Case Study

BlackBerry Unified Endpoint
Supports Max Bögl’s
Increasing Appetite forSecure Collaborationand Mobilization of Apps

Reinhard Mederer

At a GlanceIndustry Construction
Employees 6,000Location Germany
Products BlackBerry®
Enterprise Mobility Suite Collaboration Edition,BlackBerry® UEM,
BlackBerry® Dynamics,
BlackBerry® 2FA
www.max-boegl.de/With an annual turnover exceeding the 1.65 billion euros mark, Max Bögl Group is
one of the largest construction, technology and services companies in Germany’s
construction industry. A workforce comprising over 6,000 skilled workers, civilengineers, architects, sales team members and facility managers implement
modern, sustainable package solutions in such fields as structural engineering,infrastructure and renewable energy.

1The Organization
The Max Bögl Group is a specialist in complex and challenging construction.
Superior quality, on-time delivery performance and economic efficiency arerequisite for the successful implementation of visionary projects.
To achieve this, Max Bögl relies on high standards in project management,
project handling, quality and occupational safety. Seamlessly dovetailing
cutting-edge IT and BIM technologies with production and logistics processes isequally crucial.

The Challenge
Accessing emails securely, editing shared planning documents or archiving dataon the corporate network – mobile devices are pivotal at Max Bögl from theinitial concept to the finished construction.

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Only when employees can access, edit and share vital information with theircolleagues whenever and wherever is it possible for the Max Bögl Group to meetits commitment to quality. “Be it planning, permits or add-ons - a fast, securecommunication and collaboration are amongst the most important factors forthe successful implementation of a project”, says Markus Koller, IT Collaboration- Mobile Device Management at Max Bögl.
Most of the roughly 1,000 corporate-owned mobile devices run on iOS, witha few BlackBerry 10 devices rounding off the picture. The number of mobiledevices used is expected to be increased considerably in the near future.
“Reason enough for us to take our Unified Endpoint Management to the nextlevel and make it future-proof”, says Markus Koller.
The Max Bögl Group has the challenging task of staying on top of things despite
ever-changing device models and blurry lines between desktop, laptop, tablets,smartphones, wearables and even IoT devices. But what is the most effective
way to manage the growing device fleet effectively while simultaneously
protecting business information and proprietary know-how?

2“With BlackBerry
UEM, we canprovide ouremployees withsafer and faster
access to businessdata and acceleratebusiness workflows.”
Markus Koller

IT Collaboration - Mobile
Device Management,
Max BöglThe Solution
For some years now, the Max Bögl Group has been relying on Enterprise
Mobility Management (EMM) solutions by BlackBerry - most recently,
on BES12. The new EMM solution was to ideally meet all the company’s
requirements in the fields of security, productivity, scalability, and costs.
Next to BlackBerry’s system, EMM solutions by other providers were also
examined. “BlackBerry totally convinced us with its secure Unified Endpoint
Manager system. Aside from handling all the usual operating systems, it
was especially its Network Operating Center architecture and competentBlackBerry® Premium Support that helped us decide in their favour”, says
Markus Koller.
BlackBerry® Unified Endpoint Manager (UEM) enables Max Bögl toconveniently manage the iOS® and BlackBerry® 10 devices already used bythe company in addition to managing and enabling Android®, Windows® 10and macOS® devices used by its employees in the future.
“Only BlackBerry covers all common operating systems and device models”,
says Markus Koller. And even in relation to the many different ownershipmodels (including Bring Your Own Device and Corporate Owned, Business
Only), Max Bögl has free reign with BlackBerry UEM.
Secure Data and Apps on Mobile Devices: A further plus: The securecontainer solution for mobile apps by BlackBerry® Dynamics. This protects
personal information of customers and employees and, in relation to the EU’s
General Data Protection Regulation, helps to prevent hefty fines. Max Bögl’suse of BlackBerry® Two-Factor-Authentication (2FA) offers the company
an important additional responsive layer of authentication when accessing
business data.

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The Results
Consolidated Applications and Improved User Experience: When introducing
this new solution, Max Bögl opted for a gradual migration of the roughly 1,000
devices used worldwide. BlackBerry UEM facilitates the consolidation of existing
tools, a reduction of the overall costs and a clearly improved user experience.
The seamless and secure access to data using UEM has allowed the Max Bögl
Group to dispense with the separately used VPN solution used to date, whichsaves costs. “By consolidating different applications in the UEM we can offer ouremployees a more secure and speedier access to business data and accelerate
the information flow within the company.”
In the long term, the Max Bögl Group wants to offer additional productivity apps
from the BlackBerry Dynamics portfolio to its employees. “BlackBerry’s great
advantage is that its performance spectrum can be consistently expanded toadapt to our most current requirements any time”, says Markus Koller. The
result: The Max Bögl Group and its employees are not just secure – they areBlackBerry® Secure ™. Now, and in future.

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About BlackBerry Limited
BlackBerry Limited is an enterprise software and services company focused on
securing and managing IoT endpoints. The company does this with BlackBerry®
Secure™, an end-to-end Enterprise of Things platform, comprised of its enterprisecommunication and collaboration software and safety-certified embeddedsolutions.
Based in Waterloo, Ontario, BlackBerry Limited was founded in 1984 and operates
in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Middle East, Latin America and Africa.
The Company trades under the ticker symbol “BB” on the Toronto Stock Exchange
and the New York Stock Exchange. For more information visit BlackBerry.com,and follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

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