In February 2018, Google announced some very good news for businesses and OEMs with the launch of its Android Enterprise Recommended (AER) program. The program’s aim being to provide a Google-recommended list of devices that meet a set of enterprise-grade requirements for companies to consult. Devices submitted for AER certification are rigorously tested based on Google’s [...]
February 20th, 2019 — Mobile Mentor today announced it has joined the Android Enterprise Recommended program for Managed Service Providers. The Google™-led program is aimed towards giving customers more confidence in deploying Android™ and ensuring their enterprise mobility deployment is as consistent and as current as possible. Under the program, validated MSP partners are trained on the latest best practices from [...]
“Modern application development is about more than just the user interface. ” Modern applications will connect to a number of APIs and databases. This is true with both web-based and mobile applications. Microsoft has done a great job of simplifying database connectivity in PowerApps. However, if you don’t design your database connections correctly, they [...]
One of the goals of modern software development methodologies, particularly Agile development, is the ability to continually produce working prototypes that can be rapidly updated on the basis of stakeholder feedback. This “rapid prototyping” concept enables developers to build a better product that more accurately reflects the client’s requirements by eliciting feedback [...]
“So far in this series we have discussed the advantage of Microsoft PowerApps for empowering “citizen developers” to build real, usable, useful mobile apps with little or no coding experience. ” With a bit of help from Microsoft’s excellent documentation and a vibrant PowerApps community, building an app is no more challenging than assembling [...]
Disclaimer: This blog post is technical. It speaks to normalization of SQL data and will not be appropriate for non-developers. Second, the goal of this blog post is to explain a method for working with normalized SQL data in PowerApps. The SQL tables, views, and app I created for this blog post are educational [...]
“One of the questions managers will face when looking to build PowerApps is who can build a Power App? ” Sure, Microsoft promotes PowerApps as a platform for citizen developers, but can a non-coder really learn to create PowerApps? I spent four weeks doing an in-depth dive on the capabilities of PowerApps during the [...]
“Microsoft PowerApps is changing the dynamics of what it means to be a Citizen Developer.” The PowerApps platform allows for the creation of mobile apps (tablet, phone, or otherwise) in a web-based user interface with minimal coding needed. Some operations will require several lines of formulas by for the most part though, [...]
What is the difference between mobility and portability? From 1970 to 2010 we saw computing power move from large, expensive back-office infrastructure to smaller, less expensive consumer devices that we all use every day. This unlocked the content we need from our back-office systems (e.g. medical records) to be available on progressively smaller screens. This was the [...]
It’s that time of year that we review the benchmark of where the world of mobility management, specifically Unified Endpoint Management (UEM), is at according to Gartner. I recently posted a similar article on LinkedIn reviewing the magic quadrant, but wanted to share my thoughts with everyone on the subject.Mobile Device Management (MDM)2011 was the start [...]
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