The BlackBerry 10 Ready Program offers everything you need to become BlackBerry 10 ready, all in one place. It’s a one-stop-shop for businesses large and small to take advantage of resources, offers, and promotions to get up and running with BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 and BlackBerry 10 smartphones. We’ve worked to uncover what challenges you may face in transitioning, and to make it as simple and cost effective as possible.

The program includes a BlackBerry 10 Ready Offer (currently North America only), the BlackBerry Enterprise Server License Trade Up, BlackBerry 10 Readiness Services, and a BlackBerry 10 Ready Webcast Series. Today I’d like to shine a spotlight on some incredible webcasts that are available on-demand to help get you up to speed on the knowledge that you need to refine your mobile strategy. Check out a few of the webcasts below:

• The BlackBerry Enterprise Vision and Roadmap
• Enterprise security capabilities of BlackBerry 10
• Doing More with Enterprise Applications and BlackBerry 10
• BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10: The Smart Choice for Multi-Platform BYOD
• BlackBerry 10 Ready Program: Making the Transition Seamless
• Getting Ready for BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10: Tips for the IT Manager
• Straight From the Source: BlackBerry Panel Answers Your Top BlackBerry 10 Questions
• How BlackBerry Technical Support Services are Evolving with BlackBerry 10
• TCO and Security of Enterprise Grade Mobility
• Top 10 Features of BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10
• BlackBerry Enterprise Server License Trade Up Program

Head over to www.blackberry.com/blackberry10ready to learn more, to trade up licenses, take advantage of the offers, evaluate the readiness services, and to see the full list of webcasts available. Have you taken advantage of the program? Share your experience in the comments below.

Early in December of 2012 we launched the BlackBerry 10 Ready Program to provide businesses around the globe with the tools, offers, and knowledge that they needed to prepare for BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10.

The program includes a free BlackBerry 10 smartphone offer with BES 10 installation and training courses, a license trade up program to help you seamlessly switch to BlackBerry 10 from prior BlackBerry smartphones, a webcast series, and BlackBerry 10 Readiness Services to provide you with a suite of support options for installation and upgrades.

With BlackBerry 10 launching around the world and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 available for download, let’s take a look at some of the progress so far.

• Over 4,400 businesses in North America have registered for the BlackBerry 10 Ready Offer alone, just one component of the BlackBerry 10 Ready program.
• The BlackBerry 10 Ready Webcast series has reached an audience of over 15,000 IT professionals and administrators
• The BlackBerry Experience Forum events are mid-way through their global tour to provide hands-on time with BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10, as well as access to BlackBerry staff and experts. Every event has been booked well over capacity. Join the conversation with us at @BlackBerry4Biz and use the hashtag #BEF13.

We’re excited about the significant momentum that we’re seeing here. Both our product portfolio and our company have been re-engineered and re-invented, and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. Don’t take my word for it, let’s look at what a few of your peers had to say:

Air Canada – “BlackBerry 10 helps meet our needs in that it delivers a new platform that brings the excitement and the energy that our employees are starting to expect from mobile devices.”

McCain Foods Ltd. – “First impressions of BlackBerry 10 is it’s very innovative and packed with lots of brand new features and functions that we’re going to take advantage of immediately.”

Ricoh Canada Inc. – “Data integrity has always been paramount for Ricoh IT, so the ability to achieve that is a tremendous plus for the BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 platform.”

We were able to hand deliver BlackBerry Z10 smartphones to the global IT and mobility leadership of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates law firm in New York City during the BlackBerry Technical Preview program. Check out their first look at the next generation mobile computing platform and the feedback that they had below:

And finally, Stephen Perciballi, Practice Lead for Security (and mobility) at Softchoice, was able to visit us here on BlackBerry campus and share his thoughts on BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 as a trusted advisor and provider of mobile technology to hundreds of clients. Read the full interview here on the Inside BlackBerry for Business Blog.

Has your business upgraded to BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 yet? If you have, we’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below. If you haven’t, let us help you get started!

Let me start by saying that I’m super excited that the new BlackBerry 10 Readiness Services which our team here in Enterprise Service Offer Product Management developed, are now available!

The BlackBerry 10 Readiness Services are a suite of migration services that were designed to help customers transition to BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 and BlackBerry 10, aligning to key IT project phases of Planning, Installation, Migration, Training and Ongoing support. Whether you are looking for a little help or a lot, our BlackBerry 10 Readiness Services will work to make your migration to BlackBerry 10 as seamless as possible.

With the recently launched BlackBerry 10 Ready program, RIM has provided an on-demand webcast series, a BlackBerry 10 Ready Offer, and we’re now launching the final aspects of the program; starting with the BlackBerry 10 Readiness Services.

Your migration, your choice – Introducing BlackBerry 10 Readiness Services

Ease your transition to the powerful new BlackBerry 10 mobile computing platform, with flexibility and a choice of services.

Change Management and Planning

When you choose this service, one of our BlackBerry experts will be assigned to help you along every step of the planning stages. It is perfect for organizations who have the internal knowledge to upgrade and migrate, but would like assistance planning the transition from BlackBerry Enterprise Server to BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10.

Change Management and Planning with Remote Installation

This service is ideal for organizations that would like assistance with both planning and executing the transition from BlackBerry Enterprise Server to BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10. It is delivered by one of our highly qualified Enterprise Solution Partners.

Change Management and Planning with Migration Services

If you are a large enterprise planning a phased roll out to BlackBerry 10, or you want to transition to BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 from another Enterprise Mobility Management solution then this service is right for you. It is delivered by one of our highly qualified Enterprise Solution Partners.

BlackBerry 10 Application Development Services

This end-to-end service will help you rewrite existing Java apps or develop new ones that will be compatible with BlackBerry 10 devices.

Training and Certification

Once you have your BlackBerry 10 environment in place, you’ll want your teams to confidently support it. That’s where our training and certification services come in. Available in instructor-led and web-based forms, they provide all the knowledge you need.

For more information here’s a brochure on the program. You can also visit the BlackBerry 10 Ready Program site or listen to the “How BlackBerry Technical Support Services Are Evolving with BlackBerry 10” webcast, which is part of the BlackBerry 10 Ready Webcast Series

Support services simplified: BlackBerry Technical Support Services (BTSS)

I’m also equally excited that with BlackBerry 10 coming, we took the opportunity to step back and see how we could enhance and simplify our flagship global enterprise support program – BlackBerry Technical Support Services.

We decided to streamline the program from 6 to 3 tiers, an update which is now available! We kept all of the good stuff and optional services, but added value at some tiers, simplified pricing, and added a bundle at Advantage, our mid-tier, to provide a higher support experience for those who choose it.

BTSS is now consolidated. There are 3 distinct levels. It’s easier to select the support that’s a perfect fit for your organization. There’s Basic, Advantage and Premium, for simplified decision-making and maximized value. It’s better than ever. (Just ask me!) Learn more about the new BlackBerry Technical Support Services today.

Getting direct support from the makers of BlackBerry makes good business sense. Here are some facts that make me smile:

• We have been providing strategic technical support to BlackBerry customers for over 10 years
• We support BlackBerry customers in over 90 countries
• We support over 30,000 active servers and 5.5 million active enterprise devices around the globe
• We provide support to 1,000+ device customers across diverse industries, including Health Care, Public Safety,Finance, Public Sector, Education and more

We work to help you maximize software uptime, to ensure that your BlackBerry Solution is used the way it’s designed, assist you in embracing new BlackBerry technology like BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 and BlackBerry 10 with upgrade planning and execution services, and give you self-service productivity tools in our BlackBerry Expert Support Center. And, all of this so that you can focus on what’s important to you – business productivity. That’s what it’s all about – BlackBerry Technical Support Services are here to help with the transition to BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10, and you can take advantage of our new BlackBerry 10 Readiness Services.

We’re ready when you are!

With the launch event scheduled for January 30th, 2013, BlackBerry 10 is now more anticipated than ever by business customers and individuals alike. While video sneak peeks, live demos of the platform, and developer events may serve to feed personal interest, businesses also have a need to get prepared for the new mobile computing platform within their organizations.

Many organizations have already set up BlackBerry Mobile Fusion along with BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5 in order to meet the BYOD challenge and manage cross-platform devices. We’ve also announced the upcoming BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10, which will bring with it the management capabilities for BlackBerry 10 devices.

Now we’re excited to announce the BlackBerry 10 Ready Program, which is designed to help prepare your business environment for the launch of BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10. We’ll help you transition – at your pace – to an environment that provides device management capabilities across multiple platforms and that includes both smartphones and tablets. The program will help you be ready for the future.

Components of the Program

Think of the BlackBerry 10 Ready Program as a toolkit with options available for you to learn about what BlackBerry 10 has to offer, where to start, how to leverage what you already have, and be prepared for the new mobile computing landscape. The program is rolling out in stages, with the BlackBerry 10 Webcast Series and the BlackBerry 10 Ready Offer kicking off today. The BlackBerry 10 Readiness Services and the BlackBerry Enterprise Server License Trade Up offer will be available in the New Year prior to the launch of BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10.

BlackBerry 10 Webcast Series

These on-demand webcasts will help you keep on top of all of the latest info, as well as help paint a clear picture of the direction that we’re taking the BlackBerry enterprise portfolio of solutions. The first 4 are available today in the newly designed BlackBerry Resource Center:

• The BlackBerry Enterprise Vision and Roadmap
• Enterprise Security Capabilities of BlackBerry 10
• Doing More with Enterprise Applications and BlackBerry 10
• BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10: The Smart Choice for Multi-Platform BYOD

Additional webcasts will be announced on a regular basis and will continue to become available leading up to the launch of BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 and beyond. We’ll also be hosting Q&A panel webinars to make sure that you’re getting the information that you need – submit questions in advance to BlackBerryEnterpriseKnowledge@rim.com. For convenience, transcripts of the webinars will be available as a PDF.

BlackBerry 10 Ready Offer (NA Only)

Note: This component is currently only available for customers in North America with BlackBerry Technical Support at the Advantage level or higher. RIM will announce as the offer becomes available in additional countries.

This component of the BlackBerry 10 Ready Program is a straightforward three-step process to help get your IT department ready for action, with a free BlackBerry 10 device to boot (conditions apply – check out the web site for details). If you’ve got a BlackBerry Technical Support Services contract with RIM at the Advantage level or higher, simply register for the program, download and install BlackBerry Mobile Fusion within the promotional period, receive a free Client Access License (CAL), check out some online training modules, pass 3 tests to verify your knowledge, and get a free BlackBerry 10 device at launch*.

BlackBerry 10 Readiness Services, and BlackBerry Enterprise Server License Trade Up

These two components of the program will be available in the New Year to line up with the availability of BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10. More details will be available here on the Inside BlackBerry for Business Blog, and at the BlackBerry 10 Ready Program web site, so head over and check it out! Let us know if you have any questions in the comments.