For more than ten years, SAP has been making a big show of the Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona. And since acquiring Sybase and its mobile competencies in 2010, it’s stepped up its device-centric focus.

Of course, this brand of mobile isn’t just about smartphones. It’s about all the mobile connection points emanating from the Internet of Things (IoT) that have the ability to produce, channel, and to a varying degree, store and analyze data.

SAP Leonardo's IoT Ancestry

In the context of SAP mobility solutions, let’s remember that before SAP Leonardo was a more complete design thinking platform, it was directly positioned as a dedicated IoT development toolset.