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RIM To Offer Multiplatform Device Management

Posted by Soulskill on from the if-you-can't-beat-'em,-manage-'em dept.

Aryden sends this quote from an IDG News report: "Research In Motion is taking on mobile device management for Android and Apple iOS devices as well as its own products, introducing the BlackBerry Mobile Fusion product, on Tuesday. BlackBerry Mobile Fusion is designed to simplify the management of phones and tablets that run RIM's current BlackBerry OS and the emerging BBX platform, which is based on the QNX software that currently powers RIM's PlayBook tablet. But Mobile Fusion will also manage devices using the two biggest mobile OSs, Android and iOS."

3 of 55 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why would IT departments by bananaquackmoo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because you can manage multiple platforms from one place knowing one set of rules? I thought that would be obvious...

  2. Re:Why would IT departments by AdamJS · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's transitional (or rather, I assume, coexistent) software for businesses that are already using RIM's offerings. A gamble to keep them sort of under their same umbrella under the guise of "it's part of our overall cohesive ecosystem so it'll work better than option X."

  3. Re:Oh Dear by CohibaVancouver · · Score: 5, Informative

    So they're creating an alternative way of working with the iPhone? Oh man, apple lawsuit incoming.

    As of iOS 4.3, Apple has an extensible set of APIs that allow third-party applications to manage iDevice endpoints in the Enterprise (iPads / iPhones, even iPods). Apple refers to this as "MDM" (Mobile Device Management). There are already numerous players in this space.

    More here:

    http://www.apple.com/iphone/business/integration/mdm/

    So no, no lawsuit coming, particularly as Apple doesn't actually make these tools themselves.