Mobile app management (MAM) exploded in 2012. Will 2013 be the year of mass adoption? We'll find out! MAM topics include app wrapping, app stores, email clients, SDKs, and dual-persona products.
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Google IO is next week, and Apple WWDC is next month, which means that we’ll soon be learning about all the new features in the next versions of Android and iOS. Today I’m going throw around some ideas about how changes in each of these platforms...
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May 08, 2013
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Over the last year Symantec has been making a big move into the enterprise mobility management (EMM) space. Today they’re continuing that effort by announcing several new EMM improvements at Symantec Vision in Las Vegas. In advance of today’s...
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April 16, 2013
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When Jack last checked in with Mocana's Mobile App Protection (MAP) platform last summer it was a more innocent time in the enterprise mobility management space. MAM was just something that was garnering buzz, vendors like Citrix, Nukona, and AppSense...
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April 11, 2013
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In the last couple of weeks we’ve published several articles discussing the idea of standards for mobile app management (MAM) . It turns out that MobileIron has been thinking about MAM standards as well—recently Noah Wasmer, VP of product...
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April 10, 2013
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MAM and MIM are promising technologies for securing and enabling an on-the-go workforce. The more you look at them, however, the more you see potential problems that could prevent widespread adoption. Jack Madden has done a good job outlining these problems...
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April 05, 2013
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For todays episode of Consumerization Nation, Colin Steele and I were joined by James Furbush and Gabe Knuth for a lively show. Here's what we talked about: Samsung SAFE, Samsung KNOX, and Android fragmentation. Jim's iOS experience, iOS mail clients...
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April 03, 2013
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One of the issues that comes up with mobile app management (MAM) is that everyone wants to know where all these manageable apps are supposed to come from . The standard answer is that there are four sources: Basic apps created by MAM vendors, like email...
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March 22, 2013
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It’s been a few weeks since Samsung KNOX was announced at Mobile World Congress , and during this time I’ve had a chance to talk to several KNOX partners and get a few questions answered by Samsung. Since they’re in the news with last...
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March 19, 2013
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Yesterday Blackberry announced that they’re going to offer dual-persona mobile application management for iOS and Android, in addition to their previous device-level management. With this, BlackBerry joins the other major enterprise mobility management...
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March 15, 2013
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Last week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung made news in the enterprise mobility management space by announcing KNOX , a dual-persona framework for Android devices. And by now you’ve probably noticed all of the ads for Samsung SAFE...
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March 04, 2013
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Mobile application management isn’t a cure-all for the problem of controlling corporate assets on personal devices. Users will still need a good deal of convincing and persuading -- or, if you prefer a gentler term, “education.” During...
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February 28, 2013
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Mobile World Congress is starting today in Barcelona, and already there have been major enterprise mobility management announcements from Samsung, Airwatch, and Red Bend. Let’s look at each one of these: (UPDATE 2/25/13 10:00AM PST: More announcements...
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February 25, 2013
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Yesterday Citrix launched two "new" products: XenMobile MDM and the Mobile Solutions Bundle . I’m saying "new" because there aren't actually any technologies making their debut, just new names and SKUs. XenMobile MDM is the new name for Zenprise...
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February 21, 2013
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Anyone even passively paying attention to the EMM space is no doubt familiar with the terms App Wrapping and SDK's (both of which are types of Mobile Application Management). Jack Madden did a good job summing up their similarities and differences , but...
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February 13, 2013
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I’ve been writing about many different enterprise mobility management solutions recently, and one of the questions that comes up is how they handle security for email and attachments. Today I’m going to outline the three most common techniques...
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February 08, 2013
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AppSense just released the first version of their new enterprise mobility management product, MobileNow . You’ll remember that AppSense first started started getting into mobile when they announced DataNow (at the time known as Project Orca) on...
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February 07, 2013
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Most people, myself included, are happy to take the wait-and-see approach to Windows 8. This is partly because we're now only fifteen months away from the end of Windows XP, knee-deep in Windows 7 rollouts, and partly because of lack of inspiration. The...
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January 31, 2013
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Dell has been transforming itself into a software company over the last year, making a ton of acquisitions. The result is a tangle of overlapping products, leaving people to wonder which ones will be consolidated, killed, or promoted. This certainly rings...
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January 29, 2013
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Recently I had a chance to sit down with with Bitzer Mobile ’s product management VP Andy Smith. Bitzer is one of the smaller and younger companies to be offering dual-persona mobile app management. Over the last year we’ve seen a lot of growth...
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January 23, 2013
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Last week I had a conversation with Dan Stickel, CEO of Metaforic . Metaforic is the creator of an “app immune system” product that’s designed to keep apps safe from attacks, regardless of the state of the environment in which they’re...
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January 15, 2013
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