SAP Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Unwired is a SAP mobile app that is live on the SAP Store and in use with SAP's customers. The SAP EMR Unwired mobile app displays the clinical information healthcare providers need to care for patients. With this data available on mobile devices, providers can get instant access to patient history, track information at the point of care, and collaborate with other healthcare professionals. The application integrates with various SAP and non-SAP departmental and clinical information systems and runs on a wide variety of mobile devices and operating systems.

NEW: Partners now have the opportunity to extend, adapt or redesigned SAP EMR Unwired.

SAP EMR Unwired employs the SAP Mobile Platform, more specifically SAP NetWeaver Gateway, to connect to the relevant back-end systems. To enable our partners to extend this app, the SAP EMR Unwired code is now part of the standard SAP Mobile Platform bill-of-materials. So, if you as a partner would like to create your own app based on SAP EMR Unwired technology, you only have to follow these steps: 

1. Join the SAP Mobile Apps Partner Program,
2. Get trained,
3. Get the developer licenses (including the necessary Electronic Medical Record and SAP NetWeaver Gateway modules - all are covered by the program costs),
4. Develop your app (which must use the SAP Mobile Platform, more specifically SAP NetWeaver Gateway for back-end connectivity) and
5. Publish it on the SAP Store (after successful certification).

Find out more and contact the experts through this page.

As part of the SAP App Challenges for partners, I executed a webinar to explain the purpose of the challenges and to highlight the terms and conditions and key milestones. Here is the Link to the recorded session for s-users. Do not hesitate to view this short recording, as it will help you to better understand and plan your submission(s).

Register your Mobile idea here or your Cloud proposal here, so that we can optimally support your to get your apps and applications live in time for the challenge deadline. Find more details HERE or in the older posts in my blog. Feel free to contact me with any questions. Next to considerable exposure, you can actually win up to 10000€ in these challenges.

SAP has launched several SAP 2013 App Challenges for our partners. Get an overview of all challenges here.

This post highlights the SAP 2013 Industry Mobile Apps Challenge for Partners:

• Challenge 1: for the Retail Industry - learn more and submit
• Challenge 2: for the Wholesale Distribution Industry - learn more and submit
• Challenge 3: for the Transport and Logistics Industry  - learn more and submit

To support our partners in identifying the hottest areas for which to develop apps for these Challenges, below some guidance on white spaces as identified by SAP. If you as a partner would like to join the Retail Challenge, these ideas may inspire you to find the hottest areas.

Retail – general proposals

• Planogram – this app proposal would provide store employees with the exact location of products, inventory, and shelf layout.
• Label Management - This solution would ideally support label design, requesting labels, processing label requests, printing labels on the shelf, and updating POS with the new price.
• Task Management - This solution would facilitate task delegation, monitoring, and workflow. Ideally, this solution would be integrated in MIM e.g. to inform a department about a receiving and to request to move the product to the shelf or customer pickup area.
• Training Module - For ramping up new store associates on company procedures and training modules on new merchandise and promotions, provide mobilized self-driving training modules for education and certification.
• Mobile POS - In context to customer order management, this solution would be used to fulfill the payment on the shelf. This might depend on what POS solution the retailer is using.
• RFID - MIM Integration with RFID e.g. for receiving. The store employee drives a pallet trough the RFID reader gate, this triggers reading the barcode, starting receiving app of MIM in the back, and posting receiving. A mobile device with a monitoring app is used for monitoring, error handling, and confirmation. 
• In-Store Kiosk - This would bring content from ERP/MIM/CRM/HR to the kiosk/iPad for store employee or for customer self-service.

Retail - Consumer facing apps

• Integrated Mobile Loyalty with Mobile Payment
• Mobile Shopping in stores and category
• Mobile Shopping out for stores any category.
• Mobile Ordering for consumers for Fast Food stores.
• Digital Receipts for Retailers on mobile
• Shared Mobile Shopping List in between family members
• NFC Payment enablement for SAP Payment Solution.
• Mobile Check in locations and Self-Scanning and Self check
  out on Mobile for Consumers

More Mobile App ideas for Retail can also be found in the SAP Idea Management Solution “Idea Place Suggest Mobile Apps” here.

Want to learn more about these use cases and what your app could look like? Contact Panagiotis Papadopoulos (Consumer Facing apps) or Sam Ghasemi (general proposals) of Industry Business Solutions “Retail”.

Wholesale Distribution

Here are some white-spaces in the wholesale industry that could be filled by partners.

• Customer side: Value-adding apps for customers of wholesale distribution companies. Just as an example – a liquor distributor can offer his
  customer – a bar  -  an app to help them create new cocktails, based on the liquors this distributor is selling. Naturally, The app will also allow the bar to order supplies from that distributor. 
• Sales apps: App for showing available products to potential retailers\buyers in trade-shows.
• Delivery driver:
  • Proof of delivery
  • Payment processing
  • Managing returned merchandise, based on Advanced Returns Management 
• Warehouse:
  • Receiving inventory from suppliers
  • Managing returned merchandise, based on Advanced Returns
    Management

For Wholesale, there are different apps that are in the market place already or are in development for creating orders from mobile devices. Partners
can still differentiate based on UI, unique features and sub-segment specialization (healthcare/industrial/high-tech, food & beverage). SAP itself is working on a sales app based on ERP - so this is not really a white space, but there is still space place for other solutions, e.g. apps that are more specialized to a specific sub-segment. Partners should discuss Wholesale-related ideas directly with  Ziv Baum of Industry Business Solutions “Wholesale Distribution”.

More Wholesale Distribution-related ideas can also be found in “Idea Place Suggest Mobile Apps” here.

Transport and Logistics

For this industry, the following ideas for apps have been identified.

Logistics:

• Fleet Availability
• Driver management
• Order Execution: Tours, stops, changes, creation etc.
• Tracking and Tracing
  • Transportation orders
  • Assets such as containers, vehicles and trailers
  • Visualization and creation of additional orders
• Real time route determination (based on live traffic situation)
• Customer service and interaction
• Legal compliance (security) such as documentation (WB, MWB etc)
  • Workflow Customers
  • Employees
• Incident management (reporting of all kind of damages assets and goods, accidents etc)

Transportation - Assets

• Rolling stock and component refurbishment
• Maintenance and Inspection
• Additional services (cleaning of assets, fumigation of containers, additional checks etc.)
• Ground services at the airport, seaport or rail/metro station

Transportation - Passenger Experience (B2C)

• Rail
• Airlines (Additional services beyond ticketing)
• Hospitability (Hotel, entertainment etc.)  

More transport-related ideas can also be found the SAP Idea Management Solution “Idea Place Suggest Mobile Apps” here. Logistics ideas can be found in the same location here. Want to learn more about use cases for Transport and Logistics and what your app could look like? Contact Roland Mueller of Industry Business Solutions “Transport and Logistics”.

Learn about the SAP 2013 Industry Mobile Apps Challenge for Partners terms and conditions in this presentation (which will be updated over time).

Currently the SAP Store for mobile contains 207 apps. 104 were developed by SAP; meaning that currently the number of SAP and Partner apps are balanced at ~50% each.

Here a few highlights of some of the partner apps for Line-of-Business “Manufacturing”. These are easy to find in the SAP Store with the help of the filter function on the left hand side.

• Production Output Management by ASPN CO.,LTD. This app shows the performance of the production process in real time. Currently it runs on Google Android; smartphone and tablet.
• ClickMobile Actions Item View by ClickSoftware Technologies Ltd. This app enables an engineer to create and manage a list of action items. The items can be associated with specific assignments, or they can be independent of the assignments. ClickMobile displays the action items in the assignment form and in a dedicated Action Items view. Currently it runs on Google Android; smartphone and tablet. This partner has in fact published several apps for the manufacturing industry in the SAP Store.
• CCS M2M by CCS IT Services GmbH. This app is able to let machines talk. It creates a network and interlinked economy of Man and machine. Currently runs on iOS Smartphones.
• Configit Quote by Configit Software A/S. Configit Quote for SAP is Configure, Price, Quote -software (CPQ) that enables organizations to make guided customized offers to their customers, regardless where they may be. Currently SAP certified for Windows.

This list is not exhaustive and more “goodies” provided by SAP partners for this (and other) industries can be found on the SAP Store. All of these apps are SAP certified and thus run on the SAP Mobile Platform. Customers can directly browse, try-out and purchase these apps.

If you are attending the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (February 25 - 28, 2013), here is a change to meet the experts for

• SAP Mobile Apps Partner Program
• SAP Store
• Enterprise App Stores: Game Changers for Mobile Apps Distribution

Find all the details and registration here.

Going into 2013, the SAP Mobile Apps Partner Center and the SAP NetWeaver Cloud Partner Center continue to be impressive magnets for the partner platform programs.

• In 2012, a triple digit number of partners signed up for the Mobile Apps Partner program (many are new partners for SAP) - within approximately seven months since program launch. As a result, 109 mobile apps contributed by partners are now live on the SAP Store. More than 150 additonal mobile apps are already in development by partners at the end of the year. Partners clearly focus on higher value use-cases and broader-scoped apps. The Mobile Apps Partner Center contains all public information on the program along with supporting resources in a structured manner, enjoys continuously high traffic with about 140 unique visits per day.
• The SAP NetWeaver Cloud Partner Program was launched at the end of last year, but already double-digit numbers of partners have signed up to the program – and the first application developed under this program has now been certified and will be live on the SAP Store presently (more info will be published here, update to follow).

For 2013, the focus will continue to be on developing a large, vibrant, open ecosystem around our core platforms (Mobile, Cloud, …). It is envisioned that the number of partner apps to be published on the SAP Store (in the framework of the two current partner programs) is to more than triple in 2013.  

To reach this ambitious objective, and to support our partners, an extensive program framework is in place:

• a standardized global contract framework for each program,
• access  to community networks and free trial systems,
• developer license starter kits and enablement services,
• certification and branding support, and
• promotion of partner apps via SAP Store.

This framework is continuously optimized to ensure that it supports the partners as best as possible. The partner apps are promoted via SAP Store: a one stop shop for SAP and certified partner mobile apps on ALL device platforms, the capability to reach 230,000 SAP customers and millions of  business users, cutting-edge demand generation activities and social commerce and influencer initiatives.

Take a look at this deck (naturally also available on the Mobile Apps Partner Center) to learn more about the mobile program. Likewise, this deck explains the cloud program for partners.

Want to know how you will be able to find your rental car in a crowded parking lot? Watch the movie here to get a better view into SAP's vision for mobile device management and machine-to-machine communication. Includes a gaming 3-D experience for exploring a network operation center and millions of datapoints in real time. This demo combines SAP Afaria and SAP HANA in the Cloud, allowing both statistics and analysis of millions of devices, with a drill down to a single device in a single location.