Comparison

BlackBerry Work vs Oracle Maintenance for EBS

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

BlackBerry Work

Manage your business email, calendar, and contacts securely in one app. View colleague photos, check availability, and navigate between apps easily. Protects personal privacy without intrusive location tracking.

Highlights
  • Unified inbox, calendar, and contacts
  • Colleague directory photos and availability
  • Launcher for easy app switching
  • Quick action buttons for common tasks
  • Contextual file actions
  • VIP email notifications
Features
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*** Contact your IT administrator for any help with setting up BlackBerry Work *** Take care of business simply, elegantly and securely with BlackBerry Work. Stay on top of your business email, schedule and join meetings, and manage your contacts with an easy to use, all-in-one app. BlackBerry Work delivers a personalized business experience. See your colleagues’ photos in your email. View online availability to chat everywhere you work - in email, a calendar event and on their contact card – a capability unique to BlackBerry. Quickly navigate among your business apps using Launcher. Switch easily between composing an email, adding a contact, or scheduling a calendar event with quick action buttons. And always know that your personal privacy is protected without intrusive geo-location capabilities. Simple app navigation: • Launcher: Simplify multi-tasking and app navigation with easy switching between your email, calendar, contacts, app settings and other BlackBerry apps. • Quick actions: Work smarter with quick action buttons to compose an email, schedule a meeting or add a contact. • Contextual file actions: Choose the right actions for your documents – edit, annotate, save, print, sign, etc. based on the other BlackBerry-secured apps installed on your device Improve productivity: • Email: Manage your inbox on the go! Check and respond to email, move messages to a folder, and take and attach photos. • Calendar: Stay in touch with your colleagues, customers and partners wherever you are. Join meetings or schedule new ones. Even send a quick reply message if you are running late. • Contacts: See all of your Outlook contacts, personal and work. Add additional information to the contact card or get the caller ID by sync’ing the contacts to the device. Personalize your experience: • Directory Photos: Your inbox, calendar and contacts now displays photos from your global address list so you can now enjoy more effective social interactions • People centric collaboration: Choose the best way to reach your colleagues based on their online availability status. Initiate a call, an email, an IM or an SMS from within the app them based on their availability. Quick notifications: • Badges: See how many unread email you have right on your device home screen without opening the app. . • VIP notifications: Never miss an important message. Set VIP status for key contacts to be notified via custom alerts when they send you an email.

About

Oracle Maintenance for EBS

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With Oracle Mobile Maintenance for Oracle E-Business Suite, maintenance technicians can view and execute maintenance work on the go. - Create express work orders, and debrief work orders - View and complete assigned work, including issuing material and charging time - View and search work orders and assets - Complete operations and work orders - View asset summary including work history, failures, meter readings, quality plans, location, attributes and asset hierarchy - Record asset meter readings - Enter new quality results as well as view and update existing quality information associated to assets, operations, work orders and asset route quality results - Create simple work orders and work requests - Record and view descriptive flex fields information - Use Mobile Maintenance app in disconnected mode after initial synchronization of data from server, and perform transactions when there is no network connectivity. - Perform incremental synchronization when network connectivity is available to upload the offline transactions and download updated work from server. - View and update workflow notifications for work order release approval, work request approval, permit approval and operation assignment. Supervisors can also: - View work order data for the selected organization - Show work orders of all statuses except Closed - Perform mass update of work order status - Assign resources and instances to work order operations - Perform charge time and debrief for work orders in the organization. This app supersedes Maintenance for EBS. For more details and support timelines, see My Oracle Support  Note 1641772.1 at https://support.oracle.com.Oracle Mobile Maintenance for Oracle E-Business Suite is compatible with Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.4 and above. To use this app, you must be a user of Oracle Enterprise Asset Management, with mobile services configured on the server side by your administrator. For information on how to configure mobile services on the server and for app-specific information, see My Oracle Support Note 1641772.1 at https://support.oracle.com. Note: Oracle Mobile Maintenance for Oracle E-Business Suite is available in the following languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Canadian French, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish.

Screenshots

BlackBerry Work4 screens
Oracle Maintenance for EBS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: BlackBerry Work at every 2 months against Oracle Maintenance for EBS's every 6 months. Oracle Maintenance for EBS's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0.0 vs 18.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BlackBerry Work ships an update every 2 months, Oracle Maintenance for EBS every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
BlackBerry Work versus Oracle Maintenance for EBS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlackBerry WorkOracle Maintenance for EBS
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.7 (643 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews8.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings643 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.614.0.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB158 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlackBerry CorporationOracle America, Inc.

Bugs and requests

BlackBerry Work

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Notifications not working consistently
  • Emails not syncing or loading properly
  • App freezing and crashing on launch
  • Compatibility issues with iOS updates

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add custom filters and swipe gestures
  • Improve notification reliability
  • Integrate with more productivity apps
  • Implement Face ID/Touch ID support

Oracle Maintenance for EBS

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

BlackBerry Work

No in-app purchases

None

Oracle Maintenance for EBS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BlackBerry Work free?
BlackBerry Work is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Oracle Maintenance for EBS free?
Oracle Maintenance for EBS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BlackBerry Work or Oracle Maintenance for EBS have ads?
Neither BlackBerry Work nor Oracle Maintenance for EBS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BlackBerry Work or Oracle Maintenance for EBS?
BlackBerry Work ships an update every 2 months, and Oracle Maintenance for EBS every 6 months. Most recently, BlackBerry Work was updated on October 18, 2026 and Oracle Maintenance for EBS on October 3, 2026.

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