If your work requires that you use a BlackBerry to ensure secure information transfer, the chances are good that you carry two phones - your Android or iPhone as your personal phone and another BlackBerry as your phone "because my company say". Similarly, a new startup called Enterproid (Enterprise + Android, get it?) launches their new platform of fracture for Android as a beta to those of you who want to use your personal phone to perform tasks related to the business. Gap basically installs a secure enterprise (business) on your Android smartphone profile and allows you to switch between two profiles with nothing more than a simple double-click of the home button. The idea here is to equip your Android phone with security features for enterprise-class companies tend to require - ultimately allowing anyone to use their personal device than their work equipment.
Once you fire your phone Android enabled gap, you'll first be taken to your personal profile. It is your Android phone as you know today. All of your applications, all your music and your e-mail address, of all your photos are always accessible and completely free of any political security companies. It is your personal phone. But, if you need to shoot an email to work just to double-click the home button to switch profiles, how much you need to enter a password to access the company profile (an extra layer of security). You will notice that your working profile is different from your personal profile - is because it is. Set apart from the green-hued icons and UI finish, profile of work proposes a set of default applications designed from the ground up with class enterprise security in mind. From here, you can fire off the coast of your work e-mail and then double-click the home button to return to your regular programming.
When you play angry birds on your personal profile and you get a message or a text message on your working profile, you'll see a little alert notification waiting you to your message. Take advantage of this alert and you'll automatically be taken on the company profile. It is also simple. Regardless of what profile you are, you'll always get alerts and messages through the notification bar.
The e-mail application is customized to support ActiveSync, which means email Exchange on your Enterprise Server builds work well into the ditch. The email application also supports the pinch-to-zoom, which is a subtle detail which should be a long way to make your work a little more convenient communications. There is also the calendar, contacts, SMS text messaging, phone web browser - applications all designed to encrypt data securely. You can download and install regular Android apps on your company profile, but these applications are isolated and do not have access to any data encrypted on your phone. And for companies who need to use custom applications, Enterproid offers custom software development kit that allows developers to create applications Android does not compromise the safety of the ditch.
It works like this: you install gap on your Android phone, configure your security settings, and configure your e-mail at work accounts. That's all. Once installed, you can start using your choice Android handset (as long as running Android 2.2 Froyo OS or later) to begin to deal with business. Your business doesn't have to implement and deploy any software or infrastructure server security. Your it Department should only log in the Web console to manage the device settings such as allowing political exchanges, allowing widgets on the homescreen, password management unlock attempts, safety of Clipboard data wipes and more. The management console allows even your it guys to configure your device so that if your SIM card is removed, the debugger is enabled or the phone in some way gets rooted, the device will automatically erase all business data. Security is the name of the game here, folks.
But don't worry your Department computer messing with your personal data. Gap ensures that your business cannot interfere with your personal data. On the flip side, gap offers a console web for users, through which the user can choose to delete data from the single undertaking or erase personal data management and enterprise in total. Users can also locate their phone on a map — a feature that your it Department is blocked use unless you give your explicit permission otherwise.
Gap launches as a beta for now private. You can register for the beta trial, which is free, passing by heading on over to http://www.enterproid.com/. Go ahead, here's your chance to open your it Department.
