Employees are flooding IT departments with requests to connect their personal smartphones to the company IT infrastructure. Disregarding the real productivity benefits from connected employees, until now many IT departments have turned down all such requests as a matter of policy. They calculated that the security and control risks outweighed the benefits from collaboration.

But the equation has suddenly changed with the introduction of the free BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express, which ends the compromise around security, manageability, and cost-enables organizations to confidently connect employee-owned BlackBerry® smartphones. Read the following white paper to discover what you need to know to connect employees’ personal BlackBerry smartphones and how BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express can help.