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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 ( [email protected] )
http://www.linkedin.com/in/janguldentops
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