’s largest, in fact). Second, there’s an amazing congregation of developer minds in one place at one time; that makes for amazing...
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