SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services

SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services enables customers and partners to develop, extend, and run enterprise-grade mobile applications. The new SAP product road map for SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services is now available here. It gives an overview of the most recent innovations for SAP’s mobile technology offering on SAP Cloud Platform and …

I am happy to announce that a new version of the Mobile development kit is available for download (client) and already available in SAP Web IDE (editor).   With the latest release of the mobile development kit, there are many changes to be aware of.  In this blog, I’ll discuss …

Fiori Mobile Many of the Fiori Mobile specific blogs were written by Britt Womelsdorf, such as this introduction and this guide to building apps directly from Web IDE. There is also a guide to deployment. In March 2017 Britt updated us on some new features, such as launchpad apps with …

Setup Cloud Connector If you are using Gateway (rather than OData Provisioning) you may need to set the trust flag for the SAP Cloud Platform (SAP CP) dispatcher (in the Principle Propagation section).  The Fiori Mobile project might be the first time you have used app-to-app SSO. We had a …

A few weeks ago we went live with a mobile app built using the Mobile Service for SAP Fiori (a.k.a. Fiori Mobile).  I wanted to share my experiences as well as giving some practical tips and also making some suggestions to SAP for new features and improvements.  I’ve also written …

Offline If an app is to support offline use, it must be in the design from the very beginning.  It is not something which can easily be added later on. SAP’s recommended approach for Fiori web apps is to make the front end (UI5 app) as simple as possible by …

I know that SAP are always looking to improve their products and so I thought I would share some comments and suggestions for Fiori Mobile (and related products): Download of apps from Mobile Place is slow, even with the Content Delivery Network (CDN) enabled.  It’s dramatically slower than the public …

Part of the SAP Connect 2017 (SAP’s annual summit for partners in Austria, Germany and Switzerland with more than 1300 participants) which took place in Francfort this week, an Hackathon was organized. The only requirements we set for the teams where the following: Teams of 3 to 4 members with …

Here are the results of the Team neusta from the Hackathon at the SAP Connect 2017

Here are the results of the Team incloud aka Team happyCow from the Hackathon at the SAP Connect 2017

Here are the results of the Team brightsolutions from the Hackathon at the SAP Connect 2017  

Here are the results of the Team actidoo from the Hackathon at the SAP Connect 2017

I’m going to explain how to bring action into SAP Mobile Cards. By making your cards actionable you bring even more value to these, wallet style, micro apps. To get started, it’s important to explain there are two types of actions you can perform. Both action types are performed by …

Over the past 18 months, I’ve published numerous blogs about the mobile service for SAP Fiori and how it can help customers achieve the full potential of the  Fiori/SAPUI5 investment on mobile devices.  Aside from a recent post talking about my colleagues who were attending SAP TechEd Las Vegas, I’ve …

The SAP Enterprise App Modeler allows developers to define sophisticated applications without having to write any code. Business process experts can use the cloud-based editor to develop new applications and customize existing ones. The result is a flexible app with a beautiful user experience and powerful offline support. In this …

As companies undergo digital transformation, they connect people, things and businesses together. People are connecting to other people, things and businesses while they are on the go – which may be when they are away from their desks or fully offline. Application developers face intense pressure to capitalize on the …

Devil’s Advocate: Why TechEd? Me: Of course, it’s the largest technical education event hosted by SAP to make sure our ecosystem of partners, customers can touch, feel, learn and use many products of SAP!   Devil’s Advocate: Ok, so how does this still help me? Me: If you are a …

One of the things we say internally at SAP is that mobile is the face of digital transformation. Indeed when I speak to customers, if they don’t have mobile in mind as they plan out their digital transformation strategy, I always try to guide them gently to consider it.  Next …

When you are working in an offline store scenario and experiencing some problems , you report it to developer and he/she asks for client database access for further troubleshooting/analysis. “Client Database upload policy” feature has been available since a while in SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Service (SAP CPms) for Developers …

With the release of SAP Enterprise App Modeler and its ability to easily create offline mobile applications, I have received many questions about the recent new features in the Offline OData Service within SAP Cloud Platform mobile services. In this blog, I will describe the enhancements to the Offline OData …

Introduction Let’s be honest: If you go around asking people about what they think developers (“programmers”) do all day, they would most likely come up with clichés such as “sitting in a basement, drinking coffee, hacking away.” Quite frankly, this may be not too far from reality, but I think …

How to Guide XCA quick start guide   Introduction This tutorial comes as an extension to the blog post: “How to Guide – Principal Propagation in an HTTPS scenario”.  In that context, a couple of certificates had to be created to configure the SAP Cloud Connector.  Due to the specific requirements of …

How to Guide Principal Propagation in an HTTPS Scenario   Resources used to showcase Principal Propagation The key elements used are the following: SAP Cloud Platform instance https://account.hana.ondemand.com/cockpit Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) It will be required to sign the certificates Since one of the certificates that will be required needs …

Part 1 Configuring the SAP Mobile Platform Mobile Services to connect to an instance of the Secure Login Server and retrieve a user certificate     Background & Introduction This how to guide was the result of a discussion between us on the Mobile side and the guys over in …

Introduction In this blog post I would like to shed some light on the development options at your disposal when building mobile apps. There is an abundance of use cases that dictate how an app needs to be built, and SAP offers a multitude of tools and approaches to achieve …

Introduction If a cloud platform account is setup to use Identity AuthenticationService (IAS) tenant account for SAML authentication and you desire to perform user role management in the IAS tenant, then both IAS tenant as well as the Cloud Platform account need to be configured to allow mobile service cockpit …

Hi, You probably have heard about SAP Enterprise App Modeler as Lisa and Sue have written some nice introductions here and here. The key concept for SEAM is to use meta data, that describes the actual mobile application. But what does meta data means in this context? The following should give …

Mobile solutions came in many flavours and software architects are sometimes struggling choosing the right components for their mobile scenario. Is also important that the chosen architecture fits perfectly into existing customer landscapes, which vary vastly. The following should help solution architects to get insights into typical solution architectures for …

I am excited to announce a series of webcasts focused on digital experience and enterprise mobility. These webcasts, hosted by ASUG, will educate attendees on our overall digital experience services and mobile strategy. Early webcasts will provide a high level strategy and overview, while later webcasts will provide more detailed …

Rapid mobile app development (RMAD) tools are programming tools that speed the process of creating applications for mobile platforms. SAP’s new RMAD tool, Mobile Development Kit, is a metadata-driven tool that allows users to customize native SAP applications, as well as rapidly create new native mobile applications. Applications developed with …