Android for Work: Google continues conquering the business – ZDNet France

The companies are clearly the new target of the giants of the mobile. Furthermore Blackberry, historical player in the sector, we can mention the cases that Samsung offers a range of dedicated products and services, and has also signed an agreement with Canada. Apple for its part has entered into a major agreement with IBM to develop iOS business applications. As for Microsoft, it intends to make Windows Phone a must in business through a consistent approach (Windows 10), the native integration of Office, VPN, dedicated blinds.

Today, Google is catching announcing the Android for Work program. “With our partners, we want to help companies better integrate smartphones into their work environments ensuring greater security and new innovations on the Android platform,” said Rajen Sheth, Director of Product Management, Android and Chrome for Work.

This program comes in 4 parts. The first is familiar to users of Blackberry or Knox since it allows to separate the pros and personal content in Android 5.0 Lollipop in a BYOD logic (containerization).

“We have created a default encryption system, strengthened the security extension SELinux and developed a multi-user support Lollipop in order to create a profile dedicated to the work that insulates and protects data business. The company’s IT department can deploy applications validated for professional use just next to personal applications, knowing that confidential data will be safe, “said the giant.

For businesses that do not run on smartphones Lollipop (can imagier they are still very many …), Google offers application Android for Work for devices running Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean and Kitkat that do not run natively professional profiles. The application provides “securely email, calendar, contacts, documents, search engine and access to approved business applications and fully managed by IT departments.”

In the application domain now found Google Play for Work that allows companies “to deploy and securely manage business applications for all employees that use Android for Work.” Google Play for Work Employee simplifies the distribution process and ensures the approval by the IT departments of all deployed applications. “

Android for Work also includes a suite of business applications for email, contacts and calendar. The latter is compatible with Exchange and Notes, provides editing capabilities documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

The solution involves partners such as Blackberry and Citrix. After the merger with Samsung
 Last November, the BlackBerry brand new big points by partnering
 to Google. The US giant has unveiled Google for Work, a
 solution to create a professional profile to use the data
 and applications on Android devices.

The program will be based on
 technical partners that will integrate with BlackBerry platform for its BES12
 manage the secured party and containerization of smartphones and administration
 tablets under a BYOD or COPE policy. Android for Work will
 BES12 with deployable on premise or in the cloud.