VMware, Inc. has announced that it has been named ‘Enterprise Mobility Management Provider of the Year’ by Frost & Sullivan for the second consecutive year. This accolade was given out at Frost & Sullivan’s India Digital Transformation Awards.
The Frost & Sullivan India Digital Transformation Awards, previously known as the India ICT Awards, celebrate companies and individuals that have pushed boundaries of excellence and successfully delivered business outcomes using digital technologies and techniques in India.
“The growing millennial workforce is looking for workplace solutions that mirror the mobility they enjoy outside of work and deliver the same simplicity as consumer technology. This is driving the need for digital transformation in India. To help our customers meet these demands, VMware manages more than 2.5 million devices in India, making it one of the largest markets for our end-user computing segment,” said Arun Parameswaran, Managing Director, VMware India. “This award reflects our dedication in empowering our customers to build a digital workspace through innovative and customer-centric products.”
“Given the strategic imperative of VMware to provide an all-encompassing mobility portfolio to help enterprises be more connected in a ubiquitous mobile world, VMware is continuously expanding its enterprise mobility management portfolio into unified endpoint management and delivering enhanced value to end users through a broader Digital Workspace solution. VMware delivers innovations that take inspiration from the world of consumer technologies to simplify the way end-users interact with key end-user services and the way IT manages end-users, devices and applications,” said Benoy C.S., Director & Business Unit Head, Digital Transformation Practice, Frost & Sullivan.
VMware AirWatch continues to be the enterprise mobility management (EMM) platform of choice among local businesses. In the past year, VMware has delivered new and innovative solutions that continue to differentiate VMware AirWatch as a complete, cohesive digital workspace platform.
These innovations include:
- Introduction of VMware AirWatch Unified Endpoint Management, a new solution that provides a holistic and user-centric approach to managing all endpoints in an organization – from mobile and desktop to IoT
- The addition of smart glasses management to VMware AirWatch, making VMware AirWatch Unified Endpoint Management the first unified endpoint management solution to extend into wearables, enabling customers to manage their smart glasses alongside existing desktop and mobile endpoints
- Offering VMware AirWatch as a managed service hosted by VMware and delivered through communications service providers (CSPs) worldwide
- Expansion of enterprise security with cross-platform support in VMware AirWatch Unified Endpoint Management for mobile, desktops, ruggedized and IoT devices, including Windows 10, to simplify the IT and end-user experiences
- A new collaboration with Oracle to enable advanced security features and streamlined management of Oracle mobile enterprise applications using VMware AirWatch and VMware Workspace ONE
- Integration between VMware AirWatch and Dell Client Command Suite to extend remote management capabilities for key Dell hardware system attributes to enhance VMware AirWatch Unified Endpoint Management
- An expanded partnership with Google to accelerate the adoption of Chromebooks by enhancing existing application accessibility of the devices using Workspace ONE to enable one-click secure authentication and management of applications – cloud, web and virtual
- Introduction of VMware Pulse IoT Center, a secure, enterprise grade Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure management solution that leverages VMware AirWatch technology
- Acquisition of Apteligent to enhance application performance and improve user experience through actionable application insights