SAP Drives Openness and Choice for Millions of Mobile App Developers

Bangalore: SAP AG announced agreements with Adobe, Appcelerator and Sencha to provide users with an open mobile apps development framework for efficiently and cost-effectively developing on the company's market-leading mobile platform. By collaborating with Adobe, Appcelerator and Sencha, SAP will enable millions of developers to effectively build mobile apps based on their choice of client architectures — from native to hybrid Web container to mobile Web. Developers will be able to do so while leveraging an industry-leading enterprise mobile application platform from SAP.

While Adobe provides applications built with PhoneGap, which have access to native device APIs, Appcelerator's Titanium provides a framework to develop rich application experiences, and connect those apps to SAP and 220 other data sources. Titanium SDK also enables the enterprise to deploy native, hybrid and mobile Web apps all from a single JavaScript code base and Sencha Touch provides the only HTML5 framework that enables developers to build fast and impressive apps that work on iOS, Android, Blackberry, Kindle Fire and more.

Stephen Drake, program vice president, Mobility and Telecom, IDC said "It is critical for enterprise mobile applications platforms to support popular mobile application development environments and leverage the skills of millions of mobile apps developers using these environments”. He believes “This approach will provide buyers of these enterprise mobile application platforms with the flexibility required to implement a best-fit mobile strategy and future proof their investment”

Sanjay Poonen, president, Global Solutions, SAP said "By joining forces with leading mobile app development vendors like Adobe, Appcelerator and Sencha, we are making it easier for large communities of developers, in the millions, to innovate on our platform”

“We are opening up our unified platform to capture all the innovation that is possible in the mobile world. This advances our vision to bring consumer grade usability and innovation to unwired businesses." Poonen added.