As most of us already have been working on SUP architecture which says Sybase Unwired Platform is a mobile enterprise application platform used to create applications that could connect to heterogeneous back-end business data and can be deployed to various mobile devices with many other features.Similarly we have Agentry Mobile Platform offered by Syclo, it is an extensible framework for developing, deploying and managing a wireless business application architecture and with many other features.
Here, I am summarizing all possible difference between these two mobile application development approaches:
1. From the Architecture point of view:
| Key Areas | SUP | Syclo Agentry |
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| Server Product Editions |
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| Back Ends Support |
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| Various Application Types |
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| Device Type Support | SUP based apps are supported on specific versions of mobile OS |
Agentry based apps are supported on specific devices of mobile OS |
2. Mobile App Development:
There are few differences in mobile application development approaches using Sybase Unwired Platform and Syclo Agentry.
| SUP | Sylco Agentry |
|---|---|
| Mobile SDK | Agentry Editor |
| Mobile Business Objects | Agentry Objects |
| Attributes | Properties (String properties, Object Properties,Collection properties) |
| Operations(CRUD) |
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| Relationships | Properties |
| No Integrated rule modeling tool | Rule editor allows to model, test, publish and reuse rules. |
| Analytics Functionality (MAKit) | No Analytics Functionality |
3. Mobile Solutions at Runtime:
| SUP | Syclo Agentry |
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| Synchronization using Cache Database On Mobilink Server |
Synchronization using BackEnd Exchange tables |
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| Authorization based on LDAP | Nothing like this |
| SUP based Push | Agentry based Push |
4. SAP Mobile Solution Portfolio
SAP Syclo SMART Mobile Suite:
- SAP Work Manager
- SAP CRM Service Manager
- SAP Inventory Manager
- SAP SMART Rounds
check here for more details.
5. Mobile Application Lifecycle Managment:
From SMP 2.3 onwards,Sybase Unwired Platform and Syclo Agentry both are running on same server.
References: Wikipedia, SAP TechEd Mobility session
Hi Jitendra,
Quite a bit of information here. Some of which you may want to modify a little for the specifics of Agentry applications. Overall a decent outline, but if these images are copies of other content, please explicitly define the source for each as it is used.
CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) equivalents in Agentry are (Transaction, Fetch, Transaction, Transaction). Or in simpler terms, a Read operation in Agentry is performed by a Fetch, while all processes which involved changing the backend are performed by Transactions (Create, Update, Delete).
The SMART Suite picture of the various applications is no longer used and I sure hope that was not presented at TechEd. Some of the apps listed were decremented before the apps were approved for release under the SAP management.
Agentry does have analytics on the backend as part of the Addon in ERP or Maximo. But I could be misunderstanding what you mean by Analytics. Perhaps you could provide some examples of what you meant?
Regards, Mike
SAP Rapid Innovation Group – RIG
Hi Michael,
First of all thank you so much for detailed feedback.
I have updated this part in above blog.
I have removed that SMART Suite picture. I didn’t know about some of the mentioned apps were decremented. I am very new to Agentry and i am doing some R&D to learn it.
see, In SUP, Mobile Analytics Kit (MAkit) allows users to graphically view data in different types of chart. This MAKit can be used with SUP HWC.
Do we have similar thing in Syclo Agentry?
I referred MOB 101 Syclo Agentry for SAP Mobile Professionals for above summary.
Rgrds,
Jitendra
Thanks jitendra for this useful information on syclo.
its very easy to catch the concepts on sup and syclo by making comparison between them.
so its very helpful..
Thanks Ashish. Good to know it is useful for you.
Regards,
Jitendra
Hii Jitendra..
your blog on SYCLO is very effective.
I just want the list of ADD-ons that need to be configured in our Landscape for Syclo implementation. so if u can kindly providing the add-ons list ,it will be a great help.
Regards
ashish satapathy
You can check
If you set the Agentry Server’s File System Connection Enable Users, and set the “userDomain” to the network domain the users belong too. This tells the Agentry Server to send the user information to the OS to call out to the AD to validate the user on that domain.
If the Agentry Server is running on Linux you, the server needs to have a PAM module reconfigured.