Managing Employee Owned (BYOD) Devices

The smartphone market share has been increasing quarter on quarter, and consumers nowadays have a wide variety of choices. This means that your employees would most probably use a high-end smartphone of their own, and hence they might not be receptive to the idea of carrying a second phone for work.

In these scenarios, it becomes imperative to let them use their personal phones to access work data, and not only making sure that the corporate data is safe and secure but also ensuring that the overall experience is completely non-intrusive to the personal side of things. This article will help you learn how to use Scalefusion to manage employee/personal-owned devices and drive your BYOD strategy.

In this guide, we will see the various features that Scalefusion offers that will help to manage employee-owned devices. Click on the links in each section to navigate to the relevant help document.

Overview

To start managing employee-owned devices as an admin, you have to complete some steps on the Scalefusion Dashboard. These are,

1. Android for Work Setup
2. Updating Organization Info
3. Creating a BYOD Profile
4. User Management
5. QR Code Configurations
6. Inviting the Users

On the device once the employees start enrolling their devices, an Android Work Profile is created. A Work Profile is a secure Android container that makes sure that the data from the work apps is separate from the personal apps and stored in separate encrypted storage. The work apps will start showing a briefcase icon indicating that they are work apps. Scalefusion client provides a unified Workplace, which can be used as a quick place to interact with the work apps.

Feature Support