March 2021
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
14h 24m
English
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The BlackBerry Effect and the BYOD Revolution
One could make the argument that the company Research in Motion (RIM) Ltd., later called BlackBerry Limited, first opened the door through which Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) charged. BlackBerry got two things right, which led to its meteoric rise. Interestingly, one of those same things led to the company’s subsequent decline.
The first thing BlackBerry got right was the development of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) in 1999. The BES enabled BlackBerry devices to receive “push” emails from Microsoft Exchange Server, which meant that users could send and receive emails no matter where they were (assuming they had cell coverage, which by then was nearly everywhere).
The second thing BlackBerry ...