blackberry 10 enterprise development

2014-06-28 Taiwan BlackBerry Developer Group

BlackBerry Enterprise Development

Simon HSU!@cksimon!bsebadmin@gmail.com!!BlackBerry Elite!Certified Cascades Dev & Trainer

Introduction❖ How’s BlackBerry? How are you?!

❖ What’s the BlackBerry Enterprise Development?!

❖ Summary

How’s BlackBerry❖ Focus on Enterprise Market, but keep maintain

consumer side!

❖ License Amazon AppStore for entertainment apps!

❖ BlackBerry World will focus on native utilities and applications for enterprise.!

❖ Good news! Profit in 2014 Q1!!

BYOD❖ BYOD has taken the world by storm!

❖ We all know it and have to embrace it!

❖ But what did MDM get us? ….email

NOW WHAT?❖ Managing devices is trivial!

❖ Enterprise grade applications are challenging!

❖ New acronyms and technologies are emerging (cloud, MDM, MAM, Big Data etc.)!

❖ What steps need to be taken?

THE FACTS…❖ Tons of desktop applications!

❖ Data is behind the firewall!

❖ These apps run your business!

❖ They need to go mobile!

❖ Make your investments future proof to go well beyond email only

BlackBerry Enterprise Development❖ MDM - Mobile Device Management!

❖ FOUR PILLARS FOR CORPORATE DEVELOPERS!

❖ Connectivity!

❖ Notifications / Push !

❖ Application Management!

❖ Standards

Connectivity- BlackBerry Connection Service

❖ VPN issues!

❖ VPN User and credential management!

❖ VPN configuration management!

❖ User support for the VPN configuration!

❖ Dropped connections!

❖ Additional cost of extra VPN licenses!

❖ Information risk of non-corporate applications gaining VPN access!

❖ Insecure and unmanaged end points gaining unrestricted access

Connectivity- BlackBerry Connection Service

❖ BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 solves the Mobile VPN issue!

❖ Traditional VPN technology was not designed for Mobile!

❖ With secure containers, iOS and Android devices can leverage the same secure VPN as BlackBerry smartphones

Notifications/Push - BlackBerry Push Service

❖ Near real-time notifications!

❖ Guaranteed delivery and acknowledgement!

❖ Offline capabilities!

❖ Notice!

❖ App must be installed in the workspace!

❖ App must run at least one time to register itself.

Notifications/Push - BlackBerry Push Service

❖ What can push do?!

❖ Modifying the Application icon!

❖ Playing a custom sound.!

❖ Vibrating the BlackBerry!

❖ Illumination of the notification LED!

❖ Adding a custom notification to the BlackBerry Hub

Application Management - Software Distribution

❖ Enterprise App Store!

❖ Internal vs. Cloud Application Access!

❖ Pushed and Mandatory Apps!

❖ Lifecycle Management!

❖ Enterprise Grade Control

Standards - Cross-platform development

❖ Giving developers options is as important as allowing end users to choose their devices!!

❖ Choosing the right app development path is key to delivering on cross platform enterprise applications

Standards - Cross-platform development❖ APP DEVELOPMENT!

❖ Native Applications for BlackBerry, iOS and Android!

❖ HTML5 Supported on all platforms!

❖ Cross Platform Tools Supported!

❖ Appcelerator!

❖ Sencha!

❖ Marmalade!

❖ +Many others!

❖ All Managed though BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10

Summary❖ Users need more then just email!

❖ Freedom of choice is essential!

❖ Future proof your investments!

❖ Simplify to quickly enable

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