Research in Motion recently introduced BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express (BESX), featuring NO COST software and CALs while delivering the core accessibility, security, and administration functions of BlackBerry Enterprise Server such as over-the-air synchronization and remote access to data and applications. But the price cuts don't stop at free software and CALs. You also get the ability to choose the BIS wireless data plan rather than the BlackBerry Enterprise Server wireless data plan, which can save your business up to $20 per month for each of your BlackBerry clients!
BlackBerry BES Server Express can be installed on an Exchange or Small Business Server, which can handle as many as 75 clients, or on a stand-alone server which can support up to 2,000 clients. BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express is a great alternative for small- and medium-sized businesses who until now could not financially justify connecting their workers' BlackBerry devices to their corporate IT system.
The Express version of BlackBerry BES Server does not offer high availability, system monitoring, mirroring, or desktop phone support and limits the number of supported policies from 450 to 35. Also, BIS BlackBerry smartphone wireless data plan clients will be required to execute the first direct-attached enterprise activation to connect to the BES. After that they will have the full BlackBerry mobile email and organizer data experience including calendar, contacts, tasks, and notes. Users with the BES wireless data plan can still enterprise activate their devices wirelessly.
How Progent's BlackBerry Consultants Can Help You with Your Mobility Environment
Progent offers a variety of consulting services to assist you to deploy BlackBerry BES Express and other BlackBerry technologies. Progent can assist your IT staff to fix synchronization issues, set up wireless management capability, install server and desktop software, design and test archiving processes, integrate BlackBerry smartphones on Exchange Server Active Directory, and configure Virtual Private Network security. For large-scale wireless infrastructure projects, Progent's BlackBerry specialists can team with Progent's Microsoft certified IT consultants, Cisco CCIE network engineers, and CISM and GIAC-certified Security professionals. This wide selection of expertise, delivered through Progent's efficient online service delivery model, reduces IT support costs and promotes rapid and successful solutions for businesses who need to integrate BlackBerry products seamlessly into their IT network.
Progent's technology experts can also can assist your business with Microsoft SQL setup and Microsoft Exchange configuration to make sure that your and email environment work efficiently with BESX. Progent can also help your business to upgrade from previous releases of RIM BlackBerry and Microsoft platforms, install easy-to-use administration tools to track and manage BlackBerry devices across your network, and develop a sound security strategy that accommodates BlackBerry clients. Progent's business continuity specialists can assist you to design, institute, and test workplace recovery processes to ensure that BlackBerry data can be recovered and mobile networking operations can be rapidly restored 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 for Assistance from a RIM BlackBerry-Certified Consultant
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