Configure RACE™ for mInventory

Innovapptive’s Connected Workforce Platform™ uses built-in integrations to connect your SAP®, IBM Maximo, and other back-office systems with mobile applications. This helps organizations bridge communication and information gaps between executive teams, field technicians, plant operators, warehouse operators, maintenance engineers, and back-office staff. Connect data points across cloud and on-premise networks to quickly and easily.

  • Draw powerful insights
  • Identify cost-savings opportunities
  • Make calculated business decisions
  • Respond quickly to trends or problems

To align our solutions with your operations, we built a Rapid App Configuration Engine (RACE™) directly into our mobile Connected Workforce Platform. This sophisticated configuration toolkit gives developers and non-developers complete freedom to customize mobile environments without any coding experience.

Figure 1. RACE™ Architecture

Deployment ecosystem consists of the following:

  1. SAP ECC Integration Component (SAP Certified Add-On in Innovapptive Namespace): This SAP-certified add-on is developed on ABAP. You can deploy this add-on on SAP ECC through an Add-On Package. You can make enhancements to this through BADI by developing those enhancements in ABAP. This add-on helps you manage Data retrieval and do posting to BAPI's or Function Modules.
  2. SAP NetWeaver Integration Component with OData Web Services: Developed on ABAP and OData and offered as an SAP Certified Add-On. This add-on is deployed through an Add-On Package on SAP NetWeaver. You can make enhancements through RACE Configurations. This add-on helps manage the OData integration components (i.e. OData Web Services) to interface with the mobile app. The RACE™ Add-On has both the front-end components and the back-end data tables for the RACE™ Lite Configuration tool.
  3. Native App Client + Desktop Web App: Application front-end solutions are offered on all three major mobile OS as a native application that can run on tablets and smartphones.
    • iOS - Developed using native iOS (Swift SDK)
    • Android - Developed using Android SDK on JAVA
    • Windows OS - Developed using Windows development kits.
    • Browser based App for desktop - Developed using SAPUI5 technology.

    Changes on the application user interface is managed through the RACE™ Lite Admin tool.

  4. Interface between Mobile App and NetWeaver Gateway: OData Web Services
  5. Interface between NetWeaver Gateway and SAP ECC: RFC Connection