Samsung to Debut Enterprise Platform at MWC

South Korean technology company, Samsung, is purportedly set to debut an enterprise platform at the Mobile World Congress.

Boston-based brokerage firm Detwiler Fenton said that Samsung is planning to unveil a new enterprise platform at the trade show (February 25-28, 2012) that will compete with BlackBerry’s BlackBerry 10 operating system.

Further details were not provided, but either way, BlackBerry, of course, relies heavily on the enterprise market. Shares of the company, previously known as Research In Motion, were trading down by 3.7 percent after the news.

"Over the last couple of years, Samsung’s enterprise group was chartered with developing an enterprise platform that could take advantage of the Android ecosystem but that also delivered best in class security policies, application management, email, unified communications etc. to compete with BBRY," Detwiler said.

"Samsung must now believe it has enhanced SAFE to effectively take share from BBRY as we understand it has hired well north of 100 sales and sales support staff to serve the enterprise and small business markets. We also understand that the company has established very aggressive 2013 sales objectives for this segment."

BlackBerry's share in the enterprise market decreased prior to the launch of BlackBerry 10 with several U.S. government agencies, including the Pentagon and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, dropping the mobile platform in favor of Google's Android and Apple's iPhone.

That said, after the launch of the operating system's latest edition, Home Depot -- the world's fifth largest retailer -- decided to drop BlackBerry in favor of the iPhone for 10,000 employees.

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  • sacre
    Sigh. Competition is awesome, means better products for us.

    But don't drive out the competition, or else we end up having to pay large amounts for your overpriced products specifically.

    Give BB a chance to grow again so we have more choices. Cause right now its "Choppy laggy Galaxy S3" or "Non-customizable enclosed iPhone 5". I want more then 2 choices, having BB makes me smile a bit more.

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  • dthx
    RIM is not as healthy as it once was... The iPhone entered the enterprises market completely by mistake (Apple's business model was never directed towards enterprises) and exits it the same way. And as much as I like Nokia's last iterations, we have to admit that is not selling in important volumes. I still stick to HTC which have a few extra features that make it nicer to use for professionals but no Android manufacturer can offer enterprise class management features.
    So there's clearly a large avenue there for Samsung, but I hope that the competition recovers quickly: this not so ethical company has received way too much money, attention and power already.
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  • cRACKmONKEY421
    It all seems good to me competition wise. I'm one of the people that gets stuck with an enterprise phone (BB ATM).
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