Because we have a Microsoft tenant, we own Intune as part of our E5 licensing suite. 

If we can get rid of Blackberry and go directly to Microsoft, we would have a cost-saving. However, currently, we've found that BlackBerry still offers us value over and above.

Intune is already baked in with the Microsoft tenant, but it's just not there yet.

We did have other options. Good Technology was the first really real player in the BYOD space that met our needs. BlackBerry wasn't there yet. The other vendors were just starting out in that space, and Good had been doing it for a while. When we started looking at it, they were the most mature in this space, and they were the ones that best met our needs.

We have looked at VMware's AirWatch, we've looked at MobileIron, we've looked at Intune, Citrix Solutions, Zendesk. We look at most of the top players which are recommended by industry reviews.

We have been a BlackBerry shop for a very long time. We did look at another option a while back, which was BoxTone, but we went back to Blackberry because of the simple pane of glass capability. 

However, we are looking at Microsoft Intune, which is a competing product. We have not moved to it, but we are investigating it.

Back when we were looking at iOS devices, we did a demo with AirWatch and tried to test the IBM MaaS360 solution. The MaaS360 was not sufficient enough for our information security department. A couple other ones that we looked into did not have the security perimeters. AirWatch was more comparable, but because of the investment that we already had with Good for Enterprise, and it was familiar to the team members, our management decided to stay with Good, which then morphed into BlackBerry, versus attempting to go with a different product.

Historically, we had it in the bank and we were aware of its capabilities. We did, at one stage, go out and have a look at what else was there, but decided that they weren't actually what we wanted or fit for our purpose. We do constantly look.

We may have looked at other MDM solutions other than the BlackBerry line of products, but it is the product that is already in place.

Over the years, we have evaluated other products to implement, but decided not to go with them.

The product that we were initially going to switch to, it had issues with being able to handle the upgrades that Apple was pushing. It caused some constraints with not being able to fully update their product and being able to update with the iOS updates. It caused a lot of confusion, so management was not satisfied with their level of response. 

We sometimes look into comparing whether it is still the best option to be a BlackBerry customer or moving forward to Citrix, or something similar. At the moment, we are very happy with Blackberry UEM, so we are not looking to move away from BlackBerry.

We looked at several solutions, comparing BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Suite vs AirWatch, and Absynth, which came up a few years ago. We had a closer look at Abysnth but it wasn't able to deliver the way we wanted it so they were out. We had a close look at Good Technology and then it was acquired quite fast.

At times we've looked at everything that was in the market and Good and Blackberry were the only ones that had the capabilities that we needed.

We did an RFP, then we chose among the multiple vendors. BlackBerry turned out to be the best.

We looked into MaaS360.