Mobile technology has become an integral part of everyday life – supercharged by consumer adoption. There is a need for speed, and business must catch up. Requirements to access to information anytime and anywhere has accelerated growth of mobile devices and increased bandwidth, resulting in high demand for enterprise mobile apps to empower mobile employees.

SAP is the market leader in enterprise mobility and offers the combination of a cutting-edge mobile device management (MDM) solutions and a leading mobile enterprise applications platform

Take advantage of this US$7.7 billion market opportunity and reach more than 200,000 SAP customers. Certify your app and market your solutions on the SAP Store, where businesses got to find enterprise-ready apps. And take advantage of the expertise of your peers in our collaborative mobile developer community. Read more >

SAP’s goal is to provide customers a rich portfolio of attractive, high-quality, ready-to-implement mobile apps across all industries, with the expectation that more than 80% of these apps will be built by our partners. This represents a huge opportunity for developers. Review our:

SAP Mobile Platform

SAP Mobile Platform gives you the tools you need to drive mobile initiatives across your entire organization – with a consistent development platform highly adaptable to ever-changing business needs. This platform:

  • Exchanges data between traditional back-end systems to multiple mobile devices

  • Enables creation of enterprise-grade applications using a single development platform

  • Empowers workers to access enterprise applications on corporate or personal devices

  • Protects data with end-to-end encryption and enhanced application security

To develop mobile apps on top of the SAP Mobile Platform 3.0, please sign up for the Innovation Pack for mobile. To make yourself familiar with SAP Mobile Platform please check the“Introduction to SAP Mobile Platform”.

SAP Afaria

SAP Afaria is the world’s most powerful, flexible mobile device management and security solution for the enterprise. SAP Afaria provides you with a single administrative console to centrally manage, secure and deploy mobile data, applications and devices. SAP Afaria servers power a wide array of client features for device management for both handheld and laptop devices. This solution:

  • Protects your investment today and tomorrow

  • Provides extensive security and flexibility

  • Offers powerful application and device management

  • Allows IT to deliver fixes, upgrades and refreshes to mobile users in the field

With the SAP Mobile Platform 2.3 that is covered by the Innovation Pack for mobile, you can install SAP Afaria to test the integration of your mobile app.

SAP Gateway

SAP Gateway technology provides a simple way for non-SAP developers to develop business applications to connect devices, environments and platforms to SAP software based on market standards. SAP Gateway provides access to SAP Business Suite data via open standards-based REST/Odata (XML or JSON) for use in mobile applications based on Android or iOS, or in Web-based user interfaces based on HTML5, PHP or Java. This technology:

  • Provides powerful development tools for easy entry into SAP-based scenarios

  • Supports open standards (REST-based OData)

  • Includes sophisticated monitoring, logging, security

  • Integrates with SAP Solution Manager

Developer licenses and resources for SAP Gateway are included in the Innovation pack for application integration.

New: SAP Backend Systems in the Cloud for Partners

SAP partners can now develop and test SAP backend integration on their private instances deployed from the SAP Cloud Appliance Library for Partners. Read more >

SAP Mobile Platform, Cloud Version

SAP Mobile Platform, cloud version, is a Mobile as a Service (MaaS) offering based on the highly scalable and secure SAP HANA Cloud Platform. It provides a single comprehensive Web administration and monitoring portal for configuring and managing mobile applications. The platform offers authentication, secure on-boarding, native push notifications and reporting capabilities for enterprise mobile applications.

Product overview – SAP Mobile Platform, cloud version

To develop mobile apps based on the SAP Mobile Platform, cloud version, please select the Innovation Pack for mobile and the Innovation Pack for SAP HANA Cloud Platform. To integrate your mobile app with an SAP backend system, you will also need to the Innovation Pack for application integration.

SAP Mobile Academy

The SAP Mobile Academy provides additional information and videos about the SAP Mobile Platform and SAP Mobile Secure.

Video: Developer´s introduction to the SAP Mobile Platform (7:58 min)