Desperately seeking Blackberry Enterprise Server value
March 19th, 2009
Jay Rollins has written a great article over on the techrepublic.com blog about the comparison between Microsoft Exchange and Blackberry. He is considering the pros and cons of the solutions as well as the devices connecting to both platforms. For Exchange he considered both iPhone and Windows Mobile.
His conclusion is one that many customers seem to be coming to:
“I’m finding it very difficult to justify the $10k spend. With Windows Mobile and iPhone, you don’t need additional hardware or have to pay separate licensing costs.”
You can read the entire article HERE
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It’s unfortunate that you still keep pushing this fallacy that a BlackBerry solution is more expensive than an Exchange ActiveSync proposition …
Where to start?? .. compare apples to apples .. both need Exchange (given if Microsoft environment), but BES doesn’t need any additonal firewall capabilites, whereas, who in their right mind would employ Activesync (excellent though it is) without an ISA Server (or alternative) and some management capabilities (Mobile Device Manager is not free and is needed to do exactly what BES does). Unfortunatley, this is where sites such as this (which I as a neutral love to read) lose their credibility.
I still think thhat there are plenty of situations where both Activesync and BlackBerry enabled devices are preferred and the exact requirement shoudl always be judged on the needs of the business and TCO.
I’ve setup both Exchange ActiveSync environments and BES (almost 300 to date).. BES upgrades should only ever take 3 hours (per BES). Any more and the engineer or supplier used is a waste of time and money. The upgrade only costs £840 ($1000 for a heck of alot of additional features .. remember there are no freebies from microsoft either unless they are trying to shaft the competition. $10k for the upgarde mentioned in the article is a complete ripoff and personally I would seek a new telecoms provider that provides more realistic pricing.
Jason .. I thought that you had got over this hatred for the competition when you moved to this new site and decided to concentrate on all that is great about microsoft handsets and applications.
Just my tuppence worth.. apologies for the spelling
BUT, BES or BIS, either way, means a higher mobile phone bill for a “Blackberry data plan” versus just a regular data plan. And oh yeah, the only network that I have to worry about being up is my own, not RIM’s.
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You’re right if all you’re talking about is e-mail and PIM sync. The value add in the BlackBerry platform is that you have many more features that are offered by the BES for enterprise
1) Ability to push software updates from the BES to handhelds
2) You can now wirelessly update firmware on BlackBerry handsets
3) IT policies (if you’re a security conscious company there’s really no competition)
4) The ability to abstract your messaging solution, if your CEO decides hey screw MS, I came from a lotus shop and that’s what we’re going to do, with a BES you can make that transition less painful
5) Reporting capabilities much better than Exchange 2003 (don’t know what 2007 brings)
You can debate whether there’s value in the items I mentioned above, but you can’t deny they exist.
@Jason Head
The BIS data plan costs exactly the same as a regular unlimited data plan. If you’re talking about enterprise data that is the same as well at least within the US.
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