Tell you how to do BlackBerry Enterprise Development

1. 2014-06-28 Taiwan BlackBerry Developer Group
BlackBerry Enterprise
Development
Simon HSU!
@cksimon!
bsebadmin@gmail.com!
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BlackBerry Elite!
Certified Cascades Dev & Trainer

2. Introduction
❖ How’s BlackBerry? How are you?!
❖ What’s the BlackBerry Enterprise Development?!
❖ Summary

3. 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!!

4. BYOD
❖ BYOD has taken the world by storm!
❖ We all know it and have to embrace it!
❖ But what did MDM get us? ….email

5. 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?

6. 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

7. BlackBerry Enterprise Development
❖ MDM - Mobile Device Management!
❖ FOUR PILLARS FOR CORPORATE DEVELOPERS!
❖ Connectivity!
❖ Notifications / Push !
❖ Application Management!
❖ Standards

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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.

11. 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

12. Application Management - Software Distribution
❖ Enterprise App Store!
❖ Internal vs. Cloud Application Access!
❖ Pushed and Mandatory Apps!
❖ Lifecycle Management!
❖ Enterprise Grade Control

13. 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

14. 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

15. Summary
❖ Users need more then just email!
❖ Freedom of choice is essential!
❖ Future proof your investments!
❖ Simplify to quickly enable
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