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App47 Summer Lecture Series, Dog Days Edition: Find Your VPP Payback Point
Volume Purchase Programs (VPP) have that “necessary evil” reputation when it comes to enterprise mobile application management. They can be as frustrating as the apps themselves can be empowering, but many resign themselves to suffering along with VPP for the sake of...
Our Latest Infographic Shows How to Pump Up Your Volume Purchase Program (VPP)
If you've ever bought apps by the bushel for your enterprise employees, then you probably know about Apple's Volume Purchase Program or VPP. At first glance, it's definitely a measure better than expecting everyone to buy and manage their own enterprise mobile apps....
App47 Welcomes Standout BI Innovator and Entrepreneur Sid Banerjee to our Board of Directors
As people who pride ourselves on tireless entrepreneurial spirit, we are pleased and proud to welcome a standout example of that energy to our Board of Directors -- Clarabridge and <a hcheap viagra softref="http://www.claraview.com/" target="_blank">Claraview...
Stuff We Like: ClickSoftware’s Great App-Splosion Infographic
If you're looking for a perfect summer Friday time-killer, we recommend sifting through this great infographic conveying the magnitude of today's booming enterprise applications marketplace. It's packed with impressive info: Mobile app dev? Expect it to out-pace...
What’s ‘Appening!! Podcast: This Week We’re Talking Enterprise Mobility in Healthcare with The Healthcare IT Guy
Healthcare is one area where the advantages of enterprise mobility are literally measured by how good we feel. Mobile app innovations and mobile medical device breakthroughs are improving the way medicine works. Developers and clinicians alike are wrapping their heads...
The Velvet Hammer of App Version Updates
Kicking off the first installment of App47's Summer Lecture Series, we want to examine the critical importance of managing app versions and updates. We’re in the midst of working on a platform feature improvement that further streamlines app management, so the topic...
App47’s Summer Lecture Series: Going Deep on Mobile App Management
First, the earth cooled . . . and then there were enterprise mobile apps. Okay, there’s more to it than that, and getting granular on the features and issues solved by Mobile Application Management is going to be our mission for the rest of the summer (and on through...
Ready to develop an enterprise mobile app? Our latest whitepaper is a must-read.
Many people are ready to shout "Mission accomplished!" when their enterprise mobile app is deployed. But deployment is just the beginning of the mobile appdev lifecycle. If you're about to start building an app, you need to think -- from day one -- about managing that...
Candor on App Store Cost and Control
A few days ago, I read and commented on Shane O'Neill's article in CIO.com/InfoWorld prioritizing the five must-avoid mistakes of enterprise app store deployment. Admittedly, I'm an advocate of app stores, especially when they can be easily implemented, with no need...
Cause for Celebration: One Year of App47 Solution Success
In this episode of our What's 'Appening!! podcast series, we turn the tables and make our usual host, Chris Schroeder, the subject of the interview. As founder and CEO of App47, we figured giving Chris a little air time to reflect on the past year, and to offer some...
Plenty of Apps that Add Some Pop to the Fourth
When it comes to America's birthday, everyone starts thinking about what they'll be throwing on the grill. But there are also plenty of ideas about what you can throw on your tablet or smartphone. Whether you need to tend a burger to perfection, pick the right wine,...
What a Difference a Year Makes!
In case you missed our newsletter yesterday, today we're cracking the champagne (well a few beers actually) in celebration of the one year anniversary of launching our App47 mobile app management product! It's been an amazing 1st year and we're thrilled to have a...
The Latest Episode of What’s ‘Appening!! Explaining the Imperative of Mobile Risk Management
Addressing mobile security is easy, right? You just assess the threats, determine your org’s vulnerabilities, and then apply the right risk management solution. Done, right? Instead of generalities, we wanted to dig in to the reality of Mobile Risk Management (MRM);...
The Latest Episode of What’s ‘Appening!! Podcast: Advantix CTO Josh Lipton Gets Real About BYOD
Battles about the meaning of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) rage on, but in the midst of all the debate about locking down what it means, we found one IT pro who'd rather acknowledge its amorphous nature for the sake of moving to discussing practical realities of how an...
It’s Time to Get Serious About MRM
One of the highlights from MoDevDC’s Enterprise Mobility Smackdown podcast was an insight by fellow participant Philippe Winthrop on what the next acronym of note might be with respect to enterprise mobile apps. When asked what's emerging from all the alphabet soup,...
From High-Performance Development Strategies to Accelerated Innovation Timelines – Talking Mobile App Success with Three Pillar Global
Three Pillar Global CGO Bobby Christian talks about dealing with one of the most serious examples of organizational short-sightedness when it comes to application management, and that's waiting until the app is just about finished to start thinking about it. Mobile...
PhoneGap Follow Through — the URL vs. Mobile App Download Debate
A few months back (shoot, it was actually last year!) I talked about PhoneGap and how it is stepping in as a good solution for cross-platform HTML5 frustration. Since then, I get asked a couple of times a week about PhoneGap, its industry perception, and...
First Enterprise Mobility Smackdown Podcast Packs a Big Informational Punch
Our CEO Chris Schroeder recently stepped in to the virtual cage with an all-star lineup of industry experts, pundits, and solution purveyors for an at-times heated debate about enterprise mobility, security, Mobile Application Management, BYOD, and much more....
CloudLink Partners With App47 to Empower Millions of Android Tablet Devices
There are adequate Android tablets, and there are awesome Android tablets. We've been working with CloudLink to make the latter -- and we're making a little noise about it today. Our collaboration with CloudLink entails pre-configuring tablets with applications and...
App47 Impact: Check Our Latest Infographic
For a concise breakdown of how effective App47 MAM solutions can be, download our latest one-page infographic, Think Basis Achieves a New Level of App Performance and Power. It gives you a quick, tasty overview of how easy enterprise mobile app deployment, management,...