Experience the benefits of Google Apps with the BlackBerry experience you are already accustomed to with the Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server. By installing this software component, you integrate the Google Apps messaging suite with BlackBerry Enterprise Server, letting employees use built-in BlackBerry applications to access their Google Apps email, calendar, and contacts.

Overview of features

o Messages sent to your Gmail inbox are pushed to your BlackBerry within 60 seconds.
o Emails read/deleted on your BlackBerry are marked as read/deleted in Gmail, and vice-versa.
o Synchronize BlackBerry folders with labels in Gmail.
o Search for email addresses and phone numbers of other users on your company domain.
o Create, edit and respond to meetings from your native BlackBerry application with two-way synchronization between Google Calendar and your BlackBerry device.
o Contacts in Gmail are automatically synchronized with your BlackBerry address book.

System Requirements:
BlackBerry Enterprise Server:

o Windows 2003 Server 64 bit Standard Edition SP2
or Windows 2003 Server 32 bit Enterprise Edition SP2
(approximately 500MB of disk space per user)
o BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange, 4.1.6
o Maintenance Release 7 and 8
o Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP3 or Microsoft SQL Server 2005

BlackBerry Professional Software:
Windows 2003 Server 32 Bit Standard Edition SP2
BlackBerry Professional Software for Microsoft Exchange, 4.1 SP4B

Hardware Requirements:

(Recommended requirements for a server hosting 250 users)
o 4GB RAM
o Dual Intel® Pentium® IV, (2GHz or greater)
o 500MB of disk space per user
o OS: Microsoft Windows 2003 32 bit Standard

(Recommended requirements for a server hosting 500 users)
o Server: Quad Core Intel® Pentium® IV processor (2 GHz or greater)
o Memory: 8 GB of RAM
o Disk Space: 500 MB per user (in addition to Windows requirements)
o OS: Microsoft Windows 2003 64bit Standard
o or Windows 2003 32 bit Enterprise

Hosting Support:
Support multiple Google Apps domains on a single BlackBerry Enterprise Server. This enables our partners to offer hosted services for supporting BlackBerry devices by sharing a single BlackBerry Enterprise Server across multiple Google Apps customers.

Via MAS & Google Tools