Doubts about SAP NW Mobile and SAP Mobile Platform

[former_member199849]

Hi Guys

I wan to implement SAP Mobile but I am little confused, what is the difference between SAP Netweaver Mobile 7.1 (or higher) and SAP Mobile plataform (SUP, Afaria, Netweaver Gateway)?

Which is better? or which are their purpose? are they depend on each other? if I want to install SAP Mobile(SUP, Afaria, Netweaver Gateway) what is the order to install them and which kind of systems can they connect?

Regards

Andy

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Andy,

Check this presentation out.  It would help calrify the approach for you.

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/40dcd33e-5ec4-2b10-9bac-b73b5dee1...

[Jitendra_Kansal · Accepted solution]

Hi Andy,

SAP NW Mobile includes over-the-air device management, application design tools and synchronization middleware that allow occasionally connected mobile devices to interoperate as part of the company's business process.

Check below relevant links:

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-8564

http://help.sap.com/nwmobile711/

There is one good pdf available. You can search by Frequently asked questions sap netweaver mobile 7.1

There is one SAP CRM mobile app using  SAP NW Mobile + SMP (SUP old name)

http://scn.sap.com/thread/1848801

For SMP related,

http://scn.sap.com/thread/3406565

http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/mobility-platform

There is a separate setup for sap Mobile platform.there you will find runtime and sdk. Runtime is nothing but youe smp server and sdk is Mobile workspace where you do data modeling connecting to different backend.

SMP system cam connect to different backend like rest web services,  soap services,  sap backend

Regards,

Jitendra Kansal

[hofmann]

Which is better? or which are their purpose?

Which is better depends on your purpose. Field service apps normally use rugged devices running WM 6.5, and normally that kind of apps will use MI 7.1.

For the rest you'll go for SUP/SMP. SMP connects to basically anything, but there is a clear focus on SAP, and for online / productivity apps it is oData.

SMP, Gateway and Afaria do not depend on each other, the complement. You can use each one independently, but together they form SAP's mobile platform.

An important point to consider when choosing Afaria is if you need to have BB support, specially BB10.

[gerhard_henig]

Hi Andy,

the SAP Mobile Platform gives you all you need to efficiently develop, deploy and run
enterprise grade mobile apps for all leading device platforms such as iOS, Android, HTML5/JS, Windows, Blackberry, etc. This enables you to mobilize data and systems
from SAP and 3rd party vendors. SAP Afaria provides market leading mobile device
management and security.

The deployment order of those solutions depend on your requirements. If you just want to provide employees with corporate e-mail/calendar on their devices then you can go with SAP

Afaria device management first. If you want to develop and deploy enterprise mobile apps you will need to install the SAP Mobile Platform in addition.

SAP NetWeaver Mobile is in  "maintenance mode" and only supports Windows and Windows Mobile based devices. 

Best regards,

Gerhard

[Former Member]

Andy -

Well Netweaver Mobile is essentially end of life so you're going to want to focus on SAP Mobile Platform.  The platform is changing significantly between 2.3 and 3.0 so if you're going want to watch the roadmap carefully.  Good luck!

Thanks,

Russ Johnson