Features
Enterprise Instant Messaging
With the full BlackBerry Enterprise Server™ v4.1*. Enterprise Instant Messaging is available so you can collaborate with colleagues just as quickly and effectively on the move as on your desktop.
* Not available with BlackBerry® Professional Software
There's all these benefits:
- You get the same instant messaging experience when you're on the move so it's easy to use
- You can initiate and manage Group Chat on the handheld device
- Presence indicates when a user is on a mobile device (or away, busy, at lunch etc.)
- Automatic presence management when out of coverage
- A Buddy List which is synchronised with the enterprise instant messaging server
- Alerts when a team member becomes available
- Uses AES encrypted transport, so messages are just as secure as BlackBerry emails
- Instant Messaging on your BlackBerry®, which is fully integrated with other device features
- Distinct alert profile for instant messages
- Phone calls or browser sessions which can be initiated directly from phone numbers or URLs embedded in instant messages
- All the main Enterprise Instant Messaging solutions are supported
- IBM® Lotus® Sametime
- Microsoft Windows® Messenger / Live Communications Server 2005
- Novell® GroupWise® Messenger
To use Enterprise Instant Messaging with BES 4.1 you need your BlackBerry smartphone to be running handheld software - version 4.1 or higher.
