Google Android presented this week at Work, more serious bet so far to ensure the use of Android in corporate environments. He had announced in mid-2014, but is now official. At that time the company had said it would use part of Samsung KNOX; seems, however, that implements tools Enterproid, company that bought last March, Re / code.
What is it? A tool designed for the world of BYOD, stands for Bring Your Own Device, a phenomenon involving literally employees use their smartphones and tablets to work tasks, to the detriment of the equipment provided by the companies.
In its most basic vision, creating Android operating at Work in the smartphone, two watertight environments: personnel and other labor, each with their applications, contacts, messaging, with content encrypted with the impossibility of transfer information between one another, and so on. In this it resembles a BlackBerry 10, which presents a similar concept.
But is both a tool for businesses and users, told La Nacion Rajen Sheth, product manager for Android and Chrome Business and Education Google (and who proposed that Google offered a version of Gmail for corporate environments, which today is Google Apps).
“On one side is a tool for companies to know that their data They are safe, because it allows remote management. The company decides which applications you install the user on the computer, protects the information on the other, gives some freedom to the user: the company can not access the personal side, if for any reason you must you delete the device, only pulls corporate profile. Do not delete the photos from the holidays, “he said.
Android at Work functions as an update on Lollipop, or as an application on Ice Cream Sandwich and later. In addition to creating a sealed environment includes its own application store (Google Play at Work); companies decide what applications are there. And indeed it is possible to have the same application with two different profiles (and often have a work email and staff on the same computer), which are completely independent. It will, in practice, like having two phones in one, although sharing UI, etc., Passing from one to another transparently (no need to leave a profile to enter the other, but coexist in the same space).
Remote management remains the standard, so Google has partnered with BlackBerry (Android at Work is compatible with BES), SAP and Citrix, which are the ones with the remote administration tools platform, and are, in fact, who managed Android at Work in each company you use.
This Google bid to enhance the reputation of Android in terms of safety and increase the use of Android in companies the announcement is also an opportunity to promote its suite of tools (email, office suite), which will come pre-installed, on Microsoft Office, recently updated in Android and iOS (and is not, Now, among the participants of Android at Work with your management tool InTune) and the agreement between Apple and IBM to promote the use of Apple devices in corporate environments.
“There are a hundred million smartphones” managed “for corporate tools, but billion that fall within the category of BYOD, and are not taking advantage Sheth- affirmed. In this segment aim. “.
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