AT&T, RIM announce BlackBerry Professional Software for small businesses
By Dusan Belic on Friday, April 25th, 2008 at 2:53 AM PST In AT&T, Announcements, RIM (Research in Motion), Services
Recently, AT&T (NYSE: T) and Research in Motion launched BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Professional Software for AT&T’s small business customers, which provides a “wireless communications and collaboration solution with advanced security features designed specifically for small and midsize companies.”
BlackBerry Professional Software is a logical and intuitive wireless communications and collaboration solution that provides small business-focused features, security performance and support options in an easy-to-use solution, supporting up to 30 wireless users. It enables wireless access to e-mail, calendar, contacts, business data and Internet access while helping owners and office managers focus on running their business. This new solution helps them to respond quickly to their customers and provides employees with the ability to accomplish more each day by using their BlackBerry smartphones from AT&T.
In a nutshell, BlackBerry Professional Software provides users with the full suite of advanced security features and IT policies that come with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server software, but has a simplified administration.
In case a small business grows beyond 30 users, the BlackBerry Professional Software solution can be upgraded to BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
As for the pricing, 5-user version is priced at $499, while a 10-user version costs $849… More information is available on AT&T’s website.
BlackBerry client support has become very famous not in America but also in Europe and South Asian country like Pakistan