Connection to other sources than SAP ERP?

[perage]

Hi!

I’m testing out app development with SCPms and have successfully managed to connect to an OData service I created in SAP ERP.

I’m just wondering which other possibilities there are with SCPms in terms of destinations? C4C? Hybris Commerce? Third party vendors through e.g REST? I can off course do that directly in the app, but it would be nice to utilize the offline features and stuff that SCP can provide.

Thanks in advance

[ManuelStampp]

If you want to leverage Offline OData, you can basically connect any OData source.

If you have not yet, you might want to have a look into this Introduction to Offline OData (sap.com)

You need to make sure though that the OData producer can fulfil requests in a way that is required for defining requests in an offline case and understands CRUD requests in way that works for an offline use-case.

If you want to connect other REST services for Offline OData, you can place e.g. a cache database in between that caches data of a REST interface and provides OData access to it - with SAP Mobile Services, mobile back-end tools.

This can result in an architecture e.g. like the following:

Edit: forgot to mention: of course you can also link other http(s) destinations in SAP Mobile Services which are not OData - though then of course without the Offline features.

Kind regards

Manuel

[gregorw]

Hi Manuel,

just out of interrest: Is the team maintaining Mobile Back-End Tools working together with the SAP Cloud SDK Java and SAP CAP Java team? Because CAP is in many areas trying to solve the same problem.

Best regards
Gregor

[ManuelStampp]

Hi Gregor,

Yes, but – as always – the communication can be improved.

Best regards

Manuel