Secure Tablet Solutions for Enterprises: Orange Business Services and Samsung Sign Strategic Partnership Agreement.

Progressively, we can observe that, Orange is deeply committed to improve and extend its portfolio of services for enterprises. Today announcement focuses on this approach. The French telecoms operator has signed a strategic partnership agreement to develop the professional use of tablets and services.

The goal is to help companies leverage the benefits of this device across the Orange footprint in Europe, with specific emphasis on Belgium, France, Poland and Spain.

Connectikpeople has observed that, through this partnership, Orange Business Services
and Samsung Electronics will combine their complementary services, ecosystems and expertise to co-develop innovative solutions for businesses.

This means, Orange will combine its expertise in connectivity, services integration, device management and enterprise-grade security all over the world with Samsung’s range of services and latest devices.

To reach the common ambition of accelerating the development of mobile working, Orange and Samsung will mainly focus on two key areas:

• Tablets: Tablets offer companies a major opportunity to rethink and optimize business processes and even develop new services. Orange and Samsung plan to work together on seamlessly integrating Orange services – such as device management, deployment services and customer support – within Samsung tablets for the enterprise market. Customizing some vertical applications will allow the two partners to propose innovative vertical applications dedicated to tablets for key sectors, such as education and healthcare.

• Security : Security is a major concern for companies and especially in the mobile environment. Samsung KNOX, an end-to-end security solution that provides security enhancements from the hardware through the application layer, will be integrated into Orange’s Mobile Device Management solution. Samsung KNOX offers an isolated and secure container that allows for the separation of work and personal environment, providing a next-generation level of security. The solution will be available to Orange B2B customers initially in France and progressively extended to other Orange European markets.

The agreement includes common work and development between Orange Business Services and Samsung around future ways of working and evolutions of the workspace, including integration of interactive whiteboards; document management solutions; Samsung’s wireless multifunction printers; point of sale solutions, among others.