Friday, August 12, 2011

How can SAP take advantage of Google unleashing Native Client into Chrome?

Screen Shot 2011-08-11 at 8.33.37 PM

Intro: http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/11/chrome-native-client/

Questions:

  • How would SAP GUI integration into Chrome look like with the help of the Native Client  SDK, where parts of the 600 MBs of C++ SAP GUI code gets executed in the browser?
  • Would that be appreciated by customers who seek portable, high-performance web apps from their Business Suite systems, or do they already have much of that in place?
  • What kind of cool enterprise things can be imagined with the Pepper Plug-in API, bridging HTML5 and desktop APIs and features?

SAP GUI

Potential benefits according to Google's SDK documentation:

  • Native Client enables you to reuse current software modules in a web app—you don't need to spend time reinventing and debugging code that's already proven to work well.
  • You can port and recompile existing code for the computation engine of your application to Native Client and need repurpose only the user interface and event handling portions to the new browser platform.
  • To ensure protection of user data, Native Client enables you to build complex cryptographic algorithms directly into the browser so that unencrypted data never goes out over the wire.
  • Native Client modules are stored with the rest of your application on a web server. In the future, you will be able to use the Chrome Web Store to publish your app where Google Chrome users can easily find it. 

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