App stores have transformed application provisioning and system management in the enterprise. Starting with public mobile app stores from Apple and Google, app stores have moved into the enterprise This Special Report on how to embrace app stores and leverage them for competitive advantage explores the latest trends and approaches to software distribution and management.

Enterprise App Stores

Mobile app stores are changing the paradigm for how enterprises manage and maintain their software inventories. In Enterprise App Stores: Start with a Strategy, we explore the value of private app stores for enterprises that want to control employee software provisioning and offer software products or collateral to site visitors. Find out how shopping carts, social networks and over-the-air updates are transforming enterprise system management.

Mobile App Stores

In a BYOD world, office workers are navigating the public app stores from within the enterprise. In Questions and Answers on Mobile App Stores, we look at how enterprises can turn this practice from a security risk into a new opportunity to bring software management and distribution into the twenty-first century.

Microsoft SharePoint App Store

Mobile and desktop software don’t have a monopoly on the app store phenomenon; enterprise software is jumping on the shopping cart too. In The Rise of the SharePoint App Store, we look at how Microsoft is leveraging its online Windows and Office app stores to give SharePoint developers new flexibility and new opportunities.

App stores are transforming the nature of applications, and their relationship with users. Keep up to date with this and other related trends by following our regularly published Mobile and Workplace research.

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