SAP Mobile Platform, with SAP Mobile SDK
and SAP Mobile Platform Runtime, provides functionality and features to address
enterprise requirements.
Connectivity
- Provides the middleware platform where users connect to and interact with various enterprise information systems and applications that exist in any large or medium size corporate IT infrastructure that supports customers, employees, sales, partners, suppliers, and executives. This includes SAP® back-end systems such as SAP Business Suite.
Security
- End-to-end security ensures that connections, applications, and data objects are deployed and managed securely.
- Data is partitioned for mobile applications; securing data while in transport and while accessed by the application.
- Data access and application functionality is available only to authorized mobile users.
Device and App Management
- Provides a common runtime infrastructure that supports deployment and management of a variety of mobile application types.
- Supports the rapidly expanding and changing selection of devices and device operating systems on the market.
- Implements a data model that fits the application requirements, physical restrictions and capabilities of the mobile device, such as network bandwidth, storage capacity, connectivity, security, and availability of consistent data.
- Reliably propagates user transactions initiated on a device that may or may not have network connectivity.
- Manages device and application life cycles, including device upgrades and turnover, deployment of application updates and new applications, with limited interruption to productivity.
Development Tools to Minimize Total Cost of Development
- Development tools leverage existing developer expertise, technologies, and commonalities, such as data models and objects, to effectively produce mobile applications for a variety of device types and device platforms.