RIM BlackBerry recently released BlackBerry BES Express, featuring NO COST software and CALs while delivering the core accessibility, security, and management functions of RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server including over-the-air synchronization and remote availability of data and applications. And the price cuts don't end at free server software and CALs. Customers also get the ability to select the BlackBerry Internet Service data plan instead of the BES wireless data plan, which can save your business $10-$20 a month for each of your BlackBerry clients!
BlackBerry BES Server Express can be deployed on an Exchange or Small Business Server, which can handle up to 75 users, or on a dedicated server which can support up to 2,000 users. BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express is ideal for small- and medium-sized organizations who until now could not afford connecting their workers' BlackBerry smartphones to their corporate network.
The Express version of BlackBerry BES Server does not provide high availability features, system monitoring, mirroring, or desktop phone integration and reduces the available IT polices from 450 to 35. In addition, BIS BlackBerry smartphone wireless data plan users will be required to execute an initial direct-attached enterprise activation to integrate with the BES. After that they will enjoy the complete BlackBerry mobile email and organizer data environment including calendar, address books, tasks, and notes. Those using the BlackBerry Enterprise Server wireless data carrier plan can still enterprise activate their devices wirelessly.
How Progent's BlackBerry Certified Experts Can Help You with Your Smartphone Environment
Progent provides a variety of consulting services to help your company to deploy BESX and other BlackBerry platforms and utilities. Progent can assist your IT staff to fix BlackBerry sync issues, set up over-the-air management services, configure desktop tools, set up and test archiving processes, add or remove BlackBerry clients on Exchange Server and Windows Active Directory, and configure VPN connections. For comprehensive mobile integration jobs, Progent's BlackBerry specialists can team with Progent's Microsoft certified IT consultants, Cisco certified CCIE engineers, and CISSP-ISSIP and GIAC-certified Security engineers. This broad range of IT skills, delivered through Progent's efficient remote consulting, cuts network support expenses and offers rapid and effective solutions for small businesses who want to incorporate BlackBerry products seamlessly into their IT system.
Progent's IT experts can also can assist you with SQL Server integration and Exchange management to make sure that your back-end database and messaging environment work effectively with BlackBerry BES Express. Progent can in addition help you to migrate from older editions of Blackberry and Microsoft platforms, install streamlined management utilities so you can track and manage BlackBerry smartphones throughout your network, and develop a sensible security strategy that accommodates BlackBerry clients. Progent's business continuity consultants can assist you to design, implement, and validate disaster recovery processes to ensure that BlackBerry data can be preserved and mobile networking operations can be rapidly restored in the event 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.
Contact Progent for Support from a RIM BlackBerry-Qualified Expert
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