COUNTRY FOCUS: UAE
Empowered employees in the UAE are
benefiting from the performance power
of digital technologies. Collaboration
across the workforce is increasing in
an environment where employees are
bringing their own business apps into
the workplace. Dubai Municipality,
faced with the challenge of ensuring its
employees have consistent access to
business applications, has launched a
digital transformation project leveraging
the expertise offered by VMware.
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The digital workspace
revolution is
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Mware, a global leader in cloud
infrastructure and business mobility,
has unveiled its annual report into
the state of digital workspace technologies
and their impact on businesses. This reveals
that empowered employees, those who are
granted greater access to the applications
they prefer and need to do their job, are
almost five times more likely to report gains in
their productivity, resulting in them spending
22% less time on manual processes.
The research, conducted in association with
Forbes Insights in September 2017 among
2,158 CIOs and end-users of businesses
across 16 countries around the world,
highlights how CIOs are recognising the
performance power of digital technologies
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and applications in the hands of their
employees. These empowered employees in
the UAE, are more likely to say applications
are very important in accelerating decision
making compared to traditional employees
(60% to 40%).
This empowerment, according to the
findings, has a direct influence on the
performance of the business; with the
majority of all CIOs in EMEA (89%) believing
that revenue can increase by 5% over three
years when employees are empowered.
It is also enabling employees in the UAE to
increase collaboration across the workforce
(an increase by 13% against traditional
employees) and, in a clear sign that
they are at the heart of this app-centric
digital revolution, are procuring their own
applications to use at work; in EMEA, one in
five business apps are being brought to the
company by the employee themselves.
“One of the most profound shifts in business
in the UAE and the Middle East has been the
migration of enterprise applications into the
hands of employees. As a result, enterprise
applications have become a critical part of
an employee’s workday and their ability to
perform their roles smartly,” said Ahmed
Auda, Managing Director, Middle East and
North Africa, VMware.
“As UAE and Middle East organisations
race to gain a competitive edge through
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