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Desktop virtualization features such as VDI with personal vDisk, hosted physical desktops, remote PC access, and end user profile management and application virtualization features such as real-time application delivery, application isolation, app catalogs, self-service app store, application scaling across multiple datacenters, application session monitoring, and application containerization, are the most crucial features of an effective deployment of endto-end WaaS suite offered to commercial clients by major vendors to enhance business mobility and streamline business operations. Most of the vendors listed below are instrumental in offering an architecture, which enables software vendors to create a digital workspace for their commercial customers and offer seamless interface with public and private cloud infrastructures. The following vendors are included in the report:       VMware, Inc. (U.S.) Citrix Systems, Inc. (U.S.) Microsoft Corporation (U.S.) Amazon Web Services (AWS)(U.S.) IndependenceIT (U.S.) CloudJumper (nGenx) (U.S.) MnM DIVE Methodology The MnM DIVE methodology involves an extensive research to identify the key vendors offering WaaS to their partners and other independent software vendors. A comprehensive list of WaaS Partner vendors was prepared, through secondary research referring to annual reports, press releases and investor presentations of companies, white papers, directories, and databases. Based on their extent of service offerings, organization size, and other selectio n criteria, the list was narrowed down to select the six key technology vendors. During the production cycle of the report, in-depth interviews were conducted with various primary respondents, which include key opinion leaders, subject matter experts, directors, and C-level executives of selected WaaS vendors to obtain and verify critical qualitative and quantitative information. This primary data was collected mainly through questionnaires, mails, and telephonic interviews. Scoring Methodology After the completion of the data gathering and verification process, the scores and weightage for the shortlisted vendors against each parameter were finalized. Based on the extensive secondary and primary research, each criterion for the selected vendors was scored on the scale ranging from 0 to 10. After the ratings were finalized, each vendor was placed in the MnM DIVE matrix based on their score in service offering and business strategy in the WaaS Partner Vendor market. About MarketsandMarkets MarketsandMarkets is the largest market research firm worldwide in terms of annually published premium market research reports. Serving 1700 global fortune enterprises with more than 1200 premium studies in a year, M&M is catering to a multitude of clients across 8 different industrial verticals. We specialize in consulting assignments and business research