Business Software Features

Push Technology

Push technology is designed to deliver messages and information to BlackBerry® smartphones in seconds. This helps ensure that the information on a user’s BlackBerry smartphone is automatically updated with the information on their computer.

Email, calendar entries, contacts, tasks and memos are all kept up-to-date.

Server software and hosted services also optimise data before sending to BlackBerry smartphones, making it one of the most efficient smartphone solutions. It’s designed to provide quick delivery times, long battery life and low per-megabyte data charges – especially when roaming.

Email

Provide your mobile professionals with on-the-go email access on BlackBerry® smartphones. Email is delivered via push technology to the user’s smartphone and synchronises with their desktop mail.

Features for BlackBerry smartphone users

• Flag For Follow Up - Flagging email messages for follow up is a great way to help users spot the ones they’re looking for when they need them. Apply different colors, assign due dates, set reminders and more.¹
• Remote email search – Users can search for emails that are no longer stored on their smartphone without returning to their desk.²
• Set up out-of-office reply - Out-of-office notifications are updated easily from users’ BlackBerry smartphones.
• HTML email - View emails with embedded HTML, including images, page layout, and text formatting. ³
• Sync email status - Reading an email on your BlackBerry® smartphone marks it as “read” on desktop as well. Deleting an email can optionally be reflected on the desktop.
• Mail Folder Management – BlackBerry smartphone users can add, remove or rename folders right from their smartphone. Changes made on the BlackBerry smartphone will automatically be updated on the mail server. ¹
• View email folders - View custom email folders created on the desktop. View emails moved into folders by custom email filters setup through desktop.¹

Advanced calendaring

BlackBerry® smartphone users can send out, and respond to, meeting invitations. The calendar on the BlackBerry smartphone synchronises with the desktop calendar to stay up-to-date automatically without having to connect to a computer.

Features for BlackBerry smartphone users:

• Free/busy lookup – Users can look at their colleagues’ availability and choose a meeting time that works for everyone.²
• Forward appointments – Users can simply forward a calendar entry from the email message list or directly from the calendar.¹
• View and forward Calendar Attachments - Just as they would from an email message, users can open some of the most popular document and graphic attachments from calendar entries.¹

Address book

BlackBerry® smartphone users can enjoy mobile access to the corporate contact information they need while on the go.

Features for BlackBerry smartphone users

• Contact sync – Contact information on users’ BlackBerry smartphones automatically stays up-to-date with the information on their computers.
• Address lookup – Users can look up colleagues in the corporate address book from their smartphone.
• Synchronisation of multiple contact folders and more – Users can synchronise multiple contact folders, personal distribution lists and public/shared folders to their smartphone. ¹

Document and file access

Empower your employees to be more productive while on the go by giving them access to the documents they need on their BlackBerry® smartphones

Features for BlackBerry smartphone users:

• Remote File Access - Users can find local and remote files, and open, view, save, or email JPEG, Adobe® PDF, Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® Excel® and Microsoft® PowerPoint® files directly from their BlackBerry® smartphone.¹
• Ability to download, edit, save and attach documents – Users can edit and save changes to Microsoft® Word and Microsoft® PowerPoint® files, then send them as email attachments to colleagues and customers while on the go.²
• Native file attachments – Users can download and save full-size email attachments in their native file formats.²

Instant Messaging

Take your instant messaging (IM) mobile. With presence status, your employees can see who is online and ready for a message and their preferred method of contact. BlackBerry® smartphones support a variety of web-based and enterprise IM applications:

• BlackBerry® Messenger
• Web-based instant messaging
• Enterprise instant messaging

Collaboration and Social Networking

Networking extends the reach of your employees, allowing them to tap into the expertise of coworkers. Social networking applications are available for BlackBerry® smartphones that provide access to Facebook®, Twitter® or MySpace® on the go. Plus with BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, you can provide employees with secure access to enterprise collaboration applications.

• Learn more about social networking on BlackBerry smartphones
• Learn about enterprise collaboration