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Allow BlackBerry® smartphone users in your organisation to access even more business applications with these
add-on products and services:

 
 

 

Instant Messaging

Mobilise instant messaging in your organisation. With real-time capabilities, presence status, and more advanced features, your mobile employees will be able to easily communicate from practically anywhere.

Whether you have an existing enterprise instant messaging client, or want to leverage capabilities already available on BlackBerry® smartphones, there is an option for you.

 

Enterprise Instant Messaging for BlackBerry Smartphones

Give your mobile employees the ability to leave their desks, without leaving the conversation with Enterprise Instant Messaging for BlackBerry® smartphones.

It allows you to mobilise your existing Microsoft® Office Communications Server, Microsoft® Lync® Server 20101, IBM® Lotus® Sametime, or Novell® GroupWise® Messenger instant messaging platform on BlackBerry smartphones. End users get familiar desktop features in a highly secure and manageable environment.

Key Features

The Enterprise Instant Messaging Client for BlackBerry smartphones provides a number of features to facilitate communication and collaboration amongst your employees.

Advanced instant messaging capabilities

  • Real-time text based messaging
  • Ability to include emoticons and symbols
  • One-to-one or multi-party chat
  • Ability to save chat history or "send as email"
  • Status settings (free/busy etc)
  • Personal notes, messages and out-of-office integration in status settings

Contact management features

  • Ability to link an IM contact to an entry in the BlackBerry address book
  • Customisable alerts for when a contact becomes available
  • Ability to create, and edit groups
  • Directory lookup with picture association

Contact management features

  • One click access to dial phone numbers, access website URLs, or compose an email message to an address included in a conversation
  • Spell check, auto-text and cut, copy, paste
  • Presence can be viewed in the Address Book
  • Intuitive and familiar experience

Security

Enterprise Instant Messaging for BlackBerry smartphones complies with enterprise security standards through BlackBerry® Enterprise Server. It supports Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Triple DES encryption protocols and provides an audit trail for mobile messaging on BlackBerry smartphones.

BlackBerry Enterprise Server also enables centralised management and control over the Enterprise Instant Messaging Client. Administrative features include the ability to:

  • Disallow file transfer types
  • Disable the ability to email or save a conversation
  • Disable broadcast messages (GroupWise and Sametime only)
  • Disable emoticons
  • Disable automatic login
  • Disable Address Book Lookup

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Webcasts

 

Enterprise Collaboration and Social Networking

Networking extends the reach of your employees, allowing them to tap into the expertise of coworkers.

IBM Lotus Connections
BlackBerry® Client for IBM® Lotus® Connections™ provides highly secure enterprise social networking for people-based collaboration by extending Profiles, Activities, Blogs, Communities and Bookmarks to BlackBerry® smartphone users.

IBM Lotus Quickr
Give mobile employees the ability to share critical documents quickly and securely from their BlackBerry® smartphones. The BlackBerry® Client for IBM® Lotus® Quickr establishes a highly secure framework for document-based collaboration, extending Libraries, Folders, and Files to BlackBerry smartphone users.

 

 

BlackBerry Mobile Voice System
BlackBerry® Mobile Voice System (BlackBerry® MVS) mobilizes PBX systems, bringing office phone features to BlackBerry® smartphones. By using one business number, BlackBerry MVS is designed to help users avoid missed calls.

With advanced security features, wireless administration, and centralized management, BlackBerry MVS gives you the flexibility you need with the controls you trust.1,2

Potential Business Benefits

  • Provides employees with enterprise data and voice on a single BlackBerry smartphone
  • Helps to increase customer satisfaction with easier reach and faster responsiveness
  • Can reduce the amount of missed calls and facilitates group collaboration
  • Can lower telecom costs using enterprise callback network mobility services
  • Can improve communications and responsiveness during emergencies

Potential Infrastructure Benefits

  • Leverages and extends the features of your existing wireless solution
  • Integrates communications, services, and applications across a variety of BlackBerry smartphones
  • Delivers wireless/wireline convergence
  • Can help you achieve a higher ROI by preserving PBX and voice mail system investments
  • Can provide a smooth integration to VoIP

Learn more about MVS

 

 
BlackBerry® Curve™ 9700 smartphone

Chalk Pushcast Software

With Chalk™ Pushcast™ Software, you can distribute rich-media content to BlackBerry® smartphone users for training, compliance, corporate updates and more. Deliver highly protected content wirelessly, helping to enhance productivity and improve employee efficiency.

How does it work?
The Chalk™ Pushcast™ Plug-in for Microsoft® Powerpoint® enables you to rapidly develop dynamic mobile content, select the users and groups to receive it, and schedule distribution for either immediate delivery, or for a later date. Users receive the content on their BlackBerry smartphones and view it using the Chalk™ Pushcast™ Player.

You choose the most effective format for the content - text, graphics, video, audio, surveys, tests and more can all be made available. And once the content is distributed, Chalk Pushcast Software provides end-to-end reporting functionality so you’ll have insight into content engagement, completion, and the results from any tests and surveys.

Why pushcasts?
By leveraging the BlackBerry smartphones already in your organization to deliver interactive content, you could enjoy a number of benefits:

  • Reduced training costs
  • Improved employee productivity
  • Increased training completion rates
  • Improved performance with 'just-in-time' information
  • Better alignment of field-based employees

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1Support for Microsoft Lync Server will be available in an upcoming BlackBerry Enterprise Server Service Pack.

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