Today, 2 may, is Capital Markets day at RIM where they talk about the year behind and the year ahead to financial analysts. But this week is also its annual wireless conference, BlackBerry World and it made two important announcements that’s going to impact enterprise mobility management. First, RIM is finally moving into multi-OS device support by acquiring the mobile device management (MDM) vendor Ubitexx, based out of Munich, Germany. Ubitexx was listed on our MDM Magic Quadrant and is a fairly strong provider in its market. RIM will eventually, in a year or so, integrate its multi-device capability into the BES. This will allow one-stop management for BlackBerry, Android, iOS and other devices. However, don’t expect RIM to be able to match the 550 policies it has for BB on other devices. Like any other MDM vendor, it will be limited to what the OS vendor will allow for support. Though no pricing was announced, it may drive up BES licensing costs, as co-CEO Jim Balsillie announced that the deal was also an opportunity for increased revenue.

bron:Gartner