At the SAP TechEd event, which esttenu from 21 to 25 October in Las Vegas, SAP announced version 3.0 of its mobile platform SAP Mobile Platform and a motorized version Cloud by SAP HANA platform to guarantee real-time performance.
These new
versions are designed to maximize developer productivity through a
comprehensive set of services, an architecture based on open standards and a
strategy of "Bring-Your-Own-Tools" type (BYOT) that allows
integration easily with third-party development tools. Millions of developers
and should be able to use the mobile platform for SAP to create innovative and
ergonomic mobile applications for a business use or for use by customers,
without having to learn new tools or to new protocols.
"Today, the most successful companies use
mobility to remain competitive and thus, they must quickly implement a
sustainable mobile strategy based on an open, standards-based mobile platform,"
said Anthony Reynolds, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Mobile
Solutions, SAP. "We worked closely with our customers and partners to
design and build a radically new innovative platform to ensure a transparent
and capable of reducing the total cost of ownership for IT and development
costs user experience applications. Initial feedback and expressions of
interest we have received are fantastic and we are excited to deliver this
platform to a wider market. "
"Our studies show that all applications
will be adapted to mobile, making the management of the life cycle of
applications will become critical to protect investments in mobile," said
Chris Marsh, Senior Analyst, Yankee Group. "Companies are turning to
integrated platforms and open standards to ensure interoperability can and
protect the longevity of applications. The leading mobile platforms will be
characterized by open and extensible architecture, the presence of a layer of
management and orchestration API data and a large collection of libraries. They
will be agnostic in terms of development tools, infrastructure and standards
and embark integrated capabilities for testing and analysis. They also support
a rich ecosystem. "
German publisher
notes that SAP Mobile Platform does not require reengineering processes,
resources or infrastructure. The platform is designed to avoid headache for
developers and focuses on the creation of an attractive user experience based
on application services and core essential services. These include essential
services to mobile applications such as authentication, the initial
configuration, management lifecycle and updates, log management data and data
integration. Some application services, we can also include components for
mobile commerce, couponing, management of loyalty programs and mobile banking
online. The support of mobile Web architecture and MS native, hybrid and driven
by metadata is also provided.
SAP Mobile
Platform is based on an approach based on open standards and open technologies
incorporating the latest mobile innovations architecture. These include
providing capacity "offline" based on the OData (Open Data Protocol),
to propose OSGi architecture with support for Java frameworks and Spring
Equinox, and provide an open-source Apache container Cordova container with
plug- ins adapted to the platform. SAP Mobile Platform also makes extensive use
of HTML5 for both its own needs and the needs of application development and
offers a broad set of common HTTP REST API for On- Premise and Cloud versions
of the platform form.
Developers are
free to choose their preferred development tool; enhanced by the addition of
the SDK (software developer kit) provided by SAP and libraries for building
native and hybrid applications.
The cloud-based
version of SAP Mobile Platform 3.0 is based on the cloud platform SAP HANA, a
SaaS platform and open standards-based, which aims to enable customers and
partners to build and SAP deploy custom from SAP data centers worldwide
applications. This cloud-based version allows the rapid deployment of hybrid
and native applications for iOS environments, Android, Windows 8, Windows Phone
8 and BlackBerry. Under the cloud platform SAP HANA, users of the mobile
version also have access to other services, including analytical services,
integration and security services as well as SAP HANA.
A free 30 day
trial of SAP Mobile Platform version is available on the SAP Community Network
in the Developer Center for SAP Mobile Platform, and a
training course on development is also available on the platform openSAP. SAP
would also work with the best talent among developers to build a community of
innovative mobile applications. The winner of the next contest mobileapplication development “Mobile Game On" will and the journey of his life
in 2014.
