Application Tier

As the key component of the application tier, SAP Mobile Server handles enterprise data source and application access, communication between the EIS data source and the mobile device, security, transaction processing, and scheduling.

SAP Mobile Server supports:
  • Optimized access to back-end systems, messaging, security services, multi-tenancy capabilities, and monitoring and development activities.
  • Data delivery to and from device applications by applying transactions to the cache database, and propagating transactions to back-end systems respectively.

After developing and packaging a mobile application, the package is deployed to SAP Mobile Server. From SAP Mobile Server, the device application can then be deployed to a mobile device, or provisioned to multiple devices using Afaria® Frontline Management, available as a separately licensed and installed product.

The SAP Mobile Server Customization and Management APIs support advanced requirements of complex data handling, transaction execution, security customization, exception handling, and systems management automation, all of which are intrinsic to complex corporate and multi-tenant-based mobile application deployment environments.

The following sections describe key aspects of the runtime landscape. For more detailed information, see these documents:
  • Landscape Design and Integration
  • Installation Guide for Runtime
  • System Administration
  • Security
Parent topic: SAP Mobile Platform Runtime