Defining Your Mobile Strategy

Put quite simply, an effective enterprise mobile strategy is a roadmap that governs your mobile application deployments. It should encompass a variety of aspects including hardware, networks, security, office productivity and enterprise applications. A carefully considered, detailed mobile strategy will help ensure the effectiveness of your mobile application and provide the basis for developing a scalable mobility approach that will continue to drive benefits as your organization or business levels grow.

When developing a mobile strategy you must consider the following key elements:

Utilize a single mobile infrastructure that supports multiple types of devices and applications.

• Different areas of your business will require different device types.
• Avoid multiple point solutions that will require different infrastructure.
• Ensure all mobile applications, data and devices are managed in a single consistent manner.

Fully utilize your existing SAP infrastructure, skill sets and processes.

• Utilize the same SAP business processes, data, IT skills, DRP, change management and security in which you have already invested.
• Avoid additional hardware, complex middleware and management platforms that will deviate from your existing SAP strategy.

Properly manage all business transactions, from the point of inception through to final posting.

• Understand that 70% of the effort in all SAP mobile deployments is the integration with your SAP system. Ensure the integration piece of your strategy is detailed and understood.
• Be sure you have the proper interface management "inside SAP" to guarantee transaction and data integrity and avoid performance bottlenecks.

Pay attention to SAP data and business process integrity, ensuring:

• SAP levels of security are not compromised.
• SAP remains the master system. Don't replicate SAP functionality into 3rd party middleware systems. Extend SAP functionality to the field, don't replace it.

Source: Sky Technologies

Careful consideration of these key points is the first step to developing a successful mobile strategy. Learn more about how Peak-Ryzex's Enterprise Mobility Solution can be part of your mobile strategy to extend the reach of SAP to new applications and business processes both inside and outside the four walls of your operations.