Modeling Enterprise Data for Mobile Application Development

There are two ways to model enterprise data so that mobile applications can be developed to access data in your enterprise: Mobile Business Objects via the Sybase Mobile SDK and OData via SAP® Gateway.

• Mobile Business Objects
  The cornerstone of the solution architecture is the concept of the mobile business object (MBO). For native Object API applications and mobile workflows, mobile business objects form the business logic by defining the data you want to use from your back-end system and exposing it through your mobile application or workflow.
• OData
  The SAP NetWeaver Gateway exposes OData with extensions specific to SAP. Service documents, that describe service interaction and data, allow users to interact with the Gateway runtime, which then interacts with the SAP application suite.