Introduction to The VMware WorkspaceONE

VMware Workspace ONE UEM (Unified Endpoint Management) formerly AirWatch was the name of both the company and a product based out of Atlanta and provider of enterprise mobility management (EMM) software and standalone management systems for content, application and email.

Journey of Airwatch - Workspace ONE UEM: AirWatch was founded in 2003 as Wandering WiFi by John Marshall, who served as president and CEO. Alan Dabbiere has been the chairman since 2006. On February 24, 2014 the company was acquired by VMware, Inc, and the EMM product eventually was rebranded as AirWatch by VMware and then VMware AirWatch. In May 2018, the enterprise product was rebranded again to VMware Workspace ONE UEM with the release of version 9.4. The product is often referred to as VMware Workspace ONE UEM powered by AirWatch. The name AirWatch is slowly being phased out of use.

VMware Workspace ONE Overview

VMware Workspace ONE deploys and manages resources to a single digital workspace on iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows 10 devices. Services are built on the integration of VMware Workspace ONE UEM (Unified Endpoint Management), VMware Identity Manager and VMware Horizon.

What are Workspace ONE Components

Workspace ONE is a set of integrated systems that includes Workspace ONE UEM (unified end-point management), VMware Identity Manager, and VMware Horizon.

VMware Identity Manager services provide the identity-related components, including authentication for users who use single sign-on to access their resources. You create a set of policies that relate to networking and authentication to control access to these resources.

Workspace ONE UEM services, formerly AirWatch, provide device enrollment, application distribution, and compliance checking tools to ensure that remote access devices meet corporate security standards. Users from enrolled devices can log in to their enabled applications securely without entering multiple passwords.

VMware Horizon services provide remote desktops and applications in the data center, and deliver these desktops and applications to employees as managed services. End users gain a familiar, personalized environment that they can access from any number of devices anywhere throughout the enterprise or from home. Administrators gain centralized control, efficiency, and security by having desktop data in the data center.

Supported Use Cases: Workspace ONE offers solutions for the listed use cases.

App Access and Management: Simplifies app access and management with a unified app catalog, deployment of virtual resources and mobile SSO.

Unified Endpoint Management: Manages all devices iOS, Android & Win10. Regardless of ownership mode and kind of enrollment while maintaining employee privacy.

Identity Integration: Simplifies identity integration, offering conditional access through various methods including certificate based authentication, VMware Tunnel, Identity provider integration, VMware Identity Manager and access compliance policies.

Enterprise Productivity: Enables enterprise productivity by integrating with native email offering productivity apps (VMware internal apps) and offering SDK’s all built on the Workspace ONE framework.