Saturday, March 19, 2011

New Cloud-Based BlackBerry Enterprise Service from RIM for Microsoft Office 365 Announced

Today Research In Motion (RIM) and Microsoft have entered into an agreement to make a new RIM-hosted BlackBerry -enterprise service available for Microsoft Office 365. The new RIM-hosted service will offer a feature set that is similar to BlackBerry  Enterprise Server Express, and will initially be available for Exchange Online for Office 365 on a subscription basis starting at $0 per user per month (plus a BlackBerry service plan). The service is expected to be available in closed beta in mid-2011.