Exploring the Seamless Integration of SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services

The demand for efficient enterprise mobility solutions continues to surge. As businesses prioritize seamless user experiences and agile operations, SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services have emerged as a pivotal enabler of this transformation. With a focus on optimizing user experience and performance, this post looks into the technical advantages, business agility enhancements, and prospects of SAP's mobile platform. Furthermore, it explores the strategic role of Approyo in elevating SAP Cloud Mobile Services, empowering businesses to leverage cutting-edge cloud strategies.

Technical Capabilities of SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services

In the enterprise mobility solutions space, SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services' technical prowess stands out as a game-changer. Its seamless integration with SAP HANA and S/4HANA empowers businesses to harness the full potential of their mobile applications. This integration ensures real-time data access and synchronization, laying the foundation for agile decision-making and responsive operations.

Key Features and Advantages

• Offline Access: One of the standout features is the robust offline access capability, enabling users to continue working seamlessly even without a network connection. This functionality significantly enhances productivity and user satisfaction, especially in remote or low-connectivity environments.
• Push Notifications: The platform's ability to deliver targeted and contextually relevant push notifications fosters proactive engagement with users, driving increased interaction and user retention.
• Security Protocols: With robust security protocols embedded within the platform, businesses can ensure the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive enterprise data, bolstering trust and compliance in mobile operations.

By leveraging these specific features, SAP effectively addresses the critical needs of enterprise mobility, providing a secure, responsive, and user-centric framework for businesses to thrive in the mobile arena.

Driving Business Agility with SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services

SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services are pivotal in augmenting business agility, responsiveness, and innovation. Businesses can streamline their operations by integrating this platform, enabling swift and informed decision-making. For instance, companies across various industries have utilized the platform's capabilities to optimize field service management, enabling real-time updates and task allocation, thereby enhancing operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Streamlining Operations and Decision-Making

• Field Service Optimization: Businesses can seamlessly coordinate field service activities through the platform's integration, optimizing resource allocation and response times. This streamlined approach contributes to improved service delivery and operational efficiency.
• Real-time Analytics: By leveraging SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services' real-time data processing capabilities, organizations can harness actionable insights for agile decision-making, enabling them to adapt swiftly to market fluctuations and customer demands.

The platform's ability to facilitate real-time interactions and data-driven decision-making empowers businesses to respond nimbly to evolving market demands, fostering innovation and competitive edge in their respective domains.

Elevating User Experience with SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services

Optimizing user experience and performance is paramount to driving user satisfaction and engagement on mobile platforms. SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services offers a multifaceted approach to achieving these objectives, encompassing UI/UX design best practices, performance monitoring, and user feedback integration.

UI/UX Design Best Practices

• Intuitive Navigation: The platform enables the implementation of intuitive and user-friendly navigational elements, ensuring a seamless and engaging user experience.
• Customization and Personalization: Businesses can leverage the platform to tailor the user interface, delivering personalized experiences that resonate with individual user preferences and behaviors.

Performance Monitoring and User Feedback Integration

• Real-time Performance Monitoring: The platform's robust performance monitoring capabilities enable businesses to promptly identify and address performance bottlenecks, ensuring optimal user experiences.
• User Feedback Integration: By integrating user feedback mechanisms, businesses can gain valuable insights into user preferences and pain points, fostering continuous improvement and refinement of mobile applications.

Through these focused initiatives, SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services drives optimizing user experience and performance, enriching mobile applications with intuitive design, seamless functionality, and user-driven enhancements.

Anticipating the Future of Enterprise Mobility

As technology continues to evolve rapidly, the future of enterprise mobility holds promising advancements and transformative shifts. SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services is poised to play an instrumental role in shaping enterprise mobility, aligning with emerging trends and the evolving needs of businesses across diverse sectors.

Emerging Trends and Evolving Needs

• IoT Integration: The convergence of enterprise mobility and the Internet of Things (IoT) presents new connectivity and data utilization frontiers, offering potential avenues for mobile services to facilitate seamless integration and interoperability.
• AI and Machine Learning Integration: Anticipated advancements in AI and machine learning technologies are expected to influence the mobile space, creating opportunities for the platform to leverage intelligent automation and predictive capabilities for enhanced user experiences and operational efficiencies.

Adaptability and Scalability

SAP Cloud Services' adaptability and scalability are poised to align with the evolving demands of businesses, catering to dynamic user requirements and the need for agile, responsive mobile solutions. By embracing this adaptability, companies can proactively address the changing paradigms of enterprise mobility and position themselves at the forefront of technological innovation.

Looking ahead, the platform's flexibility and robust capabilities position it as a transformative force in the future of enterprise mobility, aligning seamlessly with emerging technologies and businesses' evolving needs.

Approyo stands as a cornerstone in elevating the capabilities of SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services. With a robust suite of cloud solutions, Approyo enhances the functionality and efficiency of SAP's mobile offerings, underscoring its dedication to fortifying enterprise mobility. Approyo’s expertise in delivering scalable, secure, and tailored cloud services aligns seamlessly with SAP's mobile services, driving operational excellence and ensuring superior user experiences.

Through innovative cloud strategies, Approyo empowers businesses to embrace the full potential of SAP's mobile services, catalyzing digital transformation and fostering a distinct competitive advantage. Visit our website for more information on SAP services. You may also send us an email at info@approyo.com or call us at 877-277-7696.

Key Takeaways from SAP TechEd 2018

Another SAP TechEd 2018 Las Vegas is in the books and it delivered five days of education, training, networking, and fun. Topics included SAP HANA Data Management Suite, SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Leonardo, SAP Analytics Cloud, and how real customers are building intelligent enterprises. Following up the SAP SAPPHIRE NOW Conference earlier this year, the main focus was the "Intelligent Enterprise". Expect to continue to hear this term from SAP and it's partners for the next several months and years.

New Cloud Business-Focused Development
SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP environment, now generally available, makes it easy for ABAP programmers to develop world-class app extensions as well as new apps using the public cloud. SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP environment, will empower programmers to use existing ABAP programming knowledge and skills to develop and extend critical business applications in the cloud using agile and DevOps methodologies and principles.

The cloud application programming model for SAP Cloud Platform is an integrated framework of tools, languages and libraries for developers to efficiently and rapidly build enterprise business services and applications. It will guide developers with SAP-supported best practices for full-stack cloud business application development so they can focus on their development project at hand. This includes:

• Integrating open source software and SAP technologies into one consistent end-to-end programming model and development experience
• Providing lightweight and modular implementation of core data services, allowing rapid development of persistency, business logic and user experience
• Guiding developers with a set of enterprise-grade tools, languages and libraries, allowing them to stay focused on their domain logic

SAP Data Hub
SAP Data Hub allows customers to build, execute, orchestrate and govern flow-based pipelines, providing the maximum reuse of existing data developments while encompassing digital innovations. Using an innovative metadata catalog and policy management, the solution provides a trusted metadata discovery, refinement and publishing environment. Users can easily extract more information and intelligence from highly distributed, diverse hybrid and multi-cloud environments to make real-time decisions and take immediate action without unnecessary data movement or consolidation.

Read the full blog post on www.approyo.com

Key Takeaways from SAP TechEd 2018

Another SAP TechEd 2018 Las Vegas is in the books and it delivered five days of education, training, networking, and fun. Topics included SAP HANA Data Management Suite, SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Leonardo, SAP Analytics Cloud, and how real customers are building intelligent enterprises. Following up the SAP SAPPHIRE NOW Conference earlier this year, the main focus was the "Intelligent Enterprise". Expect to continue to hear this term from SAP and it's partners for the next several months and years.

New Cloud Business-Focused Development
SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP environment, now generally available, makes it easy for ABAP programmers to develop world-class app extensions as well as new apps using the public cloud. SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP environment, will empower programmers to use existing ABAP programming knowledge and skills to develop and extend critical business applications in the cloud using agile and DevOps methodologies and principles.

The cloud application programming model for SAP Cloud Platform is an integrated framework of tools, languages and libraries for developers to efficiently and rapidly build enterprise business services and applications. It will guide developers with SAP-supported best practices for full-stack cloud business application development so they can focus on their development project at hand. This includes:

• Integrating open source software and SAP technologies into one consistent end-to-end programming model and development experience
• Providing lightweight and modular implementation of core data services, allowing rapid development of persistency, business logic and user experience
• Guiding developers with a set of enterprise-grade tools, languages and libraries, allowing them to stay focused on their domain logic

SAP Data Hub
SAP Data Hub allows customers to build, execute, orchestrate and govern flow-based pipelines, providing the maximum reuse of existing data developments while encompassing digital innovations. Using an innovative metadata catalog and policy management, the solution provides a trusted metadata discovery, refinement and publishing environment. Users can easily extract more information and intelligence from highly distributed, diverse hybrid and multi-cloud environments to make real-time decisions and take immediate action without unnecessary data movement or consolidation.

Read the full blog post on www.approyo.com

Approyo named one of The 10 Best Performing SAP Solution Providers by Insights Success

Approyo is excited to announce it has been named one of The 10 Best Performing SAP Solution Providers, 2018 by Insights Success.

Insights Success is a platform that focuses distinctively on emerging as well as leading companies, their confrontational style of doing business and way of delivering effective and collaborative solutions to strengthen market share. This magazine talks about leaders and orators from the world of technology, which includes CEOs, ClIOs, VPs, managers and other professionals who had set a benchmark in the revolution of the industry.

“We are honored to be part of this great list of companies" said Christopher Carter, CEO of Approyo. "This achievement continues to validate our success in the SAP and Cloud marketplace.”

"Starting their own business, while knowing all the difficulties, obstacles and competition one will have to face is the greatest challenge the brave entrepreneurs of today are accepting wholeheartedly. One such outstanding influential entrepreneur, who's running his venture while influencing the world is Chris Carter of Approyo," said Archana Ghule, Editor-in-Chief of Insights Success.

View the full profile: https://www.insightssuccess.com/approyo-evolving-sap-technology/

The 10 Best Performing SAP Solution Providers list: https://www.insightssuccess.com/the-10-best-performing-sap-solution-providers-2018-may2018/

About Insights Success
Insights Success is a forum where top leaders and executives talk and share about their experiences, views, and mantra for success which will help the young and dynamic bloodline of professionals to learn, cater and deliver business needs for customers in order to become futuristic market leaders.

Ask Approyo: How can SAP S/4HANA impact the Financial Industry?

The finance processes and technology platforms that have been utilized in the last 20 years are simply not agile enough for the digital economy. In the current connected world, new business models are limited by disconnected processes and legacy technologies, and enterprises can no longer wait until the end of the month to see results, or for the annual budget cycle to make investment decisions. Finance is at the heart of the digital business. Becoming digital enables finance organizations to reimagine the ways they achieve their CFOs’ key priorities; improving efficiency and ensuring compliance, driving business performance, and defining new corporate strategies. With SAP S/4HANA, this  can drive the ability to:

Reimagine Strategy

Companies require a platform that is open and adaptable, that enables real-time evaluation and analysis of new business models through dynamic planning and forecasting, accelerates integration of mergers and acquisitions, and also provides enterprise-level risk awareness and active management.

Reimagine Business Performance

As cycle times diminish and volatility increases, instant insight and decisions at the speed of thought become even more critical for senior executives and front-line workers alike. Every employee can become a profit manager utilizing a single version of the truth, available live and at the most granular level, with drill- downs by any dimension for instant plan-actual variance analysis, and prediction and simulation on the fly.

Reimagine Efficiency and Compliance

With radical automation, regulation, and embedded compliance, the time has come for “lights-out” finance. Business networks, coupled with faster deployment models in the cloud, allow for dramatic leaps forward in process automation. The rewards are more agile organizations, operational cost reductions of 40% or more, and, most importantly, access to information for timely decision-making to drive business outcomes. With core compliance automated, focus turns to protecting the brand. Enterprise risk topics become a focus while business networks provide visibility into supplier and credit risk.

Try SAP S/4HANA today! 

The opportunity exists to transform business processes and achieve the digital transformation of your business with more automation, real-time visibility, and better alignment to your end customer by delivering products tailored to their specific requirements. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important these needs and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation.

Are you going to SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2017?

Visit us along with our partners, PCM, CoreALM and Abreon on the show floor at Booth #1027. And stop by our exclusive  SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2017 After Party at the Icebar Orlando on Tuesday, May 16. RSVP today....

Approyo Inc 5000 Interview Series - Doug Tatum of The Newport Board Group

Earlier this year, Approyo had the honor of being ranked #120 in the Inc. Magazine 34th Annual List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies.

Approyo CEO Chris Carter recently attended the Inc. 5000 Conference and Gala and was able to speak with a number of CEOs and business influencers to talk about Business Success, tips and what it takes to the the Inc. 5000 list.

Chris sits down with Doug Tatum of The Newport Board Group and speaker at the Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala.

"the biggest single change is that product cycles have shortened. If you haven't aligned your products with you customers, you will be out of business"

Doug serves as Chairman for Newport Board Group, a national partnership of CEOs and senior executives who advise emerging middle market companies and assist private equity firms to invest in and grow portfolio companies. He is also an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship at Florida State University.

Doug also serves as the Advisory Board Chairman for the Business Dynamics Research Consortium, a national research institute, funded by the NASDAQ Foundation and the University of Wisconsin – Extension. It studies the entrepreneurial economy and job creation. Doug is Immediate Past Chairman and serves on the board of directors of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), a global not-for-profit organization with 58 Chapters and 14,000 members in the US and internationally, representing middle market private capital investors, intermediaries and the middle market deal community. Doug is the author of No Man’s Land, a leading text about growth companies that has been translated into many languages and has won four National Best Business book awards.His insights about the economy and business have been cited in hundreds of media outlets including Inc. Magazine, The Financial Times, and The New York Times online. As Chairman and CEO of Tatum LLC, Doug built a highly respected national professional service firm, leading it from its entrepreneurial phase to growth to 30 offices. Tatum LLC was sold to Spherion (now SFN Group) in 2010.

Contact Approyo Today!
Don’t miss this exciting time to take your business to the next level.
Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important questions and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation.

Ask Approyo: Email Security

Email and Email security has been one of the hottest topics in the news over the past few months and throughout this political season. Email security is a priority for all businesses, with the growing threat of hackers, viruses spam, phishing and identity theft, as well as the need to secure business information. In the latest edition of Ask Approyo, CEO Christopher Carter talks about Email Security.

What does Email Security mean?
Email security refers to the collective measures used to secure the access and content of an email account or service. It allows an individual or organization to protect the overall access to one or more email addresses/accounts.

An email service provider implements email security to secure subscriber email accounts and data from hackers - at rest and in transit.

Email security is necessary for both individual and business email accounts, and there are multiple measures organizations should take to enhance email security.

The Need for Email Security
Due the popularity of email as an attack vector, it is critical that enterprises and individuals take measures to secure their email accounts against common attacks as well as attempts at unauthorized access to accounts or communications.

Malware sent via email messages can be quite destructive. Phishing emails sent to employees often contain malware in attachments designed to look like legitimate documents or include hyperlinks that lead to websites that serve malware. Opening an email attachment or clicking on a link in an email can be all that it takes for accounts or devices to become compromised.

Meet with Approyo today… 
Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important questions and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation.

Ask Approyo - What is the Cloud?

Cloud computing is everywhere these days. From your photos to big enterprises, the cloud is touching every aspect of our lives. But do you really know what the mythical cloud really is? Join Approyo CEO Christopher Carter as he talks answers one of the most common questions in technology... What is the Cloud?

Cloud computing is a type of Internet-based computing that provides shared computer processing resources and data to computers and other devices on demand. It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., computer networks, servers, storage, applications and services), which can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort.

The cloud is a network of servers, sometimes hundreds and thousands of servers, and each server has a different function. Some servers use computing power to run applications or "deliver a service."

For example, Adobe recently moved its creative services to the cloud. You can no longer buy the Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, etc.) in a box set. Instead, you must pay a monthly subscription fee to use each individual service. That's why it's now called the "Adobe Creative Cloud" instead.

Other servers in the network are responsible for storing data.
For example, when you take a picture on your smartphone, it is stored on your phone's internal memory drive. However, when you upload the photos to Instagram, you are uploading it to the cloud.

Meet with Approyo today… 
Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important questions and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation.

Ask Approyo - The Future of Big Data

Thanks for the Internet, which started 25 years ago, Big Data is everywhere and growing more and more each day. Join Approyo CEO Christopher Carter as he talks more about the future of Big Data.

If it wasn’t for the start of the internet, we wouldn’t have Big Data as it is today. Every single piece of information that is out there today, from your car, social media and in the future from a chip in your head or contacts will be important. The future will be everywhere and anywhere. It will be more and more important for companies to understand every piece of information out there.

Now let’s put on our Google Glasses and look to the future!

The time for big data is now! Meet with Approyo today… 
Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important questions and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation.

Ask Approyo - Big Data is Everywhere!

Big Data is all around...

All industries are using it. Banking, fraud detection, customer service, social media, customized offers, traffic optimization, predictive maintenance, real-time inventory... and more! Join Approyo CEO Christopher Carter as he talks about Big Data while right in the middle of Big Data in New York City

Big Data is the new reality. More and more data and devices every day. 5+ Billion Smartphones, 25 Billion devices estimated for 2020, data volume growing every day.

Companies need to utilize data a real-time right now situation. Data is coming to you fast and furious and will only grow.

• Are you using traffic monitoring data from Waze to make sure you are taking the best back to work or for your delivery service?
• Are you tracking all your sales data to make sure you are reaching your business goals?
• Can your team see real-time reports and dashboards at any time or any device?

The time for big data is now! Meet with Approyo today…
Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important questions and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation.

Ask Approyo – Why Alice in Wonderland?

You may have noticed that we use Alice in Wonderland imagery throughout our website, presentations and social media. Have you ever wondered why we use that image? Hear directly from Approyo CEO Christopher Carter.
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“Alice in Wonderland is one of my favorite books” says Christopher Carter. “I love the adventure and the Mad Hatter is one of my all-time favorite characters. It’s a pleasure to be able to read the book to my daughters now.”
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When Chris started Approyo, he was looking for an identity, something that is a bit out there. Chris saw the book sitting on his bookshelf and found the graphic that is now on the website. It just all fell together from there!

“The leap you have to take from being an entrepreneur and the leap it takes to get customers to the new world of Big Data and SAP, it just fell into that world of Alice in Wonderland for me” adds Carter.

The Alice in wonderland image has been the main image Approyo has used since 2012.

Meet with Approyo today… 
Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important questions and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation.

Ask Approyo: Oracle and SAP

Recently Oracle acquired NetSuite. With this announcement, many people have been asking, what’s the big difference between Oracle and SAP? In fact, Approyo CEO Christopher Carter was recently featured in an article on Talkin Cloud about whether MSPs should offer Oracle and SAP. Hear directly from Christopher Carter as he talks about Oracle and SAP.
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Oracle
With the recent NetSuite acquisition, Oracle is making in-roads to the SMB market. The problem is, Oracle is not a true cloud based company. Oracle restricts you in one cloud, the Oracle Cloud only. Oracle tends to be a hodgepodge of several different applications from recent acquisitions. This makes for a complicated core solution.

SAP
SAP allows you to go to multiple clouds, whether it’s the SAP Cloud, Approyo or another SAP partner. This way have more options available to you. Additionally, SAP has made some similar acquisitions in the marketplace. Unlike Oracle, these acquisitions are add-ons to the core solution. SAP has been built from the ground up through years and years of expertise.

Now is the time for SAP and Approyo
Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important questions and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation today.

Ask Approyo: Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds

Cloud computing broadly breaks down into 3 different models – Public, Private and Hybrid - choosing the right one starts with understanding business objectives and how best they align with the values each model delivers.

Hear from Approyo CEO Christopher Carter as he breaks down Cloud Computing:

Public Cloud
Think of Amazon, anyone and everyone can be on this cloud with you.
A Public Cloud is one that’s based on the standard cloud computing model where services, applications and storage are made available to users over the Internet ‘as a service’ – typically on a Pay Per Use model. While Public Clouds are appealing to many businesses as they reduce complexity and lead times, because the underlying architecture is fixed, there is less scope for customization for security and performance. There are many types of Public Cloud, the most common being Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS), Software as a service (SaaS) and Desktop as a service (DaaS) platforms – all of which we make available to the channel through our proprietary Cloud services. The economies of scale afforded by Public Cloud computing are what make this technology highly attractive.

Private Cloud
You own it. You and your network are segmented off. You don’t have anyone else on the same platform as you. Approyo runs this type of cloud for our customers.

Private Clouds consist of cloud infrastructure that is deployed solely for a single organization, whether managed internally or hosted by a third-party externally. They require a significant level of engagement from both management and IT departments to virtualize the business environment, and also mean evaluating how existing resources should be reallocated in the cloud. Private Clouds offer scope for advanced security, high availability or fault tolerant solutions that are not possible in a Public Cloud. However, as they are effectively ‘stand-alone’ solutions in their own right, building a Private Cloud still involves significant investment, and does not therefore deliver the shorter-term economies that Public Cloud can.

Hybrid Cloud
As the name suggests, a hybrid cloud comprises both private (internal) and public (external) cloud services. Typically a business might run an application primarily on a private cloud, but rely on a public cloud to accommodate spikes in usage. Customized rules and policies govern areas such as security and the underlying infrastructure, with tasks allocated to internal or external clouds as necessary.

What’s right for you? 
Your Data is important to your business. You want it to be secure, so no one else can touch your information. Connect with Approyo today and we will help your company navigate all the cloud options.

Ask Approyo: What makes SAP HANA fundamentally different?

​​SAP HANA is different by design. It stores all data in-memory, in columnar format and compressed. Because SAP HANA is so fast, sums, indexes, materialized views and aggregates are not required, and this can reduce the database footprint by 95%. Everything is calculated on-demand, on the fly, in main memory. This makes it possible for companies to run OLTP and analytics applications on the same instance at the same time, and to allow for any type of real-time, ad hoc queries and analyses.

On top of this SAP built solutions to all the problems of columnar databases, like concurrency (HANA uses MVCC) and row-level insert and update performance (HANA uses various mechanisms like a delta store).

Additionally, SAP added a bunch of engines inside SAP HANA to provide virtual OLAP functionality, data virtualization, text analysis, search, geospatial, graph (will be available soon) and web. It supports open standards like REST, JSON, ODBO, MDX, ODBC and JDBC. There is as much functionality in there as a whole Oracle or IBM software stack, in one database.

Experience SAP HANA from Approyo
Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address can help your organization grow today and in the future. Let us show you! Set up a free consultation today.