Any IT person with a pulse knows that employees are flooding IT departments with requests to connect their personal smartphones to the company IT infrastructure. Notwithstanding the real productivity benefits from connected employees, until now many IT departments have turned down all such requests as a matter of policy. They calculated that the security and control risks outweighed the benefits from collaboration.
But the equation has suddenly changed with the introduction of the free BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express, which ends the compromise around security, manageability, and cost-enabling organizations to confidently connect employee-owned BlackBerry smartphones. Read the following white paper to discover what you need to know to connect employees' personal BlackBerry smartphones and how BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express can help.
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Any IT person with a pulse knows that employees are flooding IT departments with requests to connect their personal smartphones to the company IT infrastructure. Notwithstanding the real productivity benefits from connected employees, until now many IT departments have turned down all such requests as a matter of policy. They calculated that the security and control risks outweighed the benefits from collaboration.
But the equation has suddenly changed with the introduction of the free BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express, which ends the compromise around security, manageability, and cost-enabling organizations to confidently connect employee-owned BlackBerry® smartphones. Read the following white paper to discover what you need to know to connect employees' personal BlackBerry smartphones and how BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express can help. Connecting employees' personal smartphones
When A Trickle Becomes A Flood
How big is the employee-owned smartphone issue for IT managers? IDC reports that 80 percent of small-and medium-sized businesses already have employee-owned devices. And by 2013 IDC expects worldwide shipments of employee-owned devices to grow by 17.9 percent to reach 56.7 million units representing 56 percent of business smartphone shipments.
"We believe that by 2011 more than 50 percent of employees at most organizations will be carrying a smartphone and want to connect it to the corporate infrastructure." Brian Reed, BoxTone
What Is Blackberry Enterprise Server Express?
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express is a free download that provides the core mobility, security, and manageability features of the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, but without the licensing and software costs. And not just through email, but with full wireless sync, remote file access, applications, and more.
When connected, here are a few of the things employees can do:
> Connect to work email with such advanced features as organizing and filing mail folders, setting follow-up flags, and search
> See work calendars and check the free/busy status of colleagues on the go, make appointments, and set reminders
> Look up work contacts, check addresses on the road, send emails, and place calls
> Access work applications and files from behind the network firewall
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Works With Any Internet-Enabled Blackberry Data Plan
Because most employees with personal BlackBerry smartphones pay for their own data plans, the majority will choose data plans that connect using an Internet-enabled BlackBerry data plan through their carrier. In most situations that is less expensive for the employee compared to paying for a full BlackBerry Enterprise data plan.
Until now, however, IT departments had no easy way to connect smartphones that were on an Internet-enabled BlackBerry data plan. But that is no longer a problem as the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express works with both Internet-enabled BlackBerry data plans and BlackBerry Enterprise data plans. As such, IT departments at organizations of all sizes now have an easy, low-cost way to connect employees' personal BlackBerry smartphones to the company IT infrastructure.
Virtually No Net Cost Increases-For Anyone
That means employees can keep their lower-cost data plans and still connect their personal BlackBerry smartphones to work email, calendar, applications, and so on.
The company, for its part, often does not pay for the employee's phone nor for his or her data plan. And because BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express is free-the company pays nothing for the connection, but IT still gets the security and management it needs.
"Everyone gets what they want. The employee gets access to work email and apps. The company gets a more productive employee. And the IT team gets security and... [download for more]
