Mo’s Mobile bypasses IT with Google Apps

27.02.2011

Mo’s Mobiles use of Google is serendipitous, given the vendor’s increasing focus on the mobile environment.

“There are some really amazing environments that are coming out now with iPads and tablets where we are getting this strong mix between mobility and power that we are used to in a desktop or PC environment,” Google Apps product manager for Australia, Anil Sabharwal, said. “So the idea of being able to edit and view these things on the go is critical.”

The mobile version of Google Docs allows you to edit and co-edit documents directly from a mobile device.

“We are investing quite a bit on [the mobile space] around Google Docs,” Sabharwal said.

“And from an enterprise perspective, it is important to know that we have a mobile device management tool. That means that as enterprises roll out Android devices to all their staff, if devices are lost, stolen, employees leave and take them with them…all of these devices have the capability your expect from an enterprise mobile environment. The ability to do things like remote wiping and deleting content so that IP from the enterprise that lives on these devices will not go with the phone.”