Re: Blackberry, BES, Chargebacks?

[Robert Michael Thompson <ab5602@wayne.edu>]

We are just starting to implement this.  We pre-purchase our BES CALs and are offering them to our employees through our Software Clearinghouse.  Once we receive confirmation of payment, then we work w/ the employee to provision their devices.  To stay provisioned, they need to re-up their fees every year with the Clearinghouse, otherwise we will delete their BES account.

We're keeping track of the licenses via a shared Zimbra Doc!

-Rob

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Rob Thompson, Systems Analyst
Enterprise Applications
Computing & Information Technology
Wayne State University
313-577-5645

Public Key: http://pgp.wayne.edu/rob.key

----- "Rasim Duric" <rduric@uoguelph.ca> wrote:

> We are using BES/ZCB and have around 50 users (the president and other
> VIPs) 
> on two servers. Yes, our university offers it for free since ZCB is
> still in 
> beta and we have been running this service as a pilot project.
> 
> Once the ZCB GA is released, hopefully at the end of June, we plan to
> 
> increase a number of users and some minimal charges might apply just
> to 
> recover the cost that RIM is charging us for the licenses and
> support.
> 
> 
> Rasim Duric
> Network Analyst (CCS)
> University of Guelph
> Guelph, N1G 2W1, ON
> 519-824-4120x53146
> rduric@uoguelph.ca
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Mencel [mailto:MR-Mencel@wiu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:31 PM
> To: zimbra-hied-admins
> Subject: Blackberry, BES, Chargebacks?
> 
> Hi group,
> 
> We're just curious if anyone else on the list is using BES/ZCB.  If so
> does 
> your university offer it for free to users or do you do some sort of 
> chargeback method?  If you do chargeback, then what calculations did
> you use 
> to generate the number to charge for Blackberry/BES usage?
> 
> We currently don't do any chargebacks for anything but we're
> considering it. 
> We don't get extra funding for providing these services and more users
> are 
> asking for it than we want to provide for free.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt Mencel
> Western Illinois University