IBM today released a new subscription-based management service for the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution platform aimed at helping companies to budget their mobility costs more efficiently.

The newly unveiled IBM Mobile Enterprise Services for the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution is a service designed to simplify management, technical support and cost of a client's BlackBerry deployment, while making it easier for them to scale the solution to meet their business demands.

It consolidates the technical, administrative, licensing and support costs of the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution with pricing on a monthly, per-user basis. The new subscription-based pricing model is designed to help organizations better project and budget mobility costs and minimize their upfront investment.

The new managed service offering will be provided by IBM professionals certified through the BlackBerry Certification Program.