Are you mobile?

When most of our customers interact with SAP, the user interface is either a Fiori app, NWBC or good old SAP GUI and almost always on a computer, while most other IT-interactions take place on a mobile device.

To make it possible to create a truly mobile experience for enterprise customers, SAP and Apple entered into a partnership in 2016 where they built a framework to enable secure communication between an SAP system and any iOS device. This was built with the award winning Fiori design language as the main user interface.

At the core of the solution lies SAP’s Business Technology Platform (BTP) which is delivered as a “Platform-as-a-Service” (PaaS). BTP handles safe and secure communication between SAP and the devices without the need for VPN and comes with a vast list of features from authentication to offline caching and handling of delta synchronization. The end result is a powerful mobile solution where you have access to all the features you’ll need from your SAP system, without dealing with custom integrations or storing of data.

Efficiency is always important from an end user perspective and having the option of downloading an app on an iPhone or iPad is key in building modern business processes. The app enables easy logon using SAP universal ID the first time it is started and from then you can authenticate using a password, or by utilizing Touch- or Face-ID. When building the app, we define whether some or all of the data should be available offline and if so, the app will download the full dataset upon first login and then synchronize changes whenever necessary.