Reaffirming its commitment to embrace the best choice for customers
with an open partner and developer ecosystem , SAP AG today
announced agreements with Adobe, Appcelerator and Sencha to provide
users with an open mobile apps development framework for
efficiently and cost-effectively developing on the company's
market-leading mobile platform.
"We are seeing rapid innovation in the mobile market, especially in
application development environments, frameworks and
methodologies," said Stephen Drake, program vice president,
Mobility and Telecom, IDC. "It is critical for enterprise mobile
applications platforms to support popular mobile application
development environments and leverage the skills of millions of
mobile apps developers using these environments. This approach will
provide buyers of these enterprise mobile application platforms
with the flexibility required to implement a best-fit mobile
strategy and future proof their investment."
By collaborating with Adobe, Appcelerator and Sencha, SAP will
enable millions of developers to effectively build mobile apps
based on their choice of client architectures — from native
to hybrid Web container to mobile Web. Developers will be able to
do so while leveraging an industry-leading enterprise mobile
application platform from SAP.
"As a leader in the enterprise mobility market, SAP is
constantly looking for innovative ways to serve our customers and
partners, and advance our vision for this market," said Sanjay
Poonen, president, Global Solutions, SAP. "By joining forces with
leading mobile app development vendors like Adobe, Appcelerator and
Sencha, we are making it easier for large communities of
developers, in the millions, to innovate on our platform. We
believe SAP is the only mobile platform provider delivering on the
promise of an open platform architecture that supports innovative
third-party development environments and tools, providing
flexibility for customers to implement the right mobile app every
time. SAP, customers, partners and the entire ecosystem now have a
tremendous opportunity to rapidly produce millions of high quality
apps using the tool of their choice."
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