IBM and Research In Motion to Collaborate on Mobilizing Enterprise Applications to BlackBerry

IBM and Research In Motion to Collaborate on Mobilizing Enterprise Applications to BlackBerry

IBM and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM) (TSX: RIM) today announced their intent to undertake new initiatives designed to drive growth in the mobile industry by providing customers with the benefits of tighter integration between IBM® Lotus® Domino® and the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution™.

Initial areas of focus include helping workers on the go by extending the millions of Lotus Domino applications through Web services directly to BlackBerry® and enhancing performance of the BlackBerry solution for Lotus Domino. As part of market awareness initiatives, RIM will offer a BlackBerry Enterprise Server promotion to Lotus Domino or IBM Lotus Sametime® customers.

Extending SOA components to BlackBerry: The integration of Web services support in Lotus Domino 7 with BlackBerry development tools makes it easier for customers to access, view and manipulate data remotely from their BlackBerry devices. The availability of business critical data helps customers save time and money by making it easier for their employees to be more productive regardless of location.

As the building blocks to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web services treat data and applications as reusable services enabling formerly disparate applications to easily work together. With today’s announcement, IBM and RIM are exploring opportunities for customers to more easily extend these Web services directly to BlackBerry, redefining the boundaries of their SOA to include mobile access. Extending Web services to the mobile arena creates an array of new opportunities for the over 125 million IBM Lotus Notes® and Domino users to collaborate with colleagues, clients and partners — regardless of location.

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