Kony Management User Guide: App Management

App Management

Kony EMM allows the administrator to control the app usage of device users in several ways. Kony provides an App Store where all the Enterprise Apps required by employees of the company are stored. Administrators can add apps to this store, attach them to categories and also distribute them from here to targeted individual device users.

App Management also allows the administrator to inject policies into these apps so that their usage can be controlled as per the IT policies of the company.

App Management also allows the creation of Categories to which apps can be assigned. This helps users to find requisite apps more easily.

App Management currently supports the following platforms:

Important: Browser apps are not supported as Enterprise apps.

iOS phone devices
iPads
Android phones
Android tablets
Windows Phone 8.x

Note: For Windows Phone 8.x apps, only C# XAML based apps are supported for wrapping and signing.

No other platforms are currently supported.

App Classification

Apps which are downloaded directly through public app stores such as Apple App Store or Google Play are referred as Public Apps. These include apps such as Facebook, Twitter, Evernote and so on.

Apps that are uploaded by the Admin into the Enterprise Store and distributed from there to devices are Enterprise Apps. These would include apps built by the company or custom built for the company to be distributed among employees. It can also include apps, which are specifically licensed to be distributed. For example: Consumer Goods companies provide a mobile based sales tracking application to their sales people. This is a classic enterprise app as it is built by the company for internal usage.

Some apps available on Public App Stores are again specifically made available through the Enterprise Store. In this scenario, these apps are also considered as Enterprise Apps.

App Management module allows you to store and manage all versions of the apps that you wish to install, update or remove from the devices.

Managing Apps

Managing applications includes: