BlackBerry showed the new signs of openness to rival platforms iOS and Android by launching a new service to their corporate users.
It creates for it a "container" within which secure employees who use their own equipment to the office can access their email, contacts, calendars, documents and applications with a level of security able to meet their employer.
Professional data is encrypted and thus erase distance by the company if the employee leaves or loss of the device. Personal data, they remain in the hands of the owner of the device.
To use this service, the company must be a client of the BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 solution.
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Secure Work Space will therefore allow iOS and Android devices to benefit from comparable functions offered by this new BlackBerry devices in the BlackBerry Balance name. It is therefore a competitive advantage in the least Z10, Q10 and other models to be launched by the Canadian manufacturer.
Why deny this comparative advantage?
"Customers demand it, simply summarizes Scott Totzke, senior vice president of security at BlackBerry. In addition, we have somehow invented management systems and mobile devices we offer for much longer than our competitors. "
This launch confirms yet for BlackBerry build on its reputation in the field of safety to compensate for the declining popularity of its products and somehow maintain its position in the corporate world.
The Canadian giant had already given strong indications in this direction in 2011, when he first spoke of Mobile Fusion. This integrated the BlackBerry Enterprise Service service when going for the first time allow the management of iOS and Android devices.
