Mobilizing Your Enterprise with SAP

Sanjeet Mall, Tzanko Stefanov, Stanley Stadelman (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

350 Seiten

2012
SAP Press (Verlag)
978-1-59229-419-0 (ISBN)

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Get practical advice on how to build your own mobile strategy Learn about the different types of mobile applications offered by SAP Explore the concepts and first steps in developing mobile applications If you re holding this book in your hands whether in print form or on a mobile device you ve got your ticket to SAP mobility. Learn how to develop a mobile strategy, and then learn how you can use the SAP Mobile Platform to put it in action. Manager, developer, or just kind of curious, you re officially on your way to unwiring your world with SAP. Move forward! Mobile Strategy Benefit from expert guidance and practical recommendations for developing a mobile enterprise strategy. SAP Mobile Platform Understand the main components of the SAP Mobile Platform, including Sybase Unwired Platform, SAP Afaria, and SAP NetWeaver Gateway. SAP Mobile Applications in Action Familiarize yourself with some of SAP s key mobile applications, and learn how their features can help your business. SAP Mobile Application Development Get an introduction to the world of SAP mobile development: mobile business objects, OData, and more.

Sanjeet Mall is a chief architect for Mobile Applications in the Mobile Application Unit at SAP, where his focus is to create architecture and technology that enables rapid mobile application development. In over ten years at SAP, he has worked in almost all areas of the software lifecycle: development, architecture, consulting, product management, and management. Tzanko Stefanov is a principal architect at OpenText, where he is responsible for integration with SAP products. His focus has been on enabling the next generation of OpenText solutions to run on mobile devices and platforms. Prior to that, Tzanko was employed at SAP, where he worked in several different leadership roles in the areas of SAP NetWeaver and SAP CRM. Stanley Stadelman is the product manager for the SAPMobile Platform, which is focused on the definition and delivery of the technologies that are the backbone of SAP's mobility strategy. Prior to the integration of Sybase into SAP, he was the product manager for Sybase Unwired Platform and worked in the strategic initiatives group, where he focused on emerging technologies in mobile, analytics, messaging, cloud, and social applications and infrastructure.

Foreword by Sanjay Poonen. 13

Foreword by Kevin Benedict. 15

Preface. 17

Acknowledgments. 19

Part I Introduction to Mobility. 21

1. Developing a Mobile Strategy for an Enterprise. 23

1.1. Understanding the Mobility Trend. 24

1.2. Mobile Adoption Drivers for Enterprises. 29

1.3. Assessing an Enterprise's Mobile Requirements. 34

1.4. Mobile Business Applications. 48

1.5. The Mobile Platform. 51

1.6. Best Practice Recommendations and Examples. 56

1.7. Summary. 61

2. Introduction to Mobile Business Applications. 63

2.1. Mobile Application Business Processes. 63

2.2. Mobile Application Key Characteristics. 70

2.3. Mobile Application Categories. 76

2.4. Summary. 86

Part II Mobility and SAP. 87

3. Introduction to the SAP Mobile Platform. 89

3.1. Introduction. 91

3.2. Sybase Unwired Platform 1.x. 94

3.3. Sybase Unwired Platform 2.x. 104

3.4. Integrations with Third-Party Cross-Platform Tools. 110

3.5. Introduction to SAP Afaria. 115

3.6. Mobile Services (mCommerce). 116

3.7. Summary. 118

4. Mobile Device Management with SAP Afaria. 119

4.1. SAP Afaria Landscape. 120

4.2. Device Management. 125

4.3. Security Management. 130

4.4. Application Management. 135

4.5. Summary. 139

5. Introduction to Mobile Security with the SAP Mobile Platform. 141

5.1. Security Landscape. 143

5.2. Securing Physical Mobile Devices. 146

5.3. Securing Data in Transit. 147

5.4. Securing On-Device Data. 149

5.5. Summary. 159

6. Examples of SAP Mobile Applications. 161

6.1. Process-Centric Applications. 162

6.2. Productivity Applications. 207

6.3. Summary. 227

Part III SAP Mobile Development. 229

7. Understanding the SAP Mobile Landscape. 231

7.1. Basic Architectural Overview of the SAP Mobile Platform. 232

7.2. Introducing Mobile Business Objects. 237

7.3. Introducing OData. 246

7.4. Introducing Data Orchestration Engine. 263

7.5. Introducing Native Application and Hybrid Application Development. 269

7.6. Sybase Unwired Platform Tooling. 273

7.7. Summary. 281

8. Getting Started with SAP Mobile Application Development. 283

8.1. Development Methodologies. 283

8.2. Setting Up the Mobile Landscape. 286

8.3. Sybase Mobile SDK. 291

8.4. Development Flow for Building Mobile Applications. 293

8.5. A Word on Adopting Off-the-Shelf Applications. 303

8.6. Summary. 305

9. OData and MBO Development for Online and Offline SAP Applications. 307

9.1. Properties of Offline and Online Applications. 309

9.2. Pro/Con Analysis of Offline versus Online Applications. 316

9.3. OData Development. 319

9.4. MBO Development. 350

9.5. Summary. 361

10. Building Native and Hybrid SAP Applications. 363

10.1. Picking a Development Model: Hybrid versus Native. 364

10.2. Overview of the Android Device Platform. 368

10.3. Building a Hybrid Application for Android. 372

10.4. Building a Native Application for Android. 388

10.5. Summary. 400

The Authors. 401

Index. 403

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.9.2012
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Maryland
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► SAP
ISBN-10	1-59229-419-7 / 1592294197
ISBN-13	978-1-59229-419-0 / 9781592294190
Zustand	Neuware