Apple & SAP Partner to Revolutionize Work on iPhone & iPad
May 05 2016 - 2:30PM
Business Wire
Companies to Deliver New iOS Apps & SDK to Create Powerful,
Native Enterprise Apps
Apple® and SAP today announced a partnership to revolutionize
the mobile work experience for enterprise customers of all sizes,
combining powerful native apps for iPhone® and iPad® with the
cutting-edge capabilities of the SAP HANA platform. This joint
effort will also deliver a new iOS software development kit (SDK)
and training academy so that developers, partners and customers can
easily build native iOS apps tailored to their business needs.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook and SAP CEO Bill
McDermott meet at Apple's campus in Cupertino to announce a new
partnership to revolutionize work on iPhone and iPad. Courtesy of
Apple/Roy Zipstein
“This partnership will transform how iPhone and iPad are used in
enterprise by bringing together the innovation and security of iOS
with SAP’s deep expertise in business software,” said Tim Cook,
Apple’s CEO. “As the leader in enterprise software and with 76% of
business transactions touching an SAP system, SAP is the ideal
partner to help us truly transform how businesses around the world
are run on iPhone and iPad. Through the new SDK, we’re empowering
SAP’s more than 2.5 million developers to build powerful native
apps that fully leverage SAP HANA Cloud Platform and tap into the
incredible capabilities that only iOS devices can deliver.”
“We’re proud to take this special partnership between Apple and
SAP to a groundbreaking new place,” said Bill McDermott, CEO of
SAP. “In giving people an agile and intuitive business experience,
we empower them to know more, care more and do more. By combining
the powerful capabilities of SAP HANA Cloud Platform and SAP
S/4HANA, together with iOS, the leading and most secure mobile
platform for enterprise, we will help deliver live data to people
wherever and whenever they choose to work. Apple and SAP share a
commitment to shaping the future, helping the world run better and
improving people’s lives.”
The companies plan to deliver a new SAP HANA Cloud Platform SDK
exclusively for iOS that will provide businesses, designers and
developers the tools to quickly and efficiently build their own iOS
apps for iPhone and iPad, based on SAP HANA Cloud Platform, SAP’s
open platform as a service. These native apps will provide access
to core data and business processes on SAP S/4HANA, while taking
full advantage of iPhone and iPad features like Touch ID®, Location
Services and Notifications.
A new SAP Fiori for iOS design language will take the
award-winning SAP Fiori user experience to the next level by
combining it with a consumer-grade iOS experience to deliver on the
robust user needs in the enterprise and enable developers to build
next-generation apps. To help SAP’s 2.5-million member global
developer community take full advantage of the new SDK and Apple’s
innovative hardware and software, a new SAP Academy for iOS will
offer tools and training. The new SDK, design language and academy
will begin rolling out before the end of the year.
As a part of the partnership, SAP will develop native iOS apps
for critical business operations. These apps for iPhone and iPad
will be built with Swift™, Apple’s modern, secure and interactive
programming language, and will offer a familiar user experience
with the SAP Fiori for iOS design language. Workers across
industries will be empowered to access the critical enterprise
data, processes and user experience they need to make decisions and
take action right from their iPhone or iPad through apps designed
to enable a field maintenance worker to order parts or schedule
service, or a doctor to share the latest patient data with other
healthcare professionals.
As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps
companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office
to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device –
SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more
efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead
of the competition. SAP applications and services enable
approximately 310,000 business and public sector customers to
operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For
more information, visit www.sap.com.
Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction
of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in
innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV.
Apple’s four software platforms — iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS —
provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower
people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple
Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple’s 100,000 employees are
dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving the
world better than we found it.
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