Today at Connect 2016, VMware, Inc.,
a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility,
showcased its progress and continued vision to develop VMware AirWatch
Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) into an analytics platform that
delivers IT and business units intelligent insights derived from
deployments. VMware will demonstrate how the platform could anonymously
gather information and provide insights, recommendations and automated
actions to improve an organization's mobility deployment, compliance and
security. Additionally, VMware will showcase on stage at Connect a tech
preview of new, dynamic custom reporting engine within VMware AirWatch,
one of the first steps in delivering this analytics platform to
customers.
"The technology industry is increasingly turning to
analytics to improve and automate processes, and VMware AirWatch can
evolve to provide this high level of data intelligence for IT and
businesses," said Noah Wasmer, senior vice president, mobile products,
End-User Computing, VMware. "We want to bring our customers predictive
and insightful information that enriches and transforms how employees
work everyday. The goal of this solution is to allow IT to focus more on
enabling mobile business strategies and less on the minutia of
operational tasks. Intelligent analytics from VMware AirWatch is the
very next step in the digital transformation of how we work for both IT
and employees."
As businesses mobility programs mature and
organization- or industry-specific data is available, it is paramount to
deliver actionable insights on best practices, efficiencies and areas
for improvement. VMware AirWatch is a unique solution that not only
provides information about organizational or industry data and patterns,
but the software can also take action based on these derived analytics.
VMware plans to use machine learning to implement predictive
analytics and provide advanced artificial intelligence that will help
organizations across industries make intelligent decisions. For example,
an organization can optimize app licenses by analyzing employee usage
history for an enterprise app. The company could apply "if this, then
that" (ITTT) policies and notify a user or revoke and reassign the
license if the apps is not being utilized. In another example, a
warehouse could capture what rugged devices or apps are using the most
battery and be more efficient with battery replacement programs. Nearly
every industry and vertical could imagine situations in which these
analytics could improve business operations. VMware will also open APIs
to these functionalities to extend analytics beyond the AirWatch system,
enabling customers to take advantage of a developed ecosystem.
Pricing and Availability
VMware AirWatch custom reports will be available as a tech preview later in the quarter.