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Microsoft Exchange
| Version 4.1 with Service Pack 6 | Version 5.0 | Version 5.0 with Service Pack 1 | Version 5.0 with Service Pack 2 | Version 5.0 with Service Pack 3 | |
| Access to Regular Exchange Email - Send/Receive Email Wirelessly | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Push Message Delivery | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Wireless Email Reconciliation | yes1 | yes1 | yes1 | yes1 | yes1 |
| Sent Item Synchronisation | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 |
| Wireless Email Reconciliation Hard-delete Support | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Remote Email Server Search and Download | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 |
| HTML Support | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 |
| Device Side Folder Management | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | |
| Flag for Follow Up | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | |
| Content of Messages Sent from the Desktop is Shown on the Device | yes | yes | |||
| Instant Messaging/Collaboration | |||||
| Support for Windows® Messenger | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Support for IBM® Lotus® Sametime® | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Support for Novell® GroupWise® Messenger | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Support for IBM® Lotus® Sametime® 8 | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Support for Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Enterprise Instant Messaging for Microsoft Lync 2010 v2.1 and v2.5 | yes | ||||
| IM Contact Linking to Address Book Contact | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 |
| IM Contact Click-to-Call | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 |
| IM Session Convert-to-Call | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 |
| Emoticons | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 |
| Calendar/PIM | |||||
| Wireless Calendar Synchronisation | yes5 | yes5 | yes5 | yes5 | yes5 |
| Calendar Enhancements (Tentative Acceptance, Conflict & Adjacent Notification, Private Flag Support) | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 |
| Free/Busy Availability Lookup | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 |
| Forward Calendar Entries | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | |
| Calendar Attachment Support | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | |
| Wireless PIM Synchronisation (Calendar, Contacts, MemoPad, Tasks) | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 |
| Remote Address Lookup | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 |
| vCard Support (conversion to BlackBerry Address Book) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Task Enhancements (Task Reminders and Recurrences) | yes8 | yes8 | yes8 | yes8 | yes8 |
| PIM Categories Support | yes6,9 | yes6,9 | yes6,9 | yes6,9 | yes6,9 |
| Address Lookup for Hosting Organisations | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Synchronisation of Public and Private Contacts | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | |
| Synchronisation of Multiple Contact Folders | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | |
| Attachments | |||||
| Attachment Service | yes1 | yes1 | yes1 | yes1 | yes1,24 |
| Attachment Service Support for .ZIP | yes10 | yes10 | yes10 | yes10 | yes10 |
| Attachment Service Support for Color Attachment Viewing | yes10,13 | yes10,13 | yes10,13 | yes10,13 | yes10,13 |
| Attachment Service Support Image Viewing (JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG and TIFF) | yes10,13 | yes10,13 | yes10,13 | yes10,13 | yes10,13 |
| Attachment Service Support for Document Info, Tracked Changes | yes10,13 | yes10,13 | yes10,13 | yes10,13 | yes10,13 |
| Image Application | yes6,13 | yes6,13 | yes6,13 | yes6,13 | yes6,13 |
| Attachment Viewing Pan and Zoom Enhancements | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Native File Format Download | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 |
| Attachment Edit (.DOC, .PPT) | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 |
| Support for Audio (.AMR, .WAV, .MP3) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Support for Audio WMA Files | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Support for Open Document Text (ODT) | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Support for Open Document Presentations (ODP) and Open Document Spreadsheets (ODS) | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Support for Digitally Signed Secure Attachment | yes | ||||
| Corporate Data Access | |||||
| BlackBerry® Browser | yes14 | yes14 | yes14 | yes14 | yes14 |
| Able to Access Corporate Data Behind Firewall | yes14 | yes14 | yes14 | yes14 | yes14 |
| BlackBerry® Browser (Enhanced HTML Tables Support, Ability to Email a URL, Animated GIF Support) | yes15 | yes15 | yes15 | yes15 | yes15 |
| Remote File Explorer | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | |
| Device Choice | |||||
| Support for devices with BlackBerry® Connect™ software and BlackBerry® Built-In™ software | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Enterprise Device Authorisation | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Support | |||||
| Automatic Wireless Backup of Smartphone Data | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 |
| On-Device Help | yes15,9 | yes15,9 | yes15,9 | yes15,9 | yes15,9 |
| Administrative Control Ability to Delete BlackBerry Applications from the Smartphone | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 |
| Archiving SMS, PIN-to-PIN and Call Logs | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Version 4.1 with Service Pack 6 | Version 5.0 | Version 5.0 with Service Pack 1 | Version 5.0 with Service Pack 2 | Version 5.0 with Service Pack 3 | |
| Security | |||||
| End-to-end Security | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Triple DES Encryption Support | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| AES Encryption Support | yes15 | yes15 | yes15 | yes15 | yes15 |
| Support for Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Device Content Protection, Content Compression | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 |
| Password Keeper, Device Wipe | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 |
| Wireless Encryption Key Regeneration | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 |
| Deployment | |||||
| Automated BlackBerry® Desktop Software Deployment (Silent Install) | yes16 | yes16 | yes16 | yes16 | yes16 |
| Wireless Provisioning | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 |
| Supports Optional BlackBerry Desktop Manager (Basic MSI Installer, Full Desktop or Handheld Manager only) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Wireless Third Party Application Provisioning and Control | yes15 | yes15 | yes15 | yes15 | yes15 |
| Monitor Junk Email Folder for Enterprise Activation | yes | yes | |||
| Increase in Pre-population Ranges for Enterprise Activation | yes | yes | |||
| Corporate Data Access | |||||
| BlackBerry® Mobile Data System (BlackBerry MDS) | yes16 | yes16 | yes16 | yes15 | yes15 |
| BlackBerry® (BlackBerry MDSCS) Integrated Authentication | yes | yes | |||
| BlackBerry® Mobile Data Services | yes16 | yes16 | yes16 | yes15 | yes15 |
| BlackBerry® MDS Runtime | yes16 | yes16 | yes16 | yes15 | yes15 |
| Two-factor Authentication Support | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| MDSCS Data Group Push | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| BlackBerry® Browser Supports WML, cHTML, xHTML and HTML, CSS (partial) | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 |
| BlackBerry Enterprise Server Web Services API Support | yes | ||||
| Calendar Smart Sync Tool for Administrators | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Management/Administration | |||||
| Multi-network Support | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Forced Blind Carbon Copy | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Global Filters | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Management Console | yes | ||||
| Web-based BlackBerry® Administration Service Console | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Simplified Management of BlackBerry Administration Service Communication Protocols | yes | yes | |||
| Multiple BlackBerry Enterprise Server Instances on One Physical Machine | yes19 | yes19 | yes19 | yes19 | |
| Enhanced Error Logging | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Sortable Column and Export | yes | ||||
| Wireless IT Policies and Commands | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 |
| License Manager | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Preservation of User Settings (device, desktop) on Upgrade | yes20 | yes20 | yes20 | yes20 | yes20 |
| Support for Enforced Handheld Software Upgrade IT Policy | yes20 | yes20 | yes21 | yes21 | yes21 |
| Support for Microsoft® Exchange 2007 | yes21 | yes21 | yes21 | yes21 | yes21 |
| Enhanced SNMP Management | yes22 | yes22 | yes22 | yes22 | yes22 |
| Handheld Management Reporting | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 |
| Role-based Administration | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Custom Roles with Different Levels of Access According to Employee's Roles and Permissions | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Group-based Administration | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes25 |
| Backup and Restore of Saved Messages | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| BlackBerry® Web Desktop Manager - available as a download | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| BlackBerry® Web Desktop Manager User Self-Service | yes | yes | |||
| BlackBerry® Monitoring Service | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Built in Monitoring with Threshold Analysis Tool and Maintenance Window Support | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| BlackBerry® Monitoring Service Dashboards View | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Handheld BlackBerry® Monitoring Service Dashboards Views (browser-based) | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Job Management for Applications | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Throttling | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Scheduled Upgrades | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| BlackBerry® Enterprise Transporter | yes23 | yes23 | yes23 | yes23 | |
| High Availability | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Enhanced Enterprise Activation Diagnostics/Troubleshooting | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Active Directory Resource Forest Authentication Support | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Automatic Domain Controller Discovery | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Pre-defined Administration Groups | yes | yes | |||
| IT Policy Reconciliation | yes | yes | |||
| Microsoft® Exchange Disk I/O Impact Reduction | yes | yes | |||
| Single Entry Point for BlackBerry® Domain Search | yes | yes | |||
| Single Sign-on Authentication | yes | yes | |||
| Dual Persona (BlackBerry® Balance™) | |||||
| Classify Enterprise and Personal, Data and Applications | yes26,27 | yes26,27 | |||
| Restricts Access to Enterprise Data from within Social Networking Applications | yes26,27 | yes26,27 | |||
| Enterprise Data Wipe - No Impact to Personal Data | yes26,27 | yes26,27 | |||
| Access Personal Phone when Device is Enterprise Locked | yes26,27 | yes26,27 | |||
| Ability to Prevent Copy Paste from Enterprise to Personal Application | yes27 | ||||
Ability to Grant Role-based Administration permission to:
|
yes27 | ||||
| Ability to Segregate and Control Personal versus Corporate Liable Users | yes27 | ||||
| Ability to Delete Applications Pushed by BlackBerry Enterprise Server | yes27 | ||||
| Platform Certification | |||||
| VMWare® ESX v3.0.1 | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| VMWare® ESX v3.5 and v4.0 Certification | yes | yes | yes | ||
| BlackBerry® Enterprise Server 64-bit O/S Support | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| BlackBerry® Enterprise Server d, BlackBerry® Enterprise Server x (in 32-bit mode) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| BlackBerry® Enterprise Server with 64-bit SQL 2005 DB | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 Support (Enterprise and Standard Editions) | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Localisation (BlackBerry® Administration Server, BlackBerry® Monitoring Service, Installer, BlackBerry® Web Desktop Manager and Documentation) | |||||
| English | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Japanese | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| French, Italian, German, Spanish | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Brazilian Portuguese | yes | yes | |||
1 - BlackBerry Device Software v2.6 or higher (C++ enabled handhelds) OR BlackBerry Device Software v3.6 or higher (Java enabled handhelds)
2 - BlackBerry Device Software v2.7 or higher (C++ enabled handhelds) OR BlackBerry Device Software v4.0 or higher (Java-enabled devices)
3 - BlackBerry Device Software v4.5 or higher required
4 - BlackBerry Device Software v5.0 or higher required
5 - BlackBerry Device Software v2.1 SP4 or higher (C++ enabled handhelds) OR BlackBerry Device Software v3.2.1 or higher (Java enabled handhelds)
6 - BlackBerry Device Software v3.8 or higher (Java-enabled devices)
7 - BlackBerry Device Software v2.5 or higher (C++ enabled handhelds) OR BlackBerry Device Software v3.6 or higher (Java enabled handhelds)
8 - BlackBerry Device Software v2.5 or higher (C++ enabled handhelds) OR BlackBerry Device Software v4.0 or higher (Java-enabled devices)
9 - Supported by Java-enabled devices with 16MB or more memory only
10 - BlackBerry Device Software v2.6 or higher (C++ enabled handhelds) OR BlackBerry Device Software v3.7 or higher (Java enabled handhelds)
11 - Attachment service is supported as an 'add-on' to: (a) handheld software v2.1 (or higher) for C++ enabled BlackBerry handhelds AND (b) BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Lotus Domino v2.1 with SP1. Not available for Java-enabled BlackBerry handhelds on BlackBerry Enterprise Server v2.1.
12 - Requires BlackBerry Enterprise Server v2.2 SP1
13 - Supported by Java-enabled devices with color screens only
14 - BlackBerry Device Software v2.5 or higher (C++ enabled handhelds) OR BlackBerry Device Software v3.2.1 or higher (Java enabled handhelds)
15 - BlackBerry Device Software v4.0 or higher (10MB or higher, Java-enabled devices)
16 - Requires BlackBerry Desktop Software v2.1 SP3 or higher
17 - Requires BlackBerry Desktop Software v3.6 or higher
18 - Components of BlackBerry Mobile Data System software version 4.1
19 - 4.0+ Introduced Messaging Agents that improved performance and scalability of this feature
20 - Requires BlackBerry Desktop Software v3.5 or higher
21 - More SNMP event traps in BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.1
22 - Support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 requires BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.1.3 or higher
23 - Included with the BlackBerry Resource Kit
24 - Office 2010 Support
25 - Includes group Wi-Fi support
26 - Requires installation of 5.0.2 MR2 and IT Policy Pack
27 - Requires BlackBerry Device OS Ver 6.0 MR2
IBM Lotus Domino
| Version 4.1 with Service Pack 6 | Version 5.0 | Version 5.0 with Service Pack 1 | Version 5.0 with Service Pack 2 | Version 5.0 with Service Pack 3 | |
| Access to Regular Domino® Email—Send/Receive Email Wirelessly | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Push Message Delivery | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Wireless Email Reconciliation | yes1 | yes1 | yes1 | yes1 | yes1 |
| Sent Item Synchronisation | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 |
| Wireless Email Reconciliation Hard-delete Support | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Email Server Search and Download (remote search) | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 |
| HTML Support | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 |
| Device Side Folder Management | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | |
| Flag for Follow Up | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | |
| IBM® Lotus® Notes® Out of Office Service | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Content of Messages Sent from the Desktop is Shown on the Device | yes | yes | |||
| Instant Messaging/Collaboration | |||||
| Support for IBM Lotus Sametime® | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Support for Windows® Messenger | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Support for Novell® GroupWise® Messenger | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Support for IBM® Lotus® Sametime® 8 | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Support for Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| BlackBerry® Client for IBM® Lotus® Connections | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| BlackBerry® Client for IBM® Lotus® Quickr™ | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| IM Contact Linking to Address Book Contact | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 |
| IM Contact Click-to-Call | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 |
| IM Session Convert-to-Call | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 |
| Emoticons | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 |
| IBM® Lotus® Sametime® File Transfer | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| IBM® Lotus® Sametime® Public Group Support | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Enterprise Instant Messaging for Microsoft Lync 2010 v2.1 and v2.5 | yes | ||||
| Calendar/PIM | |||||
| Wireless Calendar Synchronisation | yes5 | yes5 | yes5 | yes5 | yes5 |
| Wireless PIM Synchronisation (Calendar, Contacts, MemoPad, Tasks) | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 |
| Remote Address Lookup | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 |
| vCard Support (Conversion to BlackBerry® Address Book) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Calendar Enhancements (Tentative Acceptance, Conflict & Adjacent Notification, Private Flag Support) | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 |
| Task Enhancements (Task Reminders and Recurrences) | yes8 | yes8 | yes8 | yes8 | yes8 |
| PIM Categories Support | yes7,9 | yes7,9 | yes7,9 | yes7,9 | yes7,9 |
| Address Lookup for Hosting Organisations | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Free/Busy Availability Lookup | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 |
| Calendar Attachment Support | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | |
| Calendar Meeting Delegation | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Synchronisation of Public and Private Contacts | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | |
| Synchronisation of Multiple Contact Folders | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | |
| Address Book and MemoPad Path Support | yes | yes | |||
| Attachments | |||||
| Attachment Service | yes1 | yes1 | yes1 | yes1 | yes1,24 |
| Attachment Service Support for .ZIP | yes11 | yes11 | yes11 | yes11 | yes11 |
| Attachment Service Support for Color Attachment Viewing | yes11,13 | yes11,13 | yes11,13 | yes11,13 | yes11,13 |
| Attachment Service Support Image Viewing (JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG and TIFF) | yes11,13 | yes11,13 | yes11,13 | yes11,13 | yes11,13 |
| Attachment Service Support for Document Info, Tracked Changes | yes11,13 | yes11,13 | yes11,13 | yes11,13 | yes11,13 |
| Image Application | yes7,18 | yes7,18 | yes7,18 | yes7,18 | yes7,18 |
| Attachment Viewing Pan and Zoom Enhancements | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Native File Format Download | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 |
| Attachment Edit (.DOC, .PPT) | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 |
| Support for Audio (.AMR, .WAV, .MP3) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Support for Audio WMA Files | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Support for Open Document Text (ODT) | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Support for Open Document Presentations (ODP) and Open Document Spreadsheets (ODS) | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Support for Digitally Signed Secure Attachment | yes | ||||
| Corporate Data Access | |||||
| BlackBerry® Browser | yes14 | yes14 | yes14 | yes14 | yes14 |
| Ability to Access Corporate Data Behind Firewall | yes14 | yes14 | yes14 | yes14 | yes14 |
| BlackBerry® Browser Enhancements (Enhanced HTML Tables Support, Ability to Email a URL, Animated GIF Support) | yes15 | yes15 | yes15 | yes15 | yes15 |
| Remote File Explorer | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | |
| Device Choice | |||||
| Enterprise Device Authorisation | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Support | |||||
| Automatic Wireless Backup of Device Data | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 |
| On-Device Help | yes15,9 | yes15,9 | yes15,9 | yes15,9 | yes15,9 |
| Administrative Control Ability to Delete BlackBerry Applications from the Smartphone | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 |
| Archiving SMS, PIN-to-PIN and Call Logs | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Version 4.1 with Service Pack 6 | Version 5.0 | Version 5.0 with Service Pack 1 | Version 5.0 with Service Pack 2 | Version 5.0 with Service Pack 3 | |
| Security | |||||
| End-to-end Security | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Triple DES Encryption Support | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| AES Encryption Support | yes15 | yes15 | yes15 | yes15 | yes15 |
| Device Content Protection, Content Compression | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 |
| Password Keeper, Device Wipe | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 |
| Wireless Encryption Key Regeneration | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 |
| Native Notes Encryption - Read Only | yes16 | yes16 | yes16 | yes16 | yes16 |
| Native Notes Encryption - Read & Write | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | |
| IBM® Lotus® Notes® ID Vault | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Deployment | |||||
| Automated BlackBerry® Desktop Software Deployment (Silent Install) | yes17 | yes17 | yes17 | yes17 | yes17 |
| Wireless Provisioning | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 |
| Supports Optional BlackBerry® Desktop Manager (Basic MSI Installer, Full Desktop or Handheld Manager only) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Wireless Third Party Application Provisioning and Control | yes15 | yes15 | yes15 | yes15 | yes15 |
| Monitor Junk Email Folder for Enterprise Activation | yes | yes | |||
| Increase in Pre-population Ranges for Enterprise Activation | yes | yes | |||
| Corporate Data Access | |||||
| BlackBerry® Mobile Data System (BlackBerry MDS) | yes19 | yes19 | yes19 | yes19 | yes19 |
| BlackBerry® Mobile Data Services | yes19 | yes19 | yes19 | yes19 | yes19 |
| BlackBerry® MDS Runtime | yes19 | yes19 | yes19 | yes19 | yes19 |
| BlackBerry® (BlackBerry MDSCS) Integrated Authentication | yes | yes | |||
| Two-factor Authentication Support | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| MDSCS Data Group Push | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| BlackBerry® Browser Supports WML, cHTML, xHTML and HTML, CSS (partial) | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 |
| BlackBerry Enterprise Server Web Services API Support | yes | ||||
| Calendar Smart Sync tool for Administrators | yes | yes | |||
| Management/Administration | |||||
| Multi-network Support | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Forced Blind Carbon Copy | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| All-Points-Bulletin Via PIN | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Global Filters | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Management Console | yes | ||||
| Web-based BlackBerry® Administration Service Console | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| BlackBerry® Administration Service Domino® Directory Scanning | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Simplified Management of BlackBerry Administration Service Communication Protocols | yes | yes | |||
| Enhanced Error Logging | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Sortable Column and Export | yes | ||||
| Wireless IT Policies and Commands | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 |
| Preservation of User Settings (device, desktop) on Update | yes20 | yes20 | yes20 | yes20 | yes20 |
| Support for Enforced Handheld Software Upgrade IT Policy | yes20 | yes20 | yes20 | yes20 | yes20 |
| Enhanced SNMP Management | yes21 | yes21 | yes21 | yes21 | yes21 |
| Handheld Management Reporting | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 |
| Support for Multiple Domino Domains | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Role-based Administration | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Custom Roles with Different Levels of Access According to Employee's Roles and Permissions | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Group-based Administration | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Backup and Restore of Saved Messages | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| BlackBerry® Web Desktop Manager - available as a download | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| BlackBerry® Web Desktop Manager User Self-Service | yes | yes | |||
| BlackBerry® Monitoring Service | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Built in Monitoring with Threshold Analysis Tool and Maintenance Window Support | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| BlackBerry® Monitoring Service Monitoring Dashboard View | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Handheld BlackBerry® Monitoring Service Dashboards Views (browser-based) | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Job Management for Applications | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Throttling | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Scheduled Upgrades | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| BlackBerry® Enterprise Transporter | yes22 | yes22 | yes22 | yes22 | |
| High Availability | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Enhanced Enterprise Activation Diagnostics/Troubleshooting | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Single Entry Point for BlackBerry® Domain Search | yes | yes | |||
| IT Policy Reconciliation | yes | yes | |||
| Single Sign-on Authentication | yes | yes | |||
| Dual Persona (BlackBerry® Balance™) | |||||
| Classify Enterprise and Personal Data and Applications | yes26,27 | yes26,27 | |||
| Restricts Access to Enterprise Data from within Social Networking Applications | yes26,27 | yes26,27 | |||
| Enterprise Data Wipe - No Impact to Personal Data | yes26,27 | yes26,27 | |||
| Access Personal Phone when Device is Enterprise Locked | yes26,27 | yes26,27 | |||
| Ability to Prevent Copy Paste from Enterprise to Personal Application | yes27 | ||||
Ability to Grant Role-based Administration permission to:
|
yes27 | ||||
| Ability to Segregate and Control Personal versus Corporate Liable Users | yes27 | ||||
| Able to Delete Applications Pushed by BlackBerry Enterprise Server | yes27 | ||||
| Platform Certification | |||||
| VMWare® ESX v3.0.1 | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| VMware® ESX v3.5 and v4.0 Certification | yes | yes | yes | ||
| BlackBerry® Enterprise Server 64-bit O/S Support | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| BlackBerry® Enterprise Server d, BlackBerry® Enterprise Server x (in 32-bit mode) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| BlackBerry® Enterprise Server with 64-bit SQL 2005 DB | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| IBM® DB2® 8.2.0 | yes | ||||
| Certification for IBM® Lotus Notes® & IBM® Lotus® Domino® 8.0.1 | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Certification for IBM® Lotus Notes® & IBM® Lotus® Domino® 8.5.0 | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Support (Enterprise and Standard Editions) | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Localisation (BlackBerry® Administration Server, BlackBerry® Monitoring Service, Installer, BlackBerry® Web Desktop Manager and Documentation) | |||||
| English | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Japanese | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| French, Italian, German, Spanish | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Brazilian Portuguese | yes | yes | |||
1 - BlackBerry Device Software v2.6 or higher (C++ enabled handhelds) OR BlackBerry Device Software v3.6 or higher (Java enabled handhelds)
2 - BlackBerry Device Software v2.7 or higher (C++ enabled handhelds) OR BlackBerry Device Software v4.0 or higher (Java-enabled devices)
3 - BlackBerry Device Software v4.5 or higher required
4 - BlackBerry Device Software v5.0 or higher required
5 - BlackBerry Device Software v2.1 SP4 or higher (C++ enabled handhelds) OR BlackBerry Device Software v3.2.1 or higher (Java enabled handhelds)
6 - BlackBerry Device Software v2.5 or higher (C++ enabled handhelds) OR BlackBerry Device Software v3.6 or higher (Java enabled handhelds)
7 - BlackBerry Device Software v3.8 or higher (Java-enabled devices)
8 - BlackBerry Device Software v2.5 or higher (C++ enabled handhelds) OR BlackBerry Device Software v4.0 or higher (Java-enabled devices)
9 - Supported by Java-enabled devices with 16MB or more memory only
10 - Attachment service is supported as an 'add-on' to: (a) BlackBerry Device Software v2.1 (or higher) for C++ enabled BlackBerry smartphones AND (b) BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Lotus Domino v2.1 with SP1. Not available for Java-enabled BlackBerry smartphones on BlackBerry Enterprise Server v2.1.
11 - BlackBerry Device Software v2.6 or higher (C++ enabled handhelds) OR BlackBerry Device Software v3.7 or higher (Java enabled handhelds)
12 - Requires BlackBerry Enterprise Server v2.2 SP1
13 - Supported by Java-enabled devices with color screens only
14 - BlackBerry Device Software v2.5 or higher (C++ enabled handhelds) OR BlackBerry Device Software v3.2.1 or higher (Java enabled handhelds)
15 - BlackBerry Device Software v4.0 or higher (10MB or higher, Java-enabled devices)
16 - BlackBerry Device Software v4.1 or higher required
17 - Requires BlackBerry® Desktop Software v2.1 SP3 or higher
18 - Requires BlackBerry Desktop Software v3.6 or higher
19 - Components of BlackBerry Mobile Data System software version 4.1
20 - Requires BlackBerry Desktop Software v3.5 or higher
21 - More SNMP event traps in BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.1
22 - Included with the BlackBerry Resource Kit
23 - Must be BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.1 with Service Pack 4
24 - Office 2010 Support
25 - Includes group Wi-Fi support
26 - Requires installation of 5.0.2 MR2 and IT Policy Pack
27 - Requires BlackBerry Device OS Ver 6.0 MR2
Novell GroupWise
| Version 4.0 | Version 4.1 | Version 4.1 with Service Pack 7 |
Version 5.0 with Service Pack 1 |
|
| Access to Regular GroupWise Email - Send/Receive Email Wirelessly | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Push Message Delivery | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Wireless Email Reconciliation | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 |
| Sent Item Synchronisation | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 |
| Wireless Email Settings | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 |
| Wireless Email Reconciliation Hard-delete Support | yes | yes | yes | |
| HTML Support | yes14 | yes14 | ||
| Email Server Search and Download | yes14 | yes14 | ||
| BlackBerry Enterprise Server Email Message View | yes | yes | ||
| Device Side Folder Management | yes15 | |||
| Flags for Follow-Up | yes15 | |||
| Instant Messaging/Collaboration | ||||
| Support for Novell® GroupWise® Messenger | yes | yes | yes | |
| Support for Microsoft® Windows® Messenger | yes | yes | yes | |
| Support for IBM Lotus Sametime® | yes | yes | yes | |
| Support for IBM® Lotus® Sametime® 8 | yes | yes | ||
| Support for Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 | yes | yes | ||
| IM Contact Linking to Address Book Contact | yes14 | yes14 | ||
| IM Contact Click-to-Call | yes14 | yes14 | ||
| IM Session Convert-to-Call | yes14 | yes14 | ||
| Calendar/PIM | ||||
| PIM Synchronisation (via desktop) | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Wireless Calendar Synchronisation | yes1 | yes1 | yes1 | yes1 |
| Wireless PIM Synchronisation (Calendar, Address Book, Memopad, Tasklist) | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 |
| Remote Address Lookup | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 |
| vCard Support (Conversion to BlackBerry Address Book) | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Calendar Enhancements (Tentative Acceptance, Conflict & Adjacent Notification, Private Flag Support) | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 |
| Task Enhancements (Task Reminders and Recurrences) | yes9 | yes9 | yes9 | yes9 |
| PIM Categories Support | yes7,10 | yes7,10 | yes7,10 | yes7,10 |
| Address Lookup for Hosting Organisations | yes | yes | yes | |
| Free/Busy Availability Lookup | yes14 | yes14 | ||
| Forward Calendar Entries | yes15 | |||
| Calendar Attachment Support | yes15 | |||
| Synchronisation of Multiple Personal Address Books | yes15 | |||
| Attachments | ||||
| Attachment Service | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 | yes4 |
| Attachment Service Support for .ZIP | yes5 | yes5 | yes5 | yes5 |
| Attachment Service Support for Color Attachment Viewing | yes5,11 | yes5,11 | yes5,11 | yes5,11 |
| Attachment Service Support Image Viewing (JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG and TIFF) | yes5,11 | yes5,11 | yes5,11 | yes5,11 |
| Attachment Service Support for Document Info, Tracked Changes | yes5,11 | yes5,11 | yes5,11 | yes5,11 |
| Image Application | yes7,11 | yes7,11 | yes7,11 | yes7,11 |
| Attachment Viewing Pan and Zoom Enhancements | yes | yes | yes | |
| Native File Format Download | yes18 | yes18 | ||
| Attachment Edit (.DOC, .PPT) | yes18 | yes18 | ||
| Support for Audio (.AMR, .WAV, .MP3) | yes | yes | ||
| Support for Audio WMA Files | yes | |||
| Support for Open Document Text | yes | |||
| Support for Open Document Presentations (ODP) and Open Document Spreadsheets (ODS) | yes | |||
| Extensibility/Corporate Data Access | ||||
| BlackBerry® Browser | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 |
| Corporate Data Access | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 | yes2 |
| BlackBerry Browser JavaScript® v1.3 Support | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 |
| BlackBerry Browser Enhancements (Enhanced HTML Tables Support, Ability to Email a URL, Animated GIF Support) | yes8 | yes8 | yes8 | yes8 |
| Remote File Explorer | yes15 | |||
| Device Choice | ||||
| Enterprise Device Authorisation | yes | yes | yes | |
| Support for Devices with BlackBerry® Connect™ software and BlackBerry Built-in™ software | yes | |||
| Support | ||||
| Automatic Wireless Backup of Device Data | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 |
| On-Handheld Help | yes8,10 | yes8,10 | yes8,10 | yes8,10 |
| Ability to Delete BlackBerry Applications from the Device | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 |
| Archiving SMS, PIN-to-PIN and Call Logs | yes | yes | yes | |
| Version 4.0 | Version 4.1 | Version 4.1 with Service Pack 7 |
Version 5.0 with Service Pack 1 |
|
| Security | ||||
| End-to-end Security | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| AES Encryption Support | yes8 | yes8 | yes8 | yes8 |
| Device Content Protection, Content Compression | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 |
| Password Keeper, Device Wipe | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 |
| Wireless Encryption Key Regeneration | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 |
| Triple DES Encryption Support | yes | |||
| Deployment | ||||
| Cradle-less Provisioning | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 |
| BlackBerry® Router and BlackBerry® Device Manager | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 |
| Device Configuration Tool | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Supports Optional BlackBerry Desktop Manager (Basic MSI Installer, Full Desktop or Handheld Manager only) | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Application Loader "Lite" | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Wireless Third Party Application Provisioning and Control | yes8 | yes8 | yes8 | yes8 |
| Automated BlackBerry Desktop Software deployment (Silent Install) | yes15 | |||
| Support for Single BlackBerry Desktop Manager Package (separate installers) | yes | |||
| Monitor Junk Email Folder for Enterprise Activation | yes | |||
| Increase in Pre-population Ranges for Enterprise Activation | yes | |||
| Corporate Data Access | ||||
| BlackBerry® Mobile Data System (BlackBerry MDS) | yes12 | yes12 | yes12 | |
| BlackBerry® Mobile Data Services | yes | yes12 | yes12 | yes12 |
| BlackBerry® MDS Runtime | yes12 | yes12 | yes12 | |
| Two-factor Authentication Support | yes | yes | yes | |
| Data Group Push | yes | yes | yes | |
| BlackBerry Browser Supports WML, cHTML, xHTML and HTML, CSS (partial) | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 |
| BlackBerry® Browser Supports JavaScript, Offline Forms Handling | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 | yes7 |
| Increased Access Control, Application Management and Corporate Proxy Handling | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Additional Development Tools, such as Synchronisation SDK, Attachment Distiller SDK and Plazmic® Content Developer’s Kit | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Management/Administration | ||||
| Multi-network Support | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Forced Blind Carbon Copy | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| All-Points-Bulletin Via PIN | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Global Filters | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Management Console | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Enhanced Error Logging | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Wireless IT Policies and Commands | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 | yes3 |
| Enhanced SNMP Management | yes | yes13 | yes13 | yes13 |
| Handheld Management Reporting | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 | yes6 |
| Server Architectural Improvements | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Role-based Administration | yes | yes | yes | |
| Group-based administration | yes | yes | yes | |
| Common BlackBerry Manager console across all three email platforms | yes | yes | yes | |
| Backup and Restore of Saved Messages | yes | yes | yes | |
| Web-bsaed BlackBerry Administration Service Console | yes | |||
| Multiple BlacKberry Enterprise Server Instances on One Physical Machine | yes | |||
| License Manager | yes | |||
| Preservation of User Settings (device, desktop) on Upgrade | yes17 | |||
| Support for Enforced Handheld Software Upgrade IT Policy | yes17 | |||
| Support for GroupWise 8 | yes | |||
| Custom Roles with Different Levels of Access According to Employees Roles and Permissions | yes | |||
| Support for BlackBerry® Web Desktop Manager | yes | |||
| BlackBerry Web Desktop Manager User Self-Service | yes | |||
| BlackBerry Monitoring Service Dashboards View | yes | |||
| Handheld BlackBerry Monitoring Service Dashboards Views (browser-based) | yes | |||
| Job Management for Applications | yes | |||
| Throttling | yes | |||
| Schedule Upgrades | yes | |||
| BlackBerry Enterprise Transporter | yes18 | |||
| High Availability | yes | |||
| Enhanced Enterprise Activation Diagnostics/Troubleshooting | yes | |||
| Active Directory Resource Forest Authentication Support | yes | |||
| Automatic Domain Controller Discovery | yes | |||
| Pre-defined Administration Groups | yes | |||
| IT Policy Reconciliation | yes | |||
| Single Entry Point for BlackBerry Domain Search | yes | |||
| Single Sign-on Authentication | yes | |||
| BlackBerry® Web Desktop Manager - available as a download | yes | yes | yes | |
| BlackBerry® Monitoring Service | yes | yes | yes | |
| Localisation of BlackBerry Enterprise Server, with documentation available in French, Italian, German and Spanish | yes | yes | yes | |
| Platform Certification | ||||
| VMWare ESX v3.0.1 | yes | yes | ||
| BlackBerry® Enterprise Server with 64-bit SQL 2005 DB | yes | yes | ||
| VMWare ESX v3.5 and v4.0 Certification | yes | |||
| BlackBerry Enterprise Server 64-bit O/S Support | yes | |||
| BlackBerry Enterprise Server for GroupWise (in 32-bit mode) | yes | |||
| Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Support (Enterprise and Standard Editions | yes | |||
1BlackBerry Device Software v2.1 SP4 or higher (C++ enabled handhelds) OR BlackBerry Device Software v3.2.1 or higher (Java enabled handhelds)
2BlackBerry Device Software v2.5 or higher (C++ enabled handhelds) OR BlackBerry Device Software v3.2.1 or higher (Java enabled handhelds)
3BlackBerry Device Software v2.5 or higher (C++ enabled handhelds) OR BlackBerry Device Software v3.6 or higher (Java enabled handhelds)
4BlackBerry Device Software v2.6 or higher (C++ enabled handhelds) OR BlackBerry Device Software v3.6 or higher (Java enabled handhelds)
5BlackBerry Device Software v2.6 or higher (C++ enabled handhelds) OR BlackBerry Device Software v3.7 or higher (Java enabled handhelds)
6BlackBerry Device Software v2.7 or higher (C++ enabled handhelds) OR BlackBerry Device Software v4.0 or higher (Java-enabled devices)
7BlackBerry Device Software v3.8 or higher (Java-enabled devices)
8BlackBerry Device Software v4.0 or higher (10MB device memory or higher, Java enabled devices)
9BlackBerry Device Software v2.5 or higher (C++ enabled handhelds) OR BlackBerry Device Software v4.0 or higher (Java enabled devices)
10Supported by Java enabled devices with 16MB of device memory or more
11Supported by Java enabled devices with color screens only
12Components of Mobile Data System software version 4.1
13More SNMP event traps in BES version 4.1
14BlackBerry Device Software v4.5 or higher handheld software
15BlackBerry Device Software v5.0 or higher required.
16Requires BlackBerry Desktop Software v2.1 SP3 or higher
17Requires BlackBerry Desktop Software v3.5 or higher
18Included with the BlackBerry Resource Kit (BRK)