Android MDM · Enterprises
Company Android phones and tablets managed the way your enterprise works: joiners, movers and leavers handled automatically, with compliance evidence ready for audits.
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An enterprise with hundreds or thousands of Android phones and tablets rarely needs another console for its own sake. It needs devices that are ready on a new employee's first day, work apps with the right settings for each role, evidence for auditors that devices are encrypted and patched, and a clean exit when someone leaves. Most of that lives between systems: HR, identity, ticketing and the device-management tool.
So we start by asking what you already run. Many enterprises already hold an EMM or UEM licence, and the most economical project then extends it through its API with automations, reports and company apps that read their settings from the EMM. Where device management is itself the product, for example an IT services firm offering managed devices to its customers, we build on the Android Management API, whose usage policy covers commercial EMM products but not tools used only in-house. For special hardware, we build device-owner apps.
Challenges
Some staff carry company-owned phones, others use their own; each needs a different management mode and privacy promise.
Without automation, access to email and files often outlives the employee's last working day.
Encryption, passcode and patch status are collected by hand before each audit.
Sales, service and warehouse teams need different apps and rules, run by different administrators.
Features and update schedules differ by model, so one policy does not behave the same everywhere.
Comparison
We recommend the smallest route that meets your needs, and check each against the vendor terms or the API usage policy.
| Existing EMM or UEM as it is | Extend an existing EMM | Build a product on the Android Management API | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suits | Standard policies and a small IT team | Enterprises with HR, identity and audit workflows to automate | IT service firms and vendors offering device management to customers |
| What we build | Nothing new: configuration and training only | Automations, reports, dashboards and company apps with managed settings | Console, back end, policies, enrolment and customer tenants |
| Time to first devices | Days | Weeks | Months, plus quota approval above 500 devices |
| Who maintains the device agent | The vendor | The vendor | Google, through Android Device Policy |
| Rules to respect | Vendor licence per device or user | Vendor API terms | Google permissible-usage policy: commercial EMM products, not in-house-only tools |
What is included
Platform: Integration service
Platform: Admin dashboard
Platform: Android apps
Platform: Admin console
How it works
A new hire record triggers a device request with the role, business unit and location.
A company phone from stock enrols by zero-touch or QR code; a personal phone gets a work profile instead.
The role's policy, Wi-Fi, certificates and work apps with their managed settings arrive automatically.
Encryption, passcode and patch level are checked; devices out of policy get reminders, then lose access to work systems.
A transfer moves the device to the new policy and app set without a trip to the IT desk.
The work profile is removed from a personal phone, or the company phone is reset and returned to stock, with the action logged.
Then it starts again at step 1: Employee joins
Product preview
Illustrative screens. Devices, teams and figures are invented.
Sample screens: names, prices and figures are examples, not client data.
Privacy & security
The organisation manages only work apps and data; personal apps, photos and messages stay out of its view.
Through the Android Management API, location is reported only in lost mode, on company-owned devices with a supported Android version, and staff are told this in the device-use policy.
We collect the device details needed for security and support, and describe them in a notice under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
Resets and wipes need a second administrator's approval and are logged.
Platforms
Company-owned and personal Android phones and tablets, the admin console and the integration service behind it.
Android phones, tablets and rugged handhelds with Google Play services, managed through Android Enterprise: company-owned devices as fully managed, dedicated (kiosk) or work-profile devices, and personal phones through a work profile only.
Back-office panels for operations, support and finance teams: orders, users, content, reports and permissions.
Browser-based applications with logins, roles and workflows, such as customer portals, SaaS products and internal tools.
Technology
The Android Management API or your EMM vendor API, Kotlin company apps with managed settings, and a NestJS integration service with PostgreSQL and Redis.
Device management
A Google cloud API for device-management products: your console sets the rules, and a Google app on each Android device applies them.
Used for
Mobile
Apps built specifically for Android, with full access to the phone's hardware, background location and company-managed devices.
Used for
Backend
A structured way to build back ends on Node.js, so large business systems stay organised, testable and easy to hand over.
Used for
Data
A reliable database for the records your business runs on: orders, payments, bookings and stock, kept accurate and easy to report on.
Used for
Data
Keeps frequently used data in fast memory, so apps stay quick on busy days and live features like order tracking feel instant.
Used for
Web
Builds interactive screens in the browser, such as dashboards, admin panels and portals, that respond instantly as your team works.
Used for
Cloud & DevOps
Packages your software so it runs the same way on every laptop and server, which makes releases predictable and moving hosts easier.
Used for
Cost drivers
Extending an existing EMM is usually a smaller project than building a management product for customers.
Each HR, identity, ticketing or asset system adds an integration and its testing.
More roles mean more policy templates, administrator rights and reports.
Each model family is tested against the policies before rollout.
Moving company phones from another tool usually means re-enrolling them, which needs planning site by site.
Estimates are written from your scope, with the effort and assumptions behind each line item.
How pricing worksProcess
We map devices, ownership, current tools and the joiner-to-leaver process with IT, HR and security.
You getCurrent and target process map
Use, extend or build, checked against vendor terms and the Android Management API usage policy.
You getArchitecture note
Automations and reports run for one unit before a wider rollout.
You getPilot report
Business units move in waves; your IT team gets runbooks and administrator training.
You getRunbooks
Solutions
One console for company Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac and Windows devices: enrolment, apps, access and offboarding, on platform APIs or your existing UEM.
Compliance rules for Android, Apple and Windows devices: passcodes, encryption, OS updates, app lists, remote lock and wipe, audit logs and reports.
Zero-touch, QR code, Knox Mobile Enrollment and Apple Automated Device Enrollment set-ups that take devices from the box to ready-to-use.
Company-owned Android phones and tablets set up as fully managed devices, with custom device-owner apps where standard EMM agents fall short.
FAQ
Keep it in most cases. If your EMM already enrols devices and applies policies, the value is usually in automating around it: HR-driven joiners and leavers, audit reports and company apps configured from the EMM. Building your own management product makes sense when you offer device management to others, which is also what the Android Management API usage policy is designed for.
No. On a personal phone with a work profile, the organisation manages only the work apps and their data. It cannot see personal apps, photos, messages or browsing, and removing the work profile leaves the rest of the phone untouched. We include a plain-language notice that explains this to staff before they enrol.
On a personal phone, the work profile and its data are removed and the phone stays usable. A company-owned phone is locked, backed up where your policy requires, factory reset and returned to stock for the next employee. The integration triggers both from the exit date in the HR system and logs the action for audit.
Usually. Most identity providers and HR systems offer APIs or webhooks for new hires, transfers and exits. We connect them to your EMM, or to the product we build, through a small integration service with retries, logs and alerts, so a missed message is caught instead of leaving a leaver's device active.
Yes, through an EMM or UEM that covers them, or through the Apple MDM protocol for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Windows PCs are usually managed through the MDM support built into Windows or your existing UEM. The same reports and automations can cover every platform, with separate rules where the platforms differ.
Next step
Tell us which EMM you use, how many devices you have and which systems it should talk to, and we will recommend use, extend or build.
