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Signs Your Mobility Management Solution Is Out of Date (and Why App47 Isn’t)

Worried that your mobility management solution is out of date? You should be. Writing for Mobility Management Solutions Review, tech writer Daniel Hein walked through just that issue, detailing four signs that your mobility management solution may be out of date. This is good information, of course, because as Hein states, “legacy mobile device management solutions aren’t […]

Happy Halloween from the App47 Team!

Let’s face it: very little about 2020 has been normal. Unfortunately, Halloween–in most parts of the country, at least–is included in that statement. Due to the pandemic, all around the country, Halloween is likely to look very different this year. Trick-or-treating (at least as we normally know it) is out, and large gatherings are pretty […]

New Study Evaluates How Gen Z Spends Time With Mobile Apps

If you want to know how best to position your company’s IT infrastructure to prepare for the workforce of tomorrow, it’s probably best to start by taking a closer look at the usage habits of the up-and-coming generation. A new study by mobile app analytics provider, App Annie, does just that. The study, “How to […]

What Makes for Good Mobile App Design?

What makes for good mobile app design? Or, more accurately, what types of things grab our attention when we’re using mobile apps? Aalto University in Finland recently conducted a study regarding mobile app design, and the results regarding what grabs attention and what doesn’t may surprise you. Researchers in the study used a number of […]

Managing Security Risks In a Work-From-Home World

According to a recent industry survey, some 80% of employees said that they do not want to return to the office full-time. As a recent article in Help Net Security notes, “the COVID-198 pandemic has clearly changed the way people work,” which has, as we all know, “created security challenges… as employees are increasingly using […]

5 Mobile Apps for a Safe Halloween 2020

We get it: pretty much nothing about 2020 is normal. And yet, if you’re anything like us, you’re probably trying to find ways to make everything feel a little bit more normal. Upcoming holidays–Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Hanukkah–seem to provide the possibility for a little bit of normalcy in this crazy year. Even though the first […]

Mobile Apps: A Good Way to Train Your Workforce?

By now, we think it’s safe to say that most white-collar workers utilize some type of technology in the workplace. Whether that’s legacy technology like desktop computers, or newer but still ubiquitous mobile devices, or IoT equipment at leading-edge firms, our sense is that most people in a corporate setting use some kind of technology […]

More COVID-19 Tracking: Telehealth Goes Mobile

Promoting better communication between squad leaders and their soldiers. Managing employees inside a 16,000-person organization. Contact tracing in the middle of a pandemic. What do all of these things have in common? They’re all accomplished using mobile apps. Ever since the invention of the smartphone (incidentally, around the same time we launched App47), businesses have […]

Mobile Apps Bring COVID-19 Tracking to the Workplace

Last week on our blog, we talked about how the U.S. Army is deploying a new mobile app to squad leaders in an effort to help them better connect with soldiers under their command. We always like seeing innovative new uses for mobile apps in the “workplace,” wherever that may be, and last week was just […]

Mobile Apps: Coming To A U.S. Army Squad Leader Near You

Here on our blog, we talk regularly about the advantages of deploying mobile apps in the workplace: they help you meet employees where they are, they make your entire organization more productive, and they provide you with critical data about how people in your company are engaging with essential tasks, to name just a few […]