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 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...

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...

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...

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...