RIM BlackBerry recently released BlackBerry BES Express, offering NO COST software and CALs while providing the basic connectivity, protection, and administration functions of RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server such as over-the-air sync and mobile availability of data and applications. But the price cuts don't end at free server software and CALs. You also get the ability to select the BIS wireless data carrier plan instead of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server data plan, which can save your business up to $20 a month for each of your BlackBerry clients!
RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express can be deployed directly on an Exchange or SBS server, which can handle as many as 75 clients, or on a dedicated server to support up to 2,000 users. BlackBerry BES Server Express is a great alternative for small- and medium-sized businesses who before now could not financially justify integrating employees' BlackBerry smartphones to the corporate IT system.
The Express version of RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server does not provide high availability, monitoring, mirroring, or desktop phone/PBX integration and limits the number of supported IT polices from 450 to 35. In addition, BIS wireless data plan clients will be required to perform the first wired enterprise activation to connect to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. After that they will have the full BlackBerry wireless email and personal organizer data environment including scheduling, contacts, do lists, and notes. Those using the BES data plan can continue to enterprise activate their devices wirelessly.
How Progent's BlackBerry Certified Consultants Can Help You with Your Mobility Environment
Progent provides a range of IT support services to assist your company to integrate BESX and other BlackBerry technologies. Progent can assist your IT staff to fix BlackBerry sync issues, set up over-the-air management capability, install desktop tools, set up and test backup/restore processes, add or remove BlackBerry clients on Exchange Server Windows Active Directory, and configure Virtual Private Network security. For comprehensive wireless integration jobs, Progent's BlackBerry specialists can work with Progent's Microsoft IT consultants, Cisco CCIE infrastructure experts, and GIAC and CISA-certified Security professionals. This broad range of expertise, provided through Progent's proven online service delivery model, cuts IT service costs and offers rapid and effective solutions for businesses who need to incorporate BlackBerry products seamlessly into their IT system.
Progent's IT consultants can also can assist your business with Microsoft SQL Server setup and Exchange configuration to make sure that your back-end database and email infrastructure operate effectively with BESX. Progent can in addition assist your business to migrate from older editions of RIM BlackBerry and Microsoft platforms, install easy-to-use management utilities to help you monitor and control BlackBerry smartphones throughout your network, and create a sensible security strategy that includes BlackBerry clients. Progent's business continuity consultants can help your business to design, institute, and validate workplace recovery processes to ensure that BlackBerry data can be recovered and mobile operations can be rapidly resumed in case of a major 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.
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