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BlackBerry Enterprise Solution Overview
Wireless access to email, phone and other corporate information is not a luxury for your mobile workers — it's a must-have.
With the BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution mobilising your workplace, your corridor warriors can make timely decisions based on the best information available, increasing their productivity and boosting your business performance.
The complete wireless solution for the enterprise
The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution allows mobile users to access communications and information wirelessly, including:*
Why choose the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution?
The BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution is the leading wireless solution for connecting mobile users to the customers, colleagues and information that drive business. Find out why you should choose it to mobilise your email, enterprise applications and back-end systems:
Benefits for Your Organisation
Flexibility
The BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution is a single platform, offering everything your organisation needs to mobilise enterprise applications and systems.
- Choice — Supports leading enterprise email platforms, back-end systems and applications from a wide range of vendors. Select the wireless devices that best suit your needs from award-winning BlackBerry® devices to a wide variety of BlackBerry Connect™ devices.*
- Maximum flexibility — Manage multiple wireless network technologies, devices, messaging servers and enterprise systems with a single BlackBerry Enterprise Server®.
Lowest TCO of Mobile Enterprise Solutions
The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution allows organisations to keep their employees connected to the information and people that matter, while still benefiting from a low overall Total Cost of Operation (TCO).
- Lower device costs — BlackBerry devices can be purchased at competitive or lower costs and with competitive service plan rates when compared with other device offerings.
- 30+% less expensive server software — BlackBerry Enterprise Server is more cost effective than mobile server software offerings across a variety of deployment sizes.**
- Lower bandwidth — Efficient use of bandwidth and airtime on wireless networks translates into lower costs for organisations.
- Leverage of existing investments — Standards-based protocols and development tools help ensure that practically any enterprise application, infrastructure or system can be wirelessly enabled without being rebuilt or replaced.
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*Features and functionality of BlackBerry Connect devices may vary by device
**Scotia Capital. Equity Research: Daily Edge. August 17 2005.
Benefits for Your IT Department
Security
The BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution was created with corporate data security in mind.
- End-to-end AES or Triple DES* encryption — Helps ensure the confidentiality and integrity of wirelessly transmitted information from behind the firewall to wireless devices in the field.
- Over-the-air wireless IT policy enforcement and commands — Define and wirelessly enforce security settings on devices, as well as impose device lock-down or wipe data from lost or stolen devices. Learn more about BlackBerry Enterprise Server™ IT policies.
- Optional S/MIME** and PGP support — Wirelessly sign and encrypt messages between senders and recipients, providing writer to reader security functionality. Learn more about PGP support.
- Available BlackBerry Smart Card Reader — Create a secure, two-factor authenticated environment for granting access to BlackBerry® and PKI applications. Learn more about the BlackBerry Smart Card Reader
- FIPS 140-2 validated encryption technology — The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution meets strict U.S. government and military encryption standards.
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Easy to deploy, easy to manage
With the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution, organisations can benefit from deployment and management features that simplify its administration.
- Role and group-based administration capabilities — Help reduce security and operational risks and administrative overhead by delegating permissions by role and creating administrative user groups.
- Over-the-air wireless IT policy enforcement — Provides fast, cost-effective method for supporting users and managing corporate policies remotely so users don't have to go without their devices and IT does not have to have devices in hand to make changes.
- Track key device statistics — Easily monitor third party applications loaded, IT policies applied, device models, PIN numbers, software versions and serial numbers.
- Remote BlackBerry Enterprise Server and network management — Manage the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution and network infrastructure from wireless devices with available third-party applications.
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*Available for BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange and BlackBerry Enterprise Server for IBM Lotus Domino only.
**Support for S/MIME available for BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange and BlackBerry Enterprise Server for IBM Lotus Domino only.
Benefits of Being Part of the BlackBerry Family
Global availability and reliability are just a few of the benefits that come with being a member of the BlackBerry® family. Check out some more of the advantages to being a BlackBerry user.
Market Leader
The BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution is the unbeatable choice for people who need to stay connected to high-value information and communications while on the go.
- Millions of users – Trust the leading wireless platform for the enterprise used by over 4 million subscribers worldwide.
- Global availability – Access communications and information virtually anywhere work or life takes you, with availability and support on over 150 networks in more than 60 countries.
Reliability
Take advantage of several programs and services designed to help your organisation get the most from your BlackBerry deployments. Get all the support you need including Technical Support Services, BlackBerry Developer Program, RIM® Professional Services and more.