Blog Category: Enterprise Mobility
With a wealth of experience in enterprise mobility, App47 CEO, Chris Schroeder, and others share their knowledge and insights about how mobile applications can empower employees can do their jobs from anywhere using a variety of devices.
Gartner Report: Unmanaged Devices Driving MAM Adoption
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...The Enterprise Mobility Lifecycle: “Progress, Not Perfection”
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...The Transition to the Embedded App Store Is Not as Complicated as You Think
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...App47 Turns 7
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...The Industries Leading the Way In Mobility Adoption
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...Highlights from Enterprise Mobility Exchange’s 2017 Industry Insight Report
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...Building a Mobility Strategy, Part III: Identifying Your Users
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...Keeping Tabs on the Pillars of 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...Highlights from App47’s Trip to Mobile World Congress 2017
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...A New Era: The Enterprise Machine
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...Will IoT Change the Face of 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...Study Finds Many Businesses Don’t Have a Mobility Strategy
More businesses than ever are deploying apps for their employees to use. That should mean that those businesses have a strategy for which apps to deploy and why—right? Not so fast. Though a new study from Adobe found that the majority of departments (62%) think it’s...The 3 Biggest Obstacles to 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...Are You Marketing Your Apps to Employees?
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...What’s Your Dialpad Solution?
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...Solving Enterprise Mobility’s 3 Biggest Challenges
In a perfect world, companies would be able to move from ideation to execution of a mobile app program in a matter of days. But, as anyone who’s ever implemented a company-wide program knows, there are bound to be challenges and obstacles that extend the process. In a...5 Insights on Enterprise Mobility from the Enterprise Mobility Exchange
The Enterprise Mobility Exchange (EME) has long been a forum for companies implementing mobility strategies, as well as companies like ours which help enable enterprise mobility. As it turns out, they’re also a great source of insight on the state of enterprise...What’s Next After Security In Enterprise Mobility?
A new study released by RightScale last month delivered big news about cloud computing: security is no longer the number 1 challenge related to deploying cloud solutions. Last year, 28% of IT professionals surveyed cited security as a challenge to cloud, while 27%...Lessons from Mobile World Congress: “Mobile Is Far More Than Mobile”
Mobile World Congress wrapped up earlier this week, and although we didn’t make the trip across the pond to Barcelona, we’ve been keeping a close eye on this year’s events and insights. MWC 16 didn’t disappoint in terms of new tech–from...Follow Us!
