RIM Announce MDM Product

RIM the Canadian mobile company and makers of the BlackBerry™ range of devices announced last week its intention to introduce a new mobile device management product, BlackBerry Mobile Fusion. The new product is targeted at BlackBerry users that also want to manage smartphones or tablets running Apple’s iOS or Android.

RIM will have its work cut out trying to enter an increasingly crowded market and it may not be as appealing, even to BlackBerry users as one might think. The key issue here is that the new system will not actually do anything to integrate the user’s backend email and collaboration system for other mobile devices. Users will not be able to access their BlackBerry encrypted mail using any of these other devices. Corporate users will need to use Microsoft’s ActiveSync to connect to Exchange and rely on the native device operating systems for any security and encryption.

RIM’s Market Position

Will this help RIM’s standings in the market? I think not and with losses mounting over the company’s PlayBook fiasco it’s hard to see anything but further decline in RIM’s fortunes. As the Guardian’s columnist  Charles Arthur said today “Either way, the numbers say RIM isn’t long for this world if it doesn’t shape up.“.

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