Xamarin and SAP have collaborated to help developers build performant, native mobile enterprise apps. Using the new Xamarin SDK for SAP Mobile Platform, businesses gain secure access to on-premise and cloud-based data in Xamarin apps. Bill Clark, Global Vice President of Mobile Strategy at SAP, Kiran Karunakaran, Director of Product Management at SAP, and Zack Gramana, Enterprise Product Marketing Manager at Xamarin, discuss the collaboration between Xamarin and SAP, demo the SAP .NET SDK from Xamarin, demo Xamarin Test Cloud, and walkthrough the SAP Mobile Platform. Watch the webinar at: http://xamarin.wistia.com/medias/xcak8ronxu

1. Xamarin and SAP Mobile Platform for
Mobile Enterprise Success
Chris King
Customer Success Engineer
chris.king@xamarin.com
Zack Gramana
Technical Marketing Manager
zack@xamarin.com
Twitter, Github @zgramana

2. Mission
Provide the best platform to deliver secure,
integrated, native mobile applications for all major
devices—from the consumer
to the enterprise.
Delight developers, accelerate innovation, and
empower the best possible end-user experience.

3. Xamarin: Explosive Growth in 2 Years
500,000 registered developers
in just 2 years
Adding over 30,000
developers a month
Customers in 185 countries
Robust, enterprise-ready
technology, in production use
for 10 years
Recognized as Mobile
“Visionary” in 2013 Magic
Quadrant for MADP
Winner—2013 Visual Studio
Integration Partner of the
Year Award

4. Apps in all Verticals and Mobility Use Cases
• Mobile CRM
• Mobile Field Service
• Consumer Brand Loyalty
• Retail POS solutions
• Supply chain management
• Consumer media & entertainment
• Oil & Gas Field Solutions
• Airplane freight load balancing
• mBanking & wealth management
• Insurance claims adjusting
• “Second Screen” TV apps
• mHealth/ Practice Management

5. Strong Network of Global Partners

6. Sweet Spot for the Successful Mobile Enterprise
End User
Experience
Developer Experience
Great apps
delivered to the
user’s choice of
device
Development
agility to
move at
mobile speed
Lessons Learned from over 500,000 Developers Using Xamarin

7. MOBILE STRATEGY
CHOICES

8. Xamarin’s Unique Approach
Xamarin
exposes 100%
of the native
APIs for iOS,
Android and
Windows in
C# and Visual
Studio
Mobilize
existing code,
skills, and tools
including Visual
Studio
Share app logic
code across
device platforms
Native UI
C# + XIB
Native UI
C# + XML
Native UI
C# + XAML
Shared App Logic
C#
Fully native apps written entirely in C# and Visual Studio

9. Visual Studio 2013 Integration for iOS and Android
A single solution for iOS,
Android and Windows
development
Leverage the entire Microsoft
ecosystem:
- ReSharper
- Team Foundation Server (TFS)
- Your favorite code coverage
and profiling tools

10. async
PCL

11. Xamarin Studio
Optimized for cross-platform
mobile development
- Explore native APIs with
code completion
- World class Android and
iOS designers
- Powerful debugging on
simulator or device

12. Xamarin Component Store
Build Apps Faster
- Add high quality pre-built app
components directly from
Visual Studio and Xamarin
Studio
- Beautiful cross-platform UI
controls, cloud services and
enterprise backend
integrations are just a few
clicks away

13. SAP Mobile
.NET SDK

14. Highlights
• Query, Create, Update, and Delete OData objects
• Uses your own strongly-typed C# objects in your client code
• Simplify the authentication and onboarding process
• Use the same C# API for iOS and Android
• Leverage .NET features like async/await for keeping your UI responsive
• Simple, compact API with sample code included
• Do it all using C#

15. DEMO

16. Roadmap
•Integrated offline operation support
•Windows 8/Phone 8
•SAP Single Sign On authentication

18. Market Coverage
Market Coverage
Devices x OS Versions
12s
20%
120
50%
85%
100s
Phones around the office
A few
10%
Manual Testing Team
Limited public beta

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SAP Business
Xamarin
SAP
Mobile
Platform
SDK

20. Resources
• xamarin.com/sap
• sapmobile-platform.com/