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Pre-Implementation Queries in SAP MI ?

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HI Gurus,

Please give me your views on the below questionair

1,Remote wipe of the mobile device is supported, is this via a third party application (e.g. Afaria, Soti or the functionality built into ISA Server 2006 the ) or is it standard functionality within SAP?

2,Are all editions of SAP mobile (PDA and Wintel) able to take advantage of different screen resolutions and orientations?

3,What do we get in terms of remote management (i.e. any of the security points above plus deployment of software and remote support)? Is there any benefit in moving to 7.1 from 7?

4,Thinking of the supplied XAPPS that are available with SAP mobile, how configurable are they in terms of:

u2022 Adding new fields (both for info in the field and for engineers to return additional data).

u2022 Changes to validation.

u2022 Changes to workflow within the application.

u2022 Anything else!

5,Is there an IDE or tool available for implementing configuration changes?

6,What weu2019re after here is a feel for the overall influence on functionality, expressed as a percentage (e.g. 0 no influence to 100% complete control), which can be achieved with configuration?

7,Typically, who is responsible for making configuration changes, would it be possible to do this in-house or would we require experienced consultants? If this is a split between the 2 could we get a feel based on the most commonly requested changes?

8,With regard to customizing supplied XAPPs or writing our own, would we be talking Java development through webdyn pro? How would customisation impact patching and upgrades of the SAP infrastructure?

9,Our assumption is that SAP mobile solutions are only suitable for SAP backend systems owing to the tight integration. In your experience, has anyone successfully implemented a SAP mobile solution on a non SAP backend system? Would you, as experienced SAP consultants, recommend such a venture?

10,How would we go about integration of other systems on the mobile device? For example GPS, Barcode, Cameras or other applications like boiler diagnostics. Again, can you break this down into tasks that can be performed in house vs. tasks that are typically performed by experienced consultants?

11,This is a bit of a vague question so I must apologies in advance: Company will ultimately control our production environment but weu2019d be interested in having some control to be able to deploy configuration changes without having to bother them. If you could suggest if and how this arrangement would be implemented, then I can approach company to assess the feasibility.

Thanks in Advance,

Dharani

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Former Member
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Hi,

after yu asked this question really a fwe times now, lets try to give you an answer that will help yu hopefully....

1.9 Remote Wipe is not supported by WM7 - it is at least on the plan for 7.1. But if you are using the Windows SystemManagementServer (it is SMS Server, not the ISA server) with Mobile Add On, you can have this cunctionality. The further benefit of that path is, ou can controll all security settings on the device as well from one central point while using the Windows-Domain User configuration and roles.

2) Yes, you can take advantage of the different screen resolutions in general - but be aware that there is not a functionality at the moment that allows you to switch and optimize between horizntal and vertical view like you have it in .Net apps for example. this has to be done by the developer.

3.) The remote management is far better with 7.0 new Technology then it was before and it is further improved with MI7.1. But I guess the best result will be seen if you combine it with SMS server mentioned in point 1.

4.) Yes, all xAPPS have an enhancement concept, that allows you to add fields, change validation and workflow and add functionality that is not available at the moment. It depends how big your changes are, but to compare it: it is pretty much the same idea behind like user exits in the normal R3 ABAP world.

5.) The IDE is the Netweaver Composition Environment - you can download a sample version here on SDN for example.

6.) Well, this depends on how much work you want to invest into the client app. There are customers doing a full reprogramming of the client App to have the best support for their mobile employees on basis of the mobile ap.

7.) Well, the person that develops and changes the App can do changes on the app - if it is about configuration of data flow - any consultant in that area should be able to do that.

8.) This is totally up to ypu. Ypou have all different kinds of UI technology available which all have their Pros and Cons - it totally depends on the device, prefered way of working, design,..... And the upgrade - as long as you stay totally inline with the enhancement guides you are not effected at all. But as I said already: you can compare this with usual R/3 upgrde. The more ou change standard code the more you are effected by updates.

9.) SAP Mobile with a non sap solution? Well, beside the fact that is is not supported at themoment - what is the non sap system working with? How do you get the data into SAP? You can do it, but it is the question is this makes sence? To give you any valuable answer there it is really necessary to discuss this with more details.

10.) This is all possible - but again: what is inhouse and what is an experienced consultant? You would not try to run any SAP system without a SAP Basis consultant - so you hire one. Implementing a SAP Mobile solution without an experienced SAP MObile consultant is risky and a journey that you do not want to take! So if you have an experienced SAP Mobile consultant available, this all is not a problem - without it .... I would not start this project. But this is the case for all mobile technologies. It is more then getting an app runing on the phone and get some data down to it! If you have a FI project ypu would ask your FI person, without ABAP knowledge you have no chance to do anythng. And if you have a BW project - it will be most likely far above the head of the normal FI guy - even you hndle most of FI data in BW for example. Here it is the same: if you have MAM, you need fo sure an SD or PM consultant - but beside that you need an experience MAM and MI consutant. This is most likely one person, but the PM person has n chance to implement this successfully!

11.) which config changes are you talking about? Changing RFC connections? Changing SAP code? Well, this has to be done by a normal Basis or dev person inhouse. As long as you want to change code on the mobile device - this can be done without bothering them at DEV time - while roling it out you need to do these changes with the client.

Hope that helps a little!

Regards,

Oliver

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