With ASUG-SAPPHIRE NOW just around the corner, I wanted to share with you highlights of what you can see at the event regarding our mobile asset management and field service solutions. In fact, today we put out a press release “SAP Simplifies and Unifies the Mobile Enterprise” where SAP Mobile Platform 3.0 is released today and our apps (SAP Work Manager 6.1, SAP Inventory Manager 4.0, and SAP CRM Service Manager 4.1) coming out running on SMP 3.

My first entry in the series will highlight our new GIS mobile capabilities. Mobile GIS such as Esri mobile will enable users to manipulate interactive maps and to obtain extremely detailed information on the geographic region in question. Mobile users can efficiently find jobs and assets nearby, filter for equipment by location and view work orders from a map. This can completely eliminate paper data entry and the hunt for the right information. Field workers will see a huge impact on speed, responsiveness, quality of output, productivity of resources and reduction of resources needed to maintain operations.

As a primer to seeing us at SAPPHIRE, you can watch the webcast “Put a Map in Your Mobile App” webcast.

You can see more about mobile GIS at the following ASUG and SAPPHIRE sessions:

• ASUG Pre-Show All Day Workshop on June 2, Mobility and SAP Fiori Drive User Adoption, Innovation, and Cost Savings in Supply Chain and Enterprise Asset Management, will have a deep session with Esri and Critigen experts.
• ASUG Session, Mobile Asset Management: Driving Operational Excellence, on June 4 from 1:45 – 2:45 pm at S321: S. Concourse, L3
• Demo Theater Sessions to see it action
  • SID: IN14268 – Reap the Benefits of Enterprise Mobility in Field-Service Operations
    • June 3 – 3:30 – 3:50 pm – Industries Demo Theater IN104
    • June 4 – 1:30 – 1:50 pm – Industries Demo Theater IN104
  • SID: LB 14431 – Increase Productivity with Mobile Apps for Optimizing Asset Management
    • June 4 – 9:00 – 9:20 am – Lines of Business Demo Theater LB206
    • June 4 – 4:00 – 4:20 am – Lines of Business Demo Theater LB206
  • SID: TE13965 – Raise the Productivity of Your Workforce in the Field
    • June 4 – 8:00 – 8:20 am – Platform and Technology Demo Theater TE305
    • June 4 – 4:00 – 4:20 pm – Platform and Technology Demo Theater TE305
• Microforum session, Do It Right with Best Practices for Mobile Enterprise Asset Management, offers discussion spotlighting how organizations that have embraced mobile enterprise asset management have in turn seen high return on investment. Explore what others have done right, avoid what they’ve done wrong, and most of all, get inspired to streamline asset management and realize operational efficiencies.
  • June 3 – 10:30 – 11:15 am – Lines of Business Microforum LB250

You will also be able to see and touch GIS in action on the latest SAP Work Manager app on test drive and expert tables throughout the campuses.  You can find me at the Technology Campus Test Drive of innovative apps for a one-on-one demo.

See you at SAPPHIRE 2014 in Orlando.