Telecom Lead America: SAP announced its
collaboration with Amazon Web Services to offer its SAP Afaria mobile device
management solution through Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace.
“By offering SAP Afaria on the secure, scalable AWS
cloud infrastructure, we are extending our existing relationship with AWS and
making it as easy as possible for customers and partners to test and deploy the
mobile device management solution in an economical and reliable fashion,”
said Sanjay Poonen, president, Product Go-to-Market, and head of Mobile
Division, SAP.
The availability of SAP Afaria mobile device management
solution on AWS Marketplace will provide a cost-effective way for
customers to manage their enterprise mobile applications and corporate-liable
and personally-owned devices.
The AWS Marketplace is an online store that helps
customers easily find, purchase and deploy software and services they need to
help them run their businesses.
“As the cloud rapidly becomes the IT deployment
model of choice for business of all sizes, Amazon Web Services is excited
to be working closely with SAP in bringing enterprise solutions to the
cloud. Adding SAP Afaria to AWS Marketplace provides customers a fast, simple
and trusted way to shop for and implement an enterprise-ready mobile
solution,” said Andy Jassy, senior vice president, Amazon Web Services.
SAP Afaria is a platform that manages and secures mobile
data, devices and applications across the enterprise from a single console.
The 7.0 release of SAP Afaria offers expense management,
a consumer-like app portal with SAP Store integration and mobile analytics
dashboards for business intelligence (BI) reporting with powerful drill-down
analysis capabilities.
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