Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 28 | Page 53

COUNTRY FOCUS: UAE technology, organisations need to provide employees with the right information on any device, at any time and from any location. CIOs need to foster a culture centred on trust, accessibility, and collaboration to have their employees be engaged and productive.” Dubai Municipality, the government agency that fosters Dubai’s growth and development, faced challenges in ensuring its thousands of employees had consistent access to business applications that ensure city services are delivered on time. In response, Dubai Municipality launched a digital transformation project to virtualise desktops and consolidate data centres for www.intelligentcio.com “ MAKING APPS HIGHLY ACCESSIBLE FROM ANY DEVICE POWERS A REAL DIFFERENCE IN PERFORMANCE. business applications using VMware Horizon Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and VMware Workspace ONE. Ahmed Kajoor, CIO, Dubai Municipality, said: “Dubai Municipality, as one of the UAE’s largest government institutions, needs to provide our employees with business applications available from any device, at any time, from any location to ensure the city is running well. “Digital transformation, based on business applications, has increased Dubai Municipality’s staff productivity and collaboration, optimised costs, and is driving new levels of citizen happiness and innovative citizen services.” INTELLIGENTCIO 53