Google launches Android Enterprise Essentials, a mobile device management service for small businesses

Google today introduced a new mobile management and security solution, Android Enterprise Essentials,

which, despite its name, is actually aimed at small to medium-sized

businesses. The company explains this solution leverages Google’s

experience in building Android Enterprise device management and security

tools for larger organizations in order to come up with a simpler

solution for those businesses with smaller budgets.The new

service includes the basics in mobile device management, with features

that allow smaller businesses to require their employees to use a lock

screen and encryption to protect company data. It also prevents users

from installing apps outside the Google Play Store via the Google Play

Protect service, and allows businesses to remotely wipe all the company

data from phones that are lost or stolen.