msc mobile emerging technologies blog

It is a general question when it comes to software - should you buy an off-the-shelf solution or do custom build your own?

Both approaches have their pro’s and con’s. We will discuss them here in the context of mobile solutions for SAP Plant Maintenance/Customer Service and will present you a third option, which combines the best of both worlds.

Topics: SAP Work Manager, SAM, smart asset management, MAM

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When working with mobile apps that support the inspection, maintenance and customer service business processes, users usually have to report a couple of things:

• Condition of equipments - ideally done via checklists
• Measurement readings - best not taken manually but via an software interface or even better directly send to SAP by an IoT integration
• Material consumption - the application should support the identification of the material via barcode or RFID scanner
• Confirmation of working time - for best usability done via a stopwatch mechanism

This blog will discuss the last point and it shows how this can be done on the example of SAM Smart Asset Management.

Topics: Enterprise Mobility, SAP, UI5, offline, SAM, smart asset management

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Since 2002 SAP has released a number of mobile apps for their enterprise asset management modules PM/CS. This blog will give a quick overview

Topics: MobiLink, msc mobile, SAP Work Manager, SAM, MAM

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Today we are happy and proud to announce the launch of SAM (Smart Asset Management), a new solution for making the work with SAP PM and CS easier. It is a mobile solution that is built on the currently best technologies on client, middleware and backend.

One way or another, we are mobilizing SAP’s plant maintenance and customer service since 2002. NetWeaver Mobile and MAM (Mobile Asset Management) have been the first generation of solutions. In 2010 we introduced MOMENTUM, a solution developed on top of the Sybase Unwired Platform - we sold it to a large German software vendor in 2011. Since 2012 we mainly implemented the SAP Work Manager, the latest generation of SAP’s mobile field service offering. Now in 2016 we once again launch our own solution - Smart Asset Management or short SAM.

Topics: MobiLink, Windows, Android, iOS, SAP, Checklist, offline, SAM, smart asset management

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This blog is comparing pizza with enterprise mobile platforms. It is discussing the difference between homemade pizza, frozen ones, hand written software and one created by drag and drop.

Topics: Enterprise Mobility, SAP

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Time flies - on 09. August 2006 - 10 years ago - msc mobile was founded. One of our first projects was to bring SAP onto Nokia phones like the E90 Communicator. This illustrates perfectly how the world has changed since then.

Topics: MobiLink, msc mobile, SMP, SAP, UI5, SUP, SAM, smart asset management

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When deploying mobile solutions in your enterprise, security should always be an important topic. When you have devices such as iPhones, iPads or Android smartphones that are leaving your companies facilities, it opens the door to unwanted access. This is even more critical with offline solutions. This blog will discuss the different security aspects of these applications.

Topics: offline

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Gunnar Garfors traveled to ALL countries in the world. Watch this 1:30 min video from Business Insider where he explains how to stay safe when you travel.

Topics: Travel

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Together with our three partners Sapere Aude, Meridian Global Services and SAP we organized a SAP Travel Management Roadshow in March 2016. 

Topics: Travel Plus, SAP, travel mangement, Travel

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SAP and Apple – there is a lot a buzz around their joined press release from yesterday. But what is behind it? I think at the moment this is mainly marketing. Successful marketing, I have to say because everybody is talking about it. 

But what is the reality? Aren’t we in a pretty good shape when it comes to running SAP on iOS devices already today?

Topics: iOS, SAP, UI5, Fiori