Kinvey, an enterprise mobile Backend as a Service (mBaaS) developer, has launched Mobile Data Connect for SAP to provide SAP application owners with a fast, simpleand secure way to make SAP data available to important mobile applications.
“We see a significant, unfulfilled demand for engaging apps that leverage new mobile capabilities to improve productivity and efficiency of a mobile workforce,” said CJ Barton, vice president, sales, Kinvey.
“The success of these mobile application projects is hampered by huge costs, difficulty creating mobile-friendly interfaces with SAP, poor data delivery performance, lack of offline operation support, and an absence of SAP knowledge among mobile developers.”
Kinvey’s out-of-the-box solution provides software development kits available across 13 mobile app development platforms for native, hybrid and mobile web app delivery. It also provides pre-built modules for advanced client-side caching, syncing, and encryption algorithms to meet the needs of mobile workforces.
According to Kinvey, Mobile Data Connect for SAP accelerates data delivery for sub-second speeds, and secure cloud caching enables sub-second screen performance of the app even when the SAP system response is in the tens of seconds.
“Our customers and SI partners trying to build mobile apps are frustrated with the options provided by SAP, which boil down to spending millions of dollars to buy new SAP products or take on a multi-year engagement to migrate to HANA. This is a serious problem that we have solved at less than one-tenth of the cost of SAP’s solutions,” said Sravish Sridhar, CEO, Kinvey.
“Our Mobile Data Connect for SAP is available now and mobilises any current SAP system, for any device. SAP admins have been amazed by how easy it is to integrate, configure and mobilise SAP, and mobile app project owners have been delighted by how happy their end users are with the performance and quality of their apps.”
Bell and Howell is one of Kinvey’s customers using Mobile Data Connect for SAP to provide the high performance apps its mobile workforce require.
“If you’ve worked with SAP systems as long as I have, you know that it’s no simple thing to extend an ERP system with mobility,” said Anubhav Gupta, director, SAP applications, Bell and Howell. “With Kinvey, we’ve been able to extend our SAP landscape for new use cases, and the performance has been unbelievable. I went from 14-second SAP data access down to 400-millisecond mobile-friendly data access.”
