Low cost mobile solution

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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.

[Former Member]

Hi Nicole,

depending on the services you want to provide and if your customer already runs an SAP Netweaver Portal then SAP's "Portal on Device" (PoD) is definitely an option.

If you want to get a quick overview then this document might be interesting:

PoD applications are executed on the Portal layer and are realized as Portal applications like e.g. iView implementations.

PoD is the way to go if:

• Netweaver Portal is operational and accessible from "outside"
• Your application has only little to none footprint with ECC - if your application for instance is meant to be a mobile frontend for transaction VA03 then "SAP Mobile Platform" (formerly known as "Sybase Unwired Platform" (SUP)) would be one way to go with SAP Gateway and UI5 being the other.
  Please bear in mind: SUP and Gateway both require additional infrastructure and licensing.
• You have Javascipt and especially jQueryMobile expertise as well as HTML5 know how available on the development team.
• PoD requires a thorough concept for its integration into an existing Netweaver Portal and requires a well versed Netweaver Portal administrator.

PoD is a no-go if:

• You are planning to massively utilize and tightly integrate with ECC.
• No Netweaver Portal. (obviously)
• Your customer already has SUP and/or Gateway licensed.

Regards,

  Chris