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# Developer

AppControl supports Mendix developers to create apps that are compliant with organizational security, quality, and development standards, and to automate and simplify their daily development activities. The following are useful features for your role:

* **Policies.** AppControl checks each deployed revision of a Mendix app to ensure that it is compliant with your organizational standards. Use the policy dashboard to view the current compliance of your apps to your organizational standards. The results of a policy check will help you to change your app to bring it into compliance with standards before you deploy it to production.

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[Policies](/dashboards/policies.md)
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* **Releases.** AppControl uses pipelines to enforce policies, and to ease the release process for developers. The releases dashboard gives you an overview of all releases of your apps, and the current state of the release (pipeline) process. From the release dashboard you can prepare and deploy new releases of apps to each environment you have access to.

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[Releases](/dashboards/releases.md)
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* **Tasks.** Tasks enable you to keep track of manual activities that need to be performed per app (E.g. code reviews, environment configurations, etc.). The task dashboard enables you to manage the tasks that have been assigned to you.

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* **Insights.** Insights gives you insight into the Mendix versions and Mendix Marketplace components used by your Mendix apps. Use Insights to answer questions such as 'Which apps are still using Mendix 8?' or 'Which apps are using the SAML module version older than 3.0?'.

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[Insights](/dashboards/insights.md)
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### Recommended tutorials

Start with the workflows you use most during delivery.

* [Review policy compliance](/overview/tutorials/policies/review-policy-compliance.md)
* [Compare policy results between revisions](/overview/tutorials/policies/compare-policy-results-between-revisions.md)
* [Create a release](/overview/tutorials/releases/create-a-release.md)
* [Work with assigned tasks](/overview/tutorials/tasks/work-with-assigned-tasks.md)


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