SAP and Samsung SDS team up for mobile BI dashboard

Samsung SDS — a business services subsidiary of the Samsung Group — and SAP have joined forces to launch Samsung Mobile BI Dashboard, the company announced on Monday.

The collaboration is underpinned by SAP's BusinessObjects platform and will allow owners of compatible Samsung devices, including the Samsung's Galaxy S smartphones and Galaxy Tab, to access business intelligence (BI) reports such as revenue, inventory and customer data on the move.

"We feel there is tremendous synergy between SAP's core competency in enterprise business applications and global install base, and Samsung SDS' expertise in mobilizing these applications," Nick Brown, senior vice president of the mobile applications group at SAP, said in a statement.

Samsung also announced plans for future enterprise mobility collaborations with SAP at Mobile World Congress 2011 on Monday. Other new enterprise software is said to include Samsung Mobile Sales Force Automation (SFA), which will allow salespeople to access customer data, product specs and sales information, and SAP Mobile Electronic Medical Record (EMR) by Samsung, which will enable doctors and nurses in hospitals to easily access and update patient records from a mobile device.

In addition to these announcements, Sybase — which was purchased by SAP in May 2010 for $5.8bn (£3.6bn) to bolster its mobile expansion plans — announced on Sunday that its mobile device security and management software, known as Afaria Advanced Enterprise Security (AES), will be available on a range of Samsung Android handsets, such as the Galaxy S and Galaxy S II.

"As more employees are empowered with mobile access to enterprise systems, applications and data through their device of choice, the requirement for IT to support the widening array of device types can be extremely complex and unwieldy," Willie Jow, vice president of enterprise mobility at Sybase, said in a statement.