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AirWatch

Forrest Stroud
Last Updated May 24, 2021 7:34 am

An enterprise mobility management (EMM) and mobile device management (MDM) provider that offers solutions for handling the management of mobile devices, applications and mobile content in the enterprise.

AirWatch competes in the mobile device management market with other MDM companies such as Citrix Systems (Xenprise), Perimeter, SAP Sybase, IBM (Fiberlink), Oracle (Bitzer), Continuum and MobileIron. Founded in 2003, AirWatch was recently acquired by VMware in January 2014 for $1.54 billion.