Apple currently owns the premium mobile consumer device  space and is even the preferred premium BYOD mobile device in the enterprise. However, this doesn’t mean that enterprises have signed up to ditch their PCs or Macs and Apple knows this. Apple is on a long-term journey, though, by striking strategic agreements with enterprise players to adopt a new, more modern workstyles on their devices and software. On the heels of Apple’s IBM and Cisco announcements, today Apple announced a partnership with SAP to bring a series of iOS native applications that leverage capabilities of the SAP HANA platform. SAP HANA is a sophisticated in-memory relational database management system that was partly built, bought, and integrated by SAP around 2013. SAP is under pressure to compete with mobile-first SaaS companies and, quite frankly, needed a lot of work on their user experience for millennials. The two companies say they will provide a series of cloud-based SDKs to allow developers create native applications that combine capabilities of SAP HANA’s cloud platform with SAP S/4HANA and iOS.

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