Wednesday, 19 Octorber 2011

Two Korean Android smartphone makers, Samsung and LG Electronics, announced a bigger push into the enterprise market.

Samsung Electronics and its U.S. arm Samsung Telecommunications America announced the Samsung Enterprise Alliance Program, an enterprise mobility ecosystem for Samsung and its enterprise solutions partners that is designed to provide enterprise solution partners with the opportunity to implement their solutions on Samsung mobile devices more efficiently, market solutions together with access to Samsung's global network of distribution and marketing assets and innovate and differentiate user experience through deeper integration with Samsung devices.

Membership in the Samsung Enterprise Alliance Program is divided into four tiers. Depending on different tiers of membership, the program provides enterprise partners with a wide range of benefits, including technical support for solution development on Samsung mobile devices, joint marketing and sales support through Samsung's enterprise mobility website, and enterprise mobility focused events to ultimately develop business opportunities together.

Samsung partners include Sybase, Juniper Networks, MobileIron and SOTI.

Meanwhile, LG Electronics announced a series of partnerships it made with solutions vendors in the enterprise mobility space to make a portfolio of solutions--including mobile device management, security, mobile virtualization, unified communications and cloud computing--compatible with its smartphones and tablets.

Solution providers working in tandem with LG to enhance MDM and security features in its smart devices include Authentec, McAfee, MobileIron, Mocana, 3LM and Sybase, a SAP company. UC solutions from Avaya and Fuzebox will become available on LG handsets and tablets. And LG's partnership with Box will extend a free 50GB lifetime cloud storage service to users of selected LG smart devices, enabling secure enterprise cloud file sharing and content management to boost worker collaboration.