Retain Mobile for BlackBerry is a part of Mobile Archiving.
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Audit and archive all your company’s BlackBerry® device communication, including PIN, SMS/MMS text messages, and phone call logs with Retain for BlackBerry. With Retain for BlackBerry, your organization stays compliant, is prepared for potential litigation, protects employees, and keeps your sensitive data secure.

Archiving all your BlackBerry communication data is easier than you think. Retain pulls data directly from the BlackBerry Unified Endpoint Manager (formerly BES 12) and all data is tracked and logged without the need for installing an app on each BlackBerry device. BBM Enterprise archiving is also made easy with Retain by integrating directly with the BBM Enterprise app. All your data is easily reviewed, retrieved, discovered, and published on the unified Retain database on demand.


Message retention capabilities

Retain for BlackBerry features message retention capabilities, which enables you to archive your messages for as long as needed. This includes SMS/MMS and PIN text messages, BlackBerry Messenger and BBM Enterprise conversations, and phone log data. Retain for BlackBerry also provides auto-provisioning of new smartphone users.

Message retention capabilities

Complete compliance for your organization

Enable your administrators, human resources, compliance officers, eDiscovery, and legal teams to review and audit BlackBerry user data while remaining completely compliant. With Retain for BlackBerry, all your BlackBerry messages are easily retrievable and reviewable, and granular search capabilities enable all your users to quickly and easily search through message data. Within the central archive, communication data can be exported for compliance, legal, or eDiscovery purposes into a variety of formats, which makes data publishing fast and easy.

Complete compliance for your organization

Enhanced security features

Keep your users and your data totally protected with enhanced security features. Retain for BlackBerry enables you to have complete control over your data through customizable rights management features. You can prevent smartphone users from altering, adjusting, or deleting any incoming or outgoing messages or phone call usage data, and limit user access to data based on security clearance. Additionally, Audit Trail enables you to know exactly what’s happening in your archive at any time.

Enhanced security features

Supported BlackBerry Enterprise services

Retain for BlackBerry supports the following BlackBerry Enterprise services:

  • BlackBerry Enterprise Service BES 5
  • BES 10.1+
  • BES 12
  • BlackBerry UEM (Unified Endpoint Manager)

*No additional hardware required

Get more out of Retain for BlackBerry

In addition to archiving BlackBerry communication data, Micro Focus provides multi-platform, unified message archiving of all email, social media, instant messaging, web search, and mobile communication data with Retain Unified Archiving.

Retain’s archive is accessible by end-users and administrators through Retain’s Web Access Archive Viewer. Quickly access, search, and audit archived communication data as well as place litigation holds, print, forward, save, redact, and export your message data. Retain reduces cost, mitigates risk, and manages complexity on-prem or in the cloud.