HP is working withResearch In Motion(RIM) to deliver a
portfolio ofbusiness mobility products for enterprise
usersbased on the BlackBerry
platform.
The two companies will work on providing
BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 to businesses. This enables
Blackberry users to send and receive e-mail from their devices. The
two companies said they would focus on increasing service levels,
reducing operations costs and improving productivity for
customers.
Ann
Livermore, executive vice-president at the Technology Solutions
Group of HP said: "Emerging models of communications and
collaboration have created an opportunity for RIM and HP to provide
service-based mobile solutions that deliver value to
customers."
Jim
Balsillie, co-chief executive officer at Research In Motion,
said businesses will be offered a set of applications and services
for the BlackBerry smartphone.
HP also is introducing software to centrally monitor and manage
BlackBerry devices, servers and applications, including the
BlackBerry Enterprise Server software, mail servers, databases,
Microsoft Active Directory and server operating systems such as
Windows Server. Plans also include extending the capabilities of
the monitoring product support management of enterprise
applications running on the BlackBerry platform.