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Shift wants you to rearrange the internet
The Canadian browser company lets you move the bars, separate your accounts, and give each project a room of its own. Its most revealing discovery: people needed permission to move the furniture.
eG Innovations and the Case of the Innocent Server
Every team has a healthy dashboard. The user still has a slow application. eG Innovations built a business around finding the trouble between those two facts.
The Office Has Escaped the Office
VMware Workspace ONE began with a simple nuisance: work escaped the desktop, but IT’s controls did not. Now owned by Omnissa, it tries to make every device - from a nurse’s iPhone to a supermarket freezer scanner - manageable without making the worker feel managed.
Shankar Iyer Is Teaching a 20-Year-Old Business to Move Like a New Company
After three decades of building, positioning and running software, Shankar Iyer was handed a rare assignment: give an established VMware business the habits, culture and appetite of an independent company.
Plover
Plover is a Singapore-based corporate travel and technology company that simplifies business travel through a wholly owned, cloud-based SaaS platform. Founded in 2017, it combines a full-service travel management company (TMC) with proprietary apps for travel booking, expense management, and workspace management. Plover describes itself as builder of Asia's first fully integrated corporate travel, expense and workspace platform, offering GDS, NDC and Direct Connect airline content plus global hotel aggregators to corporates and travel agencies across the Asia Pacific region.
Omnissa
Omnissa is an independent digital work platform company spun out of VMware's End-User Computing business after KKR's roughly $4 billion acquisition closed on July 1, 2024. Led by CEO Shankar Iyer, it builds the autonomous workspace: a unified platform spanning Workspace ONE (unified endpoint management), Omnissa Horizon (virtual desktops and apps / DaaS), and Omnissa Intelligence (analytics and digital employee experience), increasingly stitched together with trusted, AI-driven automation. The company serves more than 26,000 customers worldwide, including a majority of the Fortune 500, with about $1.5 billion in annual recurring revenue and roughly 4,000 employees.