SAP has teamed up with Apple. The two big worlds where at one end, Apple’s world-renowned user experiences and SAP’s unparalleled end-to-end business processes and software at the other end have successfully combined. As a result, the partnership opens up new opportunities, revolutionizing the entire digital experience for customers allowing numerous app development companies and developers to make a huge difference.
“I believe what’s going to happen with the release of the SDK, and the continued innovation and investment, is that we’re going to create a new enterprise iOS developer,” says Rick Knowles, senior vice president and general manager of the Apple partnership at SAP. Further, he mentioned that they are planning to formalize the role of developer and grow a new development community around IOS specifically within the enterprise.
SAP represents the first of Apple’s enterprise partnerships where both the companies simply aim to simplify the entire process of development by integrating IOS app with SAP’s back-end system of transactional data. The end goal is to enhance the amount of information developers can use and call upon in their apps. One of the biggest advantages of such partnerships is instead of coding for SAP integration, developers can rely on a feature-rich API library that ties into the existing backend SAP system.
How SDK shifts developer responsibility to Apple and SAP?
According to Knowles, The initiative took place to shift developer responsibility to SAP and Apple in order to make sure that the backend systems integration work seamlessly and are being updated on the regular basis. In addition to this, it may quite interest you to know that SAP is matching its development cycle with Apple’s for iOS. As a result, the giant in ERP requires releasing updates to the SDK at regular intervals on the quarterly basis.
“It’s not just a partnership of words.” The efforts are made to serve a growing community who tends to change the usability and user experience in the enterprise.
So, What Potential This Partnership Opens Up For?
An app-driven world
Presently, we all reside in an app-driven world where there are no two better companies than Apple and SAP to collaborate together to drive a great business. The company making a history in iOS application development by developing dozens of new, native iOS industry apps for core business processes. With the help of Swift, Apple’s modern programming language customers are allowed to fully leverage the data in their SAP enterprise system so that they can run their business anywhere/anytime.
Imagine a life where one can receive critical information, reports and data whenever in need without being tied up to the desktop. Amazing, isn’t it? Such kind of apps will be transforming Retail, Asset Intensive Industries, Professional Services and Healthcare and several other industries.
Developers, Developers & Developers
Other than apps goodness, the partnership will lead to SAP’s more than 2.5 million developers' community with next-generation tools and training featuring a SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP) SDK for iOS and an SAP Academy for iOS. Which simply means that developers can get access to the power of HANA, in the cloud!
Further HCP allows one to change their existing SAP application. And they do not need to be a developer. Which means one no longer requires months of customization with dozens of consultants as change for the better can come in a day.
Software Developer Kit
Like I said before, SAP HCP SDK for IOS and proper training for developers will be provided to develop robust IOS applications for both iPhone and iPad. Tables are turned now and it’s an exciting time in becoming a developer, you may ask why? Apple is all set to provide IOS app developers reusable design components and building blocks to accelerate the development of consistent, beautiful UI design across applications and throughout the lifecycle of each application, ensuring that app adoption and user experience is intuitive, consistent and seamless.
Real Work In Real Time
As mentioned above, the collaboration between Apple and SAP will make it much simpler in consuming some of the most critical data on their iPhone and iPad devices. Overall, Mobile apps on iOS, built natively to access all the features and functionality of the hardware and software, will make digital transformation even more prevalent across the enterprise.
