Mobilizing the Enterprise - The SAP perspective

BENEFITS AND INSIGHTS FROM THE SAP PERSPECTIVE

Mario Aerts - Flexso

Who we are

• Leading SAP Service Partner in Belgium & Luxemburg

• Evolved from niche player to full service provider

• Clear focus on training, research & innovation (early adopter)

• Organized in competence centres

Earlier this morning

Earlier this morning...

Earlier this morning...

Today we’ll show how SAP...

• can run hundreds of apps out-of-the-box

• can be opened up for mobile development

• has a full-blown mobile application platform to mobilize SAP and non-SAP

Agenda

• Out-of-the-box mobile applications

• Open up SAP for mobile app development

• SAP Mobile Platform

SAP apps – What?

• Apps collection (150+)

• Simple operations

• Top transactions

• Consumer grade UI

• Responsive design

• Work out-of-the-box

SAP apps – Key Features

• Apps designed for increased productivity

• Role based, so users get only what they need

• Branding & theming possibilities

• Robust & simple architecture

• Extensible and modifiable

SAP apps – Stakeholders

Manager and Approvers

Improve management productivity, streamline processes, and impact

business results

Employees

Improve employee productivity and impact business results by getting the

job done anytime, anywhere

IT Department

Customer satisfaction, cross device support for majority of the functions

they use, reusing existing components & architecture

Purchasing Agent

Improve productivity of the purchasing agent for a fast business continuity

Sales Representative

Improve productivity of the Sales Representative for a closer connection

to his customer

Apps (wave 1)

Employee

Manager

Sales

Purchasing

My Leave Requests My Timesheet My Travel Requests My Paystub My Benefits My Shopping Cart Track Shopping Carts

Approve Requests Approve Leave Requests Approve Timesheets Approve Travel Requests Approve Travel Expenses Approve Shopping Carts Approve Purchase Orders Approve Requisitions Approve Purchase Contracts My Spend

Check Price and Availability Track Sales Orders Track Shipments Customer Invoices Create Sales Orders Change Sales Orders

Track Purchase Order Order from Requisitions

Application

alignment

modification &

enhancement

Scope

Verify and

prepare SAP

Backend

Infrastructure

Installation

Network &

Security

configuration

Platform

Application

Standard

Application

Installation &

configuration

Roles, User

Home Page and

Workflow

configuration

Basic Branding

Start

Integrating SAP

Apps with SAP

Mobile Portal

SAP apps

• Happy productive employees

• On any device anytime

• Fixed time, fixed scope, fixed price implementation

• Focus on operations instead of development

Agenda

• Out-of-the-box mobile applications

• Open up SAP for mobile app development

• SAP Mobile Platform

The vision on SAP

SAP systems are too slow for user interaction

SAP pays no

attention to user

interfaces

As a webdeveloper I don’t understand

SAP logic

SAP is the core engine of my

business processes We need to support

few interfaces because SAP is

integrated

With SAP best practices we

run our business better

SAP Netweaver Gateway

• Open

• User oriented

• Self describing

• Standard based

Open up your SAP system

• Connect with open source SDK’s

– Java

– Windows

– Android

– Objective C

– Javascript

– ...

Agenda

• Out-of-the-box mobile applications

• Open up SAP for mobile app development

• SAP Mobile Platform

What is Enterprise Mobility? Back-end Front-end

Mobile Devices Business Software

Databases Mobile Apps

Middleware

Mobile Platform

App Lifecycle Mgt

App Deployment

Development Tools

Offline Capability

Synchronization

Integration

Security

Device Management

Why a platform?

• Native

• Hybrid

• Web

• Need support for various usage scenario’s

Mobile Devices Business Software

Databases Mobile Apps

Why a platform?

Why a platform?

• Different user groups

• Heterogenious user expectations

– Industrial mobile workers

– Occasional users

– White collar mobile workers

• Employees vs customers

Enterprise backends

• Supports all OS and form factors

• Multiple app architectures

• Developer can bring own toolset (BYOT)

• Mobile apps for B2B, B2E and B2C

• Connect to any backend SAP 3th party

application Database

SAP Mobile Platform

Development tools

Middleware

Mobile services

Native Hybrid Mobile

Web Meta-data

SMS

Access SOP

• First class UX

• Target device

• Performance

Native Hybrid Mobile

Web Meta-data

SMS

Native Hybrid Mobile

Web Meta-data

SMS

Manage installations

• Single code base

• Multiple platforms (iOS, Android)

• Device access

Native Hybrid Mobile

Web Meta-data

SMS

Lookup locations

• Simple task

• BYOD

Native Hybrid Mobile

Web Meta-data

SMS

Workorder mgmt

• Complex task

• Industrial env.

• Mass offline data

Native Hybrid Mobile

Web Meta-data

SMS

• Off-the-shelf solutions for heavy offline apps

– Workorder management

– CRM Sales Manager

– Inventory Manager

SAP Mobile Platform

• Support complex requirements

– Full-blown mobile middleware

– All mobile development paradigms

– Build applications for all user groups

– Scalable, robust and governance

Enterprise backends

• Supports popuplar OS and form factors

• Instant available

• Hosting by SAP

• Cloud Connector secure SSL VPN Connection

• Fine grained access control SAP 3th party

application Database

SAP Mobile Platform Cloud Edition

Development tools

Middleware

Native Hybrid Mobile

Web

Cloud Connector

Demo

Open Flexso positions

• Publicly available

• Configurable authentication

• Integrate securely e-rec SAP data

SAP Mobile Platform Cloud

• Cloud offering

– Instant availability

– Reduced TCO

– Try & Buy

• State-of-the-art mobile services

• Robust and secure integration of on premise data

Key-points to take home

• Deploy SAP out-of-the-box apps easily for happy end-users

• Open up your SAP system for any frontend

• SAP has a leader mobile platform which can be used to cover all requirements

• SMP is offered in the Cloud for low footprint

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