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Introducing AppCentral’s Developer Solutions

by Ken Singer

We’ve all seen the explosion of apps in the marketplace. A recent Pew Internet Center study found that 35% of Americans carry smartphones, and more and more smartphone users are turning their devices into a workplace tool. As more companies realize the benefits and efficiencies of their employees utilizing mobile devices, the demand for Business to Employee (B2E) apps will continue to explode. Mobile app developers are already enabling the first-wave of this B2E revolution. To accelerate this opportunity we are excited to announce the launch of the AppCentral Developer Solutions, a free resource for developers that provides the tools needed to build, deploy and manage mobile enterprise apps.

The history of mobile apps has its roots solidly grounded as a consumer technology. While slower to emerge, enterprise mobile app development is gaining traction. ABI Research predicts that there will be 830 million active enterprise mobile app users by 2016. Also, in a recent survey we conducted of 300 enterprise mobile experts and IT professionals, we learned that 60% of respondents reported plans at their company to build at least one mobile app for internal use.

Enterprises have different requirements than consumers, yet their employees still expect ease-of-use and simple functionality. Companies have told us they need deployment solutions that ensure the right employee has access to right app, seamless updating capabilities that won’t impact employee productivity, and increased security to protect company data.

As a developer, you can take advantage of this opportunity if you know how, and it’s our mission to make this possible. Now, developers have one place to go to help them navigate the new realities of the enterprise customer.

With AppCentral’s Developer Solutions you can:

• Test your enterprise apps in productions for up to 20 users.
• Access development tools including Appcelerator’s
• Create an enterprise storefront to deploy your hottest application including up to 4 updates over a 12-month period.
• Leverage best practices and participate in the enterprise app forum

By having dedicated tools for developers, we are returning to our company’s roots—we started out building enterprise mobile apps for large companies. After completing a few applications for our clients, we learned about how challenging (if not impossible) it was for our customers to deploy and manage apps in an enterprise context. Helping our customers solve this problem became our focus. I’m sharing this heritage only to reinforce a common mantra around here—AppCentral is built for developers by developers. Our corporate commitment and my personal dedication to developers is very strong, and we hope you’ll find this program useful.

Check out AppCentral’s Developer Solutions, which provides the tools and information needed to manage the lifecycle of enterprise apps.