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No one likes to carry two devices, but this is the reality for many individuals. Moreover, this represents a higher than necessary cost overall where one smartphone could be used. “Sorry honey, I thought our anniversary was next week…I must have put that into my work phone” isn’t something that anyone wants to hear!

Leading IT departments understand and are beginning to address this frustration, because it also represents a cost saving opportunity for organizations. BlackBerry Balance allows for the consideration of stability and security, but also the need for work-life balance and productivity for mobile workers.

An example can be found with Indiabulls Financial Services Ltd., one of India’s leading non-banking financial companies. Indiabulls deployed BlackBerry® 7 OS smartphones integrated with BlackBerry Balance software, and allows for both work and personal use. The security of corporate data is paramount in the financial industry, but in managing the devices using BlackBerry Balance technology, the employees are able to enjoy consumer-oriented features and apps. Check out the full case study below:

Learn more on the BlackBerry Balance website, or check out more case studies like the Indiabulls example. Does your organization use BlackBerry Balance technology? What benefits has it provided? Share in the comments below.

Many organizations operate under unique regulations, particularly in the financial industry. It’s important to implement technology, tools, and systems with embedded solutions that enable you to meet these standards and requirements. To help you with this, we’ve published our second “CIO’s Guide” – this time on call recording with BlackBerry® smartphones in order to help manage risk and comply with regulations. Specifically, BlackBerry® Mobile Voice System™ (MVS) is highlighted as a solution designed to meet these needs, with a kicker of increasing productivity and cutting down on costs with features like a unified call experience across networks and Wi-Fi®.

In this guide, you’ll find:

• Call Recording for Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management
• Where do mobile communications fit?
• What does it mean for CIO’s?
• What are my mobile call recording options?
• MVS Only – Secure and Reliable BlackBerry Call Recording
• How it works
• Benefits of the BlackBerry MVS approach for call recording
• Useful Links

Check out the guide embedded below, and hosted on our BlackBerry SlideShare channel.

What are your business’s regulatory requirements? How have you used technology and mobility to help meet these needs and stay efficient? Share in the comments below.

Today we’ve published a guide designed for CIOs looking to streamline collaboration and communication within their organization. The contents include:

• Communications, Mobility, and the 21st Century Workplace
• What to Consider When Choosing a Mobile UCC Solution
• BlackBerry® Enterprise – the Nuts and Bolts
• Useful Links

Take a look at the guide below, hosted on our BlackBerry SlideShare™ channel.

How has your organization unified communication and collaboration? How is mobility involved in the process? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

Head over to www.blackberryworld.com to register, learn about the sessions that will be offered, see content from last year’s event, check out the sponsors, and much more.

Which reason is your favorite? Why will you be attending? Share in the comments below!

Read on to check out a whitepaper on this topic, hosted on our BlackBerry® SlideShare™ channel:

We’d love to hear your thoughts. Share them in the comments below and describe the ideal MDM solution!

In case you missed them when they were first published, check out our top 5 staff-picked blog posts from 2011 below:

• The Launch of Microsoft® Office® 365: A Cloud-based Solution for BlackBerry
• The Top Five Features of BlackBerry® 7 for Business Users
• The Introduction of BlackBerry® Mobile Conferencing
• BlackBerry® PlayBook™ for Business (Video)
• The Citrix® Receiver (Beta) for BlackBerry PlayBook

We were delighted to see these five posts in particular take off with views, conversation, and sharing over social media. Beyond individual blog posts, don’t forget to check out a few of the ongoing series that we also launched including Paul’s Challenge: BlackBerry PlayBook Edition (introduction, setting up a mobile office, presenting, and collaboration) as well as Marcy’s SMB Cloud Series on cloud storage, the mobile web, and accounting.

Don’t forget that we also launched a new BlackBerry for Business channel on SlideShare™, which has been a fantastic way to share slide decks and PDF’s on a wide variety of topics. Here are a few examples of popular presentations:

• Top 5 Reasons to Upgrade to BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0
• Introducing New BlackBerry® 7 OS Smartphones
• The BlackBerry for Business Story

If I’m mentioning SlideShare here, then I can’t forget to bring in the rest of the family: @BlackBerry4Biz on Twitter®, and our BlackBerry for Business discussion group on LinkedIn®.

At this point, we’ll be slowly shutting down a few aspects of the Inside BlackBerry for Business social media operation and leaving the office to spend some time with our families and loved ones over the holidays. We hope that you have a fantastic few weeks and a well-deserved break. We can already feel the energy and excitement building up for a huge year in 2012 – join us in kicking it off here on the Biz Blog in January.

Happy Holidays from the Research In Motion® (RIM®) Business Social Media team!

Check out the five reasons below in a PDF brochure!

BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 is an extremely robust and flexible solution, and we’ve made sure that upgrading takes as little time and effort as possible in order to minimize downtime. With all of the new features that bring ease of operations in your organization, upgrading should certainly be on your mind!

Is your business running BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0? Tell us your favorite feature in the comments!

A presentation that gives an overview of BlackBerry® Balance™ is now available for viewing on the SlideShare website! Take a look at the embedded presentation above, and head over to the BlackBerry SlideShare channel to view more of our latest presentations.

BlackBerry Balance is an app designed to unleash and support the multiple ways that you use your smartphone. Personal and corporate data can now sit side-by-side, and be managed separately on a single device. Individuals now have the freedom to use their own personal BlackBerry® smartphones at work, and IT administrators can be confident that all company data is safe, secure, and manageable.

Does your organization support employee-owned smartphones? Do you think that the BlackBerry Balance solution would help in your work environment? Tell us in the comments below!

Today, I’m very excited to announce that we’ve launched a fourth BlackBerry® for Business social media channel – SlideShare!

SlideShare is the world’s largest community for sharing presentations and we’re happy to be a part of it. To launch our channel, we’re sharing three presentations about our business:

• The BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet – what it means for Enterprise
• Managing the Risks for a Successful Mobility Deployment (from Wireless Enterprise Symposium 2010)
• Using Mobility to Unlock the Value of Enterprise Collaboration Tools (from Wireless Enterprise Symposium 2010)

We’ll be adding more presentations from our subject matter experts as well as our Developer, Help and Product Teams. But if you’d like to see something specific, just let us know and we’ll do our best to find it!

We invite you to check us out on SlideShare and leave a comment, follow us or share a presentation you’ve enjoyed through Twitter® or LinkedIn!