Trusted Source Turns to BlackBerry for Next Generation Secured Enterprise Mobility Platform

Source: BlackBerry - Press Releases - November 18, 2014 

Trusted Source Turns to BlackBerry for Next Generation Secured Enterprise Mobility Platform 

First BES12 customer in Asia selects BlackBerry for cross-platform secured mobility capabilities

Singapore  – BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ: BBRY; TSX: BB), a global leader in mobile communications, today announced that Trusted Source, a member of Temasek Management Services Group, is embracing the new BES12™: a cross-platform EMM solution by BlackBerry®.

BES12, which can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud, is the foundation for a new generation of enterprise security, productivity, and communication and collaboration services that will help organizations securely connect employees with content, apps, devices and machines.  BES12 provides expanded enterprise mobility management capabilities that can manage any mobile deployment model such as BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), COPE (Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled) and COBO (Corporate Owned, Business Only), and leverages BlackBerry’s trusted global infrastructure. The BES12 platform seamlessly supports iOS®, Android™, Windows Phone, BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry OS.

As a company that continues to progress and evolve with its customers’ secured mobility platform needs in mind, Trusted Source has decided to adopt BES12. “We wanted to invest in an enterprise mobility platform that securely manages mobility today, and in a future that will see a continued proliferation of connected devices,” said Mr. Quah Siew Heng, Chief Executive Officer of Trusted Source‎. “BES12 offers us the scale we require, and an innovative roadmap that will future proof our enterprise mobility investment.”

“Customers such as Trusted Source recognize the advantage of having an integrated solution, which combines world-class security, ease-of-use, unparalleled productivity and cost effectiveness,” said Cameron Vernest, Managing Director of Singapore for BlackBerry. BES12 simplifies the task of mobilizing an organization by providing a single command and control center for managing the availability and usage of devices, apps, activities and mission-critical data. The breadth of capabilities offered by BES12 is what companies such as Trusted Source are looking for.”

BlackBerry was named a Leader and achieved the top score in EMM strategy in the Forrester Wave: Enterprise Mobile Management, Q3 2014*. As the leading EMM provider, BlackBerry customers include all G7 governments, 16 of the G20 governments, 10 out of 10 of the largest global enterprises in each of the pharmaceutical, law firm and automotive industries, and the top five largest oil and gas companies in the world.

For more information about BES12, visit www.blackberry.com/bes12.

*Forrester Research, Inc. " The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Mobile Management, Q3 2014, " by Christian Kane and Tyler Shields, September 30, 2014.

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