Why Invest in BES v5.0?

More Power. More Control. More Efficiency.

BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0 is designed to provide peace of mind while helping you meet your mobility needs. Engineered for mission critical environments, you can benefit from the high availability architecture, improved administrative features, valuable monitoring tools, advanced security, and its ability to grow with your company.

Giving Power and Flexibility New Meaning.

The BlackBerry Administration Service is a dynamic, web-based, centralized administrative console designed to provide a complete and
efficient way to manage the BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution. The console is customized, so that it only shows the administrator the relevant tasks based on their role. It provides what is needed to set up and manage the high availability architecture, wirelessly deploy BlackBerry smartphones, manage user settings, deploy and manage applications, assign permissions, control groups, and update BlackBerry® Device Software.

Enterprise-wide application deployments and upgrades are efficient and can be done without impact to BlackBerry smartphone users. With enhanced job management, throttling and scheduling, deployments can now be managed around peak business hours. Jobs can be scheduled to avoid interference with day-to-day business continuity which solves the problem of the IT Administration team needing to work after hours. Jobs and tasks can both be throttled, with individual throttling thresholds available for varying types of tasks including IT policies, application distribution, device software distribution and device software application settings.

Custom roles and enhanced group functionality provide more controls that allow administrators to assign BlackBerry smartphone functionality according to employee roles within the company. IT managers can now assign role-based permissions to IT staff, tailoring BlackBerry administrative tasks to the specific role of the administrator. Group membership capabilities have been expanded, with multiple levels of nested groups possible, and the ability to assign roles, software configurations and IT policies to groups.

BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0 administration has been fine-tuned with the addition of the BlackBerry® Enterprise Transporter. This tool allows administrators to migrate BlackBerry smartphone users from one BlackBerry domain to another, without requiring action by the user. To help ensure that upgrades to BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0 go smoothly, a test environment can be built first and then the BlackBerry Enterprise Transporter can be used to move users into the production environment.

Offering Peace of Mind in Mission Critical Environments.

BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0 introduces a built-in high availability architecture which enables fast recovery from unplanned
downtime of BlackBerry Enterprise Server components. If the need arises, the new high availability architecture is designed to
automatically use the standby components and has the flexibility of being deployed on physical and virtual servers (specifically VMware®).
The high availability architecture is designed to give you confidence in your wireless infrastructure, and is easy to deploy, while flexible
enough to be tailored to your unique environment.

Through the BlackBerry Administration Service, enhanced monitoring capabilities assess the health of your BlackBerry Enterprise Solution helping to keep operations optimized. The Threshold Assistance Tool provides system and user level alerting to help administrators choose good values for baseline thresholds to help enable proactive monitoring. By offering more visibility into your wireless platform, IT administrators are alerted before there is a problem.

Invest in the Future.

Invest in BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0 today and leverage this investment long into the future. Using forward-thinking design
principles, BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0 was made to grow with your business. As your company grows, you can add more BlackBerry
Enterprise Server instances to support tens of thousands of BlackBerry smartphone users.

The ability to integrate with BlackBerry products, as well as with products developed by a multitude of partners, helps you expand your
wireless infrastructure in a cost-effective way. Because every company is different, this product offers tools and services that administrators
can tailor to their organizations. Take advantage of the growing community of developers that have created many services and
applications for BlackBerry smartphones.

Be more productive while on the go BlackBerry smartphones now offer more access to desktop features, helping bridge the gap between employees and the business tools they rely on while out of the office. They can:

What’s new in BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 Summary?

IT Administrators End-Users
  • Advanced Mobile Management through a New administrative console
  • Built-in High Availability and Reliability
  • Enhanced Application Deployment and Management
  • BlackBerry® Enterprise Transporter Tool

 

  • Remote File Access
  • Email Folder Management
  • Enhanced Calendar Functionality
  • Synchronization of public and private contacts
  • Flag emails for follow up
  • Listen to Windows Media Audio (WMA) files

Benefits in detail...

BlackBerry® Enterprise Server v5.0 features built-in over the air software loading which simplifies wireless deployment of BlackBerry® smartphone software. Engineered to meet the demands of mission critical enterprise environments, BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0 offers peace of mind with a proven, secure and stable IT platform that supports current and evolving mobility requirements.

Easier IT Management and Administration

Improve IT Productivity and Efficiency Simplify Deployments and Upgrades
  • Manage your BlackBerry environment with the new BlackBerry® Administration Service which provides web-based access to centralized management tools.
  • Customize roles and permissions to create different levels of access to server functions.
  • Expand group management capabilities where users can now belong to multiple groups and groups can belong to groups.
  • Schedule device, application and IT policy updates to minimize impact on end-users and business operations.
  • Deploy hundreds of applications to thousands of users with enhanced job management, throttling and scheduling.
  • Schedule device, application and IT policy updates to minimize impact on end-users and business operations.
  • New BlackBerry® Enterprise Transporter allows for seamless migration of BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0 users without requiring end-user intervention.

 

Maximize Uptime

Proactive Monitoring which helps Minimize Potential Risks Improve Delivery of Service to End-Users
  • Monitor the overall health of your solution with scalable monitoring capabilities.
  • Improved reporting, alerting and troubleshooting helps minimize potential issues through reporting and graphing of data to gain visibility into the health of your solution.
  • Color-coded monitoring provides a unified view of information to easily identify server or user-related issues.
  • Built-in high availability architecture enables fast recovery from unplanned downtime of BlackBerry Enterprise Server components.
  • Has the flexibility of being deployed on physical or virtual servers. (i.e. VMware®)
  • Threshold Assistance Tool provides monitoring assistance to help IT set acceptable operating threshold levels geared specifically to their environment.

 

End-User Productivity

BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0 offers more control of desktop features on BlackBerry smartphones, helping to bridge the gap between employees and the business tools they rely on while away from the office.

1 Requires BlackBerry Device Software v5.0 or higher

Upgrade to BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0 at no additional cost

With an annual BlackBerry T Support Contract OR MT Support Contract, you’ll receive unlimited access to unmatched BlackBerry support. Your update to BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0 is also included, along with any future updates released during your subscription period.

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Microsoft® Exchange - BlackBerry Software Comparison

End User Features

 
 
Version 4.1 with Service Pack 6
Version
5.0
Email    
Access to Regular Exchange Email - Send/Receive Email Wirelessly  yes  yes
Push Message Delivery  yes  yes
Wireless Email Reconciliation  yes4  yes4
Sent Item Synchronization  yes10  yes10
Wireless Email Settings  yes10  yes10
Wireless email reconciliation hard-delete support  yes  yes
Email Server Search and Download  yes22  yes22
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Email Message View  yes  yes
HTML Support  yes22  yes22
Device Side Folder Management    yes26
Flag for Follow Up    yes26
 
Instant Messaging
Support for Microsoft® Windows® Messenger  yes  yes
BlackBerry Client for use with Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007  yes  yes
IM Contact Linking to Address Book Contact  yes22  yes22
IM Contact Click-to-Call  yes22  yes22
IM Session Convert-to-Call  yes22  yes22
Emoticons for BlackBerry Client for Lotus Sametime  yes22  yes22
 
Calendar/PIM
Wireless Calendar Synchronization  yes1  yes1
Wireless PIM Synchronization (Calendar, Address Book, Memopad, Tasklist)  yes10  yes10
Remote Address Lookup  yes3  yes3
vCard Support (conversion to BlackBerry Address Book)  yes  yes
Calendar Enhancements (Tentative Acceptance, Conflict & Adjacent Notification, Private Flag Support)  yes11  yes11
Task Enhancements (Task Reminders and Recurrences)  yes16  yes16
PIM Categories Support  yes11,17  yes11,17
Address Lookup for Hosting Organizations  yes  yes
Free/Busy Availability Lookup  yes22  yes22
Forward Calendar Entries    yes26
Calendar Attachment Support    yes26
Synchronization of public and private contacts    yes26
Synchronization of Multiple Contact Folders    yes26
 
Attachments
Attachment Service  yes4  yes4
Attachment Service Support for .ZIP  yes5  yes5
Attachment Service Support for Color Attachment Viewing  yes5,18  yes5,18
Attachment Service Support Image Viewing (JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG and TIFF)  yes5,18  yes5,18
Attachment Service Support for Document Info, Tracked Changes  yes5,18  yes5,18
Image Application  yes11,18  yes11,18
Attachment viewing pan and zoom enhancements  yes  yes
Native File Format Download  yes22  yes22
Attachment Edit (.DOC, .PPT)  yes22  yes22
Support for Audio (.AMR, .WAV, .MP3)  yes  yes
Support for Audio WMA files    yes
Support for Open Document Format (ODF)    yes
 
Corporate Data Access
BlackBerry Browser  yes2  yes2
Corporate Data Access  yes2  yes2
BlackBerry Browser JavaScript v1.3 Support  yes11  yes11
BlackBerry Browser Enhancements (Enhanced HTML Tables Support, Ability to Email a URL, Animated GIF Support)  yes15  yes15
Remote File Explorer    yes26
     
Device Choice    
BlackBerry device support  yes  yes
Support for BlackBerry Connect and BlackBery Built-In devices  yes  yes
Enterpise device authorization  yes  yes
 
Support
Automatic Wireless Backup of Device Data  yes10  yes10
Over-the-Air Device Software Updates  yes22  yes22
Ability to Delete BlackBerry Applications from the Handheld  yes11  yes11
On-Handheld Help  yes15,17  yes15,17
Archiving SMS, PIN-to-PIN and Call Logs  yes  yes

 

IT Features

 
 
Version 4.1 with Service Pack 6
Version
5.0
Security
End-to-end Security  yes  yes
Triple DES encryption support  yes  yes
AES encryption support  yes15  yes15
Support for Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME)  yes  yes
Device Content Protection, Content Compression  yes11  yes11
Password Keeper, Handheld Wipe  yes11  yes11
Wireless Encryption Key Regeneration  yes10  yes10
     
Deployment    
Automated BlackBerry® Desktop Software Deployment (Silent Install)  yes12  yes12
Support for Single Desktop Manager Package (separate installers)  yes14  yes14
Cradle-less Provisioning  yes10  yes10
BlackBerry Router® and BlackBerry® Device Manager  yes10  yes10
Handheld Configuration Tool  yes  yes
Supports Optional BlackBery Desktop Manager (Basic MSI Installer, Full Desktop or Handheld Manager only)  yes  yes
Application Loader "Lite"  yes  yes
Wireless Third Party Application Provisioning and Control  yes15  yes15
     
Extensibility/Corporate Data Access    
BlackBerry® Mobile Data System (BlackBerry MDS)  yes20  yes20
BlackBerry MDS Services  yes20  yes20
BlackBerry MDS Runtime  yes20  yes20
Two-factor authentication support  yes  yes
Data group push  yes  yes
BlackBerry Browser supports WML, cHTML, xHTML and HTML, CSS (partial)  yes11  yes11
BlackBerry Browser supports JavaScript, offline forms handling  yes11  yes11
Increased access control, application management and corporate proxy handling  yes  yes
Additional development tools, such as Synchronization SDK, Attachment Distiller SDK, and Plazmic Content Developer’s Kit  yes  yes
 
Management/Administration
Multi-network support  yes  yes
Forced Blind Carbon Copy  yes  yes
All-Points-Bulletin Via PIN  yes  yes
Global Filters  yes  yes
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Management Console  yes  yes
Web-Based BlackBerry® Adminstration Service Console    yes
Multiple BlackBerry Enterprise Server instances on one physical machine  yes  yes
Enhanced Error Logging  yes  yes
Wireless IT Policies and Commands  yes3  yes3
License Manager  yes  yes
Preservation of User Settings (device, desktop) on Update  yes13  yes13
Support for Enforced Handheld Software Update IT Policy  yes13  yes13
Support for Microsoft Exchange 2003  yes  yes
Enhanced SNMP Management  yes21  yes21
Handheld Management Reporting  yes10  yes10
Server Architectural Improvements  yes  yes
Role based administration  yes  yes
Group based administration  yes  yes
Common BlackBerry Manager console across all three email platforms  yes  yes
Backup and restore of saved messages  yes  yes
BlackBerry® Web Desktop Manager - available as a download  yes  yes
BlackBerry® Monitoring Service  yes23  yes23
     
Related Product Releases    
BlackBerry Web Desktop Manager - available as a download  yes  yes
BlackBerry Monitoring Service  yes23  yes23
Custom Roles with different levels of access according to employee's roles and permissions    yes
Built in Monitoring with Threshold Analysis Tool and Maintenance Window Support    yes
Job management for applications    yes
Throttling    yes
Scheduled Upgrades    yes
BlackBerry Enterprise Transporter    yes27
High Availability    yes
Enhanced Enterprise Activation Diagnostics/Troubleshooting    yes
     
Platform Certification    
VMWare ESX v3.0.1  yes  yes
BES 64-bit O/S Support  yes  yes
BESd, BESx (in 32-bit mode)  yes  yes
BES with 64-bit SQL 2005 DB  yes  yes

 

Footnotes

 
BlackBerry® Device Software requirements for:
  C++ enabled handhelds Java enabled handhelds
1 v2.1 SP4 or higher v3.2.1 or higher
2 v2.5 or higher v3.2.1 or higher
3 v2.5 or higher v3.6 or higher
4 v2.6 or higher v3.6 or higher
5 v2.6 or higher v3.7 or higher
6 Attachment service is supported as an 'add-on' to: (a) handheld software v2.1 (or higher) for C++ enabled BlackBerry handhelds AND (b) BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Lotus Domino v2.1 with SP1. Not available for Java-enabled BlackBerry handhelds on BlackBerry Enterprise Server v2.1.
7 Requires BlackBerry Enterprise Server v2.2 SP1
10 v2.7 or higher v4.0 or higher
11   v3.8 or higher
12 Requires BlackBerry Desktop Software v2.1 SP3 or higher
13 Requires BlackBerry Desktop Softwarev3.5 or higher
14 Requires BlackBerry Desktop Softwarev3.6 or higher
15   v4.0 or higher (10MB or higher)
16 v2.5 or higher v4.0 or higher
17   16MB or more memory only
18   color screens only
19 Sametime, DB2 and Notes are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. GroupWise is a registered trademark or trademark of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Windows Messenger, Outlook and Exchange are registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries
20 Components of Mobile Data System software version 4.1
21 More SNMP event traps in BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.1
22 v4.5 or higher handheld software
23 Bundled with BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.1 with Service Pack 5, but has a separate installer
24 4.0+ Introduced Messaging Agents that improved performance and scalability of this feature
25

for Exchange 2007 requires BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.1.3 or higher

26 BlackBerry Device Software v5.0 or higher required
27 Included with the BlackBerry Resource Kit (BRK)

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IBM® Lotus® Domino® - BlackBerry Software Comparison

End User Features

 
Version 4.1 with Service Pack 6
Version 5.0
Email
Access to Regular Domino® Email—Send/Receive Email Wirelessly  yes  yes
Push Message Delivery  yes  yes
Wireless Email Reconciliation  yes4  yes4
Sent Item Synchronization  yes10  yes10
Wireless Email Settings  yes10  yes10
Wireless email reconciliation hard-delete support  yes  yes
Email Server Search and Download  yes22  yes22
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Email Message View  yes  yes
HTML Support  yes22  yes22
Device Side Folder Management    yes25
Flag for Follow Up    yes26
 
Instant Messaging/Collaboration
Support for IBM Lotus Sametime®  yes  yes
IM Contact Linking to Address Book Contact  yes22  yes22
IM Contact Click-to-Call  yes22  yes22
IM Session Convert-to-Call  yes22  yes22
Emoticons for BlackBerry Client for Lotus Sametime  yes22  yes22
     
Personal Information Management (PIM)/Organizer    
Calendar/PIM  yes  yes
Wireless Calendar Synchronization  yes1  yes1
Wireless PIM Synchronization (Calendar, Address Book, Memopad, Tasklist)  yes10  yes10
Remote Address Lookup  yes3  yes3
vCard Support (conversion to BlackBerry Address Book)  yes  yes
Calendar Enhancements (Tentative Acceptance, Conflict & Adjacent Notification, Private Flag Support)  yes11  yes11
Task Enhancements (Task Reminders and Recurrences)  yes16  yes16
PIM Categories Support  yes11,17  yes11,17
Address Lookup for Hosting Organizations  yes  yes
Free/Busy Availability Lookup  yes22  yes22
Calendar Attachment Support    yes24
Synchronization of public and private contacts    yes24
Synchronization of Multiple Contact Folders    yes24
Calendar Meeting Delegation    yes
 
Attachments
Attachment Service  yes4  yes4
Attachment Service Support for .ZIP  yes5  yes5
Attachment Service Support for Color Attachment Viewing  yes5,18  yes5,18
Attachment Service Support Image Viewing (JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG and TIFF)  yes5,18  yes5,18
Attachment Service Support for Document Info, Tracked Changes  yes5,18  yes5,18
Image Application  yes11,18  yes11,18
Attachment viewing pan and zoom enhancements  yes  yes
Native File Format Download  yes22  yes22
Attachment Edit (.DOC, .PPT)  yes22  yes22
Support for Audio (.AMR, .WAV, .MP3)  yes  yes
Support for Audio WMA files    yes
Support for Open Document Format (ODF)    yes
 
Corporate Data Access
BlackBerry® Browser  yes2  yes2
Corporate Data Access  yes2  yes2
BlackBerry Browser JavaScript® v1.3 Support  yes11  yes11
BlackBerry Browser Enhancements (Enhanced HTML Tables Support, Ability to Email a URL, Animated GIF Support)  yes15  yes15
Remote File Explorer    yes24
 
Device Choice
Support for devices with BlackBerry® ConnectTM software and BlackBerry® Built-InTM software  yes  yes
Enterprise Device Authorization  yes  yes
 
Support
Automatic Wireless Backup of Device Data  yes10  yes10
Over-the-Air Device Software Updates  yes22  yes22
On-Handheld Help  yes15,17  yes15,17
Ability to Delete BlackBerry Applications from the Handheld  yes11  yes11
Archiving SMS, PIN-to-PIN and Call Logs  yes  yes
 
Version 4.1 with Service Pack 6
Version 5.0
Security
End-to-end Security  yes  yes
Triple DES encryption support  yes  yes
AES encryption support  yes15  yes15
Device Content Protection, Content Compression  yes11  yes11
Password Keeper, Handheld Wipe  yes11  yes11
Wireless Encryption Key Regeneration  yes10  yes10
Native Notes Encryption - Read Only  yes16  yes16
Native Notes Encryption - Read & Write    yes24
 
Deployment
Automated BlackBerry® Desktop Software Deployment (Silent Install)  yes12  yes12
Support for Single Desktop Manager Package (separate installers)  yes14  yes14
Cradle-less Provisioning  yes10  yes10
BlackBerry® Router and BlackBerry® Device Manager  yes10  yes10
Handheld Configuration Tool  yes  yes
Supports Optional BlackBerry Desktop Manager (Basic MSI Installer, Full Desktop or Handheld Manager only)  yes  yes
Application Loader "Lite"  yes  yes
Wireless Third Party Application Provisioning and Control  yes15  yes15
     
Extensibility/Corporate Data Access    
BlackBerry® Mobile Data System (BlackBerry MDS)  yes20  yes20
BlackBerry MDS Services  yes20  yes20
BlackBerry MDS Runtime  yes20  yes20
Two-factor authentication support  yes  yes
Data group push  yes  yes
BlackBerry Browser supports WML, cHTML, xHTML and HTML, CSS (partial)  yes11  yes11
BlackBerry Browser supports JavaScript, offline forms handling  yes11  yes11
Increased access control, application management and corporate proxy handling  yes  yes
Additional development tools, such as Synchronization SDK, Attachment Distiller SDK, and Plazmic Content Developer’s Kit  yes  yes
 
Management/Administration
Multi-network support  yes  yes
Forced Blind Carbon Copy  yes  yes
All-Points-Bulletin Via PIN  yes  yes
Global Filters  yes  yes
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Management Console  yes  yes
Web-Based BlackBerry Adminstration Service Console    yes
Enhanced Error Logging  yes  yes
Wireless IT Policies and Commands  yes3  yes3
Preservation of User Settings (device, desktop) on Update  yes13  yes13
Support for Enforced Handheld Software Update IT Policy  yes13  yes13
Enhanced SNMP Management  yes21  yes21
Handheld Management Reporting  yes10  yes10
Server Architectural Improvements  yes  yes
Support for Multiple Domino Domains  yes  yes
Role based administration  yes  yes
Group based administration  yes  yes
Common BlackBerry Manager console across all three email platforms  yes  yes
Backup and restore of saved messages  yes  yes
BlackBerry® Web Desktop Manager - available as a download  yes  yes
BlackBerry® Monitoring Service  yes23  yes23
Custom Roles with different levels of access according to employee's roles and permissions  yes  yes
Built in Monitoring with Threshold Analysis Tool and Maintenance Window Support  yes  yes
Job management for applications  yes  yes
Throttling  yes  yes
Scheduled Upgrades  yes  yes
BlackBerry® Enterprise Transporter  yes  yes25
High Availability  yes  yes
Enhanced Enterprise Activation Diagnostics/Troubleshooting  yes  yes
Localization of BlackBerry Enterprise Server, with documentation available in French, Italian, German and Spanish  yes  yes
 
Platform Certification
VMWare ESX v3.0.1  yes  yes
BES 64-bit O/S Support  yes  yes
BESd, BESx (in 32-bit mode)  yes  yes
BES with 64-bit SQL 2005 DB  yes  yes
 
Related Product Releases
BlackBerry® Web Desktop Manager - available as a download  yes  yes
BlackBerry Monitoring Service  yes 23  yes 23
BlackBerry Client for Lotus Connections  yes  yes

 

Footnotes

 
BlackBerry® Device Software requirements for:
  C++ enabled devices Java® enabled devices
1 v2.1 SP4 or higher v3.2.1 or higher
2 v2.5 or higher v3.2.1 or higher
3 v2.5 or higher v3.6 or higher
4 v2.6 or higher v3.6 or higher
5 v2.6 or higher v3.7 or higher
6 Attachment service is supported as an 'add-on' to: (a) handheld software v2.1 (or higher) for C++ enabled BlackBerry handhelds AND (b) BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Lotus Domino v2.1 with SP1. Not available for Java-enabled BlackBerry handhelds on BlackBerry Enterprise Server v2.1.
7 Requires BlackBerry Enterprise Server v2.2 SP1
10 v2.7 or higher v4.0 or higher
11   v3.8 or higher
12 Requires BlackBerry® Desktop Software v2.1 SP3 or higher
13 Requires BlackBerry Desktop Software v3.5 or higher
14 Requires BlackBerry Desktop Software v3.6 or higher
15   v4.0 or higher (10 MB or higher)
16 v2.5 or higher v4.0 or higher
17   devices with 16 MB or more memory only
18   devices with color screens only
19 Sametime, DB2 and Notes are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. GroupWise is a registered trademark or trademark of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Windows Messenger, Outlook and Exchange are registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries
20 Components of Mobile Data System software version 4.1
21 More SNMP event traps in BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.1
22 v4.5 or higher handheld software
23 Bundled with BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.1 with Service Pack 5, but has a separate installer
24 BlackBerry Device Software v5.0 or higher required
25 Included with the BlackBerry Resource Kit (BRK)
26 BlackBerry Device Software v4.1 or higher required

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