By Freya Purnell
SAP chose Mobile World Congress as the forum to announce availability of SAP HANA Cloud Platform mobile services, which will form the foundation of SAP’s mobile app development strategy.
The platform-as-a-service offering is designed to drive mobile business innovation by connecting people, devices and business networks using SAP’s end-to-end capabilities covering the development, staging and secure deployment of mobile apps.
The service will help customers build and deploy native and hybrid mobile apps that integrate securely with on-premise or cloud-based systems. Some of the new features include optimised data synchronisation and expanded push notification application programming interface (API). SAP has applied a look and feel consistent with SAP Fiori.
SAP HANA Cloud Platform mobile services are also fully interoperable with the cloud-based SAP Mobile Secure portfolio, and one-click deployment to the SAP Mobile Place tool for quick and easy discovery, downloading and provisioning of apps on both managed and unmanaged devices.
“It’s critical for our broad ecosystem of customers and partners to simplify their mobile business and easily create omnichannel, context-aware mobile applications in the cloud,” said Rick Costanzo, executive vice president and general manager of Telecommunication Solutions and Mobility Solutions, SAP.
“SAP HANA Cloud Platform mobile services mark a major milestone in our mobile strategy. This is not only the way forward for companies to transform their mobile business but also the bridge between rapidly changing technology and fast-moving market trends such as the networked economy, augmented reality and the Internet of Things.”
Using SAP HANA Cloud Platform mobile services, partners in the SAP PartnerEdge program for Application Development can build mobile apps for deployment as self-sufficient cloud-based services, as well as for on-premise environments based on SAP Mobile Platform.
