Frank Castle

RIM: Are Enterprise Storm Clouds Brewing?

James you are so full of @#$# it's almost comical. I sure as heck hope no one on here even thinks a word of the crap you right is any reflection of enteprise mobility support. Have you even worked at a job that consisted of more than "Would you like frys with that?"

I could go through all your lies and crazy ranting but it's not even worth it.

The main article notes two things:

- Companies are looking to move to a personal liable model to avoid hardware / carrier plan expense.

- Companies are questioning if a BES solution is worth the expense.

1. Personal liable while it may save you some upfront money on cost opens your enterprise to a whole other set of risk factors you need to understand. I keep tabs on this in the fortune 100 vertical we are in and 1% are entertaining this model. It's a nightmare to support and your still liable for any data on the personal owned device - good luck with that. Any company with regulations to adhere to wants nothing to do with this model.

2. I'll admit BES has an expense but lets stop kidding ourselves that Exchange with ActiveSync is "free". You still have CAL expense and you have way less management (actually none other then enabled for EAS or not). and a handful of security policy. If you want to equal what BES provides for Blackberry you need to install a 3rd party solution like Trust Digital, Good, Mobile Iron which yes HAVE A CAL COST and considering your volume is 2x the cost of a BES CAL so where is this magical savings? Right its at all these companies that have no security standards, no compliance / risk management group that has a say on mobility usage etc. Please point me to that company as it must be a DREAM admin job.

Any company that is cutting cost by reducing mobile deployment is just short sighting their growth and workflow efficiency. White paper after white paper has shown how more production a mobile enable employee is and the cost benefit / ROI by supplying a mobile device. So you cut 100 devices this year .. you'll grow by 300 devices next year. It's 2009 mobility usage is not some CEO perk anymore - it has proven value and can be a competitive advantage.

Apple has had some of the worst security failures since I've been supporting mobility, They develop some have ass encryption standard that is worthless. They "fix" the encryption reporting to exchange 2007 and basically break all connectivity for any company that enforces this policy on anything less then a 3GS (Thanks for the heads up on that one Apple!)

The RIM NOC has been fine, Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) has had some outages due to upgrades but the NOC is still putting up four 9's .. I guess we can forgive Apple for the Mobile Me Failure for weeks and Google's outages though.