Sunday 18 March 2018

IoS / Android, middle-ware to SAP all in the one package (www.Grabba.com).


As some of you know, I recently was part of a group that acquired Grabba International. It is a company with unbounded potential and has experienced massive growth since our acquisition in September 2017. It is the only company in the world able to build custom bundled data capture devices for mobile devices, tablets and PC's.

The opportunities are endless, but I do like this particular innovative ways the product has been used. It appealed to me due to my history in logistics, retail and ERP systems.

This customer is using an IoS device (connectivity to their WAN), clipped into a Grabba device equiped with barcode and RFID (http://grabba.com/products/barcode-reader/). With a simple custom APP, they are pushing data in and out of SAP with Apple! Awesome, its great to see Apple as an enterprise device. #AppleEnterprise or #SAPApple anyone?

The neat part for me was instead of the complexity of pulling data from SAP for the BI repository they post the result from the APP to SAP and the BI repository at the same time for simple quick to implement real time intelligence.

Ingenuity at its best. Of course they could do this on Android or mobile tablets, but implemented the solution on the cheaper iPod touches.