Microsoft and BlackBerry team up to introduce BlackBerry Enterprise BRIDGE

Microsoft and BlackBerry today announced a strategic partnership with an aim to offer enterprises a solution that will make it easy to integrate BlackBerry’s expertise in mobility and security with Microsoft’s cloud and productivity products. Both the companies have teamed up to bring a new BlackBerry Enterprise BRIDGE solution which will provide a highly-secure way for their joint customers who includes world’s largest banks, healthcare providers, law firms, and central governments to use native Microsoft mobile apps from within BlackBerry Dynamics seamlessly. This solution ensures that enterprise users will now have a consistent experience when opening, editing, and saving a Microsoft Office 365 file such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Word on any iOS or Android device. It also lets users work anytime, anyplace, with rich file fidelity. On the other hand, corporate IT departments benefit with the added assurance that their company’s data and privacy is secured to the highest standards. The companies also said that BlackBerry Secure platform for connecting people, devices, processes and systems is integrated with the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. BlackBerry UEM Cloud, BlackBerry Workspaces, BlackBerry Dynamics, and BlackBerry AtHoc are now available on Azure. Commenting on the partnership, Carl Wiese, president of Global Sales at BlackBerry said: BlackBerry has always led the market with new and ...