BlackBerry Work vs Maintenance for EBS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Maintenance for EBS
This app allows maintenance technicians and supervisors to manage work orders, assets, and related tasks on mobile devices. It supports offline functionality and synchronization with Oracle E-Business Suite.
- View and execute maintenance work
- Create and debrief work orders
- Manage assigned work, materials, and time
- Search work orders and assets
- Record meter readings and quality information
- Offline mode with data synchronization
- Supervisor-specific management tools
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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 and location - Record asset meter readings - Enter new quality results as well as view and update existing quality information associated to assets, operations and work orders - Create simple work orders and work requests - 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. 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 Oracle Mobile Maintenance for Oracle E-Business Suite is compatible with Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.3 and 12.2.3 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, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Maintenance for EBS at 5.0 against BlackBerry Work's 1.7. Maintenance for EBS also leads on iOS requirement (12.3 vs 18.6). BlackBerry Work's advantage is ratings volume (642 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Maintenance for EBS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BlackBerry Work has 642 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
BlackBerry Work ships an update every 2 months, Maintenance for EBS every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BlackBerry Work | Maintenance for EBS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (642 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 642 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 12.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BlackBerry Corporation | Oracle America, Inc. |
Customer experience
BlackBerry Work
Maintenance for EBS
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
Maintenance for EBS
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BlackBerry Work
No in-app purchases
Maintenance for EBS
No in-app purchases
Questions
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