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Creating and maintaining a corporate app store: Strategies for success
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Will a corporate app store benefit your organization?
Tom Nolle explains how to determine whether a corporate app store makes sense for your organization. Read Now
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Streamlining the deployment of a corporate app store
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Building an app store without breaking the budget
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Editor's note
It's no secret: Online application stores have become a huge part of the consumer IT economy. Now many businesses are considering building their own in-house stores to make approved applications available to their employees, partners and customers. In fact, by 2017, about 25 of all companies will deploy corporate app stores, according to a survey by research firm Gartner Inc.
But reaping the rewards of an in-house app store requires careful planning and constant maintenance. This guide offers expert advice for launching an in-house app store that works for business managers, IT teams and end users alike.
1App stores: Maintenance, users and corporate progress
Learn how corporations have maintained application stores in this section. App vendors and users share status updates on how the app stores have worked this far, how well users are fairing and what the future holds for corporate apps.
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Manage change and seek user input to maintain app store
This last feature in a series on creating a corporate app store offers advice on maintaining the store. Read Now
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Corporate app store lets developers share knowledge
Appcelerator lets developers buy and share software components in a corporate app store environment. Read Now
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Corporate acquisition to yield unified enterprise app store
BMC, RES Software and other vendors offer enterprise app stores akin to Apple's Mac App Store to deliver apps. Read Now
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App store use is increasing with mobile-ready manufacturers
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2About corporate app stores
Learn some common and not so common terms that revolve around corporate application stores. Find out about vendors and technologies in this glossary section.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon. Read Now
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Application
An application, also referred to as an application program or application software, is a computer software package that performs a specific function directly for an end user or, in some cases, for another application. Read Now
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Application program interface (API)
An application program interface (API) is code that allows two software programs to communicate with each other. Read Now
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Bring your own apps (BYOA)
Bring your own apps (BYOA) is the trend toward employee use of third-party applications and cloud services in the workplace. BYOA, like the BYOD trend towards user-owned devices in the workplace, is an example of the increasing consumerization of IT. Read Now
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Bring your own device (BYOD)
BYOD (bring your own device) is the increasing trend toward employee-owned devices within a business. Smartphones are the most common example but employees also take their own tablets, laptops and USB drives into the workplace. Read Now
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Compliance
Compliance is the act of being in alignment with guidelines, regulations and/or legislation. Organizations must ensure that they are in compliance with software licensing terms set by vendors, for example, as well as regulatory mandates. Read Now
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Enterprise app store
An enterprise app store is a web portal through which end users can access, download and install corporate-approved software applications. Read Now
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IT consumerization
IT consumerization is the blending of personal and business use of technology devices and applications. Gartner traced the trend to the dot-com collapse, when enterprise IT budgets shrank and many IT vendors shifted focus to the potentially bigger consumer IT markets. The result has been a change in the way technology enters the marketplace. Read Now
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Mobile device management (MDM)
Mobile device management is software that allows IT administrators to control, secure and enforce policies on smartphones, tablets and other endpoints. Read Now
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Security
Security, in information technology (IT), is the defense of digital information and IT assets against internal and external, malicious and accidental threats. Read Now
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Virtual private network (VPN)
A virtual private network (VPN) is programming that creates a safe, encrypted connection over a less secure network, such as the public internet. A VPN uses tunneling protocols to encrypt data at the sending end and decrypt it at the receiving end. Read Now