Research in Motion recently introduced BlackBerry BES Express, offering NO COST software and CAL licenses while delivering the basic accessibility, security, and management capabilities of RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server including over-the-air synchronization and remote access to data and applications. And the price cuts don't stop at free software and Client Access Licenses (CALs). You also have the ability to choose the BIS data carrier plan rather than the BES data plan, saving you $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 as many as 75 users, or on a dedicated BESX server which can support as many as 2,000 clients. RIM BlackBerry BES Server Express is a great alternative for smaller organizations who before now could not financially justify integrating employees' BlackBerry smartphones to their corporate network.
The Express edition of RIM BlackBerry BES does not provide high availability features, system monitoring, mirroring, or desktop phone support and limits the available IT polices from 450 to 35. In addition, BIS BlackBerry smartphone wireless data plan users will be required to perform the first wired enterprise activation to connect to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. After that they will enjoy the complete BlackBerry wireless messaging and personal organizer data experience including calendar, address books, tasks, and notes. Those using the BlackBerry Enterprise Server wireless data plan can still enterprise activate their BlackBerry smartphones over the air.
How Progent's BlackBerry Experts Can Support Your Smartphone Environment
Progent provides a variety of consulting services to help you to integrate BlackBerry BES Express and other BlackBerry platforms and utilities. Progent can help your IT staff to fix synchronization problems, set up over-the-air administration services, install desktop tools, set up and validate archiving processes, add or remove BlackBerry smartphones on Exchange Server and Active Directory, and configure Virtual Private Network security. For large-scale wireless integration jobs, Progent's BlackBerry specialists can work with Progent's Microsoft information technology experts, Cisco CCIE infrastructure experts, and CISM and GIAC-certified Security engineers. This wide selection of expertise, delivered via Progent's proven remote service delivery model, cuts network service costs and promotes rapid and effective solutions for businesses who need to incorporate BlackBerry products smoothly into their information network.
Progent's IT consultants can also can assist you with Microsoft SQL Server setup and Exchange management to ensure that your back-end database and email infrastructure work efficiently with BlackBerry BES Express. Progent can also help you to upgrade from previous editions of RIM BlackBerry and Microsoft software, set up easy-to-use management tools to help you monitor and control BlackBerry smartphones throughout your company, and create a sensible security plan that accommodates BlackBerry users. Progent's business continuity consultants can help your business to define, institute, and validate disaster recovery processes to ensure that BlackBerry data can be recovered and mobile operations can be quickly resumed in the event of a catastrophic datacenter breakdown.
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 Support from a RIM BlackBerry-Certified Expert
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