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The Challenges of Government Enterprise App Stores – This Weds Morning at FOSE
Private app stores are a good answer for government enterprise app distribution and management, but how do you get it done? Find answers this Wednesday at FOSE 2012 during our panel discussion, Developing an App Eco System – Enterprise App Store Strategies. Learn...
No April Fooling: Starting Today, Follow us on Twitter at App47
We're not about to knock our old Twitter handle, @App47Info, but in the interest of precision and concision, we were finally able to grab straight-up @App47. For our friends already following us at @App47Info, absolutely nothing changes. You'll just be seeing updates...
Cult of Mac Helps You Choose Which Apps Your Employees Need
Once again, thanks to our friend Ryan Faas over at Cult of Mac, who has written an informative piece on enterprise mobile app stores, which, as he explains, allow businesses to create curated lists of apps. To be specific: "A curated list of public apps is a great...
A Not-So-Gentle Reminder: The App Store Is Just the Start
First off, big ups to everyone building free app stores using our platform. We expected genuine interest, but the response has really gone beyond what we imagined. We want to profile some of the stores in the near future, but before we go in to show-off mode, we...
Ready to be a Bada$$ Mobile Strategist? Read our latest eBook.
We love MAM, and we are pretty familiar with MDM. Sure, they represent different perspectives of the enterprise mobility spectrum, but we don't think they have to exist in isolation. In fact, we've imagined a world where they work together to create your strongest...
Dealing With Increased iPad Support Cost
IT peers, worried the iPad is going to have a big impact on your budget? Our friend Ryan Faas at Cult of Mac has some sound advicecialis without prescription that emphasizes App47's great expense-saving potential.Money quote:Any new technology tends to come with...
App47 Provides Think Basis With Cutting-Edge MAM Solution for its Plastic Surgery App
We're pleased to announce that Toronto-based integrated marketing services provider Think Basis has been using our mobile application management (MAM) solution to easily deploy, manage, and evaluate a new iPad app developed specifically to help sales professionals get...
This Weds: A Can’t-Miss MoDevDC Meetup
Got plans for Wednesday afternoon? If you're in the Northern Virginia/DC area and you're interested in enterprise appdev, you do now. Get to the next MoDevDC meetup: Mastering the Mobile Enterprise Our intrepid CEO Chris Schroeder will be participating in a spirited...
Take a Deep BYOD Breath
When the term Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) started cropping up, a lot of us thought it sounded like some fun, special day at the office. Sure, we’ve all heard of Take Your Daughter to Work day -- why not Take Your Android or iPhone to Work Day as well? Turns out, it...
TestFlight being bought by Burstly provides good reminder of the difference between consumer and enterprise apps
The mobile appdev community is understandably intrigued by the acquisition of app data usage and revenue data tracking provider TestFlight, by in-app ad management platform Burstly. Looks like a good match with respect to consumer focused apps, but we need to chime in...
App47 Now An Annual Sponsor of MoDevDC!
We had a great time last year at all the MoDev Meetups, and the MoDevEast conference and Hackathon. For 2012, we're taking our involvement to the next level to make sure MoDevDC remains the leading mobile developer Meetup group in the country! App47 is determined to...
Mobile App Privacy Policy: Let’s Get on the Same Page
Data privacy is usually mentioned in the same breath with almost any IT topic, and the ubiquity of mobile apps, indeed their inherent mobility, puts them at the heart of today’s privacy and security conversations. These conversations, we’re finding, are raising a crop...
Addiction is such and ugly word, CNN. We prefer the term “Enthusiasts”.
Amusing, if at times sobering, photo stream showing just how much we love our mobile devices. Click here to view the photos and story.
Conversations in Mobile App Architecture: Round Three – UX and the Data Monitoring Imperative
After talking mobile app security and backend statelessness, it's time to present the third essential concern today’s enterprise mobile app developers should keep top-of-mind: measuring user experience. Anyone in IT with a little gray hair knows that the touch...
Integrating Mobile Apps Across Your Enterprise — Webinar Playback Now Available
Thanks again to everyone who participated in the Wednesday webinar we conducted with Three Wire Systems. People are clearly realizing that enterprise apps are about a lot more than development. The entire app dev lifecycle demands a new way of thinking if an...
App Store Builds are Underway. Top 250 New App Stores in Just One Week!
We expected a bit of initial interest. We expected a little buzz. We didn't expect the overwhelming response we're actually getting on our Developer Edition, the free App47 platform that gives any company the power to create and manage its own enterprise app store!...
“App47 can be a solution . . . “
Big thanks to Cult of Mac blogger Ryan Faas for his recent post detailing the release of App47 Developer Edition, our free enterprise app store platform. Here are some highlights: The enterprise app store concept has been included in many mobile device manage (MDM)...
Our Next Enterprise Mobility Webinar is One Week Away – Sign Up Today
Mobility isn't the future, it's the present. It's not enough to simply develop mobile apps - you've also got to learn how to manage and analyze them. App47 CEO Chris Schroeder, an expert in mobile app management, and Three Wire Systems' CTO Paul Handly, an expert in...
Every Enterprise Deserves a Free App Store
Today, we're proud to announce the official release of App47 Developer Edition, an absolutely free platform that gives every company the ability to deploy and manage its own app store. Now, you can create and manage your own custom-selected suite of mobile...
No More Football? Might As Well Build a Free App Store
So, the game is history (congrats to the Giants on your Super Bowl win).We love upsets! They're so -- what's the word? -- Disruptive! Speaking of disruptive, now that the confetti has finished falling in Lucas Oil Stadium, you're probably wondering what to do with all...
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