Bearings International Chooses Samsung Tablets For Its Workforce

JOHANNESBURG - Jan. 28, 2015 - PRLog -- JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 28 Janaury 2015 – The increase in demand for access to business information and applications through mobile technologies is growing and employee preferences are having stronger influence on the choice of these technologies. Globally, the adoption of these new technologies has had many managers evaluating the best ways to safely and effectively position their organisations to benefit from this growing trend.

Bearings International, a leading Southern African distributor of bearings and power transmission products is one such company - moving towards this trend and implementing it to improve personnel output and customer relations. The organisation has chosen the Samsung GALAXY tablets embedded with KNOX Enterprise Mobile Management (EMM), a solution that will ensure risk management and an integrated approach to business development.

Bearings’ partnership with Samsung makes it the first company in South Africa to implement KNOX EMM since its commercial availability in the country. Paulo Ferreira, Head of Enterprise Mobility at Samsung Electronics South Africa: “Bearings will be able to easily manage employees’ mobile devices using KNOX EMM through a single cloud-based Mobile Device Management solution. This allows better security and policy management and will contribute to a safe and secure environment.”

The company required tools which would further boost sales and improve productivity and the tablet solution offered increased opportunities for growth and opened up a whole new dimension with the availability of thousands of apps. The apps are designed to seamlessly speed up tasks such as taking notes and capturing orders and customer feedback. Furthermore, technical product libraries can now be accessed immediately and managing calendars, email or CRM software will be much simpler.

KNOX EMM will also enable Bearings International to manage and control the GALAXY tablets that the company has issued to its employees, ensuring these are secure from Malware and viruses whilst maintaining the integrity of the data being sent to and from the devices. This will give management confidence in the security of the devices, while utilised out in the field. The tablet solution enhances productivity whilst lowering hardware costs and providing employees tools to improve the high level of professionalism customers expect.

Tablets are currently the pinnacle of mobile technology and are designed for efficiency because of the low power requirements of their hardware components. They are compact, lightweight and easy to carry and this added to a user friendly interface and a wide variety of uses, has made this product extremely popular. In many ways, the tablet replaces a laptop for someone on the go that still needs to be connected.

“With new technologies, come new ways of thinking and implementing important functions to enhance employee efficiency and we are confident that our solution will safely and securely enable Bearings International to manage security risks through Samsung’s KNOX EMM,” concludes Ferreira.

About Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
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About Bearing International

Bearings International is a leading southern African distributor of bearings and power transmission products. A complete range of leading brand imported products is offered through our 48 wholly owned branch outlets, 2 on-site operations at customer facilities plus 4 franchised outlets. For more information