BlackBerry on Thursday announced a portfolio of enterprise software and services that leverage our market-leading expertise in mobile security to launch related solutions for securing employees’ use of the cloud, managing their phone bills, and helping them collaborate in a mobile-first, cost-effective manner.
BlackBerry also announced several key alliances, including a partnership with traditional handset rival Samsung to enable our new BES12 enterprise mobility management platform to manage Samsung Galaxy devices running its secure flavor of Android, Samsung KNOX. BlackBerry Enterprise President John Sims (above left) discussed the deal with Samsung Vice-President of its KNOX Business Group, Greg Wade.
We also announced a partnership with Salesforce.com to promote productivity among government agencies.
Salesforce.com Executive Vice-President Vivek Kundra, who was a Federal CIO in the Obama administration, helped promote our alliance (below on left, with BlackBerry COO Marty Beard on the right).
The launch was heavily covered by the press…
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