Distributing iOS App internally

Question

I have been looking into the ways of distributing an iOS application internally in our company. One thing I cant really find any information on is in the Enterprise program, what do they mean when they say:

Distribute Your In-house Apps Distribute your proprietary, in-house iOS apps to employees or members of your organization. You can also securely host and wirelessly distribute or update in-house apps to employees, keeping them current anywhere, anytime.

Are they referring to AD-Hoc, or is this some special way of distributing apps for enterprises?

Answer 1

The Apple Enterprise Developer program is meant for an organisation to build and distribute apps within their company to their employees only.

It costs $299 per year and requires that the organisation has a DUNS (Dun and Bradstreet) number to register with.

http://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/enterprise/

Specifically, you can still develop apps using a regular development provisioning profile and then release the app to your employees with a distribution profile, but it is on this phase that you get two choices:

1) Ad-hoc (limited to 100 devices using their UDID)

2) In house. (the whole point of buying an enterprise account)

A screenshot is attached below for your reference: (excuse the poor editing)