In a glorious event organized by Samsung, in coordination with Jazz at Royal Palm Hotel, Lahore on 16th of December, key features of Samsung KNOX 2.4 were introduced. The event was all about customizing your smartphone as per your own utilities in business. Mercurial Minds (pvt) ltd and LMKT solutions were also present there.
Samsung KNOX is a holistic enterprise platform that provides enhanced security and container solutions with cloud-based enterprise mobility management services as well as a marketplace, which provides it products and software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps. With greater security and improved usability, based on constant innovation in mobile technology to meet rapidly changing mobility needs, Samsung KNOX provides an evolving platform for today’s dynamic enterprise mobility requirements.
In order to give complete awareness to the participants of event, detailed presentations of salient features of software were carried out. Jazz being a partner of Samsung also presented its company and innovative ideas for future. Other companies also demonstrated their work to intact with Samsung software. Read about new features and services for the Samsung platform below:
New enhancements in KNOX 2.4
Enterprise Split Billing
Enterprise Split Billing clearly identifies what portion of data usage is from enterprise use, and what is from personal activities. This enables enterprise customers to properly compensate their employees for cost generated because of work.
NFC and Bluetooth inside KNOX Workspace
Near field communication (NFC) and Bluetooth are now available inside the software Workspace, allowing users to stay connected to their peripherals while inside their container.
Container login using Active Directory
IT Admins can now choose an Active Directory password as the unlock method for KNOX containers. This allows them to use a one password-management policy to manage desktop and mobile services.
KNOX Mobile Enrollment
Mobile Enrollment enables IT admins and MDM solutions to stage and enroll a large number of devices automatically by configuring device information in the cloud.
Cloud SDK
The Cloud SDK is a JavaScript-based policy management tool designed to make it faster and easier for our partners to adopt and support new features on their launch day.
Quick Access
KNOX Quick Access leverages Samsung wearables such as the GALAXY Gear to allow extended access to an unlocked software container. Once the wearable is out of range, the software container locks it automatically.
Presence of Vice President and Managing Director of Samsung, for Pakistan and Afghanistan Mr. JH Lee chief guest of the event made event even more prestigious. He gave an outstanding speech in Urdu, as good as he can reading from a paper. Those remarkable moments made event cheerful. He announced the launch of Samsung’s new app in Pakistan and welcomed participants for joining event. “Samsung KNOX is the next-generation of the secured Android platform. Targeted primarily at mid and high-tier devices, it leverages hardware security capabilities to offer multiple levels of protection for the operating system and applications”, he added.
Conclusions are yet to be drawn that how this android platform is going to resolve mobile productivity issues and achieve its goals to meet evolving enterprise mobility challenges.
