Research In Motion (RIM) today announced the availability of BlackBerryВ® Enterprise Server 5.0 – the next generation of RIM’s secure, pushing-based host software for stage business mobility. Version 5.0 supports advanced IT giving medication features and smartphone controls that aid improve the productivity of mobile workers and more effectively meet the demands of large-scale, mission critical enterprise deployments.
BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 enables a secure, centrally managed link between BlackBerryВ® smartphones and endeavor systems, applications, corporate phone environments (with BlackBerryВ® Mobile River Voice System) and radio networks. It tightly integrates with IBMВ® LotusВ® DominoВ®, MicrosoftВ® ExchangeВ®, and NovellВ® GroupWiseВ®, and is designed to provide highly secure approach to email, organizer information, moment electronic messaging, part (via BlackBerry MVS), browser and other endeavor applications. It also provides advanced security measures features and administrative tools that simplify the management and use of the BlackBerryВ® solution within the enterprise.
“We are proud to unveil the next multiplication of BlackBerry Enterprise Server software system,” said Mike Lazaridis, President of the United States and Co-chief executive officer at RIM. “BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 significantly raises the bar for advanced IT manageability, high handiness, organization monitoring and coverage. It has undergone examination in real number world environments for over a class and is available now for customers.”
BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 Enhancements and Francis Scott Key Features
BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 provides enhanced IT direction and giving medication features, including:
- BlackBerryВ® Administration Robert William Service, a new administration constituent with a web-based user interface that provides centralized management, monitoring and control of smartphone deployments and the complete BlackBerry organization environs. IT staff tin easily approach the BlackBerry Administration Robert William Service from an Internet Explorer web web browser.
- Role-based access controls allow IT administrators to delegate tasks to IT staff, either individuals or groups, and control approach to IT functionality. Screen consoles exhibit only the functions that ar available to the person IT administrator.
- Over-The-Air application deployment and device software system updates can be bettor managed and controlled with job programming and choking.
- IT administrative job scheduling supports the deployment of gimmick, application and server updates at times that tin aid minimize impingement on smartphone users and stage business operations.
- Mobile River application management and deployment enhancements documentation the efficient management and control of applications across smartphone deployments, allowing IT administrators to:
– Publish updates and optional applications that ar available for download by smartphone users.
– Push mandatory applications or updates to individuals or groups of users.
– Identify “disallowed” applications to prevent smartphone users from downloading prohibited applications.
- Simplified IT insurance policy direction allows IT administrators to create groups of smartphone users and nested groups, then apply IT policies or perform IT tasks for 1 or more groups, in summation to applying policies to individuals.
- Approximately 450 IT policies that tin be applied to individuals or groups of smartphone users, ranging from enforcing smartphone watchword protection and controlling access to third political party smartphone applications, to controlling the manipulation of specific smartphone features, such as using a camera or video recording.
- System wellness monitoring provides a unified, colour-coded view of the BlackBerry environment, both server and drug user related, for the easy identification of potential issues.
- Advanced coverage features, including trending, chart analysis and server statistics, provide a comprehensive view into the boilersuit health of the BlackBerry organization environment. BlackBerry Enterprise Server also stores up to 56 weeks of wellness scores for historical trending analysis.
- Built-in high gear availability and automated failover allows IT administrators to set BlackBerry Enterprise Server to automatically issue alerts and then failover to a standby host when certain thresholds are met. Load reconciliation between the primary election and standby server is an option for some shared overhaul components like the Attachment Service. Manual failover from the primary election host to the understudy server is an choice for IT administrators to perform planned maintenance tasks without affecting smartphone service.
- BlackBerry Enterprise Transporter Tool makes upgrading to BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 easy and seamless. It streamlines the transfer of multiple drug user accounts from 1 BlackBerry Enterprise Server region to another without impingement to or military action required by end users.
“The smartphone is necessity for enterprises look to improve employee productiveness, accessibility, and reactivity in today’s economic environment,” said Chris Hazelton, Research Director, Mobile and Wireless at The 451 Group. “As smartphones return on greater relevancy in the endeavor and deployments grow, the demands on IT departments grow exponentially, making manageability, controller and high handiness must-haves in the support mobile base.”
Support for New Smartphone Features
BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 supports all stream BlackBerry smartphones and supports the following smartphone features with BlackBerry Device Software 5.0(i):
- Remote access to Windows net file cabinet shares to allow smartphone users to securely retrieve, survey, edit and email documents from buttocks the firewall.
- Flag emails for follow-up in the same means that flags ar used in Microsoft OutlookВ®.
- Create, relocation, browse, rename and delete email folders directly from the smartphone, and view and attach files from those folders to emails sent from the smartphone.
- View attachments in a merging request or calendar entry, and forward calendar appointments with attachments.
- Easily manage personal and populace distribution lists.
- Use of Calendar Meeting Delegation for IBMВ® LotusВ® DominoВ®, which allows attendees to delegate invitations to others from their BlackBerry smartphones.
In Use Today
BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 has undergone testing in real number world environments for over a year, and is in use today at a figure of organizations in North United States and Europe, including IBM (www.ibm.com), Linklaters (www.linklaters.com), Metro Group (www.subway-ag.com), Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (www.osler.com), Walter Reed Smith LLP (www.reedsmith.com), and Tayside Fire and Rescue (www.taysidefire.gov.uk).
RIM itself has also been run BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 and has more than 10,000 employees connected on the new variant. The majority of RIM employees were migrated to variant 5.0 using the new BlackBerry Enterprise Transporter instrument.
“The new capabilities for handling applications in BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 ar exciting,” said Todd Belt, CTO of IBM Mobile Enterprise Services. “These capabilities ar of tremendous import to our enterprise customers as they continue to adopt mobile applications to sports meeting their stage business needs.”
“BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 is ready for a product environs,” said Paul Williamson, Systems Management Engineer at Linklaters. “Having piloted the new solution for over a year, the benefits ar obvious. Access to the new cabinet from a vane web browser makes remote giving medication very easy and the high availability options have worked extremely wellspring since twenty-four hours one. Our overall experience with it has been excellent.”
“Metro Group has been successfully trialing BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 for 18 months and we are currently using it to run and manage over 1,five hundred employees’ BlackBerry smartphones,” said Ernst Lueckerath, Head of Global Communication and Security at MGI METRO Group Information Technology. “One of the keystone benefits of BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 is high gear handiness, meaning that we tin reliably and instantly switching servers to manage issues, or for regulated care and upgrades, without impacting our employees’ BlackBerry overhaul.”
“The rise to BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 was one of the easiest we have ever performed. Totally flawless!” said Theodore Roosevelt J. Russell Jr., Remote Computing Analyst at Walter Reed Adam Smith LLP.
“BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 has been successfully tested and deployed within Tayside Fire and Rescue and we ar impressed with the new administrative features,” said Gary Bellfield, ICT Manager at Tayside Fire and Rescue. “Having true high gear handiness built into the chopine has presumption us further peace of head as we rely on our BlackBerry smartphones to aid support the life-critical emergency services we provide.”
New Support Programs and Services
RIM is also announcing today new technical foul support, professional services, and training and certification programs to help BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 customers achieve the best possible performance and return on investiture from their BlackBerry smartphone deployments:
- BlackBerryВ® Technical Support Services – www.blackberry bush.com/btss – offers a new tiered program with varying degrees of documentation to meet the range of client needs. New services include Change Management Planning, Health Check Services and Direct to Level Two Support Resources.
- BlackBerryВ® Migration Planning Services – www.blackberry bush.com/professional_services – ar designed to aid organizations architectural plan their upgrade to BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0.
- BlackBerryВ® Training and Certification Programs for BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 are planned for handiness in the third stern of this class. For more information about training for new administrators, sojourn www.blackberry bush.com/preparation. For more selective information about authentication for administrators of BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0, visit www.blackberry.com/authentication.
“RIM’s new master services, documentation and preparation programs rich person helped us prepare for our transition to BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0,” said Simon Peter Bier, Congress of Industrial Organizations, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. “The RIM team analyzed our mobility needs and our IT stave’s preparedness to determine the right system setup, preparation requirements, floor of support and migration architectural plan that would ensure a smooth transition to version 5.0.”
Certified Secure
Also announced today, BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 has obtained Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL 4+) certification (see offprint release). The Common Criteria is an international standard for validating that IT products meet specific security measures requirements. Certifications are recognized by 26 countries, including Commonwealth of Australia, Canada, French Republic, Federal Republic of Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Available Today
BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 is available today for IBMВ® LotusВ® DominoВ® and MicrosoftВ® Exchange. For more selective information, visit http://na.blackberry bush.com/eng/services/server.
(i) BlackBerry Device Software 5.0 is scheduled to be available later this year.
