Essential Windows Phone 8, Second Edition

Chapter 13. Enterprise Phone Apps

Much of this book has focused on building apps for the general consumer. Prior to Windows Phone 8, you could build enterprise or internal applications, but you had to certify and deliver them through the public phone store. This was less than preferable for most organizations that didn’t want to have to go through the store to install applications onto phones. There were some odd workarounds to make apps for just the employees of an organization, but they are not required any longer.

Enterprise Apps?

But what is an enterprise app? Generally, enterprise apps are pieces of software that are made by and used by employees within a specific company. They could be anything your company needs, like a time billing system, ...