BlackBerry announced today that The Brazilian Bank Itaú Unibanco is upgrading its more than 7,000 BlackBerry smartphones to BlackBerry 10 smartphones. To start, the bank is initially deploying about 1,000 BlackBerry Q5 smartphones and will be upgrading its base to BlackBerry 10 OS version 10.2.1 and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 (BES 10) for enterprise mobility management (EMM).
Itaú Unibanco is a publicly traded bank with headquarters in São Paulo, Brazil. The bank Itaú Unibanco, is a result of a merger between Banco Itaú and Unibanco back in November 2008.
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“Enterprise mobility is a key technology for us. That is why we selected BlackBerry, which offers the best options for our employees by helping them increase responsiveness, while it maintains security and flexibility for our IT group,” said Luis Antonio Rodrigues, Executive Director of Itaú Unibanco.
“Itaú Unibanco was one of the first customers to use the BlackBerry solution in Latin America. We have a long-standing partnership that is based on trust. We are honored to support Itaú Unibanco, which selected BlackBerry for its secure corporate mobility solution,” said Wes Nicol, Managing Director of BlackBerry for Latin America.