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RIM BlackBerry recently introduced BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express (BESX), offering NO COST software and CAL licenses while providing the core connectivity, security, and management capabilities of RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server including over-the-air synchronization and remote availability of data and applications. But the price savings don't end at free software and CAL licenses. You also get the ability to choose the BIS wireless data carrier plan instead of the BES data carrier plan, which can save your business up to $20 per month for each of your BlackBerry users!

BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express can be installed on an Exchange or Small Business Server, recommended for up to 75 clients, or on a dedicated BESX server which can support as many as 2,000 users. BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express is a great alternative for smaller businesses who before now couldn't afford connecting employees' BlackBerry smartphones to the corporate IT system.

The Express version of BlackBerry Enterprise Server does not provide high availability, monitoring, database mirroring, or desk phone/PBX support and limits the number of supported policies from 450 to 35. Also, BIS BlackBerry smartphone wireless data plan clients will have to perform the first direct-attached enterprise activation to connect to the BES. Subsequently they will have the complete BlackBerry mobile messaging and organizer data experience which includes calendar, address books, do lists, and notes. Users with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server data carrier plan can continue to enterprise activate their devices over the air.

How Progent's BlackBerry Experts Can Support Your Mobility Environment
Progent offers a variety of consulting support services to assist your company to deploy BESX and other BlackBerry platforms and utilities. Progent can help your IT staff to resolve synchronization issues, set up wireless management capability, install desktop tools, design and test archiving procedures, integrate BlackBerry clients on Microsoft Exchange Server and Windows Active Directory, and configure Virtual Private Network security. For large-scale wireless integration projects, Progent's BlackBerry specialists can team with Progent's Microsoft certified information technology experts, Cisco certified CCIE engineers, and GIAC and CISA-certified Security engineers. This broad selection of expertise, delivered via Progent's proven remote service delivery model, reduces network support costs and offers rapid and effective solutions for small businesses who need to incorporate BlackBerry technology smoothly into their information system.

Progent's IT consultants can also can help your business with Microsoft SQL Server integration and Exchange management to make sure that your back-end database and email infrastructure operate efficiently with BESX. Progent can also help your business to migrate from previous versions of RIM BlackBerry and Microsoft platforms, set up easy-to-use administration utilities to help you monitor and manage BlackBerry devices across your network, and develop a sound security plan that accommodates BlackBerry users. Progent's disaster recovery specialists can assist you to design, institute, and test workplace recovery processes to make sure that BlackBerry data can be recovered and mobile networking operations can be rapidly restored in case 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.

Call or Email Progent to Get Support from a RIM BlackBerry-Certified Consultant
In order to ask Progent about professional support for BlackBerry mobile wireless technology, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.