RIM’s – BlackBerry Management Center [Free BES-Lite]

As I’ve explained in my previous Post about the BlackBerry Smartphone service overview & it’s features. Just go through the thread to get an idea on this service. Since, BlackBerry has become another giant service with secured features, most of the Corporate services are been using this so called, BES. BlackBerry Enterprise Service (BES), is an enterprise enabled service which allows to use corporate e-mails via the users respective company. In the mean while user can benefit Internet, E-mail, Streaming & Blackberry IM service.. etc. These users device will be completely secured & handled by their respective IT or any other divisions.

This service cannot be used by other Small/Medium Corporate clients who consider the service, cost which is involved are not affordable. Therefore, RIM (Research In Motion) came up with a solution by introducing “BlackBerry Management Center” with BES-Lite service. Moreover, this is provided free for the suitable corporates who roll with 3 to 100 employees as I believe. And it’s been release today with all the due features mentioned within that.

As per TechCrunch, BMC (BlackBerry Management Center) is meant for small businesses with between 3 and 100 BlackBerry-toting employees itching for a good (and free!) way to manage all those devices. It only supports email service hosted by ISPs and the usual complement of webmail services (think Gmail, Yahoo!, and the like) out of the gate, so those firms that shelled out the dough for an Exchange server need not apply.

BlackBerry’s “BES-lite” management service gives beleaguered IT staff a full set of BlackBerry superpowers, from the mundane (reset a password, restoring settings and data to different devices) to the mission-critical (remotely locking/wiping devices, scheduling wireless backups). All this can be handled by way of a simple interface that RIM assures us “requires little or no technical skills to use,” which would lower the bar for effective device management and presumably make a small business’s single IT guy less likely to yank their hair out.

As a free service, BlackBerry Management Center is likely to pick up a lot of traction among the small businesses RIM is targeting. It’s a win-win, with SMBs getting a a full-featured new tool to add to the IT arsenal, and RIM getting in on the ground floor with businesses that may well grow to the size that they’re used to accommodating.

[box] More info: BlackBerry Management Center & TechCrunch [/box]