BlackBerry BES Server Express ExpertiseResearch in Motion recently introduced BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express (BESX), offering FREE software and CALs while providing the basic connectivity, protection, and administration functions of BlackBerry Enterprise Server such as wireless synchronization and remote availability of data and applications. And the price cuts don't end at free server software and CAL licenses. Customers also get the ability to choose the BlackBerry Internet Service wireless data carrier plan instead of the BES data plan, saving your business $10-$20 a month for each of your BlackBerry users!

RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express can be deployed on a Microsoft Exchange or Small Business Server, recommended for up to 75 users, or on a dedicated BESX server which can support up to 2,000 users. RIM BlackBerry BES Server Express is ideal for smaller businesses who until now could not financially justify connecting employees' BlackBerry devices to their corporate IT system.

The Express version of BlackBerry BES does not offer high availability, monitoring, SQL database mirroring, or desk phone support and reduces the number of available policies from 450 to 35. Also, BIS BlackBerry smartphone data plan users will be required to perform the first wired enterprise activation to integrate with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Subsequently they will enjoy the full BlackBerry mobile email and personal organizer data environment including calendar, address books, do lists, and notes. Users with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server wireless data plan can continue to enterprise activate their BlackBerry smartphones over the air.

How Progent's BlackBerry Certified Consultants Can Support Your Smartphone Solution
Progent provides a variety of IT support services to help you to deploy BlackBerry BES Express and other BlackBerry technologies. Progent can help your IT staff to resolve synchronization issues, implement wireless administration capability, install server and desktop software, design and test archiving procedures, integrate BlackBerry smartphones on Microsoft Exchange Server Windows Active Directory, and configure VPN security. For large-scale wireless infrastructure projects, Progent's BlackBerry specialists can work with Progent's Microsoft information technology experts, Cisco CCIE infrastructure experts, and GIAC and CISA-certified Security engineers. This broad range of IT skills, delivered through Progent's proven remote consulting, reduces network service expenses and offers rapid and effective solutions for small businesses who want to incorporate BlackBerry technology seamlessly into their information system.

Progent's technology consultants can also can help your business with Microsoft SQL integration and Microsoft Exchange Server configuration to ensure that your and messaging environment work effectively with BES Server Express. Progent can in addition assist your business to migrate from older releases of RIM BlackBerry and Microsoft platforms, install streamlined administration utilities to track and manage BlackBerry devices throughout your network, and create a sound security strategy that accommodates BlackBerry users. Progent's disaster recovery engineers can assist your business to design, institute, and validate business continuity processes to ensure that BlackBerry data records can be recovered and mobile networking operations can be rapidly restored in the event 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.

Call or Email Progent for Assistance from a RIM BlackBerry-Certified Specialist
To contact Progent about consulting support for BlackBerry mobile wireless solutions, phone 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.