SAP, Sybase to mobilise SAP Business Suite for mobile workforce
ConvergenceAsia staff
17/03/2009

Enterprise software company SAP and Sybase, an enterprise and mobile software provider, are co-innovating and collaborating to deliver the new SAP Business Suite software for the first time to iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and other devices by integrating it with Sybase's mobile enterprise application platform.

Through the partnership, users will have access to critical customer data in both connected and disconnected modes right from their mobile device of choice by utilising Sybase's business process mobilisation technology. Sybase will work with SAP to simplify the delivery of enterprise applications to mobile devices to speed up rollout and reduce end-user training for sales representatives and service personnel.

Sybase will enable sales professionals access to the SAP customer relationship management (CRM) solution. While on the move they will be equipped with up-to-the-minute data on their customers that is synchronised with the enterprise applications, allowing the seamless execution of customer transactions as well as integration with mobile business processes.

"We are currently witnessing the proliferation of mobile devices that is transforming the way users interact with information and applications on a global basis," said John Chen, chairman, CEO and president, Sybase. "Today's wireless consumers are provided with extensive features and functionality surrounding interaction, collaboration and information accessibility. To effectively carry this rich experience over to the enterprise, an open, standardised platform approach is required for interfacing between multiple application and device assets. Our partnership with SAP combines the world's most widely used business applications with a leading mobile middleware platform on the market today, bringing us one step closer to realising our vision of the Unwired Enterprise."

Added Geraldine McBride, President, SAP Asia Pacific Japan, "Working together with Sybase, we will provide the modern mobile workforce with the tools they need on the device of their choice, which will enable faster time to value, through access to business functionality anytime, anywhere."

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