Apple & SAP Partner to Revolutionize Work on iPhone & iPad

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Companies to provide new applications and iOS SDK to create powerful, native business applications
CUPERTINO, California and Walldorf, Germany - Apple announced today a partnership and SAP to revolutionize mobile working experience for enterprise customers of all sizes, the combination of powerful native applications for iPhone® and iPad® with cutting-edge capabilities SAP HANA. platform.

This joint effort will also offer a new IOS development kit (SDK) software and training academy for developers, partners and customers can easily build native iOS applications tailored to your business needs.

Apple CEO Tim Cook and SAP CEO Bill McDermott are on campus in Cupertino Apple to announce a new partnership to revolutionize the work on the iPhone and iPad. Courtesy of Apple CEO / Roy Zipstein of Apple, Tim Cook and SAP CEO Bill McDermott are on campus in Cupertino Apple to announce a new partnership to revolutionize the work on the iPhone and iPad. Courtesy of Apple / Roy Zipstein

"This partnership will transform how the iPhone and iPad are used in the company, bringing together innovation and security of iOS with deep experience in SAP business software," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. "As a leader in enterprise software and 76% of business transactions touch an SAP system, SAP is the ideal partner to help truly transform how companies around the world run on the iPhone and iPad partner. Through new SDK, we train more than 2.5 million SAP developers to build native applications powerful fully leverage SAP HANA Cloud Platform and using the great features that only iOS devices can offer. "

"We are proud to have this special partnership between Apple and SAP to a new innovative place," said Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP. "By giving people a quick and intuitive business experience that will enable them to learn more, they care more and do more. By combining the powerful capabilities of SAP HANA Cloud Platform and SAP S / 4hana, along with IOS , the leader and safer for the enterprise mobile platform, will help deliver data in real time to people where and when they choose to work. Apple and SAP share a commitment to shaping the future, helping the world work better and improve the lives of people. "

The companies plan to offer a new SAP HANA Cloud Platform SDK exclusively for iOS that will provide companies, designers and developers the tools to build quickly and efficiently their own iOS apps for iPhone and iPad based on SAP HANA Cloud platform, SAP's open platform as a service. These native applications provide access to basic data and business processes in SAP S / 4hana, taking the best use of iPhone and iPad and Touch ID®, location services and notifications.

A new SAP Fiori for the design language of iOS will be the award-winning user experience SAP Fiori to the next level by combining with iOS experience consumer level to meet the needs of robust business users and allow developers to build next-generation applications. To help the global community of 2.5 million developers SAP members make the most of the new SDK and hardware and innovative software from Apple, a new SAP Academy for IOS provide tools and training. The new SDK, design language and academia will begin to roll out before the end of the year.

As part of the alliance, SAP will develop iOS native applications for critical business operations. These applications for the iPhone and iPad will be built with Swift ™, modern, safe and interactive programming language Apple, and will offer a familiar user experience with SAP Fiori design language of iOS. Workers in all sectors will have the ability to access critical company data, processes and user experience they need to make decisions and act directly from your iPhone or iPad through applications designed to allow a worker field maintenance to order parts or schedule service, or doctor to share the latest data from patients with other health professionals.

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to store, desktop to mobile device - SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead competition. SAP applications and services enable approximately 310,000 business and public sector customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit  www.sap.com.

Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple is the world leader in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV. four platforms software Apple - iOS, OS X, and watchOS TVOS - provide perfect experiences on all Apple devices and empower people with innovative services, including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple's 100,000 employees are dedicated to making the best products of the earth, and to leave the world better than we found it.

Attend SAPPHIRE NOW for more information about the association and to experience the new SAP Fiori iOS applications on the campus of Industries.

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