Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has announced the new partnership between Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and the German software enterprise SAP SE. The two technology giants, will develop user-friendly apps for corporations in the business world.
In this new accord, the companies will work together to push deeper into the corporative world, with Apple’s mobile devices and SAP’s software.
SAP’s CEO Bill McDermott gathered with Apple’s CEO at the company’s campus in Cupertino California, to announce the upcoming projects they will be developing.
Moving deeper into the corporative world
The two companies, have stated their plan to develop software-development kits for Apple’s mobile devices such as Iphone and Ipad, this will also give corporative employees the access to SAP’S HANA cloud.
SAP will develop iOS applications with the help of Apple’s Swift programming language to give more friendly uses to cooperative applications.
The main objective is to develop a new SAP HANA Cloud Platform SDK that will work exclusively for iOS users. The innovation will give business customers of all sizes cuh as designers or developers an easier use to develop iOS app.
The developed applications will assure access to business processes and core data on SAP’s HANA cloud with features of the Iphone or the Ipad such as the Touch ID, location services and notifications.
Apple had previously teamed up with International Business Machines Corporation and Cisco System Inc, this decision was looking to make Apple’s products function better on the corporative world.
New software development system for iOS
Since SAP is one of the world’s best suppliers in the software business, the companies are hoping to use their flagship products to obtain better development in the business world.
Using SAP’’system data corporate workers will have access to simple access apps with the software-developments kits that are expected by the ends of the year.
“ We’re proud to take this special partnership between Apple and SAP to a groundbreaking new place. Giving people an agile and intuitive business experience, we empower them to know more, combining the powerful capabilities of SAP HANA Cloud Perform with Ios, Iphone and Ipad” Said SAP’s CEO Bill McDermott.
A quick answer to a problem
Even though the partnership is not Apple’s first approach into the business environment, it has come as a response to the first sales drop Iphone was facing.
After a 13 year run on the top of the sales Apple’s sales declined 13 percent to $50.6 billion of its top product, the Iphone. The company stated that they sold 16 percent less Iphones that in the same quarter last year.
Tim Cook Apple’s CEO assured the issue was just a pause in the company while stating “This, too, shall pass” when discussing the results with a Wall Street analyst, according to the New York Post.
The quarter results were shorter of what Wall Street was expecting wiping out about $47 billion in the stock market, since the shares were reduced to an 8 percent.
Source: Apple Inc.