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BlackBerry Futures: The Road to Mobile Collaboration with Lotus
Paul SteelManager, Technical Services
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What We’ll Cover …
• BlackBerry in the Enterprise• The BlackBerry Enterprise Server• Our Collaboration Clients• Enterprise Architecture & Deployment• Questions
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• 180,000+ BlackBerry Solution Servers Deployeds Over 30,000 Organizations Have Deployed the BlackBerry
Enterprise Solutions Over 3,000 trial servers active
• 70%+ of Organizations with BlackBerry Enterprise Solution Utilizing Applications Beyond Emails Corporate Applicationss 750+ Enterprise ISVs, with 1,000’s of Business Applicationss BlackBerry Platform & Developer Tools
BlackBerry in the Enterprise
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Approximately 425 Carriers & Distribution Partners in Over 150 Countries
BlackBerry Around the World
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What We’ll Cover …
• BlackBerry in the Enterprise• The BlackBerry Enterprise Server• Our Collaboration Clients• Enterprise Architecture & Deployment• Questions
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• Providing users with similar experiences when accessing HTML and Rich Text Email via desktop or BlackBerry*
• Extending the quick link access functionality of Domino Doc Links to the BlackBerry**
• Enhancing the user’s mail management capabilities by offering Folder Management and Follow-up Flag functionality***
• Increasing the user’s calendar productivity by adding Attachment, Delegation and Conference Call Integration support to the BlackBerry Calendar**** Requires 4.5 Device Code** HTTP required for full link support*** Requires 5.0 Device Code
The BlackBerry Enterprise Server
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• Connecting users with the support of Personal Distribution Lists through their BlackBerry Contacts*
• Making it easier for enterprises to lower their overall costs by supporting the viewing of Symphony Documents**
• Extending a user’s connection to the enterprise by offering Remote File Access*
• Fortifying the enterprises’ security infrastructure by allowing BlackBerry users the ability to read and create Notes Native Encrypted emails* anywhere, at any time* Requires 5.0 Device Code** Symphony Presentations and Symphony Spreadsheet support currently scheduled for v5.0.1
Extending Mobile Features for Domino
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• Increase the productivity of the mobile user and lower the overall enterprise cost with Symphony
• Symphony support will be a standard feature from BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0
• Users have the ability to:s Open Symphony Documentss View rich text and embedded contents Access hyper links
• Symphony Presentations and Symphony Spreadsheets support scheduled for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0.1* Requires 4.5 Device Code
Extending Mobile Features for Symphony
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What We’ll Cover …
• BlackBerry in the Enterprise• The BlackBerry Enterprise Server• Our Collaboration Clients• Enterprise Architecture & Deployment• Questions
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• Enhancing the personal mobile experience with real time enterprise communication by supporting:s Pictures In Contactss Manual Location Syncs Emoticonss Configure presence from home screen
• Extending the enterprise real time environment by supporting:s Sametime Buddy to Contacts links File Transfers Public Announcementss Public Group supports Send Chat as Email
• Seamless enterprise collaboration integration with BlackBerry
• Presence in Contacts
Client for IBM® Lotus® Sametime® v2.1/2.2
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• Extend the reach of the enterprise social networking environment of IBM Lotus Connections by extending Social Networking to the enterprises’ BlackBerry environment
• With the BlackBerry Client for Lotus Connections v2.0.1, users will have the ability to access:s Homepages Tag Cloud Supports Profile enhancementss Extended Dogear functionalitys Blogss Communitiess Activities
Client for IBM® Lotus® Connections® v2.0.1
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• Give your enterprise teams the freedom and flexibility of accessing their Quickr Places on the go – with BlackBerry the enterprise team can:s Navigate to & Select a Quickr place to view s View a document in a Quickr Places Send a link to a document in a Quickr
Place via emails Post received attachment to Quickr Place,
forward link via email
Client for IBM® Lotus® Quickr® v1.0
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What We’ll Cover …
• BlackBerry in the Enterprise• The BlackBerry Enterprise Server• Our Collaboration Clients• Enterprise Architecture & Deployment• Questions
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Wireless Networks
Corporate Firewall
BlackBerry Enterprise
Server
Application Servers and Databases
Messaging Servers
BlackBerry Infrastructure
(BBI)
BlackBerry Enterprise Architecture
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• Social Networking Application Proxy (SNAP)• Server Component – sits between BES & Social
Networking servers Provides push capabilities to enhance
performances “Slims down” data from Atom & RSS Feeds
commonly used by social networking servicess Single Gateway for multiple social networking
services to enhance control and ease deployment• Securable/controllable by enterprises Manageable like EIM clients
• Allows for heterogeneous environments
SNAP
API Connection
API Connection
IBM Lotus Connections
Server
BlackBerry Enterprise
Server
BlackBerry Enterprise Architecture for Collaboration
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• Easy deployment options for the administrators Hosting via browsers Pushing via Software Configurations User invite – Lotus Connections
Ñ If someone is already using Connections, they can invite someone else to participate
Ñ Option will be configurable by the administrator*• Service inheritance*s Users will only “see” the services/features enabled on the
enterprise serverÑ If an organization has not enabled the Communities
service on their Lotus Connections server, for example, the user will not see the Communities icon on their BlackBerry Client
*Features slotted for follow-up service pack
For the Administrators
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• Site Rendering/Standards Support Improvements
• Add Partial HTML 5, Partial CSS 3.0, JavaScript 1.6, and SVG Tiny 1.1 Support
• Support for BlackBerry “Widgets”• Java Applications that can leverage
the BlackBerry “BrowserField” API• Google Gears Support• Support more powerful web-based
applications with local storage and interaction
* Requires 5.0 Device Code
For the Developers
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• For Java developers who develop applications using the Eclipse IDE
• The powerful features of the BlackBerry JDE within the popular Eclipse IDE
• Simplifies wireless development for developers new to mobile application development
• Create superior mobile applications that leverage the unique strengths of BlackBerry
• An end-to-end set of tools for coding and testing Blackberry applications
For the Developers (cont…)
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• The BlackBerry® development platform works well with IBM® technologies since both support industry standards. IBM’s middleware expertise combined with the BlackBerry solution’s mobile application potential are a perfect match.
• IBM’s application suite has already been extended to BlackBerry smartphones in numerous mobile applications. Extensions have included:s WebSphere Application Servers WebSphere Portal
For the Developers & WebSphere
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The BlackBerry Certification Program
• Designed to validate the skills and knowledge of BlackBerry products and services for a variety of job roles
• There are no training prerequisites or requirements to write BlackBerry certification exams
• All BlackBerry certification exams are delivered via Prometric testing centers globally www.prometric.com/blackberry
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The BlackBerry Certification Program
Current exam offerings include:s BCP-411 Maintaining a BlackBerry Enterprise Server in an IBM Lotus Domino
Environment
s BCX-611 Designing and Deploying a BlackBerry Solution in an IBM Lotus Domino Environment
s BCX-222 Supporting a BlackBerry Enterprise Server version 5.0 in an IBM Lotus Domino Environment **IamLUG attendees – email [email protected] for a voucher to attempt this beta exam for free!!**
• For more information on the BlackBerry Certification Program please visit: www.blackberry.com/certification