BlackBerry has announced today that BES12, a cross-platform EMM solution includes support for Android 5.0 Lollipop.
Android is an important part of BlackBerry’s EMM ecosystem. Android smartphones and tablets are natively managed within the BES12 environment, which enables enterprises to provide users with a selection of devices from various mobile platforms, while streamlining management into a single command and control centre.
“Customers recognize the risks that mobility brings into their organization, and BES12 is the insurance policy that will protect their critical data while giving them the freedom to choose whichever platforms they prefer,” says Billy Ho, executive vice-president: Enterprise Product and Value Added Solutions at BlackBerry. “We are pleased to manage Android Lollipop through BES12, allowing enterprises to enable better productivity for their employees.”
BES12 provides expanded EMM capabilities that can manage any mobile deployment model such as BYOD, COPE and COBO, and leverages BlackBerry’s global infrastructure. The flexibility and scalability of the new BES12 architecture allows customers to transition to a cloud environment. BlackBerry has delivered on its commitment to provide on-premise and private cloud BES12 deployments, with the public cloud offering expected in early 2015.