Business Challenge

• Running one of the largest sixth form colleges in England means the senior management team must spend much of their time out of the office and off campus at meetings and conferences
• Senior management needed mobile access to email and calendar
• The college needed a mobile platform that was compatible with the school’s IT environment and the needs of users

Solution

• Discovered the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server for Novell® GroupWise® environments and ran a 30-day trial
• A member of the college’s IT team, with the support of an external technician, performed the installation in less than half a day
• Also explored mobile access on BlackBerry® smartphones to some of the applications used by the college’s different departments

Results

• Easier for senior management to stay in touch and schedule appointments on-the-road
• Robust data security and remote device management
• Solution for emergency communications and parent-student communications during school trips
• Remote network maintenance via web interface