You finally manage to find a taxi, but in the rush you've left the address of the meeting behind. Instead of calling the office and asking somebody to rifle though your diary, however, you can check it yourself using BlackBerry.
So you stay organised, even when you’re disorganised.
With BlackBerry, you can read, forward, reply, create and delete email messages when you're out of the office. And it's versatile enough to let you manage your Outlook contacts and calendar. Whether you use a corporate email system or have a personal internet-based account, a BlackBerry solution will make your business more productive.
BlackBerry Enterprise is a mobile email service designed for any business that has a Lotus Domino, Microsoft Exchange or Novell GroupWise email environment.
By providing wireless access to Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino information, it allows your staff to remotely check and update their email, calendar and contacts via BlackBerry - tasks that would previously have only been possible from a desktop PC.
The BlackBerry Web Client version can gather email from 10 different internet-based email accounts into one inbox, making it as simple as possible to keep in touch when you're on the move. And because each BlackBerry can be synchronised with a desktop PC, your contacts and calendar information go with you.
You can choose from a wide range of BlackBerry devices, with the latest models offering colour screens and mobile internet services.
Operating in a predominantly remote and rural region, Northumberland County Council's officers often have to make a long round-trip journey just to attend a short meeting. To reduce downtime and improve efficiency, they need to be able to stay in touch and do their jobs while they're away from their desks.
The first step was to recognise that staff productivity could be improved by providing access to effective mobile communications - especially email. As the council's mobile phone provider, Vodafone suggested BlackBerry as the most relevant solution.
The 'always' on push technology provides instant access to email, with no need to dial in and no modem to attach. Now officers can easily create, read and respond to email whenever necessary, improving their productivity and enabling business to be completed faster and more effectively. So when somebody is out on a 100-mile round trip just to get to a one hour meeting, being out of office for half a day no longer means being out of touch.
"We were interested in BlackBerry because we had more and more people away from their desks who needed access to email. It gives people the opportunity, for instance if they are sitting on a train to London, to actually respond to their colleagues and resolve issues as they arise."
Peter Gallon
Head of ICT
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