HP, SAP Ally For Managed Mobility Services

HP Enterprise Services announced a new global agreement with SAP AG through which it will deliver managed mobility services to help clients convert customer interactions into revenue opportunities and improve employee productivity with mobile applications.

Enterprises recognise that mobility enables anytime, anywhere business operations that are faster, more accurate and more efficient. Many times, enterprises fail to realise these advantages because they do not have an effective solution for managing mobility costs, security and support.

HP Managed Mobility Services for the SAP Mobile Platform help clients quickly visualise, plan, build, operate and secure mobile applications. This can change the way they interact with customers, employees and partners on any device. The services leverage the SAP Mobile Platform the SAP Afaria mobile device management solution and an extensive portfolio of mobile applications. This provides a proven, end-to-end mobile application platform that delivers innovative business and consumer applications built with existing developer skills, tools and community resources.

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HP Managed Mobility Services for the SAP Mobile Platform are designed to help enterprises grow revenue by developing mobile applications that enhance engagement with customers and increase the conversion rate to sales through a superior customer experience.

It reduces the cost of business operations by developing employee- and partner-productivity apps and optimising the cost of the mobility environment and accelerates the time to value and return on investment of mobile initiatives with rapid provisioning and deployment of SAP solutions and mobile applications.

As part of HP Managed Mobility Services for the SAP Mobile Platform, HP delivers consulting services to visualise new systems of engagement through mobile channels, assess the SAP solution-based environment and mobile application architecture as well as create a mobile application strategy and roadmap. Additionally, HP works with clients to develop, integrate, test and implement pre- and custom-built mobile applications in industries such as automotive, industrial, engineering, consumer and retail.

“Forward-looking enterprises are demanding mobility solutions that empower employees on the go, create new systems of engagement, and integrate these in real time with critical business applications like those from SAP,” said Amit Chakravarti, Director, HP Enterprise Services APJ. “HP has joined forces with SAP, leveraging our deep technology portfolio and services expertise and SAP mobile technologies to create one of the most advanced mobile application solutions available to the market.

With these services, the SAP mobile solution can be delivered from the HP Converged Cloud, which supports rapid provisioning, scalability and security. The services can scale to support global deployments of thousands of users.

Additionally, the services can be delivered as a fully managed service with minimal up-front investment, therefore lowering the risk and cost of mobile applications. Clients also have the option to implement the solution on premises, taking advantage of HP’s implementation services for SAP Rapid Deployment solutions. As a result, clients can lower the risk and cost of mobile applications while allowing the business to optimise employee productivity and operational costs.

“Unwiring your business is the new productivity imperative for the successful enterprise,” said Chris McClain, executive vice president, Global Mobility Solutions, SAP. “HP Managed Mobility Services for the SAP Mobile Platform and SAP Afaria will help enterprises support their ever-expanding mobile stakeholders globally with a range of applications.”