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In yet another move aiding organizations towards MEAP platforms, Sybase Software, India and Wipro Infotech have partnered to extend SAP applications to a variety of mobile devices, allowing SAP customers to access their enterprise applications in a secured way while on the move.
Accordingly, Sybase and SAP will deliver co-developed solutions for extending SAP CRM and SAP Business Suite to mobile devices. Using these solutions, SAP customers will be able to leverage Wipro's SAP offerings to customize these Sybase mobile solutions for SAP, in addition to developing custom mobile applications for other SAP modules such as SRM SCM, and PLM, directed towards areas like mobile services, mobile sales, time and travel approvals, workflows, warehouse management, asset management, and more.
Commenting on the tie-up, Sairaman Jagannathan, VP, business solutions division, Wipro remarked, "Building on our SAP partnership, this partnership with Sybase demonstrates a strong synergy between our companies, as we share a common goal of providing businesses easy access to valuable information contained within enterprise applications. As Sybase's implementation partner, we will bring in tight integration with a wide range of mobile environments to ensure secure and real-time access to information."
Wipro's solutions will be based on Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP), enabling enterprises to implement, manage and expand their mobile computing initiatives in a coherent, streamlined and cost-effective manner. As part of this joint initiative, Wipro will set-up a Center of Excellence at its research center in Sangam, Bengaluru, where customers will be able to view various mobile applications developed by Wipro to mobilize SAP. The Center of Excellence will also be used to develop new industry frameworks that can be used across different customer verticals.
Elaborating on the workability of these new solutions, Sunil Jose, MD, India & subcontinent, Sybase Software said, "SUP supports a wide variety of popular mobile platforms. This enables true mobility for a large section of employees and not just top or middle management. Through this, SAP's customers will be able to create an information edge by optimizing and enhancing the infrastructure they already own, linking valuable data resources in place, and securely delivering information anytime, anywhere."
According to a recent Gartner report on Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms (MEAP), over 95% of the organizations will be choosing MEAP or packaged mobile application vendors as their primary mobile development platforms till 2012, and from 2010 to 2013, the number of enterprises choosing multichannel MEAP vendors is estimated to rise by 10% annually.
In this light, Sybase has also tied up with SAPAG to offer two new solutions for mobile users to carry out key business and CRM processes via iPhone and Windows Mobile. Built on SUP, the mobile solution extends the capabilities of SAP Business Suite applications, including SAP CRM, and also can be customized to tap into a variety of back-end data sources, including databases, web services, files and any enterprise application that leverages SOA.
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