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Companies with mobile workers can optimize their business processes with mobile devices. At the conference droidcon 2014 in Berlin, I was able to listen to a practice report and a manufacturer lecture.<\/p>\n
Android devices have been designed by Google as personal devices. So they offer a wide range of entertainment and social networking options. But we have very different requirements to support mobile workers.<\/p>\n
The fields of application are limited, but the services must have a very high reliability. You don’t want to go the risk that users reduce reliability by installing their own apps. Not to mention the risk of corporate data leakage.<\/p>\n
If work processes are documented with the device, it can be a problem that a user can change the date and time of the device.<\/p>\n
Essentially, there are two possible solutions:<\/p>\n
If only an app is needed, we can automatically start it and run ii in a kind of kiosk mode. The app need to prevent breaking out, for example it need suppress the home button.<\/p>\n
For slightly higher requirements, different companies offers so-called “mobile device management” (MDM) solutions. A typical MDM solution has an admin console to do tasks like installing apps and settings centrally for all devices.<\/p>\n
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Two lectures at Droidcon Companies with mobile workers can optimize their business processes with mobile devices. At the conference droidcon 2014 in Berlin, I was able to listen to a practice report and a manufacturer lecture. Android devices have been designed by Google as personal devices. So they offer a wide range of entertainment and … <\/p>\n