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RIM BlackBerry recently introduced BlackBerry BES Express, featuring NO COST software and Client Access Licenses (CALs) while delivering the basic connectivity, protection, and management functions of BlackBerry BES Server including wireless sync and mobile availability of files and programs. But the cost cuts don't end at free software and CALs. Customers now have the ability to select the BIS wireless data carrier plan rather than the BES data plan, saving your business up to $20 per month for every one of your BlackBerry clients!

RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express can be deployed directly on an Exchange or Small Business Server, which can handle up to 75 clients, or on a stand-alone server to support as many as 2,000 clients. RIM BlackBerry BES Server Express is ideal for small- and medium-sized organizations who before now could not financially justify integrating their workers' BlackBerry smartphones to their corporate IT system.

The Express edition of BlackBerry Enterprise Server does not offer high availability, monitoring, mirroring, or desk phone integration and limits the available policies from 450 to 35. In addition, BIS BlackBerry smartphone wireless data plan users will be required to execute the first direct-attached enterprise activation to integrate with the BES. Subsequently they will have the complete BlackBerry mobile email and organizer data experience including scheduling, address books, tasks, and notes. Users with the BES wireless data carrier plan can continue to enterprise activate their BlackBerry smartphones over the air.

How Progent's BlackBerry Experts Can Support Your Smartphone Environment
Progent provides a range of IT services to assist you to integrate BlackBerry BES Express and other BlackBerry technologies. Progent can assist you to fix synchronization issues, implement over-the-air administration capability, configure server and desktop software, set up and test backup/restore procedures, add or remove BlackBerry smartphones on Exchange Server and Windows Active Directory, and configure Virtual Private Network connections. For large-scale wireless infrastructure jobs, Progent's BlackBerry specialists can work with Progent's Microsoft certified IT experts, Cisco certified CCIE infrastructure experts, and GIAC and CISA-certified Security engineers. This broad selection of expertise, provided via Progent's efficient remote service delivery model, reduces IT service expenses and promotes rapid and successful solutions for businesses who need to incorporate BlackBerry technology smoothly into their IT network.

Progent's IT consultants can also can assist your business with Microsoft SQL Server integration and Microsoft Exchange management to make sure that your back-end database and email infrastructure work efficiently with BlackBerry BES Express. Progent can also assist your business to migrate from older editions of Blackberry and Microsoft platforms, set up easy-to-use management tools to help you track and manage BlackBerry devices throughout your company, and create a sound security plan that includes BlackBerry clients. Progent's business continuity specialists can help your business to define, institute, and validate workplace recovery processes to make sure that BlackBerry data can be preserved and mobile functions can be rapidly resumed in case of a major datacenter failure.

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.

Call or Email Progent to Get Help from a BlackBerry-Qualified Professional
In order to ask Progent about professional expertise for BlackBerry wireless integration, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.