Stage 1: Assess

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 back-end resources

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

Host Platform Requirements
Provision host systems to meet SAP Mobile Platform Server requirements.
Network Communications Requirements
Network and host provisioning must accommodate SAP Mobile Platform internal communications.
Back-End Requirements
You may need to provision back-end resources to enable SAP Mobile Platform to use data services provided by those resources.
Authentication and Authorization Security Requirements
If you do not effectively define security requirements before installing SAP Mobile Platform, you cannot evaluate the resulting system for success or failure prior to implementation. SAP Mobile Platform security features are affected by your current infrastructure.
Intrusion Detection and Protection Requirements
To accommodate SAP Mobile Platform internal communications, you may need to reconfigure hardware or software intrusion detection and prevention systems.