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The AppConfig Community

Written by Bryan Afonso | 11/17/20 8:31 PM

What is the App Config Community? A community focused on providing tools and best practices around native capabilities in mobile operating systems in order to enable a more consistent, open and simple way to configure and secure mobile apps to increase mobile computing adoption in business. Users benefit with instant mobile productivity and a seamless out-of-the box experience, and businesses benefit with secure work-ready apps, with minimal setup required, all while leveraging existing investments in Device Management (UEM/MDM), VPN, and identity solutions. Ultimately, your apps are simpler to configure, secure and deploy. The AppConfig Community is sponsored by industry leading device management vendors:

IBM MaaS360, Jamf, Mobikeiron, VMware, SOTI, BlackBerry, Cisco, Meraki, SAP

How AppConfig Works in the Enterprise

App Configuration: Auto-configure URL/port settings, group codes, email addresses and license keys to eliminate the need to walk the end users through about first time setup.

Security Policies & Access Control: Restrict apps to run only on approved devices and enforce security policies such as: required encryption and data loss prevention at the app level.

App Tunnel: Selectively enable approved apps to use an app tunnel to connect to back-end and corporate networks.

Single Sign-On:Enable single sign-on across enterprise apps, leveraging existing identity management solutions.

Benefits of App Config

For Developers and ISV's, they're able to build enterprise ready apps much faster, while reducing the need for proprietary SDK's and APK's and App wrapping. Allows Enterprises' to leverage existing EMM/MDM, VPN, and IAM investments, provides a better native onboarding user experience with a greater selection of business apps.

EMM/MDM providers are able to leverage OS best practices with a larger ecosystem of business applications, better easier management workflows, and a simplified application configuration system. 

Building Proprietary device configurations for Android OEM's has never been easier. Supporting new same-day launch features, and equal feature se across devices.

Remoterelief

Remoterelief is a certified Zebra Partner, VMware Partner, & RemoteLink Partner, specializing in deployment, remote management, and secure operational data movement of endpoints for retail, and other product and service environments.

Zebra has become the industry leader for front line devices and contact-less solutions, empowering those on the front line of retail, healthcare, transportation/logistics, manufacturing and many other industries to achieve that performance edge, that in term translates to delighted customers, fantastic client outcomes and superior business results.

RemoteLink is a remarkable SaaS system built using modern tools and techniques with a focus on minimizing server resources, limiting points of failure, and optimizing performance, all while supporting hundreds of simultaneous connections per server. It's easily installed and configured, and can be implemented and deployed to help transition from legacy systems and solve new operational data movement challenges quickly and efficiently. To learn more about remote link click here to speak with a RemoteLink specialist.

Sometimes an IT department doesn't have enough digital workspace expertise on its staff to create and maintain these changes, deployments and integrations. Remoterelief's subject matter experts, specialize in assisting clients in setup, deployment, and remote management of your enterprises' vital and important data and physical endpoints.