Tepia builds enterprise mobile apps with SSO, MDM, offline sync, security review, training and staged rollout.
Tepia builds enterprise mobile apps for organizations that need SSO, device management, offline operation and a security review before anything ships to employees or customers.
Every Tepia build runs through six phases, Discovery, Design, Development and Testing, Training, Launch and Support, with a milestone at each stage.
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Tepia integrates SSO through Okta, Entra ID, Google Workspace, SAML and OIDC, and ships through Intune, Jamf or Workspace ONE managed app configuration.
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Enterprise apps typically take 6 to 12 months from Discovery to full rollout, with staged pilot groups and training rather than a single launch day.
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HIPAA aware architecture, SOC 2 aligned practices, PCI DSS scoping and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility are built into the design and review phases.
Read: Manufacturing and Plant Floor App DevelopmentIndustry figures Tepia plans around when scoping enterprise work.
Deskless and frontline workers make up about 80 percent of the global workforce, according to research published by Emergence Capital.
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A consumer app has one user type and one download path. An enterprise app has an identity provider, a device policy, a security team with a questionnaire, an integration with a system of record, and a rollout plan across regions or departments. The engineering is often no harder than a consumer product, but the surrounding requirements are what most vendors underestimate.
Tepia defines an enterprise mobile app by five requirements that show up in nearly every engagement: single sign on against your identity provider, distribution through mobile device management or a private store, offline operation for field or plant staff, integration with an ERP, CRM or ticketing system, and a documented security review before launch.
Tepia has built this class of software for manufacturing, healthcare facilities, grocery, IoT access control and home services, and brings the same disciplined engineering to each. Examples are at tepia.co/our-work.
Most buyers asking for an enterprise app already know they need SSO and MDM. What they usually lack is a checklist they can hand to their security team before the vendor selection. Tepia uses the table below during Discovery to settle these decisions early, because changing an identity model after development is one of the costliest reversals in mobile work.
| Requirement | What Tepia typically implements | Decision to make in Discovery |
|---|---|---|
| Single sign on | OIDC or SAML against Okta, Entra ID or Google Workspace; biometric sign in after first login | Session length, MFA policy, what happens when an employee is offboarded |
| Device management | Managed app configuration for Intune, Jamf or Workspace ONE; Apple Business Manager and Android Enterprise distribution | Company owned versus BYOD, whether a private store or public store listing is required |
| Data at rest | Encrypted local database, keychain and keystore for secrets, remote wipe hooks | Which data may live on the device and for how long |
| Data in transit | TLS 1.2 or higher, certificate pinning where policy requires it | Whether traffic must route through a corporate VPN or proxy |
| Role based access | Roles mapped from identity provider groups; server side enforcement on every endpoint | Role list, approval chains, who can see what in which region |
| Audit and logging | Immutable audit logs for sensitive actions, exportable to your SIEM | Retention period, which events are auditable |
| Offline operation | Offline first sync with conflict rules, queued writes, background refresh | Which workflows must work with no signal and for how long |
Tepia’s compliance experience covers HIPAA aware architecture (PHI handling, BAAs with vendors, audit logs, encryption in transit and at rest), PCI DSS scoping with tokenized payments, SOC 2 aligned practices, GDPR and CCPA data handling, and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility. Security questionnaires are answered by Tepia’s engineering leadership, not by a sales team.
Employees use enterprise apps in warehouses, plants, hospitals, basements and trucks. An app that assumes a connection will be abandoned within a week.
The second failure point is integration. An enterprise mobile app is almost always a front end to systems you already run. Tepia’s integration work spans Salesforce, HubSpot, QuickBooks, ServiceTitan, Shopify, Stripe and Square, plus REST and GraphQL APIs to ERP and ticketing systems, and middleware on AWS, Azure or GCP when point to point connections would be fragile. The systems integration page explains how Tepia chooses between direct integration and a middleware layer.
For plant floor and field work, Tepia builds native Android with Kotlin when rugged devices or barcode hardware are involved, native iOS with Swift and SwiftUI when the fleet is Apple, and React Native or Flutter when a single codebase fits both and no hardware specific features are required.
Tepia runs enterprise projects through its six phase process, with more weight on the phases that consumer apps skip. Discovery includes a system investigation of your identity provider, MDM, ERP and existing APIs, user interviews across every role that will touch the app, and a third party integration review. Deliverables are an Investigation Summary, an Interview Summary and User Stories, which your security and procurement teams can review before design begins.
Design produces a design questionnaire, moodboards, a style guide that matches your brand standards, detailed wireframes for every role, and sample designs. Development and Testing runs on Alpha and Beta schedules with a written test plan covering functional, user acceptance and non functional testing, including load, offline and security scenarios.
Training is a full phase, not an afterthought. Tepia runs in person and remote sessions built around user story scenarios, so a dispatcher or a nurse practices the real workflow rather than watching a demo. Launch includes data migration, transition from the old system and Tepia support reps on hand during rollout, typically region by region or department by department.
A Tepia project manager is assigned to every engagement. Design leadership and engineering leadership are US based, and the engineers are hand picked individuals working in US overlapping hours. Details are at tepia.co/process.
Large consultancies staff enterprise mobile projects with rotating teams and junior engineers. Tepia staffs them with individually sourced engineers who stay on the project, led by US based design and engineering leadership with thirteen years of disciplined engineering behind them. The Participant Media Director of IT put it this way: “If I could build an in-house team, it would be exactly like them.”
Tepia also builds for retention, which in enterprise terms means adoption. An internal app that employees stop opening after the training session has failed regardless of how well it passed the security review. Tepia designs enterprise apps with the same attention to first use, speed and clarity as a consumer product, because the people using them are the same people.
If you are comparing an enterprise build with off the shelf software, the build versus buy page gives a scoring framework. If the project is an internal operations tool rather than a company wide app, see custom internal tools. Full services are listed at tepia.co/services.
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