Availability
of BlackBerry’s multi-OS EMM platform in Microsoft Azure Marketplace extends secure
mobility and collaboration capabilities to more organizations in the cloud
Barcelona,
Spain/Waterloo, Ontario – February 24, 2016 – BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ: BBRY; TSX: BB), a global leader in secure
mobile communications, today announced Microsoft customers now have access to
BlackBerry’s secure enterprise mobility solutions in the open, flexible, enterprise-grade
cloud computing platform Microsoft Azure.
Enterprises can opt to install and manage their BES12 deployment through
the Azure platform. This means customers have full access to their BES12 licenses
while benefiting from the Microsoft cloud architecture – without having to
invest in their own IT infrastructure. BlackBerry and Microsoft complement
their best-in-class security capabilities in this combined offering. BES12 is designed
with the compliance needs of the most strictly regulated industries in mind,
while Azure places an emphasis on the customer’s security and control over
their own data. BES12 is part of the recently announced Good Secure
EMM Suites and BlackBerry will continue to introduce other products in the Good
Suites to Azure.
In the
coming months, BlackBerry and Microsoft will
also add the network crisis communication solution from AtHoc into the Microsoft
Azure Marketplace. AtHoc enables people, devices and organizations to exchange critical
information in real time during business continuity and life safety operations.
The integration into the Azure Marketplace will further extend the AtHoc
software platform globally, enabling crisis communications networks in the
cloud for customers and helping them to address their local privacy concerns
and regulations.
“By 2017,
approximately 75% of EMM solutions will be deployed in the cloud, with
on-premise solutions mostly reserved for legacy installations. Further, high
capability EMM installations beyond simple mobile device management will
represent 50% of deployments, up from 25% in 2014. This reflects the ease of
enabling higher end capabilities like file management, app stores, single sign
on and data security when provisioned by cloud-based Software as a Service
(SaaS) systems,” according to Jack Gold from analyst firm J. Gold Associates
LLC.
“Working with
Microsoft enables BlackBerry to provide our industry-leading enterprise
software solutions to a larger business audience,” said Marty Beard, COO at
BlackBerry. “By utilizing BlackBerry’s enterprise solutions through the
Microsoft Azure cloud platform, customers have greater choice, more flexibility
and the ability to reduce IT costs – backed by the gold standard in security,
privacy and productivity.”
“We are
excited to have customers advance their business while protecting IP and
customer data with BlackBerry´s multi-OS EMM platform BES12 on the Microsoft
Azure platform,” said Steve Guggenheimer, Corporate Vice President, Developer
Experience & Evangelism and Chief Evangelist, Microsoft Corp.
BlackBerry
and Microsoft will continue to collaborate to bring more integrated solutions
for customers. Many organizations that run BlackBerry´s secure enterprise
solutions also deploy Microsoft solutions. Those customers will start to see
additional synergies as they mobilize BlackBerry solutions through the Microsoft
Azure platform.
Find out
more about BlackBerry in Microsoft Azure at
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