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Research in Motion recently introduced BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express (BESX), featuring NO COST server software and CAL licenses while delivering the core connectivity, protection, and administration functions of BlackBerry Enterprise Server such as wireless synchronization and mobile availability of data and applications. But the price cuts don't end at free server software and Client Access Licenses (CALs). Customers also get the option to select the BIS wireless data plan instead of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server wireless data plan, saving your business up to $20 a month for each of your BlackBerry clients!

BlackBerry BES Server Express can be installed directly on a Microsoft Exchange or SBS server, which can handle up to 75 clients, or on a stand-alone server to support up to 2,000 users. RIM BlackBerry BES Server Express is ideal for small- and medium-sized businesses who until now could not afford connecting their workers' BlackBerry smartphones to the corporate IT system.

The Express edition of BlackBerry BES does not provide high availability, system monitoring, SQL database mirroring, or desktop phone/PBX support and reduces the available IT polices from 450 to 35. In addition, BIS data plan users will be required to perform the first wired enterprise activation to connect to the BES. After that they will have the full BlackBerry mobile email and organizer data environment which includes scheduling, contacts, tasks, and notes. Users with the BES data carrier plan can still enterprise activate their BlackBerry smartphones over the air.

How Progent's BlackBerry Certified Experts Can Help You with Your Mobility Environment
Progent offers a variety of IT support services to help you to integrate BlackBerry BES Express and other BlackBerry technologies. Progent can assist your IT staff to resolve synchronization problems, implement wireless administration services, configure desktop software, set up and validate backup/restore procedures, add or remove BlackBerry smartphones on Microsoft Exchange Server and Active Directory, and configure Virtual Private Network connections. For large-scale wireless integration jobs, Progent's BlackBerry engineers can team with Progent's Microsoft IT experts, Cisco CCIE engineers, and CISSP-ISSIP and GIAC-certified Security professionals. This broad selection of IT skills, provided via Progent's efficient online consulting, reduces IT support expenses and promotes rapid and successful solutions for small businesses who need to integrate BlackBerry technology seamlessly into their information network.

Progent's technology experts can also can help your business with SQL setup and Microsoft Exchange management to make sure that your and email infrastructure operate effectively with BES Server Express. Progent can in addition help your business to migrate from older releases of RIM BlackBerry and Microsoft platforms, set up streamlined administration tools so you can track and manage BlackBerry devices across your company, and develop a sound security strategy that includes BlackBerry clients. Progent's business continuity consultants can help your business to define, institute, and test business continuity processes to ensure that BlackBerry data can be preserved and mobile operations can be rapidly restored in the event of a major datacenter breakdown.

Progent's BlackBerry Certifications
Progent's BlackBerry-certified consultants are experts at helping small organizations plan, manage, and troubleshoot BlackBerry technology affordably and effectively, reducing the cost and hassle of maintaining a mobile workforce and promoting better business results. Progent's experts have earned all major BlackBerry certifications including BlackBerry Certified Support Specialist, BlackBerry Certified Server Support Specialist, BlackBerry Certified System Administrator, and BlackBerry Certified Solution Designer.

Contact Progent to Get Assistance from a RIM BlackBerry-Certified Specialist
To get in touch with Progent about professional assistance for BlackBerry mobile wireless solutions, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.