FEATURE: BYOD
conducive to their tasks. In the IoT era,
mobility is transforming organisations
across every size and industry
vertical. Emerging innovations such
as blockchain, machine learning, and
artificial intelligence also heavily rely on
leveraging mobility solutions.
“With mobile software from SAP
delivered from the cloud to any
device, organisations can deliver an
extraordinary impact at the point of
interaction, accelerate and transform
enterprise mobility, and optimise the
user experience,” says Hichem Maya,
Head of Industries, SAP MENA. Key
products from SAP include SAP Mobile
Platform, SAP Mobile Secure, SAP Mobile
Messaging Services, Enterprise iOS Apps,
SAP S4 HANA.
Using SAP HANA, a Connected City
manages traffic patterns, generates
insights on crime, analyses foot traffic
and more with live decision-making
capabilities. Using the SAP Sports One
solution, the Connected Stadium includes
mobile applications for ticketing and
heat mapping to connected seating and
digital merchandising. Using SAP Vehicle
Insights, drivers can use car locators,
mobile device integration, wi-fi, payments,
alerts, expenses and trip reporting.
Using SAP Transportation Management,
organisations can consolidate orders,
maximise return on transportation
spend, forecast demand and shipment
volumes, and gain real-time visibility on
global and domestic shipping across all
transportation modes and industries.
They can also analyse the health
and well-being in real time of drivers
for public transportation services to
proactively react to potential problems.
The VMware approach
As BYOD rises in Middle East workplaces,
most organisations do not have the
datacentres that can keep up with the
requirements of a mobile workforce. As
a result, Middle East organisations need
to redesign their networks to enable
secure remote access and cloud-native
applications. A key solution for this is
VMware’s AirWatch a unified endpoint
management platform that enables
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“The growing
number of
mobile and
IoT devices is
placing a burden
on ageing
infrastructures
that were not
designed with
mobility and IoT
in mind.”
organisations to manage any device,
any application, anywhere for a BYOD
environment. VMware’s AirWatch has
three key plays for enabling BYOD
in the Middle East: securing mobile
devices, re-architecting the datacentre,
and securing the channel between the
devices and the datacentre.
applications. “In the Middle East, banking
and finance continues to be the standard-
bearer for early adoption of BYOD
solutions, with academies and education
close behind,” continues Al Omari.
Usage of VMware products in various
market segments appears below:
Banking and Finance: VMware Secure
Digital Workspace for Financial
Services offers secure delivery of
financial services data, enhancing
customer experience, improving
operations, empowering employees,
safeguarding data and maintaining
regulatory compliance.
Retail: VMware Secure Digital Workspace
for Retail, delivers personalised
experiences, streamlines operations,
empowers store associates with real-
time information, and improves security
and compliance.
Healthcare: VMware Workspace ONE
unifies user, desktop, and mobile
management to enable a digital
clinical workspace.
“Another product, VMware NSX is key for
enabling organisations to re-use their
existing assets to deploy large-scale
and secure remote access between the
datacentre and device. In the mobile
cloud era, Middle East IT departments
also need to ensure that data moves
with the individual mobile devices.
VMware AirWatch allows enterprises to
have finely-grained control over what IT
can manage,” says Rasheed Al Omari,
Principal Business Solutions Strategist
MENA, VMware. Government: Using Secure Digital
Workspace for Government,
organisations can improve mission
effectiveness and service delivery, with
applications that protect citizen privacy
and security.
Using VMware AirWatch Tunnel
technology, IT departments can create
secure channels for specific applications,
and working in partnership with VMware
Workspace One with Single Sign-On,
can provide employees with secure
self-service to a personalised application
store. VMware is pushing public and
private cloud controls with partners
such as VMware Web Services and IBM
Cloud. As part of VMware’s Cross-Cloud
Strategy, it is committed to supporting
IT departments to have controls with
secure authentication for cloud-native Aruba HPE’s AlHaj-Issa feels that the
digital workplace is a big opportunity
for its channel partners. The digital
workplace is based on next generation
technologies and it is being rapidly
adopted in comparison to legacy
technologies that have already been
deployed for some time now. Moreover,
Aruba HPE does not invest in its own
implementation services and therefore
the channel partner opportunity is high.
Education: With digital content and
mobile devices replacing textbooks,
learning institutions are using VMware
Secure Digital Backpack.
Drivers and inhibitors
“Aruba HPE is a channel partner only
company, we only sell through partners,
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