BES 10 hosted/on prem

It looks like RIM is putting more and more information everyday about BlackBerry 10/Playbook 2.1 etc: They even launched a new website BlackBerry 10 It looks like BES 10 is going to be in two forms, one is going to be on premises, the other is going to be in a hosted model, similar to how Microsoft handles Office 365.

I am curious to see how they are going to integrate with Office365. So far it seems that MS has been less then willing to work with MDM players. Here is the policy guide/admin guide from RIM Admin Guide

APNS

Been working pretty heavily on APNS lately.

 

Learned some pretty interesting things about APNS

The flow of remote-notification data is one-way. The provider composes a notification package that includes the device token for a client application and the payload. The provider sends the notification to APNs which in turn pushes the notification to the device.

When it authenticates itself to APNs, a provider furnishes the service with its topic, which identifies the application for which it’s providing data. The topic is currently the bundle identifier of the target application on an iOS device.

 

Apple Documentation.

 

Really good diagram.

A remote notification from a provider to a client application

 

SCEP IPhone

Really impressed lately with Apple’s documentation, it use to be really bad… in fact it use to be just wrong, but they have really come a long way in gaining respect from the Enterprise field.

 

http://www.apple.com/iphone/business/it-center/

Mobile Iron

It seems to me that everyone is talking about Mobile Iron these days, they seem to be quickly becoming a defacto standard of MDM. I wonder when someone is going to buy them up.  I can’t see someone like Zenprise being bought up, and someone like Mobile Iron being allowed to lead the market from the Back

BlackBerry Fusion is BES10

So lately I’ve heard a lot of talk about BES 10.  I did some research, and it looks like BES 10 is just mobile fusion with BES 5.4 built into it.  They are going to rename mobile fusion to BES10 to remove the confusion.  So in the future it is going to look something like this.

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Mobile Fusion

So lately I’ve heard a lot of talk about BES 10. I did some research, and it looks like BES 10 is just mobile fusion with BES 5.4 built into it. They are going to rename mobile fusion to BES10 to remove the confusion. So in the future it is going to look something like this.

First impressions of AirWatch

Well recently I’ve been playing with Airwatch, and I have to admit, I am very impressed with the product.  It is incredibly easy to set up and the support team over there really has their act together.  More to follow..