We got a sneak peek at BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 in New York before Mobile World Congress, with some modertately exciting features like web-based admin interface and e-mail flags, but Ronen has scored a full comparison chart outlining all of the new features compared to older versions of BES. Highlighted a convenient and dashing shade of cyan, we have the following new features:
- Device Side Folder Management
- Flag for follow-up
- Forward Calendar entries
- Calendar attachment support
- Synchronization of public and private contacts
- Synchronization of multiple contact folders
- Support for WMA files
- Support for Open Document Format (ODF)
- Remote file explorer
- Web-Based BlackBerry Administration Service Console
- Custom roles with different levels of access according to employee’s roles and permissions
- Built In Monitoring with Threshold Analysis Tool and Maintenance Support Window
- Job Management for Applications
- Throttling
- Scheduled Upgrades
- BlackBerry Enterprise Transporter
- High Availability
- Enhanced Enterprise Activation Diagnostics/Troubleshooting
Sound dry? Yeah, it is, but those expanded back-end features are exactly what sets BlackBerry apart from most mobile platforms.
[via BerryReview]