One drawback is that SAP Mobile Platform apps are only available through the browser, making offline capability more challenging to implement. This limitation hinders usage in industries like oil and gas, where offline access is crucial due to safety concerns. Enabling native app support with built-in offline capabilities would greatly enhance its usability and cater to various scenarios where connectivity is limited or prohibited.
The toolkit to develop front end applications, especially native applications, is not that good. That is one of the drawbacks of the solution. The development toolkit is only good when we are developing SAP-related apps. When we have apps that need some extra integration for other environments, and have additional features, it's not that good. People prefer to use other non-SAP development platforms for app development, and then they use SAP as an integration layer to connect the app to the backend. I would like native app development capabilities. We already have hybrid app capabilities, but I would prefer to have native app development studios integrated into the services. If they had a toolkit within the framework for developing applications, it would make it easy. Right now, we develop services in the backend. We generate the RS services, and then give the URL to the front end team. If plugins were allowed directly from our APS to our Java files, they could directly be integrated into any of the front end application studios. Currently, that framework is missing. I would like them to make it a bit more open-source, rather than restricting the data to SAP itself. Also, there is limited support for different languages.
Chief operation management at AutoSoft Dynamics Pvt Ltd
Reseller
Top 20
2022-07-25T13:05:00Z
Jul 25, 2022
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.
If I have to go for hybrid development, it is still too complex of development, per se. If there would be something out of the box, a pre-packaged solution, which can help us with going no code or low code, that would be better. There is currently low code or no code being provided by some partner ecosystems of SAP, yet not by the SAP itself. If it was low code or no code it would be ideal.
Head of Product strategy (Mobility & Islamic Banking) at AutoSoft Dynamics Pvt Ltd
Real User
2021-04-09T16:41:29Z
Apr 9, 2021
There are multiple functionalities within the design however they're not, actually, a hundred percent available on the UI in SAP's platform. If they can work more on the UI platform or maybe they change the framework on which the UI is written. That would be great. Right now, it is older technology with older frameworks. It's not purely on microservices. They could transform it onto microservices in order to benefit us as a partner. The licensing model is a bit dated.
SAP Mobile Platform is a mobile enterprise application platform developed to make it easier to create applications that connect business data to mobile devices for workflow management and back-office integration. SAP Mobile Platform provides a layer of middleware between heterogeneous back-end data sources such as relational databases, enterprise applications and files, and mobile devices that need to read and write back-end data. The platform is very helpful to developers, making it quick...
One drawback is that SAP Mobile Platform apps are only available through the browser, making offline capability more challenging to implement. This limitation hinders usage in industries like oil and gas, where offline access is crucial due to safety concerns. Enabling native app support with built-in offline capabilities would greatly enhance its usability and cater to various scenarios where connectivity is limited or prohibited.
The cost of the SAP Mobile Platform is high, and there is room for improvement in its pricing.
The toolkit to develop front end applications, especially native applications, is not that good. That is one of the drawbacks of the solution. The development toolkit is only good when we are developing SAP-related apps. When we have apps that need some extra integration for other environments, and have additional features, it's not that good. People prefer to use other non-SAP development platforms for app development, and then they use SAP as an integration layer to connect the app to the backend. I would like native app development capabilities. We already have hybrid app capabilities, but I would prefer to have native app development studios integrated into the services. If they had a toolkit within the framework for developing applications, it would make it easy. Right now, we develop services in the backend. We generate the RS services, and then give the URL to the front end team. If plugins were allowed directly from our APS to our Java files, they could directly be integrated into any of the front end application studios. Currently, that framework is missing. I would like them to make it a bit more open-source, rather than restricting the data to SAP itself. Also, there is limited support for different languages.
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.
If I have to go for hybrid development, it is still too complex of development, per se. If there would be something out of the box, a pre-packaged solution, which can help us with going no code or low code, that would be better. There is currently low code or no code being provided by some partner ecosystems of SAP, yet not by the SAP itself. If it was low code or no code it would be ideal.
There are multiple functionalities within the design however they're not, actually, a hundred percent available on the UI in SAP's platform. If they can work more on the UI platform or maybe they change the framework on which the UI is written. That would be great. Right now, it is older technology with older frameworks. It's not purely on microservices. They could transform it onto microservices in order to benefit us as a partner. The licensing model is a bit dated.