App47 Blog
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.
The Funding Rundown
In case you missed it, we've been crowing a lot about receiving our second round of funding. We think we're a good investment, and are working overtime to make sure that's the case. The announcement garnered some welcome attention in IT industry and business media...
Nine Great Biz Apps
With thousands of apps in the enterprise atmosphere, it's easy to get overwhelmed. We talk to small and mid-size biz owners all the time who understand that apps can be great for running a business; they just don't know where to begin. For us, the nine below are a...
What’s Appening Covers Crazy Enterprise Mobile App Ground With MoDevDC’s Pete Erickson
When it comes to our podcast episodes, most deal with very specific subjects within the enterprise mobile app industry. Our latest, with MoDevDC prime mover Peter Erickson take a radical departure from that expectation. If you're looking for a quick informational...
Props to Pals at Techark Solutions for a Big Microsoft Mobile App Win
Recently featured in our What's ‘Appening!! podcast, Techark Solutions earned some serious app accolades from Microsoft at the 30 to Launch developer competition. Their app, Social Mints, was among a handful of winners from of a field of more than 130 mobile apps....
App47 Announces New Round of Expansion Funding
Today, we're pleased to announce the completion of our $750,000 second-round funding. App47 Investors include: Valhalla Partners, which previously invested $1 million in first-round funding in January 2011, Clarabridge co-founder and CEO Sid Banerjee, Braun Jones,...
Looking for performance enhancement? Don’t miss Wednesday’s MoDevDC Meetup.
If you have any interest in how to manage and measure the performance of your mobile apps (the cornerstone of determining ROI, FYI), then you'll want to snag a space at Wednesday's MoDevDC meetup in Arlington. App47 CTO Andy Glover is going to share some insights from...
CTIA: Realizing the Scale of Mobility and Maybe Creating MAM’s Defining Moment?
As CTIA Wireless 2012 winds down, I’m left with some strong, even indelible impressions of the event and its impact on enterprise mobility. First, a big hat tip to 151 Advisors and the Enterprise Mobility Forum for creating a truly unique environment. Bringing so many...
Influencing Capitol Hill on Behalf of App Dev? It Wasn’t an ACT!
Our intrepid CTO, Andy Glover, spent some time on The Hill this week, working with The Association of Competitive Technology as part of the ACT Fly-in. The objective, as explained by ACT’s Morgan Reed, was simple: “The pace of innovation that is taking place right now...
What’s driving today’s business mobile app builds? There’s a strong social media motivation.
Here's today's Captain Obvious moment: Successful businesses make it their business to understand what customers need. What's not so obvious is finding the places where these customers are congregating. Such is the value of social media, a virtual playground of...
It’s Time to Get Over Mobile Phones
Next Monday, I’ll be speaking at App-Solutely Enterprise, a pre-conference networking event kicking off CTIA Wireless, which is being hosted by CTIA, 151 Advisors, and The Enterprise Mobility Forum. It promises to be a great day of connection and conversation, and I’m...
App47 UnCTO Andy Glover Unhosting the Websphere Unconference this Wednesday at IBM Impact 2012
App developers, if you're in Las Vegas this week attending IBM Impact 2012, be sure to put Wednesday's WebSphere Unconference on your schedule. App47 CTO Andy Glover will be playing emcee (no word on whether he'll be in black tie and tails), and joining along with...
App47 is On the Air – Check Out our New Podcast: What’s ‘Appening!!
It's time to talk enterprise MAM, so after the groans for our bad pun die down (and with respect to the late greats Shirley Hemphill and Fred "Rerun" Berry) we invite you to check out the first episode of our new podcast: What's 'Appening!! - Conversations on...
Measuring Real App ROI? It’s Engagement that Matter$!
We've all heard that urban legend about how municipal water departments experience massive system overloads during Super Bowl halftime. While the legends of poor employees scrambling to find shutoff valves are an exaggeration, there's plenty of truth to the idea that...
Do Your Homework Before You Dis MAM
We're still smacking our foreheads over the outright dismissal of the highly qualified crop of MAM providers that might be good candidates for purchase by Citrix in today's brianmadden blog. Naturally, we're predisposed to the merits of our own solution, but to claim...
A Lesson in Lifecycle: The Real Meaning of MAM
The other week, we kicked off what proved to be a good discussion about BYOD. The inception was, we thought, innocent enough -- the re-Tweet of an article that prompted our friend Philippe Winthrop at the Enterprise Mobility Forum to author a piece the very next day...
Wondering if you’re at risk in terms of data privacy issues? Don’t worry . . . you are.
When it comes to mobile security and data privacy, the answer is -- in no uncertain terms -- yes. There's a lot of conflicting perspective on data privacy priorities in the enterprise mobile app sector right now. Some are in a panic. Others are in denial. As with most...
App47 CEO Shares Mobile App Expertise in Today’s InfoWorld
"The enterprise was not focused at all around mobile apps or enterprise app stores" in 2011, but "in 2012, we're seeing the complete opposite." So says App47 CEO Chris Schroeder in an informative InfoWorld article authored by Paul Krill on the emergence of the...
Today, We’re Pleased to Announce the End of $3 Apps that Cost $12
Allow us to explain: We've just released an improved iteration of our mobile application lifecycle management platform (you can read the press release here for more details). The new release includes some snazzy UX refinements based on user feedback, but the most...
App Dev Pros, It’s Time for a Critical Conversation
On April 18th, we're hosting a timely mobile app privacy policy conversation with Morgan Reed, Executive Director for the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), which represents more than 3000 small and mid-size app developers and information technology firms....
The Impending App Management Boom: When We’re Right, We’re Right
With the end of Q1, we were looking forward to a decent amount of traction with respect to our Mobile Application Management solution. When App47 got started, we considered ourselves the proverbial MAM David facing an overwhelming MDM Goliath (Not that we think it’s a...
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