SAP AG and Samsung Electronics Co. are teaming up to make mobile devices running Google Inc.’s Android operating system safer to use as corporate tools.
Samsung will present their plans next week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The cooperation will include e-mail encryption as well as making handsets compatible with device-management systems that remotely update software and can operate phone functions such as switching the camera on and off.
“Companies need more pre-configured tablets and smartphones which comply with their advanced security requirements,” said Ulrich Trabert, a software analyst at Bankhaus Metzler in Frankfurt who has a “sell” recommendation on SAP. “Naturally, SAP is looking for a partner who is dominant on the Android platform.”
Samsung spokesman Jason Kim confirmed that the two companies will make a joint announcement in Barcelona, but declined to give details. A spokesman for Walldorf, Germany- based SAP declined to comment.
