BlackBerry BES10 now available as a hosted service

BlackBerry announced that BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 (BES10) will be available as a hosted service, providing the benefits of BlackBerry’s trusted enterprise mobility management (EMM) and advanced security capabilities with the convenience and cost-effectiveness of outsourced IT administration. With BES10 Hosted, hosting partners can provide customers with easy-to-manage iOS, Android and BlackBerry devices with BlackBerry’s best-in-class security and support in order to meet each customers’ diverse mobile business requirements.

“BlackBerry’s BES10 Hosted is focused on providing more choices and flexibility in how enterprise customers can manage their mobile environments,” said John Sims, President of Enterprise Services at BlackBerry. “We’re working closely with our hosting partners to deliver best-in-class managed services to customers in a way that meets their unique business needs without compromising on security, reliability and cost-efficiency.” Hit jump for all the details.

As part of BES10 Hosted, customers have the benefits of BES10 including: 

·         A multi-platform EMM offering with a user self-service portal for easy authentication and device management.

·         Support from the hosting partners, backed by BlackBerry’s world-class technical support. 

·         Container options for all supported devices: Native built-in BlackBerry Balance™ for BlackBerry 10 devices and Secure Work Space for iOS and Android.

·         Powerful application management capabilities such as the ability to distribute public apps, custom apps, ensure device compliance and centrally manage work apps via work app catalogs and software configuration profiles.

·         Unified console to manage existing BlackBerry OS devices as well as BlackBerry 10, iOS and Android devices.

·         Support for BES10 Gold level EMM and BBM™ Protected.

BES10 Hosted is a scalable solution that can be leveraged by small businesses to global enterprises alike. Hosting partners will also be able to offer silver and gold tiers of BES10 to meet the security, device and application management needs of their customers.

In addition to BES10 Hosted, BlackBerry also introduced 10 new enterprise apps for Secure Work Space for iOS and Android, BlackBerry’s containerization and secure connectivity option that delivers a higher level of control and security to iOS and Android devices, all managed through BES10. More details can be found on the Inside BlackBerry for Business blog here.