by SAVIOUS KWINIKA
JOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) - A senior BlackBerry official urged organisations to put in place holistic enterprise mobility strategies that meet their long-term business needs as well as their employees' demands for a good user experience.

Alexandra Zagury, Managing Director for South and Southern Africa, says that the trend towards mobile computing creates a range of opportunities for organisations to streamline their businesses and enhance productivity, provided they get the basics of mobile security and device management right.

Zagury says the world of work is rapidly changing as end-users embrace cloud and mobile technologies to be productive wherever they are.

Cisco TechWatch 2013 research, for example, shows that by 2016, 76 percent of companies think operations in their organisations will be structured on the basis of the most efficient use of skills and resources, regardless of where they are located.

“The imperative for IT departments is to empower these users with a mobile work environment that provides a rich, intuitive user experience while ensuring that corporate information assets are secure,” says Zagury.

She says BlackBerry 10 platform is designed to offer a great end user experience, yet also makes the IT administrator's life simpler with a range of features to streamline information security and administration.

“Enterprise customers have depended on BlackBerry technology to securely enable their workforces to work wherever they are and at any time for well over a decade.

"The BlackBerry 10 platform builds on this heritage of rock-solid information security with a host of features for secure end-to-end mobility,” says Zagury.