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.
We’ll See You In San Diego (at the CCISDA Fall Conference)!
Our bags are packed and our tickets are booked. (Okay, so maybe our bags aren't packed just yet.) App47 is headed to San Diego! From Sunday, September 16 through Wednesday, September 19, the California County Information Services Directors Association, or CCISDA for...
What’s Holding You Back from Digital Transformation?
Every year, Deloitte conducts a global survey of CIOs at companies across industries with the goal of understanding how those CIOs operate, and accordingly how their companies are performing in the digital space. As Deloitte points out in their 2018 survey,...
The MAM Revival
Picture this: it's 2008. All across the country, everyone from tech geeks to regular Joes are getting familiar with the new kid on the phone block, Apple's iPhone. Just as the iPhone is all the rage, so too are the apps that people are starting to get familiar with....
What’s Your Shadow IT Situation?
Shadow IT is looming. While most organizations likely realize that they have a problem with shadow IT--apps, devices and the like used without company knowledge or approval--chances are, they're underestimating just how pervasive shadow IT is. In a new piece for...
Custom Deployments Are No Problem with App47
A recent demo and conversation with a medical eHealth company got us thinking: there are a lot of ways to make a mobile deployment work. This company provided a particularly interesting and complicated use case. With a focus on electronic health, they've begun...
A Mobile Device Is Not a Mobile Strategy
“There’s a difference between having mobile devices in your workplace and having a mobile strategy. You might have invested in a thousand devices. That doesn’t mean you’ve mastered mobility. What happens when the devices break? When it’s time to refresh? What about...
5 Back-to-School Apps to Make Your (and your Student’s) Life Easier
The back-to-school season is loaded with to-dos and, for many of us, stress. There's the stress of finding school supplies, the stress of summer slowly fading away, and for some parents, the stress of their students heading off to college for the first time....
4 Ways to Onboard New Users to the App47 Platform
The foundation of any successful enterprise mobility management program (aside from a good MAM solution, of course) is an active user base — which means you have to onboard those users. If you can't get your employees to log in, sign up, and actually start using the...
Five Reasons Why Enterprises Need Mobile App Management
Modern technology has taken communication to a completely new level. Today, you have devices talking to devices, hence the birth of IoT (internet of things). Since everyone is carrying a device with them today, restricting them from using those devices is impractical....
Integrating G Suite MDM with App47
This week, we just did a demo of our abilities to integrate the G Suite MDM with App47. A few of our customers, like Avery Dennison, are doing this already, so we thought we'd take a moment to share why we think this is a good approach to consider. If you've been...
5 Great Mobile Apps to Get You Through the Summer
For many of us here in the United States, we're in the dead of summer. At times, it can feel like there's no clear end in sight. Luckily, for many of us, summer is also a time for us to take a few days off work and kick up our feet and relax. Whatever your plans are...
App47 Is Headed to the CCISDA Fall Conference In San Diego
App47 is headed to San Diego! No, we aren't going on vacation. We've made plans to attend CCISDA's Fall 2018 conference. The California County Information Services Directors Association, or CCISDA, represents IT directors, CIOs, and CTOs throughout all 58 counties in...
Grow Your Product Suite with an Embedded App Store
App47's ability to customize our platform to look (and feel) like a tailor-made solution for your business is a key point of value for our customers. If you happen to have a product that runs on the Android platform, we can take that customization one step further...
Enterprise Integration with App47
Although we've talked about it before, enterprise integration, as we call it, is a critical part of App47's ability to scale quickly while still looking like a tailor-made solution. We hinted at this last week in our post about how App47 appears built to fit your...
App47: Built to Fit Your Business
Just last September, we floated an idea: despite being an off-the-shelf solution, App47 can behave like a tailor-made solution within your business. In fact, we ran an entire series on customization within the App47 platform, stressing the idea that we are able to...
Strengthening Mobility In Your Enterprise
A simple upgrade in technology is not enough today to address the challenges of deploying and managing too many incompatible devices that perform different functions for different users. Those are the words of Lisa London in a piece for IndustryWeek last year. As...
Are You Ready for GDPR?
Are you ready for GDPR? The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is set to go into effect one week from today on May 25, 2018. It's been making headlines around the tech community, including here on our blog, where we've discussed both what the GDPR-related...
Changing Our Agent Technology for GDPR
If your company handles personally identifiable information of any sort, chances are, you've heard about the general data protection regulation, or GDPR. As we mentioned on our blog last week, GDPR goes into full effect on May 25, and will force companies that handle...
GDPR and App47: An Update
On May 25—just three weeks from today—the data privacy landscape will change radically. Three Fridays from now, the grace period for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), passed in April 2016 by European Parliament, will expire, and the hope is that...
Reminder: MAM Isn’t Dead
Moblie Application Managment (MAM) If you've been keeping up on news from around the enterprise technology sector, you might be convinced that MAM, the mobility approach that started it all, is dead. Even on our blog, we've been talking about just about everything...