Presentation prepared by Jan Guldentops, CEO of Belgian based information integrator, BA. Presentation about the mobility solution for open source Zarafa mail software, presented at the Zarafa Summercamp in Krefeld, Belgium.

1. The future is mobile ?!?
Jan Guldentops
j@ba.be
www.ba.be

2. Who's BA / Better Access ?
 One of the oldest Belgian Linux companies
 ° 1996, privately owned by its founders
 Strong focus on building solutions / integration /
troubleshooting
 4 area's
 (virtual) infrastructure
 Security
 “Mac Guyver Projects”
 BA Testlabs
www.ba.be

3. Strong strategic choices for
 Open
 Systems
 Standards
 Source
 Partnerships
 Red Hat Business Partner / Oracle Partner
 Hardware : HP / SUN
 Consultancy : BA often works as an OEM
 Messaging : Zarafa / RIM
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4. Our own solutions
 Productised and tuned open source solutions
 BA Secure Firewall Platform
 BA Secure VPN Gateway
 BA Secure Mail Platform
 BA Web Application Firewall (WAF)
 Custom built solutions for our partners
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5. Messaging
 BA Secure Mail Platform
 Open Source based antispam / antivirus solution
 “work-in-progress” - allways being developped
 High volume mail servers
 Postfix / Ldap / Imap-based
 Integrated mail / calender solutions
 Teamware
 Zarafa
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6. Special projects
 Mail encryptor
 Product developped in 1999 for dicatech
 Plug and play mail encryption device
 Plug it before your firewall and it encrypts all mail
 Zarafa blackberry / BES integration
 Adding a new supported platform to RIM
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7. But: ease of use
 For the enduser in the field
 Useless if you need to train them extensively
 To enable your current applications
 With a minimum of development
 To set up the secure datacommunications
 Cheaper to use public networks
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8. First of all I have a
confession to make...
 I never liked smartphones / PDA
 Why ?
 Did the basic phone functionality badly
 Yuppies
 productivity is inversely proportional to their smartphone
 battery
 Took me 8 pda's / smartphones before I left old
faithfull Nokia behind and went for a Blackberry
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9. Divided market
 Research-in-motion Blackberries
 Apple's Iphone
 1000 different windows mobile / CE / pocketpc
based systems
 Andriod
 Symbian – euh – Nokia
 Palm, netbooks, others...
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10. Problems with smartphones
 input / output
 battery
 connectivity
 security
 The question how to synchronise
 Push / pull
 multitude of products
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11. Security needs for a mobile
platform
 No recoverable data on the mobile device
 Loss of a pda should not bring data leakage
 Preferably a wipe function if the device is stolen / disappears
 Strong authentication
 Users should authenticate before using the device
 Weak: (userid/) password
 Strong: token
 Secure datacommunication
 Using your own private network
 Using a sort of vpn over a public network
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12. We choose Blackberry
 Good phones, that work !
 integrated solution end-2-end
 Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES)
 Excellent security with advanced features
 vpn between BB and BES
 encrypted BB
 Remote wipe
 excellent input / output
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13. Integrate with zarafa
 We use BES and zarafa for their mobile E-
mail, calenders, contacts.
 This works with a number of caveats :
 Some of them are BES problems others are Zarafa
problems
 Certain calender update features and the sending
of attachments
 All in all minor problems
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14. Obi4mail
 We built a solution on this OBI4mail to open up
non-supported platforms to BB
 We synchronise over open standards with the
existing platform to zarafa.
 IMAP
 Ical
 LDAP
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16. Quick application / Intranet
rollout (OBI4web)
 Forgotten feature of a BES is that you can
easily integrate the browser on the BB with
internal webapplications
 Connect the BES to a proxy
 do single signon
 do secure communication
 rewrite the webapplications on the fly
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18. Quick input applications
(OBI4forms)
 Simple, easy to create forms on your BB
 takes input from the user
 takes input from the camera and / or gps
 takes input from an EID-reader
 collects data and sends them via e-mail in xml, csv
or pdf
 we collect them and put them in a database
 rollout a mobile application in minutes
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20. Questions, remarks,
projects?
Jan Guldentops ( j@ba.be )
http://www.linkedin.com/in/janguldentops
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