BlackBerry has announced that it would enable mobile device management (MDM) companies to directly manage devices with the BlackBerry 10 operating system. AirWatch, Citrix and IBM would be the first companies to work with BlackBerry to manage BlackBerry 10 devices. This move is to offer most open and flexible mobile environments for the BlackBerry customers.
BlackBerry launched BES10 and BBM for iOS and Android and also plans to launch both these on Windows Phone platform later this year. BlackBerry plans to introduce BES12 later this year that would also support wide range of OS such as iOS, Android, Windows, BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry OS. It would introduce multi-tenant cloud version of BES12.
Regarding the new service, Ron Louks, President of Devices and Emerging Solutions, BlackBerry, said
Offering the end-to-end secure solutions valued by our customers in government and other regulated industries remains central to our strategy; however BlackBerry understands the opportunity and importance of opening our BlackBerry 10 software. This is a natural next step in our enterprise strategy as we seek to provide our customers with maximum choice in how they will meet the full array of employee mobility needs.