BlackBerry previews new cloud-based EMM

The new cloud-based EMM solution will give business the ease, flexibility and cost controls to support BYOD, allowing employees to enjoy the content and apps they demand, while maintaining the security requirements and productivity gains of mobilising, for the organisation.

Gartner predicts that half of employers will require employees to supply their own device for work purposes by 2017. Gartner also predicts that through 2014, employee-owned devices will be compromised by malware at more than double the rate of corporate-owned devices, putting device and app management high on the priority list for business and IT leaders alike. With BYOD growing every day, businesses need an EMM solution that is easy to deploy and manage, requires no big upfront costs, and satisfies the needs of their employees without compromising the businesses' security requirements.

Offerings

BlackBerry's new multi-platform EMM cloud solution will offer businesses mobile device management (MDM), mobile application management (MAM), security standards, and self-service capabilities for the end-user. The solution will be available as a service, satisfying end-users, and business leaders and IT departments' needs for an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-manage and highly cost-effective solution for smartphone and tablet management.

"BlackBerry is evolving. As the industry has adopted BYOD and mixed mobile environments, we've responded with our multi-platform EMM solution," said Stephen Bates, head of the enterprise business unit of BlackBerry. "The new cloud-based EMM solution will bring all the benefits of our on-premise offering to customers as a cloud service that lets them easily manage BlackBerry, iOS and Android devices more cost-efficiently than ever before."

The new cloud-based EMM solution will offer:

• Simple and fast deployment. No server hardware or software to install, just register and go;
  
• Administrators can easily manage and secure smartphones and tablets. The simple Web-based admin console will provide easy activation and deployment of BlackBerry, iOS and Android smartphones, app management, security policy configuration and compliance monitoring;
  
• Administrators can secure, deploy and manage apps. Administrators will be able to build a catalogue of public apps from the App StoreSM, Google Play and the BlackBerry World storefront, and then view app distribution and usage for all users and devices.