Low cost mobile solution

[#1]

Hello All,

I have a small customer who wants to go mobile, but with a tightly constrained budget. What are our options? There will be only aprox. ten end users.

Thanks for your help.

[midhun_vp]

When coming to sap mobile now we have a lot options. If the customer is not capable of paying buying the license for SMP ( SAP mobile platform ) they can go for Odata based mobile applications. So for that we need a NW gateway system. the NW gateway will talk to SAP servers.

We need to create Odata services for each transaction in SAP. The Odata services can be consumed in the devices. These apps will be online. Offline APIs are not available when we go for Odata based applications.

Again, SAP is providing SMP on cloud. That the customer don't want to spend much in the SUP servers. They need to pay on a monthly basis and comparatively it will be cheaper.

Lastly, SAP has released a set of 25 apps which are based on SAP UI 5 framework. These apps uses Odata services and it is cheap. If any of the business scenario you are looking for is available in these you can go for it.

- Midhun VP

[jmasters]

Bjorn and Midhun are both correct. Look at the SAP Netweaver Gateway option for exposing the services if you want to do custom development.

If you want to buy instead of build, look at SAP Fiori. Not sure I would classify as "cheap" (that's a relative term, isn't it? )  but you can find more info on it here: SAP Fiori Resource Library (Service Marketplace ID required)

Good luck!