“Business mobility is more than a shift in technology; it is an opportunity for true business process transformation,” said Sanjay Poonen, Executive VP and GM, End-User Computing, VMware, at the time. “Business mobility will be a key driver of economic value for the next decade – truly reorienting businesses around mobile innovation, apps and services. As a result, the adage ‘adapt or perish’ has never been truer than it is today.”
With IT unable to exert much control over an employee’s choice of endpoints and operating systems (Editor's note: an endpoint could be a computer, smartphone, tablet etc), the need to manage employee identity becomes crucial to enabling business mobility, VMware said.
Ultimately, employees should enjoy a unified experience across all of their devices, while being able to access all of their applications, content and services. Businesses and departments on the other hand, should be able to do more than enhance individual productivity. At the organisational level, security, management and networking have to be integrated.
A February 2015 report by Forrester Research* elaborates: "If you limit the view of enterprise mobility to bring your own devices (BYOD) or apps, you're missing out on the bigger opportunity of enabling the people in your workforce to make the most of their mobile moments. Enhance interactions with customers and colleagues to help employees take direct action and get things done wherever they are.”
Newly-launched VMware Identity Manager delivers an identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) offering integrated with a mobility management and security solution. VMware Identity Manager enables enterprise identity management that meets consumer-grade expectations with secure, one-touch access to Web, mobile and Windows applications. Offered as a cloud service or as an on-premises solution, VMware Identity Manager enables organisations to empower employees with a self-service application store. IT gains a central place to manage end-user provisioning, access and compliance, with enterprise-class directory integration, identity federation and user analytics.
VMware Identity Manager will also be used by other VMware solutions and services – from VMware vCloud Air to VMware vRealize Air – to provide seamless single sign-on for administrators to easily work across various management interfaces.
VMware also announced that it is furthering its commitment to Apple and the iOS platform with the development of application configuration templates and vertical solutions, in industries like healthcare, airlines, education and others. This will provide users a “single-touch” configured solution, for a wide variety of apps, and facilitate faster on-boarding of mobile devices in the enterprise. The company is already supporting Apple iOS and devices through its VMware Horizon and AirWatch by VMware product portfolios.
VMware has also announced that 15 new partners have committed to standardising public applications and development in the enterprise with ACE (App Configuration for Enterprise). ACE is the open standard approach for managing and securing apps deployed via enterprise mobility management (EMM) solutions. Once an application developer implements ACE standards, users simply download the public-facing application and corporate resources are automatically configured, allowing users to instantly and securely use the application.
Launched earlier this year by AirWatch, Box, Cisco, Salesforce, Workday and Xamarin, the new ACE members are bigtincan, Deputy, DocuSign, Dropbox, Everbridge, Imprivata, Kony, Lua, MicroStrategy, OnBase by Hyland, ScrollMotion, ServiceMax, Showpad, Syncplicity by EMC and Webalo.
“It’s critical that enterprises empower employees with intuitive, powerful cloud services, while ensuring that the organisation’s most important information is secure. At Box, we’re incredibly focused on protecting customer content, and we’re excited to continue our collaboration with VMware to deliver business mobility solutions to our joint customers,” said Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box.
“Deploying the right mobile apps with up-to-the-minute information to users through technology from VMware has enabled our employees to better serve our customers. The power of business mobility is poised to impact all industries and fundamentally redefine how employees do their jobs,” said Paul Donoghue, Director of enterprise mobile solutions at Stryker, a medical equipment and services firm with operations in Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
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*Create A Habitat of Technology Engagement and Enablement for Your Workforce, February 2015, Forrester Research.
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