SAP Mobile Platform Reviews

I use the solution in my company for our customers' sites. I worked for a consulting company previously, which was until last year or a couple of months ago, but I will say my experience on the mobile development platform of SAP was always at the customer site. In the past, the tool was used if you were talking about approval for a purchase order, confirmation of some request, or inquiry for a summary service.

If we work with the mobile extension of the ERP platform, we save time. We follow the customer and give better service by focusing on their needs. We have different topics, and as we know, the mobile area is strategic for an extension of the digital revolution in a company.

In our mobile app development, we use SAP Mobile Platform primarily for building apps with SAP UI5. SAP provides a convenient build process, making it easy to develop based on business requirements. We integrate seamlessly with their integration suite, ensuring connectivity with SAP and other systems. Ultimately, our users access the app via a browser on their mobile devices, connecting to SAP for efficient use.

One valuable feature of SAP Mobile Platform is its enterprise-grade standard and maintained APIs, available out of the box for easy integration with various systems. While there might be charges for cloud usage, on-premises deployment is free with available services. Customization options allow tweaking of standard features for specific needs, making it widely accepted and enabling mobile access to all enterprise applications.

It's a wonderful solution from a design perspective and from a scalability perspective. We haven't actually found any performance-related issues for the past five years and a couple of implementations.

The only thing which basically is bothering us now is that SAP has announced that they'll be ending the support on the SAP platform. That said, we are one of the original partners for SAP, and we are selling it with the name of AutoMWALLET for branchless banking for mobile wallet solutions in Pakistan. The end of support would make it difficult for us to sell the solution to clients.

SAP mobile platform is not just for developing front end applications. It has many other components, like integration, middle layer management, and security.

Two of the very fascinating features that make SAP Mobile Platform stand out from other platforms are its offline capability and integration capability. It allows easy integration with SAP, whereas other platforms don't have very good coupling with SAP. This solution handles both SAP and non-SAP.

One convenience this platform provides is that it's an integration hub for web services, web APAs, and PIA services, or integration with SAP to RFP. 

There are many components within the solution. There is a development tool for developing apps, and there is an integration gateway facility, where you can integrate multiple buckets, depending on your front end.

You can also apply coding at the integration level itself. When you are reading the data, you can run data cleansing activities, or change it according to the user input. Improvement can also be done in the gateway, fortunately, through Google scripting language.

We have no less than 26 different applications on SAP Mobile Platform through the SAP app store. When corporate needs go up, we identify needs and find out where we can plug into them to fill those needs. 

The platform independence is great. I can use it across mobile devices. That's the best aspect of it.

It's stable.

Technical support is helpful.

I am currently working with SAP, specifically on implementing the SAP Mobile Platform for energy modeling.

We use the SAP Mobile Platform to implement numerous models, including CRM, billing, and logistics. We have successfully configured and deployed these models as part of this project.

I haven't used the model platform extensively due to its low adoption rate. However, I have raised tickets on the platform and received support.

Both platforms, the SAP Mobile Platform, and SAP, are highly valuable for our company because they facilitate integration, which can be expensive.

It's very convenient to connect and create billing accounts through the SAP Mobile Platform. 

The SAP Mobile Platform is user-friendly, and we can easily add new features to adapt to our company's needs.

As part of this project, we are upgrading the SAP Mobile Platform to SAP4HANA, which will be hosted on the cloud, specifically on Cloud.

We have implemented SAP Mobile Platform into two to three banks. We are one of their OEM partners.

There are multiple types of customer onboarding. There are multichannel platforms like mobile apps, where you have an Agent and Salesforce app. From there, users can onboard the customer or the customers can do self-onboarding from ATM machines.

There are multiple types of transactions. We have mobile wallet transactions, including bill payments and telco-based top-ups, or we have QR code-based payments and we have integration with third-party agents as well. With the telco companies, the customers can walk into any of the telco agents and they can do cash-ins/outs.

SAP's Mobile Platform when has a lot of technical features, however, the way they have written the transaction processing is really smart and we're using it very successfully in terms of scalability and in terms of stability.

The initial setup is not overly complex.

The solution offers good scalability.

So far, the stability has been good.

We've found the technical support to be helpful.

Solid development platform that allows you to automate functions from different backend systems. It is a true MEAP.

Installation is extremely painful. Communication between Sybase, the required Relay Server and Afaria is very difficult and time consuming. The required products keeps changing as well, you may need to add NW Gateway into the mix as well. The "GUI" generation isn't to that point that you can eliminate the need for custom platform specific code for the user front-end. The long-term roadmap of SAP's mobility platform is very confusing (acquisition of Syclo, etc.)There isn't a big ecosystem of consulting partners, SAP consulting, etc. that have deep experience to help you hit the ground running.