SAP Mobility pre-SAPPHIRE Roundup

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A few days ago SAP Mentor jon.reed organized a cross-continental discussion with applebyj, Oliver Rogers (from Bluefin Solutions) and myself to tap into our pre-SAPPHIRE thoughts and opinions on the current state of play with SAP mobility and what we would like to see from SAPPHIRE NOW 2012 in Orlando.

As Jon was short on time, I took up his offer to post this to SCN on his behalf.  I should say that we had no end of connectivity drop-outs and issues with this recording - big kudos to Jon who pulled an all nighter to edit it into something cohesive.

00:00     Introductions

01:25     Setting the pre-SAPPHIRE agenda

02:10     Field perspective of an SUP implementation (John Appleby and Oliver Rogers)

04:18     Field perspective of an SUP implementation - The customer's mobility roadmap

07:50     Field perspective of an SUP implementation - CIO directive "make people's lives easier"

10:50     Field perspective of an SUP implementation - Project next steps

14:00     Field perspective of an SUP implementation - Is SUP scaleable for large projects?

15:30     Field perspective of an SUP implementation - Lessons learned

18:16     Field perspective of an SUP implementation - The problem of IT silos

20:30     SAP mobile skill challenges

23:30     Building up SAP mobility competencies 

27:10     Engaging seasoned mobile app and UI developers from the field

28:00     Mobility user experience demands are high

30:30     Thoughts on SAP's recent announcements to incorporate new mobile developer communities (Sencha etc.)

35:30     Is developer outreach too dependent on SAP NetWeaver Gateway?

39:30     SAP's intent to open up the mobile developer ecosystem

41:48     Removing all points of friction - John Appleby's challenge to SAP

46:20     John Appleby and Oliver Rogers - last words before getting kicked out of their room

47:15     John Moy final comments, including initial thoughts about Syclo

51:20     Jon Reed's SAPPHIRE mobility goals

As an addendum, I should mention that during the discussion I queried how many large-scale SUP implementations are live right now.  I neglected to mention SAP's own internal rollout of mobile apps based on SUP.  But of course stories from customers rather than the vendor would be much more compelling (if you have some, please feel free to mention them in the comments).