RIM Announces BlackBerry Management Center For Small Business

By Mauricio

RIM today announced the BlackBerry Management Center (BMC), a free online service for small businesses that lets you manage BlackBerry smartphones in the cloud. As a small business that uses BMC you can protect business-related content and minimize risk from lost or stolen handsets with the following options:

• Wirelessly back up BlackBerry smartphones automatically on a daily, weekly or monthly basis to aid in the recovery of lost business-related content stored on thehandset
• Protect content on an employee’s lost or stolen BlackBerry smartphone by remotely locking it and, if necessary, wiping the contents, including the microSDcard
• Locate a lost BlackBerry smartphone by remotely locking it, initiating a loud ring, and displaying a message on the Home screen
• Easily restore the settings and content on a new or replacement device

For more info go to blackberry.com/managementcenter or check out the press release below.

Press Release

Free Online Service Helps Small Businesses Centrally Manage and Protect BlackBerry Smartphones in the Cloud

Waterloo, ON – Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced BlackBerry® Management Center – a free online service* for small businesses to centrally manage company- or employee-owned BlackBerry® smartphones in the cloud and protect business-related content stored on the handsets. The service is designed for businesses with up to 100 BlackBerry smartphones that access email services from an Internet service provider (ISP) or web-based email services like Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo!.

“We are pleased to introduce RIM’s latest cloud service designed specifically for small businesses,” said Alan Panezic, Vice President, Enterprise Product Management at Research In Motion. “BlackBerry Management Center is a free service and an effective way to manage and support employees’ BlackBerry smartphones in the cloud.”

BlackBerry Management Center makes it easy to manage company- or employee-owned smartphones in the cloud, and helps to minimize risk from lost or stolen handsets to keep business moving forward. Small businesses can use the service to:

• Wirelessly back up BlackBerry smartphones automatically on a daily, weekly or monthly basis to aid in the recovery of lost business-related content stored on thehandset
• Protect content on an employee’s lost or stolen BlackBerry smartphone by remotely locking it and, if necessary, wiping the contents, including the microSDcard
• Locate a lost BlackBerry smartphone by remotely locking it, initiating a loud ring, and displaying a message on the Home screen
• Easily restore the settings and content on a new or replacement device

BlackBerry Management Center is available today at www.blackberry.com/managementcenter.

* Subject to availability and local regulatory restrictions.