Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), y SAP announced a new partnership this Thursday that they expect "Revolutionize the Mobile Work Experience for Business Customers". The joint effort will combine powerful native iOS applications with the cutting-edge capabilities of the SAP HANA platform.
The two companies also plan to offer a new 'HANA Cloud Platform SDK' exclusively for iOS that will provide companies and developers with the tools to build their own business applications. And as part of the agreement, SAP will develop native iOS applications for business operations.
This partnership will transform how iPhones and iPads are used in businesses, bringing together the innovation and security of iOS with deep experience from the German multinational, as Tim Cook has said. Through the new SDK, we are training more than 2,5 million SAP developers to build powerful native applications that draw on 'SAP HANA Cloud Platform', and can draw on the incredible features that only iOS devices can offer .
We are proud to have this special partnership between Apple and SAP to a new innovative place, as said Bill McDermott, CEO of the German multinational. Being able to give people an agile and intuitive business experience, by combining the powerful capabilities of 'SAP HANA Cloud Platform' and 'SAP S / 4HANA'.
As growth slows in the consumer space, Apple continues to show a growing interest in towards companies. In 2014, the company announced a major partnership with IBM.
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