Stage 1: Assess

The objective of this stage is to conduct a preliminary analysis of your existing IT ecosystem. Define the mobility goals and required functions and operation of the intended mobile applications and runtime system.

Ecosystem assessments should include:

Physical plant resources (power, rack space, cable drops, and so on)
Network design and configuration
Access control and authentication (information security) mechanisms
Availability of suitable host systems
Availability of EIS resources

From the assessment, gather requirements that will help you make design-phase decisions.

Assessing High Availability and Disaster Recovery Objectives
The objectives you set for downtime and data loss largely determine the landscape design for your SAP Mobile Platform implementation.
Host Platform Requirements
Provision host systems to meet SAP Mobile Platform Runtime host requirements.
SAP® Ecosystem Interoperability Requirements
To share information and services in an SAP landscape, define the degree to which the information and services are to be shared with SAP Mobile Platform. This is a very useful architectural requirement, especially in a complex or extended enterprise.
Network Communications Requirements
Network and host provisioning must accommodate SAP Mobile Platform internal communications.
EIS Requirements
You may need to provision some enterprise information system (EIS) resources to enable SAP Mobile Platform to use data services provided by the EIS.
Authentication and Authorization Security Requirements
If you do not effectively define security requirements in advance, you cannot evaluate the resulting system for success or failure prior to implementation. The features that currently exist determine how SAP Mobile Platform security is affected by your infrastructure.
Intrusion Detection and Protection Requirements
To accommodate SAP Mobile Platform internal communications, you may need to reconfigure hardware or software intrusion detection/prevention systems.