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.