How to seamlessly test and update enterprise apps without affecting productivity?

Description

In most organizations, dedicated in-house apps are a part of the workforce, used by employees regularly. In such a scenario, updating such business critical enterprise apps becomes a crucial task all by itself. Ideally, organizations would want the apps to be properly tested before deploying it in the production environment. Mobile Device Manager Plus lets you perform multi-tier app testing for business critical enterprise apps before deploying them as explained below:

Steps

• On the MDM server, click on Device Mgmt from the top menu and select Groups and Devices from the left pane.
• Click on Create Group as explained here and add a minimal number of devices to the group. This group will act as the test bed for this enterprise app update. It is recommended to have a few devices enrolled with MDM not being used in production environment, to act as test devices in case of subsequent policy and/or app updates in the future.
• Once the group is created, click on App Repository from the left pane. Click on the enterprise app whose latest version is to be tested.
• Now click on Update present under Actions. Upload the latest version of the app which is to be tested.
• Provide a version label and description, if required.
• While adding the new version, you can also modify app-related parameters such as App category, logo etc and then click on Add as new version. The pre-released version is added and now can be distributed to groups/devices.
• Once the new version is added, you can distribute this version by clicking on Distribute App.
• You can now distribute the pre-released version to the test groups.
• While testing if you happen to identify issues and you wish to modify the pre-released version to re-test the app, you can click on Actions and update the pre-released version. You can then redistribute the app to devices and replace the existing version with the latest version on devices.
• After the pre-released version has been properly tested, you can mark the version as Approved. To do this, click on the app name and click on the option Approve present under Actions. 
• Once the version is marked as approved, it automatically gets distributed to the devices which have the older version installed. You can choose to update it silently or distribute it to the App Catalog and let the users update it manually.

NOTE: It is recommened that you view this before deploying pre-released versions.