RIM BlackBerry recently introduced BlackBerry BES Express, featuring NO COST software and CALs while providing the basic connectivity, security, and administration functions of BlackBerry Enterprise Server such as wireless synchronization and mobile access to data and applications. And the price savings don't stop at free software and CALs. You now get the option to select the BlackBerry Internet Service wireless data carrier plan rather than the BlackBerry Enterprise Server wireless data carrier plan, which can save your business $10-$20 a month for each of your BlackBerry users!
RIM BlackBerry BES Server Express can be deployed on an Exchange or Small Business Server, which can handle up to 75 clients, or on a dedicated server to support as many as 2,000 clients. BlackBerry BES Server Express is a great alternative for smaller businesses who until now could not financially justify integrating their workers' BlackBerry smartphones to their corporate IT system.
The Express version of BlackBerry BES does not offer high availability, monitoring, SQL database mirroring, or desk phone/PBX support and limits the number of available policies from 450 to 35. In addition, BIS wireless data plan users will have to perform the first direct-attached enterprise activation to integrate with the BES. After that they will have the full BlackBerry mobile messaging and personal organizer data experience including scheduling, contacts, do lists, and notes. Users with the BES data carrier plan can still enterprise activate their BlackBerry smartphones wirelessly.
How Progent's BlackBerry Experts Can Help You with Your Mobility Solution
Progent provides a range of consulting support services to assist your company to integrate BlackBerry BES Express and other BlackBerry technologies. Progent can help your IT staff to fix BlackBerry sync problems, implement over-the-air administration capability, configure server and desktop tools, set up and validate archiving procedures, add or remove BlackBerry clients on Exchange Server and Active Directory, and configure Virtual Private Network security. For comprehensive wireless integration jobs, Progent's BlackBerry specialists can team with Progent's Microsoft information technology consultants, Cisco CCIE network engineers, and CISSP-ISSIP and GIAC-certified Security professionals. This broad selection of IT skills, provided through Progent's efficient remote service delivery model, cuts IT service costs and offers fast and successful solutions for small businesses who need to incorporate BlackBerry products smoothly into their IT system.
Progent's IT consultants can also can help your business with SQL integration and Microsoft Exchange configuration to make sure that your and email environment work effectively with BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express. Progent can also help your business to migrate from previous editions of RIM BlackBerry and Microsoft software, install easy-to-use management tools to monitor and control BlackBerry devices across your company, and create a sensible security strategy that accommodates BlackBerry users. Progent's business continuity consultants can help you to design, institute, and test disaster recovery processes to make sure that BlackBerry data records can be recovered and mobile networking functions can be rapidly restored in the event of a catastrophic datacenter failure.
Progent's BlackBerry Certifications
Progent's BlackBerry-certified consultants are experts at helping small organizations plan, manage, and troubleshoot BlackBerry technology affordably and effectively, reducing the cost and hassle of maintaining a mobile workforce and promoting better business results. Progent's experts have earned all major BlackBerry certifications including BlackBerry Certified Support Specialist, BlackBerry Certified Server Support Specialist, BlackBerry Certified System Administrator, and BlackBerry Certified Solution Designer.
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