BBM Meetings is on its way according to BlackBerry’s President for Global Enterprise Solutions, John Sims who spoke of the value-added service recently with The Jakarta Post and dropped some details on what it is all about. BlackBerry will be adding BBM Meetings to enterprises for voice and video conferences!
See John Sims interview below:
Our strategy is to continue to expand the capability of our best server, our BlackBerry enterprise server. For example, we have a new release that is coming out in November, and in addition to supporting iOS and Android, BlackBerry will also support Windows Phone.
So, we are expanding the number of platforms for varied use, we are expanding capability; we are making it a much more scalable platform. We are also enabling it to be used in the cloud as well as on premises […] we call them value-added services, additional enterprise-focused, value-added services.
For example, with BlackBerry Messenger [BBM], we have taken BBM and we have created a version specifically for enterprises, called BBM Protected. We launched that in June and then we expanded it in August, and we will expand it again before the end of the year. BBM Protected allows secure chat inside the enterprise and it allows those chats to be locked.
We will [also] soon be launching something called BBM Meetings. It is a service that allows voice and video conferences for groups of about 25 people.
It will initially be launched as an enterprise service this year and we will also expand it to the consumer market sometime next year […] It will have a presence on BlackBerry devices, iOS and Android. It will be on tablets and we will also have a desktop version.
Not many details were dished out as far as the functionality but know BBM Meetings is well on its way to help expand BBM.
Source: Jakarta Post