Taken from the February edition of the Blackberry Connect Newsletter: 

Packed with new features to simplify administration and increase productivity! Includes BlackBerry® Monitoring Service for high availability through enhanced monitoring, alert, troubleshooting and reporting capabilities. Enhanced security features include encrypted attachment viewing and increased control over GPS and Bluetooth®. Plus, BlackBerry® Web Desktop Manager simplifies upgrades by letting users install and manage software using browser-enabled computers.

A complete feature lsit can be viewed on the Blackberry web site:

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/server/new_v4-1_sp5.jsp?MIG=47AB92E7369B0D69E10000000A659D4A

Improve End User Productivity

Support for HTML and Rich Text email¹ allows BlackBerry smartphone users to receive email messages with their original formatting preserved.

Users can read email more easily, view embedded images, hyperlinks, tables, bullets, numbering and indentation.

Free-busy calendar lookup¹ improves meeting scheduling on the go.

Users can view the meeting attendee availability and automatically find the next available time that attendees can meet.

Download and edit email attachments in their native file formats¹ for improved productivity while users are away from their desks.

Users can save file attachments to their BlackBerry smartphones, work on the documents and include them in replies to colleagues

Advanced instant messaging and presence¹ features include improved address book integration, IM contact “click to call”, IM session “convert to call” and advanced emoticon support.

Allows coworkers to collaborate and communicate more effectively using their BlackBerry smartphone

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Your employees can build new connections and communicate and collaborate more easily.

Simplify Management and Support

BlackBerry® Web Desktop Manager is a web-based application that is designed to lower the total cost of ownership for the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution.

Reduces the number of BlackBerry® software components installed on end-user workstations

Allows BlackBerry smartphone users to install software and manage their devices using any browser-enabled computer

BlackBerry® Monitoring Service helps organizations maintain high availability and high performance of their BlackBerry Enterprise Solution infrastructure.

Provides administrators with enhanced monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting and reporting capabilities

Enables proactive issue identification and resolution