As mainstream end-user computing vendors, such as Dell and Samsung, release rugged devices that run Android and Windows, supporting ruggedized devices becomes another tier of an organization’s overall endpoint management strategy.

Many organizations in verticals such as utilities, industrial manufacturing, field service, transportation, delivery services, healthcare and government deploy ruggedized devices. Historically, ruggedized devices ran different OSes than the rest of an enterprise organization’s endpoint fleet. However, even single-use devices, such as ruggedized scanners, are now available running Android.