Following reports that SAP would close off mainstream maintenance on its on-premise SAP Mobile Platform at the end of 2020, prompted by a blog post by senior product manager Martin Grasshoff, the vendor has moved to clarify its position on the future of the service.
In both a statement released by SAP and in a revised blog post by Grasshoff (here), customers were encouraged to move to SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services for mobile app development and delivery, but the vendor moved away from discussing a specific end-date for maintenance.
“Mobility is very important to SAP, and as such, new mobile investments will be heavily focused on SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services, including innovations in the SDK for iOS, enhancements to the new micro app creation tool and investment in the new low-code, visual mobile app development feature,” SAP’s statement said.
The company said it “will continue to deliver incremental quality enhancements to customers’ existing on-premise investments in SAP Mobile Platform per SAP terms and conditions. All customers with active maintenance agreements can expect the SAP Mobile Platform to be supported per SAP guidelines.”
The SAP Mobile Platform was previously known as the Sybase Unwired platform.
