Thursday, November 13, 2014

Samsung, SAP team up on mobile apps for businesses

Samsung and SAP have announced initial plans to work together to create enterprise mobility applications for a number of industries. In a joint statement, the companies said they would partner “to build on the popularity and reach of Samsung’s mobile innovations and the SAP Mobile Platform”. They added that the resulting enterprise mobility ecosystem would create tools that can help companies create custom business apps based on Samsung hardware and the SAP HANA cloud platform. In addition, the two companies revealed that they are currently developing an integrated on-the-go payments offering.

Samsung and SAP said the collaboration will initially focus on the creation of apps for mobile devices and wearables in the retail, oil & gas, healthcare and financial services industries. In the retail sector, the partners said SAP's software will be integrated into wearable devices to help employees enhance customers’ in-store experience. Other possible ways in which SAP platforms can be combined with Samsung's wearable devices include an application that can help field workers in heavy industries use hands-free gesture commands to receive information and respond more quickly and safely to urgent issues with minimal disruption to their work.

In the finance sector, the partners said they intend to co-develop mobile banking apps and devices to enable a more secure and user-friendly experience for banking and insurance customers. The companies are also aiming to integrate the SAP HANA cloud platform with Samsung’s mobile devices to create customised apps for the healthcare industry.

Source: telecompaper.com

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