BlackBerry offers SDK to let developers integrate BBM into their own apps

BlackBerry has released the Enterprise SDK, which allows developers to integrate BlackBerry Messenger into enterprise applications. For example, employees can chat, call and video call each other securely, claims the Canadian software company.

The SDK will be available worldwide this month, BlackBerry says. The Canadian manufacturer seems to focus mainly on healthcare, where secure communication is a hot topic due to the sensitive information that doctors and employees exchange.

Users can, among other things, edit or revoke messages afterwards with the chat apps created with Enterprise SDK. In addition to messages, this concerns VoIP, video calling and sending files. The backend of the chat service is BlackBerry Network Operations Center, which, according to the manufacturer, has data centers around the world.

It is unknown what BlackBerry charges for using the Enterprise SDK. Making the kit available is part of the strategy to abandon the development of proprietary hardware in favor of secure software. For example, the Canadian manufacturer stopped developing its own devices last year and let other manufacturers build BlackBerrys, on which the Canadian company’s own Android edition is located.