Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) has deployed  enterprise mobility management solution from Good Technology, Good for Enterprise (GFE), to enable its staff to securely access a range of collaboration and productivity applications including email, calendar, contacts, intranet, SharePoint access and document viewing and editing.

“Managing risk was a key driver for implementing Good for Enterprise, while also providing secure mobile productivity capability,” commented Jamie O’Donnell, Manager Telecommunication Services at Bank of New Zealand. 

“As smartphones and apps become more evolved and enabled, the potential increases for our staff to unwittingly leak corporate information that we had no auditable visibility of.”

Bank of New Zealand’s fleet of 1000 smartphones and tablets comprises a mixture of BYOD and company supplied devices. 

The bank has developed its own distinct application suites from the library of applications for smartphones and tablets in the Good Dynamics Marketplace including: Good Share for accessing shared drives, GoodReader for Good and iAnnotate for Good for viewing and editing PDF files and Smart Office for Good for viewing and editing Microsoft Office documents.

Jamie O’Donnell added, “We wanted our application suite to be reflective of the way staff are using mobile devices and their desire to be effective while out and about.  Smartphones tend to be more for content viewing, communication and collaboration, whereas tablets are increasingly being used as productivity tools, including content creation and editing.”

Bank of New Zealand employs over 5,000 people in New Zealand, and is a subsidiary of the National Australia Bank Group of companies.