BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 launched by RIM

Research In Motion (RIM) has announced the availability of BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365. It is a new service for business and government organizations that extends Microsoft Exchange Online to BlackBerry smartphones and allows users to manage their BlackBerry deployments in the cloud. The service is available at no additional charge to current medium-sized or enterprise subscribers of the Office 365 suite or standalone Exchange Online and works with BlackBerry smartphones on business or consumer data plans.

For those of you who are new to the BlackBerry Business Cloud Services, it offers advanced administration and flexible smartphone self-service features to support an organization's BlackBerry deployment in the cloud. The service features wireless synchronization with Microsoft Exchange Online email, calendar and organizer data from a BlackBerry smartphone. With BlackBerry Balance technology, you get a unified view of work and personal content on a BlackBerry smartphone while keeping the content separate and secure. There's an intuitive web-based console for IT administrators to provision, manage and secure BlackBerry smartphones from anywhere.

BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 also includes online access to employee self-service smartphone security functions, allowing users to easily reset a device password or remotely lock or wipe a device in the event of loss or theft. Managed service providers, systems integrators, carriers, resellers and other partners can also use the cloud service to manage BlackBerry deployments on behalf of their customers.

BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 is available in over 50 countries. You can go to www.blackberry.com/cloudservices for more information.