Professional Services

Overview

In a world where expert opinion and seasoned advice are the standard, today's professional services firms are using BlackBerry® Business Solutions to sharpen their competitive edge.

For your busy professional life, access to critical information when away from the office is key to making time-sensitive decisions. Enhance efficiency for you and your team with access to the information you need, whenever and wherever you need it with BlackBerry smartphones.

The BlackBerry Competitive Advantage for Professionals

BlackBerry Business Solutions help your business become more competitive:

• On-the-go access to email, personal information management, voice and web
• Wireless access to time and billing systems, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and document management applications
• Integration with third-party online research tools
• A robust, scalable solution that grows with your business
• Advanced security features to protect client confidentially and the data integrity of your firm

Lawyers and Law Firms

The verdict is in, 80% of AMLAW 200 law firms use the BlackBerry solution. Why? Because a BlackBerry smartphone is the only all-in-one device that keeps lawyers in the know while they're away from their desks. You'll be able to search pertinent literature, prepare briefs and keep in touch with your office and clients while allowing more total billable hours and enjoying improved productivity and profitability.

Accountants and Accounting Firms

The accounting profession today requires flexibility and mobility while providing clients with real-time support and answers. Adding a BlackBerry smartphone to your business not only provides instant client contact for better service, but greater productivity and an increase in billable hours. Being connected allows you and your firm to compete in a fast-paced, changing industry.

Consultants and Consulting Business

Consulting is a tough profession with a never-ending need for the latest information. Adding BlackBerry smartphones and services to your business gives you the upper hand in helping your clients improve their business. Staying connected while on the go is simple and easy with the latest in wireless solutions for the consulting professional.

Get More Information

• Learn more about BlackBerry products and services for your business
• Discover how businesses like yours have benefited from BlackBerry Business Solutions

Products & Services

BlackBerry® Business Solutions are made up of customizable software and services because the best solution for your business should be one based on your business.

BlackBerry Smartphones

BlackBerry Business Solutions provide a choice of powerful smartphones and devices with BlackBerry® Connect™ software to best suit your needs.

BlackBerry Software

BlackBerry software manages the link between the BlackBerry smartphone and your business.

BlackBerry Professional Services

The BlackBerry® Professional Services group can be engaged to provide guidance on the initial design and architecture of mobile solutions, assist with update management or manage new infrastructure or application development projects. Learn more about BlackBerry Professional Services

BlackBerry Partner Solutions

Connect to time and billing, client database and other information management systems with the help of a trusted third party who specializes in this application area. Take a look at the partner solutions available

Document Management

Interwoven

http://www.interwoven.com/products/worksite/blackberry/index.html
WorkSite Mobile for BlackBerry® smartphones provides document management at your fingertips—access client files, file email, forward documents and provide real-time client service from practically anywhere at anytime.

Personal Productivity

Google Maps

http://www.google.com/gmm/index.html
Combining directions, maps and satellite imagery, Google® Local for mobile is a free download that lets you easily find local maps, driving directions, local hangouts and businesses across town or across the country.

Magmic – Magmic Games

http://www.magmic.com/
Want to test your skills at card, sports, strategy or action games? Download a link to Magmic's BlackBerry® smartphone games site.

TeleNav – TeleNav GPS Navigator

http://www.telenav.com/products/tn/forbusiness.html
TeleNav GPS Navigation provides navigation assistance with maps and audio prompts. Additional features include a business finder and yellow pages lookup.

Impatica – ShowMate

http://www.impatica.com/
Impatica ShowMate is the first and only device that allows BlackBerry smartphone users to project Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations directly from their smartphones, without the need for a laptop computer. A pocket-sized device that weighs less than three ounces, the extremely popular Impatica ShowMate supports full-featured PowerPoint presentations, including rich text, images, charts, graphs, animations and slide transition effects.

Impatica’s ShowMate is available from distributors and strategic partners around the world and from Impatica directly.

Practice Management

Airtime Manager

http://www.a4p.biz/
Airtime Manager is an automated time-capturing solution for today's mobile professionals.

APS – Advanced Productivity Software – DTE InHand

http://www.aps-soft.com
DTE InHand allows attorneys to easily capture completely validated, time-based billable activities and expenses directly on a BlackBerry® smartphone and have that information automatically transferred wirelessly into the DTE Enterprise system and seamlessly into the firm’s existing time and billing system.

PensEra – TimeKM

http://www.timekm.com/
TimeKM™ helps busy lawyers recover more value from professional activity without changing how they work. It's as simple as Work-Click-Bill.

Wallace Wireless

http://www.wallacewireless.com
Wallace Wireless is the world’s leading supplier of wireless crisis communication software for BlackBerry smartphones.

Utilities

Onset Technology – MetaMessage Professional

http://www.onsettechnology.com/index.php
METAmessage, used by over 1,300 enterprise customers with over 150,000 users, is a complete, out-of-the-box solution for BlackBerry® smartphones. Users can check spelling; print anywhere; set custom message alerts; access network documents; get quick info; and, interact directly with a range of enterprise data systems, including time-and-billing programs, enterprise applications and internally developed databases. METAmessage also provides advanced Emergency Communications, Legal, Accounting and Professional solutions.

IT Admin

BoxTone

http://www.boxtone.com/
BoxTone is a global BlackBerry® smartphone management software and service provider. When you choose BoxTone's BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Management and Reporting Software, you choose the most comprehensive set of plug-and-play software modules on the market to effectively manage, monitor and support the enterprise BlackBerry platform.

GSX Monitor

http://www.gsx.net/
GSX Monitor is the leading monitoring and reporting tool kit for BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Microsoft® Exchange, IBM® Lotus® Domino® and IBM® Lotus® Sametime®. Over 550 global enterprise clients around the world rely on GSX Monitor to more efficiently manage their messaging resources and increase their ROI.

By not only monitoring your servers but also your services, GSX relies on its user simulation and "no agent on server" approach to ensure your IT personnel can proactively tackle issues with your mail servers before they become real problems and cripple your messaging capabilities.

Zenprise

http://www.zenprise.com/
Zenprise Mobile Manager is a comprehensive solution that automatically monitors and troubleshoots the entire mobile service, including Microsoft Exchange servers, BlackBerry servers, the BlackBerry Enterprise Server SQL database, networks, wireless carriers and devices.

In addition to monitoring and reporting on the availability of all services and components, Zenprise Mobile Manager looks at system configurations (such as Microsoft Exchange and BlackBerry Enterprise Server configurations), performance (such as server CPU utilization), connectivity (MAPI, SRP, BlackBerry Enterprise Server database), calendar synchronization and much more.

Customer Success

Learn about the organizations around the world that have been successful implementing BlackBerry® Business Solutions.

• Berger Singerman
  Learn how this Florida law firm utilized a BlackBerry solution application to take the headache out of logging time.

• Gersten Savage LLP
  Learn how this international law firm has used the BlackBerry solution to provide first-class service and compete with much larger firms.

Resource Library

Brochures

• BlackBerry® Business Solutions for Professional Services Firms (PDF)

Pod Casts

• The New Realities of the Accounting Profession
• ROI for Accountants – The $32,928 Smartphone
• Smartphone Buyer’s Guide for Accounting Professionals

White Papers

• Winning Strategies for the Evolving Legal Marketplace (PDF)
• Emerging Opportunities for Accounting Firms in a Changing Economy (PDF)
• The Connected Accountant: The Growing Mobility Trend (PDF)
• Lawyer Responsiveness: How Small and Mid-sized Firms Can Use Mobility to Become More Competitive in the Face of High Client Expectations (PDF)
• Analyzing the Return On Investment of a BlackBerry Deployment, 2007 (PDF)

News & Events

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Events

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