SAP mobile platform for real-time enterprise performance

BANGALORE, INDIA: To meet heavy business demand for secure, cost-effective mobile app development both on premise and in the cloud, SAP AG today announced the 3.0 release of SAP Mobile Platform and a cloud version powered by the SAP HANA platform for real-time enterprise performance.

The latest versions are intended to provide unmatched productivity for developers via a comprehensive set of platform services, an open standards-based architecture and by embracing a "bring-your-own-tools" (BYOT) strategy through integration with third-party development tools.

Millions of developers shall be able to use SAP Mobile Platform to create beautiful user-centric employee, business and consumer mobile apps, rather than spending time learning new tools and protocols. The announcement was made at SAP TechEd, being held October 21-25 in Las Vegas.

Gartner "Forecast: Mobile App Stores, Worldwide, 2013 Update" by Sandy Shen and Brian Blau, 102 billion mobile apps are forecasted to be downloaded in 2013. Due to this, many app developers now prefer to develop for mobile devices over desktops.

SAP plans to offer one of the most mature and proven mobile app development platforms. To expand on the previous integration of Sybase Unwired Platform, the 3.0 release of SAP Mobile Platform shall integrate the primary mobile application solutions from SAP- including SAP NetWeaver Gateway technology, Sybase Mobiliser and Syclo Agentry- to meet current and future mobile app use cases.

The combination is envisioned to provide businesses of all sizes and in all industries a complete, highly flexible platform capable of handling mobile requirements for designing, building, testing, deploying, scaling and securely optimizing any app for any user.