Sphere Secure Workspace
Acquired
Sphere Secure Workspace provided a container-based enterprise mobility management product that separated work and personal data on employee mobile devices.
Sphere Secure Workspace provided a container-based enterprise mobility management product that separated work and personal data on employee mobile devices.
Sphere Secure Workspace offered an enterprise mobility management solution for iOS and Android that created a separate secure container on an employee's personal device for work content. Staff accessed corporate applications through a single login while personal data stayed isolated outside the container.
When an employee left or lost a device, IT could remove only the work container, leaving the person's personal content intact. OneLogin positioned the lightweight approach as an alternative to traditional mobile device management vendors such as MobileIron and VMware AirWatch.
Sphere Secure Workspace's container approach let organizations secure work content on personal devices without a full device wipe, protecting employee personal data while maintaining corporate control. A single login gave employees access to all provisioned applications inside the container.
The lightweight model required less overhead than traditional mobile device management, appealing to IT departments that wanted some control without the cost and complexity of comprehensive MDM deployments. Acquisition by OneLogin paired the container technology with an existing cloud identity platform.
Sphere Secure Workspace's container approach was not new to the market, and OneLogin itself noted the model was a compromise rather than comprehensive device management. The lightweight design gave companies less control than full mobile device management platforms.
As a two-person London startup the company had limited scale and distribution, and competitors such as Okta had already moved into mobile device management in 2014. The standalone Sphere offering was short-lived, absorbed into OneLogin roughly two years after founding.
