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SAP Partners With Apple To Expand iOS In The Enterprise (techcrunch.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the money-making-deals dept.

SAP has announced a partnership with Apple to bring iOS to SAP's enterprise customers. Steve Lucas, president for SAP's Digital Enterprise Platform, says SAP is firmly an enterprise company which has built a cloud platform to access all the software it has developed -- ERP product, SuccessFactors or Concur. With the new deal, Apple hopes to take a bite out of Microsoft's territory by selling hardware to companies who traditionally shop for PCs. In an effort to push iOS to its customers, SAP has announced a new set of apps for the iPhone and iPad that take advantage of data stored in SAP tools. They're providing an iOS SDK for its in-memory database product, SAP HANA, to allow organizations to build their own customized apps using the data stored in HANA. SAP is also offering SAP Academy for iOS as a way for SAP programmers to learn to use the HANA iOS SDK. The deal between Apple and SAP echoes the deal from a couple years ago between Apple and IBM.

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  1. really? bean counter software? by tommeke100 · · Score: 4, Funny

    SAP interfaces are true eye candy. A natural fit for Apple :) Steve Jobs would have loved this move!

    1. Re:really? bean counter software? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      What?! Not the SAP I know.
      I'm sure you can build your own pretty front end tough, because SAP is all about hiring consultants to customize it for you.

      Which is why this story isn't all that surprising when I thought about it for a second.

      They're providing an iOS SDK for its in-memory database product, SAP HANA, to allow organizations to build their own customized apps using the data stored in HANA.

      It's something else you can pay someone to customize for you. Fits right in with their M.O.

  2. IOS?? by AF_Cheddar_Head · · Score: 2

    Hell, Cisco brought that to the enterprise years ago and it still sucks.

  3. Re:HANA by tlhIngan · · Score: 2

    Do they not realize that iOS devices don't have as much RAM as even Android phones? (iOS is more efficient with memory usage yes, but it does suffer from RAM limits on certain operations).

    I mean, the latest have 2GB of RAM, but iOS also limits how much RAM an app can use...