BlackBerry 10 is incompatible with BES - Computerworld.pl

Specialists Research In Motion officially confirmed that BES 5.0.3 will not work with the BlackBerry 10 platform At the same time announced that the soon to be released Service Pack 4 for this popular server, and the company will support BES 5 at least the end of 2015

Companies that wish to take advantage of new opportunities BlackBerry 10, and at the same time be able to work with older mobile devices RIM will have to maintain to manage its fleet of mobile two servers (BlackBerry Device Service for BB 10 platform and the BlackBerry Enterprise Server for solutions series BB6, BB7).

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At the end of August. Research In Motion, the company announced that it intends to provide business customers a special web-based console, through which it will be possible to include BDS management and BES with a single screen. In the version of the target, in the BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 (BES 10) come all the components of the existing solutions on the market Research In Motion Mobile Fusion (application type MDM – Mobile Device Management).

Mobile Fusion is one platform but includes the three separate components. BlackBerry Mobile Fusion Device Service (BDS) is a new management server system based smartphones BlackBarry 10 and PlayBook tablets. Universal Device Service (UDS) to administrate systems based devices Google Android and Apple iOS (manage connections Wi-Fi, VPN, EAS security policies, etc.). Mobile Fusion Studio is a management console that integrates legacy, (BES 5.0.3) and later, utilizing BDS and UDS.

Specialists IT departments will be able to choose whether to install Mobile Fusion on a single server, or separate the components package. It will not be easy but possible retrofitted components already operating at the BlackBerry Enterprise Server or its update.

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Research In Motion certainly trying to keep up in the mobile business and respond to the growing threat coming from other system platforms (Android, iOS, Windows Phone). BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 may be a good choice for companies that do not want to give up products from Research In Motion, and at the same time would like to have a universal tool for managing a fleet of mobile devices from different manufacturers.

Enterprises, which already have implemented advanced applications Mobile Device Management can and are reluctant to look at the latest addition to Research In Motion, completely modernizing internal IT systems.

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Major changes in approach IT departments to BlackBerry 10 may take place after the release of devices using the new system. It is important to RIM postponed the date of their year, as competition in this field is very active. Since the possibility of future developments will depend on whether the BlackBerry Enterprise Server will be systematically displaced by the BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10