BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0

BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 is a useful tool for employees to access their Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino, or Novell GroupWise email on-the-go on a BlackBerry smartphone. They will also have access to calendar, contacts, tasks, notes, instant messaging, web-based, and enterprise applications. BlackBerry Enterprise Server software is the link between BlackBerry smartphones, enterprise applications, and wireless networks that extends communications and corporate data to your mobile users.

Major Features:

1. Management and Support Features
   • Centralized administration console — provides a common interface for managing all components of your BlackBerry® solution
   • Role-based administration — tasks can be delegated to lower-level administrators, while ensuring strict control over access to sensitive operations
   • Group-based administration — assigns properties and performs tasks across groups, such as IT policies, email filters and application pushes
   • Over-the-air BlackBerry smartphone software updates — wireless updates of BlackBerry® Device Software on BlackBerry smartphones
   • Web-based management tools:
   • BlackBerry® Web Desktop Manager — provides a web-based management console
   • BlackBerry® Monitoring Service — provides enhanced monitoring, alerting and reporting capabilities
   • Get more reporting and management features with the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Resource Kit
2. Security Features
3. End-to-end Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) or Triple Data Encryption Standard (Triple DES) encryption to ensure the confidentially of info sent from the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server to BlackBerry smartphones
4. More than 450 over-the-air wireless IT policies and commands allow IT administrators to impose a device lock-down, wipe data from a lost or stolen device and wirelessly enforce security settings such as Bluetooth® lockout and controlling access to voice calling
5. PIN-to-PIN and SMS message auditing
6. Encrypted attachment viewing for S/MIME and PGP® email and support for S/MIME encrypted email
7. Create a two-factor authenticated environment to give access to BlackBerry smartphone and PKI applications with the BlackBerry® Smart Card Reader
8. Create and Manage Applications
9. Reduce the time and resources needed to develop, deploy and manage wireless applications for your mobile workers by using the BlackBerry® Mobile Data System
10. Mobilize Your Office Desk Phones
11. Use the BlackBerry® Mobile Voice System to allow your employees to access the features of their office desk phones such as transfer and dialing by extension on their BlackBerry smartphones

Enhancements:

• Administrators   
• • Advanced Mobile Management through a New administrative console
  • Built-in High Availability and Reliability
  • Enhanced Application Deployment and Management
  • BlackBerry® Enterprise Transporter Tool
  • And more great features
• End-Users1
• • Remote File Access
  • Email Folder Management
  • Enhanced Calendar Functionality
  • Synchronization of public and private contacts
  • Flag emails for follow up
  • Listen to Windows Media Audio (WMA) files
  • And more great features

Requirements:

• Microsoft Exchange, or IBM Lotus Domino