Google has listed us as a Service Provider in the Android Enterprise partner programme since August 2026. To you that is one more logo on a website. It gets interesting once your company runs phones, tablets or scanners, and looking after them currently depends on one person, a box in the warehouse and a list.
It is the part of Android built for companies. It sits in every reasonably current device, but it has to be switched on and configured. If that never happens, a company phone is really a private phone that happens to hold company data. How strict you make it is your call, and you make it per device type. There are three modes, and most companies need two of them at once.
A second, sealed-off space for everything work related appears on the phone. Personal data stays personal, technically rather than by promise. This is the mode for devices owned by the employee, and for company phones that may also be used privately.
The whole device belongs to the company and is configured centrally. You decide which apps are installed, which settings apply and what stays blocked. Typical for field sales, service engineers and anything carrying customer data around.
The device boots straight into a single application and nothing else exists. Scanners in the warehouse, terminals on the shop floor, tablets in the workshop. Nobody opens something else by accident, and nobody has to explain how to get back.
Google's partner programme has several roles: device manufacturers, vendors of management software, resellers and service providers. We are in the last group. To get there, Google checks that we know the technical side, that our people have passed the required training and exams, and that customers are still looked after once the rollout is done. It gives us two things we did not have before.
When we build you an application that gets used in the warehouse or out in the field, our work no longer stops at the edge of the device. Rolling it out, securing it and keeping it running belongs to the same contract and the same point of contact.
As a partner we have a route to Google when something breaks that search results will not fix. That sounds like a detail right up until a rollout is stuck on one device setting and thirty people are waiting.
Today a new hire usually means unboxing a phone, creating accounts, hunting for apps, typing in credentials and handing over a slip of paper with a password. With enrolment in place the new colleague switches the device on, signs in and is done. You will not notice the difference on one device. You will on twenty.
The work side can be wiped remotely without touching the rest of the device. This is where it usually goes wrong: the phone comes back, but the mailbox stayed live for another three weeks. Or the phone never comes back at all.
You can require security updates to be installed rather than hoping they are. A lost device gets locked before anyone in the company starts debating whose job that is. The same holds for single-purpose devices sitting in a warehouse that nobody picks up.
Anyone holding company data on personal phones today usually has an agreement rather than a real separation. The work profile turns that into a technical boundary you can write down. That helps with the works agreement and with the question of where personal data actually sits.
As a rough threshold: from ten to fifteen devices that do not sit on a desk. Field sales, service engineers, the warehouse, drivers, shift work. The second trigger is an app of your own running on those devices that somebody currently installs by hand. The third is an audit or certification where someone wants to know how you secure mobile devices.
If everyone works in the same place, the phones are personal and no sensitive data sits on them, the effort outweighs the benefit. Separating the accounts properly and switching on two-factor sign-in is usually enough. And if you already run management software that works, our contribution is often an afternoon of fine-tuning rather than a project. We will tell you that too.
Which devices you run, how old they are, who has them and what is installed. That list rarely exists, and it is reliably the first surprise.
Field sales needs something different from the scanner in goods receipt. We settle on how strict each group has to be and write down why. That part later goes into the works agreement.
Five to ten devices first, real people, real working days. Whatever gets in the way we change while it still only affects five devices. After that the rest follows the same pattern.
If you want to carry it on yourself, we show you how and hand over the documentation. If not, we stay on it. Either is fine, it just has to be clear up front.
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