Trent Shields's List: SAP mobile technology research.

• SAP NETWEAVER GATEWAY
• SAP NetWeaver Gateway technology is your key for enabling employees, customers, suppliers, and consumers to connect to SAP systems from any environment and through any device.
• a standards-based framework for enabling developers
• create innovative, people-centric applications that link
• SAP software over
• social or collaboration platforms, mobile devices, and Web applications.
• It is designed to be used with existing SAP
• Extends the reach of SAP business applications
• Enables innovation without disruption by providing an abstraction layer that eliminates the dependency between existing SAP Business Suite software and the customer's application environment

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• With the Sybase Unwired Platform you can create and manage multiple mobile applications that securely connect a variety of back-end data sources to all major device types.

• iPeople: HR App for iPad

• When the app is opened, the screen shows the department for which the manager is responsible. In the menu, the individual employees in the team can be displayed, along with relevant key figures. In the navigation bar at the bottom, users can choose between the menu options Organization, Regions, Top/Low Lists, Events, and Info.

   

  When you tap on the employee, the following data and KPIs appear:

   
   
  • Number of FTEs
   
  • Number of employees
   
  • Beginner rate
   
  • Sick days per FTE
   
  • Nationalities
   
  • Vacancies
   
  • Vacation days per FTE
   
  • Length of service
   
  • Average age
   
  • Fluctuation rate
   
  • Proportion of women promoted
   
  • Proportion of women
   
  • Proportion of women in management
   
  • Management-to-employee ratio
   
  • Annual basic salary
   
  • Target annual salary
   
  • Low performer rate
   
  • Macro team rate
   
  • Manager stability rate
   
  • Manager assessment
   
  • Micro team rate
   
  • Employee satisfaction
   
  • Successor rate
   
  • Top manager stability rate
   
  • Top talent promotion
   
  • Top talent rate
• early warning system informs managers in good time about individual employees’ birthdays and company anniversaries but also lets managers know as soon as the fluctuation rate in a department rises particularly sharply or employee satisfaction drops significantly.
• Business intelligence tools such as SAP BusinessObjects Explorer can be integrated, too.

• users can sort the information according to key figures.

   

  These include:

   
   
  • Sales KPIs
   
   
   
  • Project KPIs
   
   
   
  • Development KPIs
   
   

  But HR departments do much more than just administer employee data. They also have to take care of financial aspects. Thanks to iPeople, managers can keep tabs on the following areas, regardless of time or place:

   
   
  • Total costs (budget, planned/actual, deviation)
   
   
   
  • HR costs
   
   
   
  • Travel expenses
   
   
   
  • Costs for external service providers

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• SAP Timesheet allows employees to enter their time quickly, thereby reducing the number of missing hours.  This application provides the same level of data integrity and functionality as the standard SAP HCM CATS transaction while employees are mobile and on the go. 

• Renderprise® provides complete, real-time, bi-directional, mobile interactions with all SAP applications, business processes, content, and data running across all mobile platforms, all mobile devices, all networks
• Enterprise Rendering℠ is an extremely simple, low cost, fully secure, in-memory, cloud-based technology that eliminates the many development and management tasks that are mandatory in a traditional mobile solution.

• Using the Sybase Mobile Workflow for SAP Business Suite, mobile workers can now complete pre-defined processes, such as requests and approvals for travel or leave. Additionally time-based events can easily be recorded directly in to the SAP Business Suite, all from a mobile device.
• SAP and Sybase are mobilizing SAP Business Suite processes by providing the ability to initiate and process workflows