by cschroed | Mar 2, 2018 | Enterprise Mobility
The news about enterprise mobility just keeps coming in. But in the context of our recently-announced shift towards embedded app stores, one piece of recent news is of particular interest to us. According to a new Gartner report, described in detail...
by App47 | Feb 9, 2018 | Enterprise Mobility
Ever heard the saying that “perfect is the enemy of good”? It applies to many situations in the business world where quick decisions sometimes trump long deliberations. Still, not too many people would be surprised to hear that technology adoption moves...
by App47 | Feb 2, 2018 | Enterprise Machine, Enterprise Mobility
On our blog over the last few months, we’ve been singing the praises of the embedded app store. Not only is the enterprise app store an exciting way to unlock the potential of your current product lines—it’s also not nearly as complicated as you think. As App47 and...
by App47 | Jan 12, 2018 | Enterprise Mobility
In a few short days, on January 21st, App47 will hit a big milestone: 7 years in business. When we opened up our doors in 2011, the mobile app market looked quite a bit different than it does now. Consider a few milestones: the iPhone was, at that point, just 4 years...
by App47 | Sep 8, 2017 | Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Mobility, Mobile App Security
With more mobile devices being unveiled and used every day, it’s no wonder that mobile security is quickly becoming more top-of-mind for employers, consumers, and employees alike. Today’s mobile security landscape is more complicated than ever. So, where are the...
by App47 | Aug 31, 2017 | Enterprise Mobility
If you’ve ever looked around your business and wondered how your mobility program stacks up to others, you aren’t alone. Thanks to a new survey from VDC Research (shared at Enterprise Mobility Exchange), we now have a “global” view of which...
by App47 | Jul 21, 2017 | Enterprise Mobility
The question of where IT is headed is always a difficult one to answer. Though it often seems that adoption of new technologies in the enterprise moves at a snail’s pace, every year, new tech is introduced that has the potential to dramatically transform the...
by App47 | Jul 14, 2017 | Enterprise Mobility
This post is the last in a three-part series on building a mobility strategy within the enterprise. To read part one, click here. To read part two, click here. Over the last few weeks, we’ve spent a good bit of time talking through the basics of building a...
by App47 | Jun 9, 2017 | Enterprise Mobility
In the quest to implement a successful enterprise mobility program, it can be helpful to have guideposts to reference. While asking, “how will we know if our program is successful?” is a simple way to qualify success, having more specific guidelines in...
by App47 | Mar 10, 2017 | Enterprise Mobility
One week and lots of catch-up sleep later, the App47 team is back from Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017! MWC was a fascinating display of the new and the next in the mobile world. A lot of what we saw on display was consumer-focused—answers to questions like how to...
by App47 | Feb 17, 2017 | Enterprise App Store, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Mobility
Last year, we wrote a blog post about what employees want in enterprise mobile apps. The key criteria were (and still are) simple: employees want apps that work, that make their lives easier, and that are easy to use. Follow those guidelines, and it’s more likely than...
by App47 | Dec 8, 2016 | Enterprise Mobility
We’re living in an era of mobility. Consumers use apps to help track their weight and fitness. To manage airline tickets and Chipotle coupons. To check the latest scores of their favorite teams. And enterprise employees are using apps to help manage inventory, boost...
by App47 | Nov 11, 2016 | Enterprise Mobility
The world of enterprise mobility has already undergone significant change in the last few years. With so many devices in the workplace today, assuming control over all employee devices with an MDM approach would be nigh impossible. Instead, many companies have moved...
by App47 | Oct 7, 2016 | Enterprise Mobility
Despite the fact that employees want mobile-first work experiences, they aren’t getting them. As we recently discussed on our blog, a report by Sappho and Forrester Research found that 55% of companies have implemented three apps or fewer—a far cry from what many...
by App47 | Sep 30, 2016 | Enterprise Mobility
A few months ago, we discussed an interesting idea: in your enterprise, you don’t have users—you have “internal customers.” In other words, rather than treating employees as users who must use your app, you should think of them as customers—people with different...
by App47 | Sep 1, 2016 | EMM, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Mobility, Mobile App Performance
Are you tracking and testing the performance of mobile apps in your enterprise? If you aren’t, you shouldn’t even bother with apps. Okay—so maybe that’s a little dramatic. But the main premise of the statement holds true: if you aren’t tracking the performance of your...
by App47 | Aug 18, 2016 | EMM, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Mobility, Enterprise Mobility Management, Mobile Application Security
Few phrases in the enterprise are as polarizing as “shadow IT.” Shadow IT, which refers to the use by employees of apps or devices that are not sanctioned by the company, is widely debated. Some security professionals view shadow IT as an unavoidable reality; others...
by App47 | Aug 8, 2016 | Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Mobility, MAM, Mobile Application Management
You’ve heard it before: form should never trump function. But often, it does. Consumers have all too much experience with that phone that doesn’t quite work right, or those shoes that look great but wear out too soon, or, apparently, that app that promises the world...
by App47 | Jul 22, 2016 | EMM, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Mobility
As Heather Clancy explained in a recent article for FORTUNE, desk phones chain workers to one location. Businesses need phones, of course, but proprietary telecom equipment is expensive. Business telecom, it seems, is in need of a bit of a reinvention. Cloud startup...
by App47 | Jul 14, 2016 | EMM, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Mobility, Enterprise Mobility Management
According to a report recently released by British telecommunications provider Vodafone, 8 in 10 businesses are betting on the Internet of Things for future success. In fact, as Computer Business Review notes, half of those (4 in 10) are already fully up and running...
