RIM Announces Mobile Fusion Software. Enterprise Security For Android And iOS Devices.

RIM’s bread & butter enterprise market is slipping out from underneath them due to a consumerization of their core business base. Where BlackBerries once reigned supreme has since been invaded by Android and iOS devices. On the corporate front, RIM still has the best environment in terms of security, though outside of that there’s nothing unique left. On the flip-side, corporate users want more consumer-like features on their work phones, or to even use their personal phones for work instead. While it’s great for consumers to have choice, it’s a headache for IT departments.

RIM’s current roadmap to re-take the consumer world isn’t looking all that great in the near-term. But there’s a potential life line RIM can skate on by way of their newly announced Mobile Fusion software for Android and iOS…

As detailed by RIM vice-president for enterprise product management, Alan Panezic in an pre-release interview with Reuters, Mobile Fusion software can be installed on Android and iOS devices and add a much tougher layer of protection + control. Example: being able to monitor and control what is/isn’t installed on the aforementioned devices as remotely wiping each and every device.

Mobile Fusion software will be priced “competitively” and released sometime in Q1 2012.

Source: Reuters