by cschroed | Apr 20, 2018 | Mobile Application Management
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 except MAM. With...
by App47 | Jun 1, 2017 | Mobile Application Management
The MAM versus MDM debate is not new. We first advocated for MAM on our blog in 2011. But here in 2017, some six years later, it appears that many companies still have yet to make a decision between the two. At the very least, many companies haven’t yet adopted an MAM...
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 | May 20, 2016 | Enterprise App Store, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Mobility, MAM, Mobile Application Deployment, Mobile Application Management
Any company that’s ever been frustrated by low adoption rates of one of their enterprise apps knows just how important it is to have employee advocates. Of course, employees won’t be advocates for apps if they don’t believe the apps are worth advocating for. Creating...
by App47 | Apr 27, 2016 | EMM, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Mobility Management, Mobile Application Deployment, Mobile Application Management, Mobile Application Security
We talk frequently about the features and functionality of the App47 platform. But as most customers know, it’s one thing to hear about how good a product is from the source—and it’s another thing entirely to hear positive comments from a happy customer. Our team...
by App47 | Apr 6, 2016 | EMM, Enterprise Mobility, Enterprise Mobility Management, MAM, MDM, Mobile Application Management, Mobile Device Management
We talk a lot about enterprise mobility adoption rates, the benefits of mobile apps in the enterprise, and even what’s up-and-coming in the industry. But, as anyone who’s ever looked into enterprise mobility solutions knows, there are a number of different deployment...
by App47 | Mar 10, 2016 | EMM, Enterprise Mobility, Enterprise Mobility Management, MAM, Mobile App Security, Mobile Application Management
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%...
by App47 | Feb 25, 2016 | EMM, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Mobility, Enterprise Mobility Management, MAM, Mobile Application Management
Good news for the mobility industry: new research from IDC predicts that enterprise and consumer spending on mobile devices, software, and services will reach $1.85 trillion by 2019, up from $1.66 trillion in 2015. A key component in this spending, of course, is...
by App47 | Feb 19, 2016 | EMM, Enterprise App Store, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Mobility, MAM, Mobile Application Management
When many companies hear “mobile apps,” they immediately think about the most obvious user group: employees. That makes sense. After all, we spend a lot of time talking about the benefits of mobility in the enterprise. From gains in productivity to cost savings over...
by App47 | Dec 18, 2015 | EMM, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Mobility, Enterprise Mobility Management, Mobile Application Management
What better time than the end of December to review the most exciting things that happened this year? A lot happened for App47 in 2015. Our business is growing, our product is evolving, and the future is bright. And every week throughout the year, we’ve taken a bit of...
by App47 | Nov 13, 2015 | EMM, Enterprise Mobility, MAM, MDM, Mobile Application Management, Mobile Application Security, Mobile Device Management
As we mentioned last week, there’s a security problem in enterprise mobility. But the problem isn’t that it’s impossible to have truly secure apps, or that stakeholders don’t value security. Neither of those statements is true. The problem is that many...
by App47 | Nov 6, 2015 | Bring Your Own Device, BYOD, EMM, Enterprise Mobility, Enterprise Mobility Management, MAM, MDM, Mobile App Security, Mobile Application Management, Mobile Device Management
There’s a security problem in enterprise mobility. Don’t believe us? Just ask other organizations trying to address security. According to a global survey of 900 IT decision makers by Gemalto, 95% of IT departments are battling with security challenges in their...
by App47 | Oct 21, 2015 | EMM, Enterprise App Store, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Mobility, Enterprise Mobility Management, MAM, MDM, Mobile Application Management, Mobile Device Management
This post is the last in a five-part series on MAM deployment models. For previous posts in the series, see: Introduction; Part II: Windows; Part III: Android; Part IV: iOS. Mobile Application Management (MAM) is more popular than ever before. Increasingly, clients...
by App47 | Oct 20, 2015 | EMM, Enterprise App Store, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Mobility, Enterprise Mobility Management, MAM, MDM, Mobile Application Management, Mobile Device Management
This post is part four in a five-part series on MAM deployment models. For previous posts in the series, see: Introduction; Part II: Windows; Part III: Android. They say to save the best for last, and while we’ll leave it up to you to decide which mobile platform is...
by App47 | Oct 6, 2015 | EMM, Enterprise App Store, Enterprise Mobility, Enterprise Mobility Management, MDM, Mobile Application Deployment, Mobile Application Management
This post is part three in a five-part series on MAM deployment models. For previous posts in the series, see: Introduction; Part II: Windows. When it comes to MAM deployments, Android is about as no-frills as they come. Unlike Windows Mobile, which requires Symantec...
by App47 | Sep 29, 2015 | EMM, Enterprise App Store, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Mobility, Enterprise Mobility Management, MAM, Mobile Application Management
This post is part two in a five-part series on MAM deployment models. For previous posts in the series, see: Introduction. Last week, we kicked off a new series with an introduction to MAM deployment models. And when we say “introduction,” we mean it: we want to go...
by App47 | Sep 23, 2015 | EMM, Enterprise Mobility, Enterprise Mobility Management, MAM, Mobile Application Management
The momentum gathering behind Mobile Application Management (MAM) has been great for our team. A couple of years ago, we’d have to explain what MAM was before we could even begin talking about App47. Now, people understand what MAM is before we ever talk—and that...
by App47 | Sep 1, 2015 | BYOD, EMM, Enterprise App Store, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Mobility, Enterprise Mobility Management, MAM, MDM, Mobile Application Management, Mobile Device Management
This post is the last in a five-part series on the lifecycle of mobile application management. For previous posts in the series, see: Part I, Introduction; Part II, The Landscape; Part III, Getting On Board; Part IV, The Horizon. We’ve reached the end of the road with...
by App47 | Aug 25, 2015 | EMM, Enterprise Mobility, Enterprise Mobility Management, MAM, MDM, Mobile Application Management
This post is part four in a five-part series on the lifecycle of mobile application management. For previous posts in the series, see: Part I, Introduction; Part II, The Landscape; Part III, Getting On Board. We’ve covered a lot in our series on the lifecycle of...
by App47 | Aug 17, 2015 | Bring Your Own Device, BYOD, EMM, Enterprise Mobility, Enterprise Mobility Management, MAM, MDM, Mobile Application Management, Mobile Device Management
This post is part three in a five-part series on the lifecycle of mobile application management. For previous posts in the series, see: Part I, Introduction; Part II, The Landscape. If you’ve been keeping up with our series on the lifecycle of mobile app management,...
