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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.
Gartner Says Enterprise App Stores a Top Tech Trend for 2013
It might be too early to start putting up Christmas decorations, but it's not too early to start making predictions for the year ahead -- especially when those predictions speak favorably about one of our core offerings. Patrick Thibodeau at ComputerWorld ran down...
App47 Provides the Mobile Application Management Power for Fixmo’s New AppZone MAM Solution
You probably already know we're tight with Fixmo (check Episode 6 of our What's Appening podcast for a great conversation about Mobile Risk Management with Fixmo CMO Tyler Lessard and CSO Dan Ford). The latest news is that we've partnered with Fixmo to help deliver...
Our Oct. 24 webinar with Mobile Reach will get your app dev out of first gear.
It's time to build that enterprise mobile app! By now, we figured everyone would have one. In fact, we were worried about performance problems caused by too many hasty builds. But it turns out that it's hesitancy, not haste, that's holding up enterprise mobile app...
In the Midst of Mobile App Management Mania, Chris Stops to Share Some Entrepreneurial Insight
App47 is rolling ahead on our Mobile Application Management mission, and we're just about ready to announce some cool new features and functionality. More details are coming, but anyone who might like a "no-coding-required" approach to MAM, or knows their way around...
Missed MoDevTablet? Fear not! From enterprise mobility to tablets and television, it’s all here.
If you couldn't make it to MoDevTablet, or if you made it but couldn't absorb every drop of delicious info, MoDevDC has good news. All the MoDevTablet talks are now online. Check out great discussions on BYOD, the explosion of mobile in government and enterprise (as...
The prescription for Dr. Rounds mobile app success? A healthy dose of App47.
There's a great new app popping up on the tablets and smartphones of physicians, surgeons, and nurses everywhere. Dr. Rounds is transforming mobile devices in to effective medical instruments that can quickly capture critical patient-encounter info, with specifics on...
Recommended Reading? The Latest App47 Update!
Keep an eye on your in-box for the latest delivery of our quarterly e-newsletter. We're putting the wraps on a great quarter, and have lots of good news to share. Not to get too specific, but we're talking thousands of app stores, millions of events being processed...
Andy Glover Gets Real at MoDevTablet about HTML5 and PhoneGap
If you couldn't make it to MoDevTablet a couple weeks ago, you missed an outstanding knowledge-sharing environment. A highlight for us was the presentation by our CTO, Andy Glover, about HTML5 and hybrid platforms like PhoneGap. The good news is that the MoDev folks...
This Week on What’s Appening – Examining the Meaning of MEAP in Today’s Mobile Marketplace
Our irrepressible CTO Andy Glover sits down with Justin Boeckler, Product Architect at MobileReach to discuss the notion of the Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP), and its applicability in both consumer and internal organizational contexts. Justin and...
Hey, Who You Callin’ Little?
We have to say thanks to TechTarget for chronicling our decision of Loggly over Splunk with respect to wrangling our machine-generated log files. As the article reveals, we went with Loggly -- but not necessarily based on their small size alone. True, we're among the...
This Week on What’s Appening: What do iPhone 5 and iOS 6 mean for developers?
Everyone's talking about the long-awaited iPhone 5, especially from the consumer POV. Aside from a larger screen and thinner frame, however, we're wondering how the device will impact enterprise mobile app development. App47 CEO Chris Schroeder had a good time...
MoDevTablet and Hackathon: The App-termath
To say we had a good time at MoDevTablet last Friday would be like saying we think enterprise mobile apps might have some impact on performance, productivity and profitability. True to form, Pete Erickson and his pals know how to throw an outstanding app-centric bash....
Understanding App Store Upkeep — Simple Isn’t Easy
We’re noticing a trend with respect to enterprise app stores, one that's encouraging because it demonstrates increasing endorsement of app stores themselves, but one that’s also concerning because it might be clouding perspective on what’s really required for app...
This week on What’s Appening: Frank talk on Federal mobile security with Three Wire Systems CTO Paul Handly
Within the past 18 months, the corridors of Capitol Hill have seen Blackberry take a backseat to BYOD. When the Federal government first went mobile, field workers were outfitted with agency provisioned devices -- usually at considerable expense, and with very...
App47 Summer Lecture Series: Congrats on building your app store. Now the real work begins.
We still have a few weeks left to round out our Summer lecture series on Mobile App Management. Today, we dig in to what has to happen after you’ve built your app store in order to ensure successful ongoing operation. It’s one thing to take a bunch of apps, put them...
App47’s Summer Lecture Series: An AD/LDAP Integration Explanation
We like to think (and a pretty consistent flow of user feedback suggests) that we’ve made it easy to stand up an app store. This, in turn, makes it easy for your people to download and install the mobile enterprise apps they need to become a mighty mobile...
What’s ‘Appening Podcast: Native, Hybrid & HTML5 — A Stark Contrast
CTO Andy Glover talks it up with Jonathan Stark, respected author, mobile consultant and web evangelist who is convinced that wireless computing can transform every aspect of society. His books about building mobile apps for iOS and Android are recognized as industry...
The App47 Summer Lecture Series Continues — Security in the New Era of Enterprise Apps
When is an enterprise app not an enterprise app? When it’s not an app for the enterprise. Confused yet? Let’s clarify. Enterprise apps have been on a tear, helping organizations energize their mobile workforce and unlocking all kinds of productivity potential. Now,...
Chris Talks Up Corporate App Store Value for ZDNet
What are the advantages for a company that bothers to build its own app store? ". . . simplified app distribution is just one of the benefits that stem from the fact that internal appstores are a curated list of pre-approved and vetted apps." So says our CEO, Chris...
App47 VPP Infographic Gets Kudos from Cult of Mac
Thanks to Ryan Faas over at Cult of Mac for giving our VPP infographic some extra attention. It's good to know that others empathize with VPP-induced frustration, and are looking for a better way to handle their enterprise mobile app purchase deployment. As Ryan...