My understanding on Syclo Agentry vs SUP From TechEd Bangalore'13

[Jitendra_Kansal]

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
Server Product Editions	Personal Development Enterprise Development Enterprise Server	Development Server Production Server
Back Ends Support	SAP Database (With JDBC) REST/SOAP web service	SAP Database REST/SOAP web service Files (with OS command scripts)
Various Application Types	Native App (Object API) NativeApp (OData) Hybrid App (HTML5)	Agentry Player App (Meta data driven)
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)	Read operation is performed by a Fetch. Create, Update, Delete are performed by Transactions.
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
Synchronization using Cache Database On Mobilink Server	Synchronization using BackEnd Exchange tables
Mobilink Protocol (RBS) iMO Protocol (MBS) HTTP/HTTPs (OData)	ANGEL messaging protocol
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