On Tuesday O2 has announced the launch of ’BlackBerry Managed Service’ (BMS) in Ireland. According to their official Press Release BlackBerry Managed Service offers customers a broader range of BlackBerry support, maintenance and consultative services, enabling them to manage IT support costs more effectively whilst maximising the benefits of BlackBerry.

BlackBerry Managed Service is a brand new service for O2’s Blackberry customers in Ireland. Companies can now outsource the complete end to end management of their BlackBerry service environment to O2, receiving 24/7 global support, infrastructure monitoring, regular service checks, and advice from certified BlackBerry consultants. With BlackBerry Managed Service customers are free to focus on their core competencies and get the benefit of a single point of contact, a single bill and more predictable costs.

Ronan Whelan, Head of Enterprise & Corporate, Telefonica O2 Ireland, said “We are confident that this service will become indispensible for BlackBerry customers at a time when cost control is a key concern for businesses. With Blackberry Managed Service, companies will always have full back-up support through a dedicated helpdesk and a monitoring service which will respond to any disruptions to service. The introduction of this new service is a welcome enhancement of O2’s portfolio of great value business offerings”.

O2 has also launched the new BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) software Version 5.0, which is now available in Ireland. It is the next generation of Research in Motion’s (RIM’s) secure, push-based server software for business mobility. Version 5.0 supports advanced IT administration features and smartphone controls that help improve the productivity of mobile workers