With the rising adoption of Internet-enabled devices, employees increasingly seek access to their email, documents, and other corporate data from their mobile phone.
Last year, Google addressed this need with a number of enhancements focused on mobile productivity. For BlackBerry users, they launched the Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server. For Android phones, they announced new web versions of Gmail and Google Calendar, as well as updates to Google Docs. They also launched Google Sync for iPhone, Nokia E series, and Windows Mobile devices, enabling Google Apps users to access and sync mail, calendar, and contacts from their mobile device to the Google cloud.
Google are now expanding these capabilities further by launching new measures that enable administrators to help ensure corporate policy enforcement across a range of mobile devices.
With this change, Google Apps Premier and Education Edition administrators will be able to manage their users' iPhone, Nokia E series and Windows Mobile devices right from the Google Apps administrative control panel, without deploying any additional software or having to manage dedicated enterprise mobile servers.
These new mobile device management capabilities will allow administrators to:
Remotely wipe all data from lost or stolen mobile devices
Lock idle devices after a period of inactivity
Require a device password on each phone
Set minimum lengths for more secure passwords
Require passwords to include letters, numbers and punctuation.