BlackBerry has introduced its BBM Enterprise Software program Growth Equipment (SDK), which might be made accessible this month. The corporate says that the SDK will allow builders to combine safe messaging, voice and video capabilities into functions and companies.

Among the options supplied with the SDK embody safe messaging in chats and group chats, message quoting, retraction, enhancing, and deletion. When it comes to voice and video calls, it supplies the flexibility to simply accept an incoming voice or video name whereas app is operating within the background, displaying a thumbnail preview of the video name, and permits viewing video name in full display screen. Aside from these options, the BBM Enterprise supplies encrypted file sharing.

The moment messaging companies for communication in enterprise at the moment don’t present the identical stage of safety and encryption for which BlackBerry is thought, placing companies in danger, BlackBerry stated in its release. “With greater than 80 safety certifications and approvals to this point – greater than some other cell vendor – BBM Enterprise SDK leverages this experience to offer the highest-level of safety for messages, voice, and video for iOS and Android,” it stated.

The BBM SDK makes use of NOC structure, which BlackBerry says was constructed with safety in thoughts and is designed to satisfy essentially the most demanding enterprise wants. “It’s globally accessible and supplies built-in redundancies to make sure optimum efficiency, flexibility, QoS and availability for merchandise being constructed for mass scale,” it added.

The corporate says that enterprises will have the ability to keep away from upfront investments in {hardware} infrastructure with its cloud-based mannequin and management operational prices with an inexpensive subscription-based per-user licensing mannequin. Nevertheless, BlackBerry has not revealed how a lot the subscription will price.

“We’re consistently innovating and in search of methods to leverage our legacy and experience in safe mobility to resolve actual enterprise issues,” Marty Beard, COO at BlackBerry, was quoted as saying within the launch. “We’re opening up a brand new income stream for the corporate with a totally cloud-based communication service that’s designed to assist builders, ISVs, and enterprises meet essentially the most demanding safety and compliance necessities,” he added