Four major independent vendors in the enterprise mobility management space are teaming up to make their products more appealing to customers by encouraging developers to use system-level mobile device management capabilities rather than proprietary tools. 

IBM, VMware, MobileIron and JAMF Software announced Tuesday that they have teamed up to create the App Config Community — a consortium of enterprise mobility management (EMM) companies all interested in making it easier for enterprises to configure applications using mobile device management software.

The four companies are all competitors, but they’re working together in an attempt to get developers to standardize behind using operating system-level tools to integrate with their management software. In this case, they’re starting by encouraging developers to use the remote application configuration features built into iOS. 

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