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The future is mobile ?!?Jan Guldentops

j@ba.be

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Who's BA / Better Access ?

One of the oldest Belgian Linux companies

° 1996, privately owned by its founders

Strong focus on building solutions / integration /

troubleshooting

4 area's

(virtual) infrastructure

Security

“Mac Guyver Projects”

BA Testlabs

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Strong strategic choices for

Open

Systems

Standards

Source

Partnerships

Red Hat Business Partner / Oracle Partner

Hardware : HP / SUN

Consultancy : BA often works as an OEM

Messaging : Zarafa / RIM

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First of all I have a

confession to make...

I never liked smartphones / PDA

Why ?

Did the basic phone functionality badly

Yuppies productivity is inversely proportional to their smartphone

battery

Took me 8 pda's / smartphones before I left old

faithfull Nokia behind and went for a Blackberry

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Divided market

Research-in-motion Blackberries

Apple's Iphone

1000 different windows mobile / CE / pocketpc

based systems

Andriod

Symbian – euh – Nokia

Palm, netbooks, others...

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Problems with smartphones

input / output

battery

connectivity

security

The question how to synchronise

Push / pull

multitude of products

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Security needs for a mobile

platform No recoverable data on the mobile device

Loss of a pda should not bring data leakage

Preferably a wipe function if the device is stolen / disappears

Strong authentication Users should authenticate before using the device

Weak: (userid/) password Strong: token

Secure datacommunication Using your own private network

Using a sort of vpn over a public network

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We choose Blackberry

Good phones, that work !

integrated solution end-2-end

Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES)

Excellent security with advanced features vpn between BB and BES

encrypted BB

Remote wipe

excellent input / output

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Integrate with zarafa

We use BES and zarafa for their mobile E-mail,

calenders, contacts.

This works with a number of caveats :

Some of them are BES problems others are Zarafa

problems

Certain calender update features and the sending

of attachments

All in all minor problems

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Obi4mail

We built a solution on this OBI4mail to open up

non-supported platforms to BB

We synchronise over open standards with the

existing platform to zarafa.

IMAP

Ical

LDAP

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Quick application / Intranet

rollout (OBI4web)

Forgotten feature of a BES is that you can

easily integrate the browser on the BB with

internal webapplications

Connect the BES to a proxy

do single signon

do secure communication

rewrite the webapplications on the fly

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Quick input applications

(OBI4forms)

Simple, easy to create forms on your BB

takes input from the user

takes input from the camera and / or gps

takes input from an EID-reader

collects data and sends them via e-mail in xml, csv

or pdf

we collect them and put them in a database

rollout a mobile application in minutes

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Questions, remarks,

projects?

Jan Guldentops ( j@ba.be )

http://www.linkedin.com/in/janguldentops