Smartphones and tablets have radically changed the world, including the world of business. And they too must therefore adapt to change.
The desktop PC is no longer the measure of all things and no longer the only access point for users to the SAP system. In addition, employees - for example in the home office - occasionally want to use their private devices for professional purposes ("Bring Your Own Device").
Employees today use their cell phones or other mobile devices to access mobile services and, under certain circumstances, the company's own networks and applications - they check their e-mails at the airport, enter data into the system for a new customer or process an order while on the road.
Many companies, especially larger ones, have several years of experience with mobile solutions and have dealt intensively with the topic in recent years.
SAP, too, is therefore continuing to work on making applications available on the move - 100 percent securely, as conveniently as from your desk and, if possible, without time-consuming installation work for the IT department. As early as 2001, SAP presented the first time that working time was recorded via cell phones.
The term SAP Mobile is not a product name. It describes nothing more than the use of mobile technologies, software solutions and applications. Such mobile SAP solutions can then be used to access the company's own SAP ERP system, for example.
The development and operation of such solutions involves various challenges that must be considered and solved:
With SAP Fiori, SAP has created a user interface with which SAP can be used on a wide variety of devices and platforms - Fiori is available for HTML5 and SAPUI5-based applications in the web browser as well as for mobile apps on iOS or Android and is suitable for any screen size (Responsive Design). SAP now offers more than 12,500 Fiori apps.