Apple and SAP partnership to native iOS app based on SAP HANA
The two companies will forge a partnership agreement that will aim to spread iOS in the corporate world and to bring the SAP experience on the mobile operating system of Apple.
Apple and SAP have announced a partnership centered on the experience of mobile working for companies and which aims to combine native apps for iPhone and iPad with the functionality of the SAP HANA platform. In the context it will be introduced a new iOS SDK and a school of training in order to enable developers, partners and customers to easily build native iOS apps tailored to meet specific business needs.
Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, commented on the agreement: ” This partnership will transform the way the iPhone and iPad are used in the company, combining innovation and security of iOS with deep expertise in the field of SAP enterprise software.
In as a leader in enterprise software and 76% of business transactions that touch a SAP, the SAP system is the ideal partner to help us truly transform the way in which the business activities around the world are managed on the iPhone and iPad.
Through new SDK, we are allowing more than 2.5 million SAP developers to develop powerful native apps that take full advantage of the SAP HANA Cloud Platform and to tap into the incredible possibilities that only iOS devices can provide. ”
Apple and then SAP will distribute a new SDK SAP HANA Cloud Platform exclusively for iOS which will help create native apps based on SAP HANA Cloud Platform. Will be also made available a new design language SAP Flowers for iOS and activated a new SAP Academy for iOS, which will provide tools and training to help the more than 2.5 million participants in the community of SAP developers.
” We are proud to bring this special partnership between Apple and SAP to a revolutionary new level. By providing users with a versatile and intuitive business, we provide them with the tools to know more, do more and do more.
Combining the powerful features SAP HANA Cloud platform and SAP S / 4HANA with iOS, the main and the most secure mobile platform for businesses, we will contribute to providing real-time information to people when and where they prefer to work. Apple and SAP share a commitment to redefine the future, help the world run better and improve people’s lives, ” said Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP.
The new SDK, the design language and the academy will start to be implemented before the end of the year. As part of the SAP partnership we will have the commitment to develop native apps for iOS key business operations.
This will be app-based Swift language and offer a consistent user experience as possible with the design language of SAP Flowers for iOS. Professionals from all areas can directly use iPhone or iPad to access business critical data, processes, and user experience.
They need to make decisions and take actions, thanks to app designed to allow, for example, to those working in the field, in the maintenance, ordering parts or program interventions, or a doctor to share the latest data of patients with other health care providers.
The new close agreement between Apple and SAP has many affinities with the last enterprise agreement tight relief from Apple: Apple in 2014 announced an important partnership with IBM in order to stimulate the adoption of iOS in the workplace thanks to ” MobileFirst ” initiative to create apps that could be quickly adopted in various sectors.
