Research in Motion announced that it would be offering its BlackBerry Business Cloud Services to Office 365 users without any charge.
The new service will be available to enterprise and medium sized subscribers of the Office 365 suite and it would works with consumer as well as business data plans. Alan Panezic of RIM said, "This new cloud-based option allows customers to cost-effectively support mobility across their organizations and easily manage and secure their BlackBerry deployments.”
RIM has collaborated with Microsoft for providing this service, which will now allow the subscribers to synchronize their Microsoft Online email wirelessly. Subscribers will also be able to avail wireless synchronization service for their organizer and calendar. RIM will also offer its BlackBerry Balance technology 'which presents a unified view of work and personal content on a BlackBerry smartphone while keeping the content separate and secure.'
The new service will also let you erase your data remotely, should you lose or misplace your phone. You can also choose to lock your data instead. RIM also added, "Microsoft’s partnership with RIM exemplifies our commitment to providing customers with the best productivity experience across the PC, browser and phone." The service is already live in over 50 countries now. You can access it through www.blackberry.com/cloudservices.