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Pixel and Android Enterprise connect National Australia Bank

Supporting the mobility needs of our employees has long been a top priority at National Australia Bank. As the IT team for a leading bank in Australia, we want our colleagues across all levels of the company to have secure access to the information they need.

When recently evaluating our device strategy, we wanted to reduce the time and costs of supporting legacy devices and multiple platforms. Pixel devices managed with Android Enterprise have been key to this strategic shift, benefiting our customer support teams who spent much of the last year working from home while continuing to support our customers remotely. 

Rapidly enabling teams

The IT team issued more than 2,000 Pixel devices to our customer contact teams, enabling them to continue serving customers remotely at the start of the pandemic. Vodafone helped rapidly launch the solution, using zero-touch enrollment to quickly set up devices with the necessary applications and configurations.

With zero-touch enrollment, each Pixel setup was 20 minutes faster than our previous device enrollments, saving our IT team and colleagues over 500 hours during the initiative. With our communication and collaboration apps available right out of the box, our teams could get to work right away to help customers.

Our contact center teams use Pixel devices that are fully managed, which allows us to provide the necessary security controls, and wipe and re-enroll them when transferred to a new employee. Branch Managers use Pixels with the work profile, separating work and personal applications. This gives employees the ability to use the device in a personal capacity while our IT team manages and ensures data security over the work profile.

Our IT team has received positive feedback from employees about their experience with the work profile. The simplicity and clear separation between work and personal profiles is a great benefit for those who want to build better balance into their day. Moreover, our IT admins have the security tools necessary to safeguard critical data. 

With managed Google Play, we have flexibility to assign the needed apps to our managed devices, whether they’re fully managed or using the work profile, through the admin console. Providing our teams the flexibility to assign apps to the right teams is a major time saver and ensures everyone has the resources they need. Branch managers can look up customer service records or answer a ping more quickly from their Pixel, instead of returning back to their desk and logging back on to their desktop computer. Android Enterprise has been a catalyst in a more mobile and responsive environment for our various teams.

Simplified management and security

Given the security requirements of the financial services industry, protecting customer data and preventing leakage is critical. Pixel security updates from Google provide a reliable cadence of ongoing protection as threats evolve, and the work profile hits the right balance between security and privacy for our teams.

The combination of zero-touch enrollment, consistent security updates and integration with device management tools has been a driving force for our IT team. We see Android Enterprise as a key component to our mobility strategy, providing the flexibility and security our teams require.

Work profile delivers security and privacy for Trimble

Editor’s note:Today’s post is from Frej Krook, Collaboration Community Manager for Employee Tools at Trimble. The California-based company builds specialized hardware, software and services for customers in the agriculture, construction, geospatial, transportation and logistics industries to help them better capture data in the field and improve efficiency and outcomes.  

Keeping a global business like Trimble connected is no small amount of work. Our hybrid teams create solutions for a wide range of industries — helping farmers achieve better outcomes through data analysis, offering hardware for geospatial mapping and improving transportation efficiency.

Android Enterprise is one of our keys to keeping everyone connected securely, combining strong security controls with the flexibility to get anyone the apps they need. It simplifies how we manage and protect the thousands of Android devices on our network. The vast majority of these devices are employees’ personal phones enrolled with the work profile; our data and apps are securely managed, while our teams have privacy over their personal data and flexibility to disconnect.

The ideal BYOD solution

We’ve long believed in the value of a “bring your own device” policy. When employees tell our IT team that they want to use their Android phone for work, you should see the big smiles on our faces. Enrolling a personal device with a work profile enables us to set up and manage the device with the settings we need, and the employee gets to keep using a phone they’re familiar with. Devices with the work profile are quick and easy to set up, with minimal impact to support time.

From engineering to sales, marketing and field service, Android devices are key to our global team. Along with the Workspace apps they use to collaborate with every day, we push out our catalogue of more than 50 Trimble apps our teams count on to build client software solutions, test hardware in the field and help clients keep track of their logistics.

Secure and flexible device management

The work profile transforms our employees' personal phones into secure work devices while giving them the freedom to keep using them in a personal capacity. By managing the work profile through Google advanced endpoint management, we only control the apps and data in the work profile and don’t touch employees’ personal apps and data. Our IT team can enforce consistent policies across work profile apps that help prevent data loss.

Employees get better balance by having the ability to pause the work profile when they wish to disconnect.  We also like that if an employee leaves Trimble or loses a phone, we can wipe the work profile with a few clicks in the Admin console. Any Trimble data is securely wiped, and the employee doesn’t have to have their entire phone erased and start from scratch if they leave the company. 

The work profile gives a clear division between work and personal apps, which makes our security teams happy. By allowing users to access work apps on their personal devices, Trimble sees significant cost savings by not having to give each employee a phone just for work.

Another major component to our flexible work success is Chrome Enterprise. With Chrome OS, our IT team has secure, fast devices that work in the cloud while also providing the flexibility to access legacy tools through Parallels Desktop. No matter where we are working, we have devices that are simple to manage with the apps we need.

Building Android solutions

Trimble also builds rugged Android smartphones to offer customers hardware that is well suited to demanding, outdoor environments. The Trimble TDC600 and Nomad 5 enable data collection and connectivity through devices that can withstand all-day use in the field.

With Android, the devices can work seamlessly with our portfolio of applications and provide customers the flexibility to take advantage of the broad app ecosystem of the Google Play Store.

Navigating return-to-office with Android Enterprise

Android Enterprise will play a major role as we transition back to the office. With many of our employees choosing a mix of working from home and in the office, staying connected through their Android devices will be an essential lifeline to their work.

We see Android Enterprise as the ideal device management solution for Trimble. Employees get a better user experience, and we spend less time on support. We believe Android Enterprise will continue to play a central role in our device strategy to give our teams the flexibility they want in how they work and to achieve better balance with their personal time.

Easy data protection with Android Enterprise Essentials

Mobility is critical to how businesses keep their teams connected, especially in a hybrid world where so many of us can work from anywhere. This trend is great for team productivity, and it gives businesses the tools they need to digitize their work and serve customers. 

Yet these businesses must be ever mindful of threats to device security — 47% of companies have seen an increase in cyberattacks since the work from home shift began. 

Security breaches can be devastating for any organization, especially with mobile devices being linked to a company’s sensitive data. But unfortunately small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are less able to absorb the high costs of these security breaches. According to a National Cyber Security Alliance survey, after experiencing a breach, 10% of SMBs file for bankruptcy and 25% go out of business.

With limited budgets and IT resources, most SMBs must choose between management products that are costly and overly complex for their needs, or no protection at all. 

At Google, we take a security-first approach to our products, and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes keep their data safe and secure. That is why we built Android Enterprise Essentials — an automatic and affordable security service for businesses with simpler needs.  Essentials is designed and built by the Android team at Google, guided by our deep experience creating secure and helpful solutions for organizations. We’ve put the needs and realities of SMBs first to create a streamlined set of security and management defaults at an affordable price.

Available in more markets

After offering early access to Essentials through our launch partners, it is now generally available through additional partners in the U.S., the U.K, Japan, France and Germany, with more countries coming soon.

Essentials makes securing and managing devices a breeze. Devices with Essentials are automatically enabled with critical features enabled like remote wiping lost or stolen devices and enforcing a screen lock or preventing sideloading of applications. You can send devices directly to your employees, who can automatically set them up and put them to use right away with no training required. If you ever need to take action, you can view and manage devices via an easy-to-use, streamlined portal. And it all comes at an affordable price, with no additional IT investment required.

Essentials also works for larger organizations that wish to extend core protections to devices that don’t need advanced device management. Essentials can serve as a starting point for customers who want to try out simple management at first, and consider upgrading to more sophisticated management solutions in the future.

Simple solutions for customers

National Services for Health Improvement (NSHI) is a U.K.-based organization focused on improving patient outcomes for its network of global healthcare clients. Essentials provided a quick method to mobilize its teams without a complex setup process.

Having Essentials applied to devices out of the box means we don’t need to worry about training employees or having to spend time setting it up. Steve Rose
IT Consultant, NSHI

Morris & Perry, an asphalt and concrete supplier that has been in operation in the U.K. since 1928, wanted to help its drivers stay connected and access important data throughout the day. Essentials offered them a simple path to select devices and quickly get them into employees’ hands with security features like remote wipe and PIN reset automatically enabled.


“Setting up our devices with Android Enterprise Essentials was fast and easy,” says Will Vincent, financial controller with Morris & Perry. “It significantly helped our operations, as we can remotely reset PIN codes while meeting our security guidelines.”


Get started today

Essentials is now available through a wider network of resellers. We’re pleased to welcome The Barcode Warehouse and Telserve in the U.K.; LDLC Pro, DAMS and Saphelec in France; Brodos and Everphone in Germany; Synnex in Japan and Vox Mobile in the U.S.


Essentials brings much needed tools that help make mobility more secure and accessible for businesses. Check out our Essentials website to learn more. And if you’re interested in becoming an Essentials partner, please visit the Android Enterprise Partner Portal to register for our partner community.

Research shows work profile delivers satisfaction and balance

By 2024, mobile workers (employees who use mobile devices like smartphones and tablets for work) will account for over 60% of the total U.S. workforce, according to research from IDC. A large percentage of the mobile workforce will continue to work from home even as the mandatory COVID-19 pandemic restrictions and closures are lifted.

With the increase of workers at home, and a large number of companies announcing hybrid work plans, employees are increasingly juggling work and personal life on a single device. Many are struggling to find the right balance between creating separation of work-life balance and maintaining privacy.

As researchers on the Android Enterprise team, we are always curious about the various needs and expectations of mobile employees who use their smartphones for both work and personal purposes. So we began a research project to understand the elements that comprise the ideal smartphone experience. 

Our qualitative research shed light on the importance of work-life balance, privacy and wellbeing. We partnered with experience management firm Qualtrics to assess and quantify the qualitative findings through a study with more than 3,000 smartphone users around the world. For more details, read the Qualtrics blog.

Managing work and personal life on a single smartphone

The study revealed that 68% of employees use one smartphone for both work and personal purposes, while 32% use two smartphones, though not always simply one for work and one for personal use. Looking across the two groups, 85% of employees use at least one smartphone for both work and personal use. 

To get a bird's-eye view on the needs of people who use a single smartphone for both work and personal use, the team surveyed both users of the Android work profile — a dedicated space on Android devices where work apps are kept separate from personal apps and data — and non-work profile users, including those on other mobile operating systems.

70 percent of employees prefer separating work and personal apps

Separation is key to satisfaction

Across the various user groups surveyed, 70% said they’d prefer a user interface (UI) on their phones that clearly separates work and personal apps and data, over a UI with no separation. Users mentioned that a clear delineation between work and personal apps and data can help them improve digital wellbeing and balance between their personal lives and their work.  

In line with our findings, the data shows that work profile users (81%) are more satisfied than non-work profile users (71%) with their experience of managing work and personal life on the same device. Work profile user satisfaction is driven by the peace of mind that their work data will be separate and secure, thus reducing the chances of making unwanted mistakes like sending a corporate or personal email from the wrong account.

When there is a distinct separation between work and personal apps, people are more conscious about their data and the boundaries they can and cannot cross. Work profile users are more aware than non-work profile users that the data linked to their work account can be seen by their company and more satisfied that their work data can be kept secure. For example, 63% of work profile users are aware that work app usage (data captured on work apps) is visible to IT,  compared to only 39% of non-work profile users who also use work apps on their phone.


Work-life balance under control 

Given the increasingly blurred boundaries between work and personal time, people find it difficult to fully disconnect from work after hours. As a result, survey respondents listed lack of work-life balance as the top frustration when using a single phone for work and personal use. 

One of the advantages of work profile is that users can switch their work apps and notifications off when they are not working, helping them take back control of their work-life balance. Our study shows that work profile users are significantly more satisfied with their work-life balance compared to non-work profile users (70% vs. 63%). 

For more information about how you and your employees can take advantage of the work profile, visit our website

Android Enterprise security delivers for flexible work

As many companies integrate return to the office plans with existing work-from-home strategies, a key component is building a device management and security strategy centered on remote access. In this era of hybrid work,  mobility is the critical link for workers who need the ability to connect to company resources from anywhere. 

A recent Forrester report highlights why IT administrators should use on-device security and enterprise management features to build a powerful and adaptive security strategy, noting how remote access is now paramount for business continuity. Organizations can enable the multilayered protections and management features in Android Enterprise to help their teams thrive in this hybrid world, giving teams powerful built-in security without layers of complexity.


Security built in as a foundation

In its research, Forrester found that 78% of IT admins surveyed are planning to increase their use of on-device security in the next year. When it comes to anti-malware defense, securely configuring devices and managing mobile applications, Android offers enterprise-grade security solutions that meet the needs of today’s organizations. 

Forrester recommends that operating system platform security be the key foundation to a device security strategy. With Android Enterprise, organizations benefit from on-device protection that is built to help secure data, protect employee privacy and equip IT admins with a rich set of management features. The report calls out how Android makes use of the anti-malware protections in Google Play Protect to provide an ongoing defense against potentially harmful apps.  In doing so, an IT security team can rely heavily on such built-in features to achieve the security posture that businesses of all sizes require to defend against complex attacks. 

Our recently updated Android Enterprise Security Paper provides a comprehensive review of the hardware and software security features available in Android which can be trusted for accessing critical and sensitive information.


Security admins need, privacy employees require

Android provides a depth of security features that are built to provide automatic defenses against many layers of threats. Google Play Protect uses machine learning to adapt to changing security threats, providing organizations a built-in solution at no cost.

The Android work profile gives organizations flexibility to securely enroll personal devices and provide greater privacy on corporate-owned smartphones and tablets. In its report, Forrester notes Android comes with strong data isolation and protection features with the Android work profile. By separating personal and work apps on devices with distinct encryption keys for each profile, Android gives admins a built-in solution to provide employees with secure access that aligns to their work styles without sharing any access to data from personal apps on devices with IT.

Managed Google Play lets admins specify which public or internal apps can be installed in the work profile. The granular levels of security available to admins from Android Enterprise APIs and the built-in security through services like Google Play Protect serve as a strong foundation for mounting a robust threat defense. In addition, the SafetyNet Attestation API integrates with partner Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solutions to verify that devices have not been compromised. This now includes hardware-backed evaluations as an indicator of a stronger device integrity evaluation. 

No matter where your teams are working, you can have confidence in the platform and management security features found in Android Enterprise. Learn more about building an on-device strategy from the Forrester report, and go in-depth on integrating features with our security paper.

Android Enterprise security delivers for flexible work

As many companies integrate return to the office plans with existing work-from-home strategies, a key component is building a device management and security strategy centered on remote access. In this era of hybrid work,  mobility is the critical link for workers who need the ability to connect to company resources from anywhere. 

A recent Forrester report highlights why IT administrators should use on-device security and enterprise management features to build a powerful and adaptive security strategy, noting how remote access is now paramount for business continuity. Organizations can enable the multilayered protections and management features in Android Enterprise to help their teams thrive in this hybrid world, giving teams powerful built-in security without layers of complexity.


Security built in as a foundation

In its research, Forrester found that 78% of IT admins surveyed are planning to increase their use of on-device security in the next year. When it comes to anti-malware defense, securely configuring devices and managing mobile applications, Android offers enterprise-grade security solutions that meet the needs of today’s organizations. 

Forrester recommends that operating system platform security be the key foundation to a device security strategy. With Android Enterprise, organizations benefit from on-device protection that is built to help secure data, protect employee privacy and equip IT admins with a rich set of management features. The report calls out how Android makes use of the anti-malware protections in Google Play Protect to provide an ongoing defense against potentially harmful apps.  In doing so, an IT security team can rely heavily on such built-in features to achieve the security posture that businesses of all sizes require to defend against complex attacks. 

Our recently updated Android Enterprise Security Paper provides a comprehensive review of the hardware and software security features available in Android which can be trusted for accessing critical and sensitive information.


Security admins need, privacy employees require

Android provides a depth of security features that are built to provide automatic defenses against many layers of threats. Google Play Protect uses machine learning to adapt to changing security threats, providing organizations a built-in solution at no cost.

The Android work profile gives organizations flexibility to securely enroll personal devices and provide greater privacy on corporate-owned smartphones and tablets. In its report, Forrester notes Android comes with strong data isolation and protection features with the Android work profile. By separating personal and work apps on devices with distinct encryption keys for each profile, Android gives admins a built-in solution to provide employees with secure access that aligns to their work styles without sharing any access to data from personal apps on devices with IT.

Managed Google Play lets admins specify which public or internal apps can be installed in the work profile. The granular levels of security available to admins from Android Enterprise APIs and the built-in security through services like Google Play Protect serve as a strong foundation for mounting a robust threat defense. In addition, the SafetyNet Attestation API integrates with partner Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solutions to verify that devices have not been compromised. This now includes hardware-backed evaluations as an indicator of a stronger device integrity evaluation. 

No matter where your teams are working, you can have confidence in the platform and management security features found in Android Enterprise. Learn more about building an on-device strategy from the Forrester report, and go in-depth on integrating features with our security paper.

JYSK boosts frontline teams with Android Enterprise

Editor’s note: Flemming Thøgersen is Team Manager and Stinus Stoumann Hoeks is Senior IT Consultant of IT Client Infrastructure for JYSK, an international retailer based in Denmark.

JYSK is an international home retailer with Scandinavian roots, and our mission is to make it easy to furnish every room in any home. With more than 3,000 stores in 51 countries and a strong online presence, JYSK always has great selections and service, no matter how customers want to shop.

Android Enterprise has been key to sustaining our retail operations during the COVID-19 pandemic and giving our frontline retail workers more powerful digital tools. Our store colleagues use smartphones to enhance the in-store customer experience through quickly fulfilling click-to-collect orders and answering customer questions with ready access to our digital services. We’re also using dedicated Android tablets to gather customer feedback for continually improving our support.

Enhancing the in-store experience

Android smartphones are central to our digital retail strategy, with a deployment of over 10,000 devices across our stores. They’re essential for keeping our retail store electronic shelf labels updated with the latest product information. These digital displays on our product shelves show the item price, description and other helpful information for our customers. We use our Android devices to link each electronic shelf label to its merchandise with an NFC tag. 

With mobility being so critical to a consistent digital initiative, we place high value on the enrollment and management experience. Device setup through Android Enterprise is simple and streamlined with zero-touch enrollment — this enabled our IT team to quickly enroll devices and apply the key configurations at scale. It’s a streamlined process and reduces the complexities and potential errors that can occur with manual device setup.

Our IT admins use managed Google Play for enterprise app distribution, which has been invaluable for ensuring our teams have the internal communication, productivity and inventory apps available on their Android devices. Employees access JYSK inventory systems on their Android smartphones to answer in-store customer questions about the merchandise. They are able to check for the availability of JYSK products on our web store, looking up pricing information and giving the customers the answers they need right away. The devices are also essential for staying in touch with colleagues in store and across the company, and connecting to other essential JYSK internal services.

JYSK teams use Android devices to scan inventory and help customers

Retail store teams use Android devices to quickly check on inventory.

More of our customers are taking advantage of the convenience of click-and-collect — ordering online and picking their items up in store. Dedicated Android smartphones in the hands of our retail staff enable us to quickly service these customers with minimal friction to our operations. Android devices instantly connect our frontline retail staff to our digital services, fulfilling online orders and looking up inventory to answer any questions.


Customer satisfaction is a core value for our company. Android allowed us to scale up our customer insights — we make a tablet available in Android Enterprise kiosk mode at many of our stores for customers to rate their experience. The customers can also enter feedback from their own device hands-free by scanning a QR code and answering a survey. We receive more than one million responses every month, which has been an invaluable source of feedback to continuously improve our retail experience.


Device value with Android Enterprise Recommended

Device choice is an important factor in going with Android. We only select devices from the Android Enterprise Recommended catalogue, which we’ll be doing again as we expand our deployment. Android Enterprise Recommended gives our IT team the confidence to select devices that support the enterprise features we need with the highest level of data and device security. 


Android will continue to be a key component to our digital strategy, as we issue more devices to our retail and inventory teams with access to our new inventory tracking system and moving logistical processes off of legacy systems. We look forward to continued success with Android as we support our global customer base.


Join the upcoming event Digitization with Android Enterprise: A game-changer for your frontline to hear directly from customers about their experiences and learn compelling findings from the Forrester Total Economic Impact Study, which investigates the ROI of Android Enterprise for business.

Swiss Federal Railways transforms its workforce with Android Enterprise

Editor’s note: Melkon Toroysan is the mobile solutions architect with Swiss Federal Railways.


At Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), mobility is the key to how our teams stay connected and fulfill our mission as the public rail transport agency in Switzerland. We strive to provide a safe and pleasant journey for passengers and reliable transport for cargo. Many of our 33,000 employees are on the frontline of helping customers, keeping the trains running smoothly and doing the critical maintenance work to ensure our infrastructure is always in optimal condition. 


The foundation behind all this is the technology that enables our employees to communicate with each other, serve our customers and get up-to-the-minute information. With Android Enterprise, we now have the ability to choose a diverse selection of devices and integrate them into a common management system, along with the security and privacy we require.


Enhancing frontline work with Android

When evaluating our device strategy, we spent significant time in the field considering how our teams worked and what opportunities there would be to modernize workflows. We wanted to streamline much of our work through internal apps and provide devices to employees who had not been assigned one before. 


Android Enterprise allowed us to do all of this. Now our IT team manages over 24,000 devices, with a mix of tablets and smartphones tailored to individual job roles. We chose Android Enterprise Recommended devices so we’d have guaranteed operating system and security updates, and we replaced a fair amount of outdated hardware. 


Our devices are essential for nearly everyone across the organization; employees can report maintenance issues, answer messages and access our collaboration tools. This takes place across over 70 internal enterprise apps we distribute and maintain through managed Google Play.


For example, our train conductors use their smartphones to stay on top of departure information, communicate with others to know what details to announce before departing. Our conductors use their devices to issue and check tickets with an NFC scanner. They also get real-time information about departures and arrivals to give passengers up-to-date information. And every member of our maintenance team uses an Android Enterprise smartphone to get their daily assignments, mark them complete and note necessary repairs they detect. Teams are using their Android devices to take pictures of needed repairs to provide better details about what needs to be fixed.


Security and privacy

Many of our devices are deployed with the Android work profile, which means employees can use the same device for personal apps and data without compromising their privacy. Our teams appreciate the separation of their company apps in a dedicated work tab, and our IT team has the enterprise tools they require to help secure our corporate apps in the work profile. This became even more important as the pandemic took hold—we relied heavily on mobility to stay connected and work safely. 


We’ll continue to explore how Android can improve our teams’ communication and collaboration. With Android Enterprise we’re confident in our ability to expand our device deployment and help our teams find new ways to be productive.


A modern mobile strategy for today’s hybrid work reality

During a turbulent year grappling with COVID-19, businesses leaned heavily on mobility to adapt to hybrid and work-from-home environments. As we look ahead, it's clear that mobility will be pivotal to how businesses thrive in this new workplace reality.


Recent market data from IDC found 84 percent of IT professionals planned to invest more in enterprise mobility, with mobile security and device management topping the list of investment priorities, according to The State of U.S. Enterprise Mobile Workers Webinar: Information, Frontline, and Work-from-Home Trends in 2020.
Eighty-four present of U.S.-based enterprises are planning to increase their mobility investments

A successful enterprise mobility strategy requires multiple layers — choosing devices for your team, picking a preferred management solution, setting up for remote and distributed enrollment and taking advantage of helpful features built around security. Google provides solutions at each step to help you meet your mobility goals with Android.


Devices for your whole team

Picking the right devices to help meet business goals is a critical first step. To help provide greater flexibility for more workers and use cases, we've added new Android Enterprise Recommended partners, welcoming Samsung, Lenovo, OnePlus and Xiaomi. From premium smartphones to rugged devices for your frontline workers, there’s an Android device for every need. When selecting Android Enterprise Recommended devices, you’re assured that they are backed by Google security services and support our range of management features.


Flexible management solutions

Android Enterprise gives you the versatility and flexibility to manage your mobile fleet, no matter the size of your business.


If you’re a small business, you face the challenge of securing devices and data without the resources of a larger organization. It’s why we recently announced early access for Android Enterprise Essentials, a new way for small and medium-sized businesses to get automatic, affordable protection. Essentials is available from U.S. resellers CDW and SHI, and from U.K. resellers Bechtle, Chess, Intercity and Tela. We expect to add additional U.S. and U.K. resellers soon and plan to expand to more countries and regions throughout the year. 


Essentials takes away the guesswork and the day-to-day worries of device management by providing a core set of always-on features that work automatically, from the moment you buy devices to when your employees turn them on. You can learn more about Essentials by watching our launch event on demand or downloading a copy of a new technical review of Essentials by research firm Enterprise Strategy Group.


Larger businesses often have more advanced security and management needs, be it a larger device fleet or supporting multiple operating systems. To meet these use cases, we also offer Android Enterprise through our Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) partners. Our management framework is built with granularity, so companies can manage devices on their own terms, whether they are fully managed corporate devices or employees’ personal devices. 


Helpful features built around privacy

Smooth device setup and helpful features are critical for mobilizing your teams. This begins with device setup — it’s why we made zero-touch enrollment, our seamless deployment service, even more useful by expanding support to all Android 9.0+ devices. You can choose zero-touch or, if your team is using Samsung devices, Knox Mobile Enrollment to best suit your needs.


We continued our focus on privacy, security and helpfulness with Android 11. The Android work profile helps keep business data safe and personal stuff private when using a personal device for work and play. And IT admins benefit from additional tools to ensure devices comply with corporate policies. You also get a more helpful experience with the option to allow trusted apps to connect between work and personal profiles. 


Try our Solutions Finder

Choice doesn’t have to mean complexity. To make this easier, we recently launched the Solutions Finder, an interactive assessment tool that helps recommend a management solution based on your needs.  This resource is built to help you easily take advantage of all Android offers.


As we look ahead, we believe our investments in security, privacy and management will help companies succeed in transitioning to today’s hybrid workplace.


A modern mobile strategy for today’s hybrid work reality

During a turbulent year grappling with COVID-19, businesses leaned heavily on mobility to adapt to hybrid and work-from-home environments. As we look ahead, it's clear that mobility will be pivotal to how businesses thrive in this new workplace reality.


Recent market data from IDC found 84 percent of IT professionals planned to invest more in enterprise mobility, with mobile security and device management topping the list of investment priorities, according to The State of U.S. Enterprise Mobile Workers Webinar: Information, Frontline, and Work-from-Home Trends in 2020.
Eighty-four present of U.S.-based enterprises are planning to increase their mobility investments

A successful enterprise mobility strategy requires multiple layers — choosing devices for your team, picking a preferred management solution, setting up for remote and distributed enrollment and taking advantage of helpful features built around security. Google provides solutions at each step to help you meet your mobility goals with Android.


Devices for your whole team

Picking the right devices to help meet business goals is a critical first step. To help provide greater flexibility for more workers and use cases, we've added new Android Enterprise Recommended partners, welcoming Samsung, Lenovo, OnePlus and Xiaomi. From premium smartphones to rugged devices for your frontline workers, there’s an Android device for every need. When selecting Android Enterprise Recommended devices, you’re assured that they are backed by Google security services and support our range of management features.


Flexible management solutions

Android Enterprise gives you the versatility and flexibility to manage your mobile fleet, no matter the size of your business.


If you’re a small business, you face the challenge of securing devices and data without the resources of a larger organization. It’s why we recently announced early access for Android Enterprise Essentials, a new way for small and medium-sized businesses to get automatic, affordable protection. Essentials is available from U.S. resellers CDW and SHI, and from U.K. resellers Bechtle, Chess, Intercity and Tela. We expect to add additional U.S. and U.K. resellers soon and plan to expand to more countries and regions throughout the year. 


Essentials takes away the guesswork and the day-to-day worries of device management by providing a core set of always-on features that work automatically, from the moment you buy devices to when your employees turn them on. You can learn more about Essentials by watching our launch event on demand or downloading a copy of a new technical review of Essentials by research firm Enterprise Strategy Group.


Larger businesses often have more advanced security and management needs, be it a larger device fleet or supporting multiple operating systems. To meet these use cases, we also offer Android Enterprise through our Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) partners. Our management framework is built with granularity, so companies can manage devices on their own terms, whether they are fully managed corporate devices or employees’ personal devices. 


Helpful features built around privacy

Smooth device setup and helpful features are critical for mobilizing your teams. This begins with device setup — it’s why we made zero-touch enrollment, our seamless deployment service, even more useful by expanding support to all Android 9.0+ devices. You can choose zero-touch or, if your team is using Samsung devices, Knox Mobile Enrollment to best suit your needs.


We continued our focus on privacy, security and helpfulness with Android 11. The Android work profile helps keep business data safe and personal stuff private when using a personal device for work and play. And IT admins benefit from additional tools to ensure devices comply with corporate policies. You also get a more helpful experience with the option to allow trusted apps to connect between work and personal profiles. 


Try our Solutions Finder

Choice doesn’t have to mean complexity. To make this easier, we recently launched the Solutions Finder, an interactive assessment tool that helps recommend a management solution based on your needs.  This resource is built to help you easily take advantage of all Android offers.


As we look ahead, we believe our investments in security, privacy and management will help companies succeed in transitioning to today’s hybrid workplace.