Celebrating our 10th anniversary this year was a great opportunity to look back at how far Tech Orchard’s services have come, but it also prompted us to look forward utilizing customer feedback to consider what more we can do in the future. Tech Orchard is proud to offer a new service to help our clients save money and simplify operations: mobile device recovery.

Offering mobile device recovery was a natural step, allowing us to complete the cycle of helping clients commission devices, securely operate them through modern management practices, and create mobile device usage policies that outline best practices and procedures while employees have the devices. Now, when it’s time to upgrade technology, Tech Orchard can offer continuity for IT teams, as well as additional benefits for your organization.

This new software-driven solution is designed to help organizations ensure data security, recover maximum value, automate manual processes and deliver a sustainable solution, allowing the recovery, repurposing, reselling or recycling of corporate-owned mobile devices. With this new service, we aim to save time for IT team and keep devices out of landfills. Tech Orchard can provide visibility into device tracking, processing, employee buyback programs and a secure chain of logistics.

Data from our industry proved the need for this offering:

  • 60% of endpoints containing or accessing enterprise data are mobile, and the majority do not have any security protection today, according to Zimperium.
  • 41% of data breaches stem from lost smartphones, tablets and laptops, according to the T-Mobile 2020 Enterprise Mobility Report.
  • The average time investment per device was 41.6 minutes in an enterprise-wide device refresh of 9,000+ phones, according to an industry end-user review in 2021.
  • Eliminating the need to recycle 500 mobile devices is equivalent to eliminating the emissions of one passenger car for a year, according to an EPA Waste Reduction Calculation.
  • Globally, society only deals with 20% of e-waste appropriately; the rest, for the most part, ends up in a landfill, where the precious metals cannot be recovered and become toxic waste.
  • Less than 30% of corporate devices are recovered using spreadsheets and other manual processes.

Tech Orchard’s device recovery can address many of these challenges.

  • Data security: Corporate data is invaluable. Every unrecovered corporate-owned device poses a serious data-loss risk for organizations. Each device we process completes rigorous functionality testing and NIST-compliant data wiping. Your team will receive a Certificate of Data Destruction to provide peace of mind that your organization’s data is secure.

  • Process automation: Backed by a full stack of API integrations and configurable workflows, our logic-based automation drives recovery behaviors at the end-user level. We help define a process that allows companies to reconcile every device to a user, without using spreadsheets. We can also generate risk assessments based on historical data and filter program data to inform your business decisions.

  • Maximum value recovery: Our software provides full transparency into the device testing and grading process, enabling you to understand the true value of your idle assets and retired devices. We have tapped into a marketplace of buyers that generates the highest possible return for your mobile device investments and inventory by matching customers with the right devices based on grade, value and device type. According to data from the marketplace, the average recovered device value was $120 across all device types and grades.

  • Increasing sustainability: Every device in your company’s inventory, both idle and deployed, is given a new life before it is responsibly recycled. Customized environmental impact reports show how your device lifecycle program is creating a sustainable solution by reselling, reusing and recycling devices, saving e-waste materials from landfills.

Whether your company is looking for ways to increase sustainability, save money, reduce headaches or benefit from all of the above, Tech Orchard can help. Contact us at sales@techorchard.com to learn how we can implement a device recovery program that’s right for your business.