Mobile Application

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I am new to this area. Please guide me in the right way. I need to be clear in,

What are all the ways available to develop a Mobile Application in SAP ?

What special features does Mobile Infrastructure have?

What are the requirements need to develop a Mobile Application in MI?

How online and offline mobile application has been developed in MI?

Kindly provide me some reference links.

Thanks in Advance,

Pranith

[ThomasStumpp]

My company has been running mobile apps with 600+ users in 7 countries for the last 15 years. We use SAP ECC 6.0 for the backend and 7 different mobile apps/platforms in every country.

We started having a close look at SAP Netweaver Mobile, since version 7.1 came out.

For your benefits you should find a lot of information in SDN:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/nw-mobile

NWMobile 7.1 allows multiple device types (PDA, laptop, blackberry), operating systems and network communications (Wireless, dial-up) to co-exists under one platform.

Development is via NW DS, all in JAVA.

Central concept is the DOE (data orchestration engine) which brokers traffic between ocassionlly connected clients and backend. Connectivity to backend (ECC, CRM) is via NW PI using BAPIs or webservices.

NWMobile 7.1 also comes with device management which is essential for mobile technology.

If you like us prefer to develop native mobile apps (RIM, .net etc.) then you can use the published synch protocol against the DOE.