Blackberry Smartphones are among the most preferred Business Phones . People love the email functionality offered by a Blackberry . However, the fact is that majority of Blackberry users ( almost 90%) use only the B Blackberry Internet Service – BIS for short . While BIS works well, what can add HUGE value to Blackberry usage is if users shift from BIS to BES which is Blackberry Enterprise Services .

With BIS,what you get is a synced Inbox.With BES,in addition to your inbox,even Sent items,Calendar, Contacts,Tasks,Notes are synced wirelessly.

So, imagine you get a call from a new contact.You save that contact on your phone.Within seconds,this contact gets auto-synced with your Outlook contacts in your PC. If you add this contact's email address in the Outlook of your PC, this will appear in seconds on your Blackberry.Absolute Magic !

Some of the features available in BES ( and not in BIS)  are listed below :    

• Highly secure push-based HTML corporate email - connected to your work email account .
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  Synced inboxes (i.e., email deleted from work Outlook account are also deleted from your BlackBerry smartphone – no need to manage 2 inboxes).
• Ability to flag emails for follow-up from your BlackBerry smartphone .
• Search your desktop inbox for messages from your BlackBerry smartphone .
• Set up out of office replies from your BlackBerry smartphone .
• Access and update important notes and tasks .
• Edit Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® Excel® and Microsoft® PowerPoint® files on your BlackBerry smartphone using Documents To Go® .

• Wireless address lookup (changes to your corporate address book are reflected almost immediately on your BlackBerry smartphone) .
• Synchronization between your desktop address book and your BlackBerry smartphone address book (that means when you add a contact to one, it is automatically updated in the other) .

• Access to your corporate intranet.
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  Remote file access – access your corporate documents and network drives from your BlackBerry smartphone.

• Blackberry Balance Technology allows usage of Blackberry Device for Corporate as well as Personal use.
• Corporate IT can centrally manage Users and Groups.
• Blackberry devices can be centrally managed including reset passwords, remotely wipe data, etc.
• Over 75 IT Policies can be applied.  

If your Email system is not MS Exchange , then it may be a good idea to consider a switch to MS Exchange . Besides the rich functionality of BES, you will also get a host of other features  which will raise the productivity of all users . We can offer MS Exchange for a single Professional and go up to Enterprises with hundreds of Users. To know more about MS Exchange , please click here .

Useful Links:

• Email
• MS Exchange
• Video on Understanding MS Exchange