SAP Mobile Solutions

SAP provides the industry's most powerful and flexible mobile device management and security solution for the enterprise. It provides you with a single administrative console to centrally manage, secure and deploy mobile data, applications and devices. With the management of devices under control, SAP then provides the ability to take your processes, once confined to the physical office, and release them to your people where they are, when they need them. The openness and standards based support of the SAP applications enable mobile applications to be built in range of development environments including Microsoft, Sybase, Java and HTML5.

Acclimation implements end to end enterprise mobility solutions for Blackberry, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Windows Mobile, Android and Symbian devices integrated with SAP business processes. From scoping the initial business requirement, development, implementation and providing ongoing management, Acclimation can support your requirement for complete mobile lifecycle management. We offer you our standard solutions which cover most common business requirements, or we can provide additional consultancy services which go beyond implemenation and development of mobile solutions, helping you to define your enterprise-wide mobility strategy.

Here is an example of one of out HTML5 mobile Apps - Incident Managment Form

This includes:

• Business Analysis
• Business Process re-engineering for optimal enterprise mobilization
• Technical and Functional Blueprint
• Device selection and deployment strategy
• Risk assessment
• Proof of Concept
• Training and Knowledge Transfer

More recently Acclimation has built out its mobility practice to include device management using the enterprise-grade, highly scalable mobile device management solution called Sybase Afaria. Sybase's Afaria provides the ability to centrally manage and maintain your devices and protect your corporate data throughout the device lifecycle. It takes considerable planning and technical know-how to maximize the benefits Afaria offers. Acclimation offers the knowledge, experience and resources needed for a successful implementation. Our mobility consultants will work on-site with your IT staff to:

• Define and document the device management business requirements
• Create a detailed implementation plan
• Travel onsite to designated locations and install Afaria
• Train staff to support and maintain your modified mobility infrastructure

Once the Afaria solution is installed, we will provide the technical support required to ensure that the system is up and running properly. We can also provide you with the resources needed to administer and accurately capture and maintain device information, as well as distribute applications and update user profiles and device settings.

Our Service Highlights

• Afaria Deployment - Our Deployment service maximizes success and mitigates challenges that may arise during the implementation process and post installation. Once the solution is installed you can be confident your mobile data and devices are secure and accurately managed.
• Afaria Management - Our Management service provides the resources and best practices to ensure you have accurate records of the devices in your infrastructure and to make certain that each device is configured to adhere to corporate policies.

SAP Afaria - Device Management and Security from a single source

Mobile environments are diverse, complex and often beyond the direct control of the IT organisation. Afaria provides IT with the ability to centrally manage and maintain devices and data throughout thedevice lifecycle.

There are 3 key stages of the device lifecycle, each with critical issues for the IT department to manage. IT must be able to proactively manage data, devices, applications and communications to all mobile users at any time, empowering them to be successful with the applications and the information needed to do their jobs.

Provision
In the provisioning stage, group and membership assignments are made and well and configuring for type of connectivity and initial Over-The-Air delivery of the management client. The provisioning stage includes security set up as well. Delivering the security client, establishing power-on password and encryption policies as well as antivirus and firewall protection are crucial in provisioning.

Production

It is in the production phase in the device life cycle where the bulk of what's expected of a mobile device occurs. In order to maximise mobile devices and make it as efficient as possible, there are specific functions that must be addressed. Things like tracking inventory, the ability to update and repair software that's deployed on mobile devices, distribute data and content to line of business applications and remote control capabilities are all things a mobile device management solution must accomplish.

Security is a integral part of the production phase, too. Being able to back up data, apply necessary OS patches (laptops), enforce the security policies set in the provisioning phase and providing detailed logging and reporting are critical security functions of the production phase in a device's life cycle.

Decommission
Maybe as important as provisioning is the decommissioning of a device. Many times the story is heard about a device sold on eBay with corporate data still on the device. That device was the victim of a poor decommissioning process. You need to be able to lock or kill a lost or stolen device, or wipe all data from devices due to be removed from the inventory and repurposed.

If a device is going to be re-provisioned, a new functional image will have to be placed on the device, as well as the appropriate applications and settings.

All this can be accomplished with the Afaria mobile device management and security solution.