msc mobile emerging technologies blog

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The shift from the PC into the mobile world continues - I just stumbled accross this article on US Today about Eli Lilly - they bought 15 000 iPads for their fieldworkers.

Topics: Enterprise Mobility

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Writing software sometimes can be a long progress - especially when we talk about distributed architectures. But after the software is done, there is more to be done before the users can get the software into their hands. Testing, documentation, training and in case of mobile applications, the submission to the app stores.

We recently developed a platform independent app based on SAP in the backend, SQL Anywhere/MobiLink on the middleware and Apache Cordova/UltraLite on the client. This app was submitted to the stores from Apple, Microsoft and Google. In this blog we summarize what requirements there are for each App Store - accounts, texts, graphics and more

Topics: Windows, Android, AppStore, Google Play, iOS, iTunes

The world is changing faster and faster when it comes to the adoption of new technologies. According to this report by Cisco, in 2020 there will be more people owning a phone (5.4 billion) than people with electricity (5.3 billion).   

Topics: Enterprise Mobility

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The Apple iOS Push Certificate must be renewed every year. If the certificate expires (or is revoked) all devices must be re-enrolled in Afaria. Something you want to avoid at any cost.

This blog will show you how to do this for a single Afaria 7 (SP 08) installation on Windows (Server 2008 R2). The information this post relies on is spread over following SAP knowledgebase articles:

• #7958
• #7779
• #7823

Topics: Afaria, SAP

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Sopharma Trading, one of our Sales Plus for SAP ERP customers, presented their mobile sales implementation together with our partner Sqilline at the SAP Forum Bulgaria in Sofia.

Topics: Sales Plus, SAP Mobile Platform, Sales for SAP ERP

Benedict Evans wrote down his thoughts about the new world in which we live in - the mobile centric computing with smartphones and tablets as the main devices. 

You can read his blog here: 16 mobile theses

Topics: Enterprise Mobility, SAP

Topics: MobiLink, SQL Anywhere

 

 

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This lessons learned blog will describe how we migrated an application originally developed on SMP 2.3 and the MBO concept to SMP 3.0 and Offline Odata. 

Before diving deep into it, we first want to give you some context and background information. We at msc mobile have a product called Sales Plus for SAP ERP. It’s an MBO-based application connecting via SAP Mobile Platform to SAP ERP to enable sales representatives to do their daily business on a mobile device, either on tablets or smartphones.

Topics: Kapsel, MBO, Sales Plus, SAP Mobile Platform, msc mobile, SMP, Offline Odata, SAP, Sales for SAP ERP

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For the last few years, usability has been one of our core battle, especially around SAP products. Although we’ve witnessed a recent awareness and good initiatives on this matter from SAP, there’s still a lot to be done to make people’s work easier and better.

We recently faced such challenge regarding the SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) brand new user interface.

Topics: SRM, UI Renovation

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In an unparalleled project, we enabled 30 000 users to run SAP Travel Management on their iPad’s. The customer is the worlds 5th largest pharmaceutical company and they replaced their sales reps laptops with iPads.

Topics: Travel Plus