In response to the events of 2020, many organizations successfully spun up new technologies and rolled out new processes to enable their employees to stay connected and productive while working remotely. But what they didn’t know—and thus couldn’t prepare for—was the profound and permanent change in how and where work would be done.
After a prolonged period of working remotely, many employees have come to enjoy the flexibility and don’t want to return to an office at all, or at least not 100 percent of the time. And employers also are recognizing the benefits that a distributed workforce model can deliver.
Whether organizations are planning a 100 percent return-to-office strategy, are pivoting to 100 percent remote, or want to support a hybrid work model enabling employees to shift seamlessly between the two, ensuring a best-in-class digital employee experience also requires the intelligence needed to provide the right access to the right workers right when they need it, wherever they need it.
Many IT teams are struggling with an assortment of technologies they quickly stitched together to support what they thought was a short-term period of remote work rather than a permanent shift to a work-from-anywhere model. And they are realizing that three key technology-related obstacles must be overcome to support a high-functioning distributed workforce for the long term.
VMware Anywhere Workspace is a pre-integrated solution that delivers secure and seamless experiences for distributed workforces while reducing costs and operational
overhead for organizations.
It combines the key elements of unified endpoint management, desktop and app virtualization, secure access service edge, and endpoint security technologies to fully meet the needs of today’s distributed workforce.
Manage Multi-Modal Employee Experiences
Put employees first with device choice, flexibility and frictionless, high-quality experiences.
Secure the Distributed Edge
Ease the move to Zero Trust with situational intelligence and connected control points.
Automate the Workspace
Manage to outcomes, not tasks, with intelligent compliance, workflow and performance management.
Put employees first with device choice, flexibility and frictionless, high-quality experiences.
Meeting the needs of the distributed workforce means delivering uncompromised technology experiences for employees through remote work experiences, which can significantly improve satisfaction and help boost their productivity.
A best-in-class digital experience for employees is one that that optimizes onboarding for new team members wherever they are located; provides access to all the tools, technologies and resources they need to be productive on Day 1; and offers them flexibility and choice of platforms and devices.
VMware Anywhere Workspace provides a comprehensive architecture that puts the employee first, driving uncompromised performance and uptime through increased network agility, delivering immersive experiences across the entire employee lifecycle. With an intelligent, automated platform that enables continuous improvement, IT teams can enable employees to work smarter and better.
Enable touch-free IT
Deliver frictionless experiences for employees from onboarding to ongoing support—anywhere, anytime.
Provide freedom of choice
Support knowledge and frontline employees working in any location using any device—company-owned or BYO.
Deliver uncompromised uptime
Ensure a good application experience whether working from the office or remotely.
Ease the move to Zero Trust with situational intelligence and connected control points.
Strengthening security and compliance for more effective risk mitigation in increasingly distributed work environments means changing traditional security models that do not scale. IT teams need to extend security policies to new endpoints scattered across a broad array of locations, as well as get visibility into all the distributed apps, data, devices and networks in the ecosystem. Success starts by consolidating vendors to reduce security fragmentation and silos to make Zero Trust work. The Zero Trust approach to security assumes that no device should be trusted even if it’s connected to a managed corporate network.
Anywhere Workspace enables organizations to ease the move to Zero Trust through situational intelligence and connected control points by providing a holistic approach that combines endpoint security and endpoint management with network edge security.
Embrace least privilege
Shrink the attack surface with micro-segmentation and real-time continuous authentication and authorization for access control policies.
Leverage situational intelligence
Get trustworthy, actionable, and readily available environmental context and threat intelligence.
Connect control points
Align workload, network, device and access controls to the applications
and data being protected.
Manage to outcomes, not tasks, with intelligent compliance, workflow and performance management.
How can time-stretched IT teams in distributed organizations protect and manage networks and endpoints while also providing a best-in-class experience for employees? Through automation.
By automating the workspace with intelligent compliance, workflow and performance management, IT teams can manage to outcomes rather than tasks—and more easily, effectively and efficiently support distributed workforce needs. Automation significantly simplifies and streamlines protection and management of the digital workspace to save time, money and resources.
Built on industry-leading unified endpoint management, desktop and app virtualization, secure access service edge (SASE), and endpoint security technologies, the VMware automation solution is based on a convergent infrastructure that allows for connected visibility and context across all vectors. It also simplifies processes with optimized, intelligent workflows, so IT teams can reduce tools and silos, lower operational overhead, and more effectively drive business outcomes.
Make intelligence work for you
Take advantage of unified intelligence to quickly identify, prioritize and generate automated actions.
Deploy custom workflows with ease
Create and deploy complex workflows with drag-and-drop flexibility and speed.
Implement cloud-native visibility and management
Extend visibility and management.
Challenges
The district needed to provide students and staff with the flexibility to log in to district content remotely from anywhere while operating with limited IT budget and resources.
About Tyler ISD
As the largest school district in northeast Texas, Tyler ISD maintains a total of 36 campus and auxiliary facilities, has 2,300 employees, and serves an enrollment of more than 18,000 students. The district has two high schools, an Early College High School, Career & Technology Center, five middle schools, 17 elementary schools, two alternative schools, and one special education campus.
Challenges
Città metropolitana di Roma Capitale was embarking on digital transformation to eliminate the many tasks wedded to bureaucratic paper-based processes and relieve budget pressure as well as to cut Rome’s traffic congestion.
About Città metropolitana di Roma Capitale
Città metropolitana di Roma Capitale is an area of local government in the Lazio region of Italy. Created in 2015 after the law 56/2014, it comprises the territory of the former province of Roma: the city of Rome and 121 other municipalities. With more than 4.5 million inhabitants, it is the largest metropolitan city in Italy.
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Challenges
As servers, storage, and networking equipment aged, Nol-Tec IT sought greater resiliency, flexibility, and visibility to build an agile organization that could deliver better services to the business. The company also wanted to give traveling employees more secure digital workspaces so they could better serve clients worldwide.
Founded in 1983, Nol-Tec Systems is a global leader in process systems engineering with nearly 100 employees. Nol-Tec provides custom solutions, aligning with manufacturers, materials processors, and electrical generators to deliver the highest-quality material handling and control solutions.
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Challenges
To stay competitive in a world with heterogeneity of devices and operating systems, as well as to accommodate bring your own device (BYOD) policies, it was important to build on a modern, mobile workplace concept. SoCura wanted to provide mobile IT support that would make life easier, specifically seamless documentation of sensitive data. Becasuse work was mostly handled on paper, employees had to go back to the office to write up all documentation. SoCura customers also needed secure access to essential data from wherever they happened to be.
SoCura, a subsidiary of the Malteser relief agency, is a provider of accounting, IT and personnel services for organizations in the welfare, church and healthcare space.
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Challenges
St. John’s Health operated legacy technology that was disjointed and negatively affected the employee and patient experience. Nurses had to log in to as many as four legacy systems, and there were no workstations in patient rooms to update charts. Physicians and other caregivers lacked a single point of remote access entry to all applications.
Located in Jackson, Wyoming, St. John’s Health is a regional medical system serving Teton County and surrounding counties with a team of 150 healthcare providers and 750 total staff. The facility admits approximately 1,900 patients, delivers 450 babies, performs 2,750 surgeries and handles 8,500 emergencies every year.
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Challenges
Preferred has a staff of 300 employees. With many of them regularly working remotely, the company wanted to give all its employees the option of either using a work device or using their own home machines yet needed to ensure policies were in place to protect files transferred back and forth.
About Preferred Mutual
Preferred Mutual Insurance Company provides property and casualty insurance coverage to more than 232,000 individual and business customers through a network of more than 500 independent agents throughout New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. In business since 1896, Preferred Mutual is rated “A” by A.M. Best Company and is headquartered in New Berlin, New York.
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Challenges
Devcon project managers and partners were experiencing poor quality of service for critical collaboration applications. Connectivity issues between team members and subcontractors also slowed large file transfers, such as blueprints, creating frustrating delays and dissatisfied users, while complicating security.
About Devcon Construction
Devcon Construction, Inc. is consistently ranked among the top 100 construction companies worldwide. Since 1976, the company has built high-quality corporate campuses, data centers, education projects, green buildings, luxury hospitality venues, and sports and entertainment complexes.
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VMware Anywhere Workspace is the first and only architecture that combines the capabilities of SASE, digital workspace, and endpoint security technologies required for highly engaged and productive employees, end-to-end Zero Trust security, and simplified IT modernization.
With Anywhere Workspace, IT teams can: