Business mobility goes way beyond a shift in technology; it is a real opportunity for business process transformation, says VMware.
So said Garry Owen, senior product marketing manager EMEA at VMware, during an interview at VMWorld 2015 Europe in Barcelona.
He said business mobility will be a key driver of economic value for the foreseeable future.
Mobile innovation, apps and services are crucial to a business's success, and organisations hoping to thrive will have to adapt to the mobile world, he explained.
According to Owen, business mobility is about transforming the way people work. The proliferation of devices and the consumerisation of IT have seen users becoming more demanding, and becoming the consumers themselves.
"What runs a business is applications and data, and there are no longer geographic limitations. Advances in technology are seeing apps and data accessed from anywhere."
He said now more than ever before, enterprises are dealing with two fundamental pain points, namely providing secure identity and access to an increasingly mobile workforce, and managing the growing diversity and number of applications, data and devices.
With this in mind, the company acquired AirWatch, a leader in enterprise-grade mobility solutions across every type of device, all operating systems, and all manner of mobile deployment.
AirWatch has the flexibility to support multiple use cases with unified management of endpoints, end-to-end security from devices to data centre, and seamless integration across enterprise systems.
The company also offers a range of solutions - VMware Horizon 6, VMware Horizon Air and VMware Horizon FLEX, that provide access to virtualised and remote desktops and applications from a single platform, deliver cloud-hosted desktops and applications to any device, and give BYOD users flexibility while helping ensure security, control and compliance of the corporate desktop.
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