Cooperation of SAP and Samsung

SAP and Samsung became partners in the market of corporate solutions

In November, 2014 it was announced cooperation of SAP and Samsung Electronics (Samsung Electronics Rus). The companies intend to develop through joint efforts corporate solutions for mobile devices and wearable electronics.

Within the announced partnership of the structure of Samsung, including the Galaxy smartphones and the Galaxy Gear smartwatch, will be combined with a program ecosystem of the German company and its SAP Mobile Platform platform in particular.^[1]

Gadgets of Samsung will receive integration with mobile technologies of SAP which will allow to protect and control data, applications, devices and user profiles. At the expense of it the South Korean giant hopes to make the products more competitive in business market in fight against BlackBerry and smartphone manufacturers based on Windows Phone.

In plans of Samsung and SAP creation of tools thanks to which the representing different fields of activity of the company and organization will be able to develop the applications intended for the solution of internal tasks appears. So far partners will be concentrated on four areas: retail, oil and gas industry, financial services and health care.

Samsung and SAP integrated in development of corporate solutions for mobile devices and wearable electronics

For example, the software tools focused on retail will help heads and employees of shops to obtain by means of devices of Samsung the relevant and optimized data on product availability in warehouses and also the comprehensive information about clients through SAP Precision Marketing service.

The exit engineers working in the industry of oil and gas will be able to estimate advantages of mobile applications of SAP Work Manager and SAP Field Service available to Samsung Galaxy Tab Active tablets, during operation with clients on places.

In the field of medical care of Samsung and SAP will put emphasis on analytics of data by means of a cloud platform of HANA, access to which will be open for smartphones and Samsung tablets through the applications developed taking into account specific features of medical institution.

In financial market of the company will advance the instruments of mobile banking having the high level of protection and a user-friendly interface.

Special point of cooperation of Samsung and SAP is the market of wearable electronics. The Galaxy Gear smartwatch with the loaded software will facilitate process of field customer service by delivery of necessary information resources and knowledge to the place of solution, and all necessary will be brought at the same time to the small screen of the wrist computer.

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