ORLANDO, FL – Responding to the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend, BlackBerry has released a new multi-platform cloud-based enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution that it says will enable businesses to easily secure and manage corporate and personal devices.
Unveiled Monday at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2013 in Orlando, the new cloud-based EMM solution offers 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 at BlackBerry, in the announcement. "The new cloud-based EMM solution will bring all the benefits of our on-premise offering, which is trusted by more businesses and governments around the world than any other enterprise mobility solution, to customers as a cloud service that lets them easily manage BlackBerry, iOS and Android devices more cost efficiently than ever before."
