Research in Motion recently released BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express (BESX), offering FREE software and CALs while providing the basic connectivity, protection, and management functions of BlackBerry BES Server including wireless sync and remote access to data and programs. But the price cuts don't stop at free software and CALs. You now get the ability to select the BlackBerry Internet Service data carrier plan instead of the BES data plan, which can save you up to $20 per month for every one of your RIM BlackBerry users!
RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express can be deployed on a Microsoft Exchange or Small Business Server, recommended for up to 75 users, or on a dedicated server to support up to 2,000 clients. BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express is ideal for smaller businesses who until now could not afford integrating employees' BlackBerry smartphones to the corporate IT system.
The Express version of RIM BlackBerry BES Server does not offer high availability features, system monitoring, database mirroring, or desk phone support and reduces the supported policies from 450 to 35. In addition, BIS data plan users will have to execute the first wired enterprise activation to connect to the BES. After that they will enjoy the full BlackBerry mobile email and personal organizer data experience which includes calendar, address books, do lists, and notes. Users with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server data carrier plan can still enterprise activate their BlackBerry smartphones wirelessly.
How Progent's BlackBerry Certified Experts Can Help You with Your Smartphone Environment
Progent offers a range of IT support services to help you to deploy BESX and other BlackBerry technologies. Progent can assist you to resolve synchronization issues, set up wireless administration capability, install desktop software, design and test backup/restore procedures, add or remove BlackBerry smartphones on Microsoft Exchange Server and Active Directory, and configure Virtual Private Network connections. For large-scale wireless infrastructure projects, Progent's BlackBerry engineers can team with Progent's Microsoft certified IT consultants, Cisco certified CCIE engineers, and CISM and GIAC-certified Security engineers. This broad selection of IT skills, delivered via Progent's efficient online consulting, reduces network support costs and promotes rapid and successful solutions for businesses who want to integrate BlackBerry products smoothly into their IT network.
Progent's technology consultants can also can assist you with Microsoft SQL integration and Microsoft Exchange Server management to make sure that your database and messaging infrastructure operate effectively with BESX. Progent can also assist your business to migrate from previous releases of RIM BlackBerry and Microsoft software, set up streamlined administration utilities to help you track and manage BlackBerry smartphones across your network, and create a sensible security plan that includes BlackBerry users. Progent's disaster recovery specialists can help your business to define, institute, and validate business continuity processes to ensure that BlackBerry data can be preserved and mobile networking functions can be rapidly resumed in case of a major 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.
Contact Progent to Get Help from a RIM BlackBerry-Qualified Expert
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