SAP xApp Mobile Asset Management, utilities is a full offline mobile application that supports service and field maintenance technicians working in the utilities industry to perform their daily activities at customer sites and within plants with all the needed data synchronized onto their handheld devices. Most of this could be used to describe xMAM as well - the ",utilities" makes a major difference though. SAP xApp Mobile Asset Management, utilities includes features of SAP xApp Mobile Asset Management as well as functionalities specific to the Utilities industry. All functions that are available in standard Mobile Asset Management remain, but a number of them have been enhanced by specific functions for utilities. Therefore Mobile Asset Management, utilities has been more or less built on top of xMAM.

EP Development consists of developing applications (known as iViews) that run in the Portal. These applications are typically built using Java technologies such as J2EE (JSP or Java Server Pages and EJBs (Enterprise Java Beans) , Web Dynpro, HTMLB for Java, XML, Web Services and more. Some development is also done using the PDK for .Net. The applications have to be able to run in the Portal, which runs on a Web Application Server, a J2EE engine that uses the Portal Runtime and, optionally, a Web Dynpro runtime. This requires that the developer be fairly familiar with Java.

There are a number of major changes and updates to be aware of in SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0 as compared to SAP Enterprise Portal 5.0. In the following, those changes and updates will be described that are important for the integration of SAP BW and SAP EP.  A detailed description of the functionality for the end user can be found in the user guide for SAP EP 6.0 (see User Guide) and SAP EP 5.0 (see SAP Help Portal (http://help.sap.com) ® SAP NetWeaver ® SAP Enterprise Portal ® EP 5.0 SP6 ® User Guide).

What is SAP Smart Forms?
SAP Smart Forms is introduced in SAP Basis Release 4.6C as the tool for creating and maintaining forms. 

SAP Smart Forms allow you to execute simple modifications to the form and in the form logic by using simple graphical tools; in 90% of all cases, this won't include any programming effort. Thus, a power user without any programming knowledge can 
configure forms with data from an SAP System for the relevant business processes.

SAP Smart Forms have the following advantages:

1. The adaption of forms is supported to a large extent by graphic tools for layout and logic, so that no programming knowledge is necessary (at least 90% of all adjustments). Therefore, power user forms can also make configurations for your business processes with data from an SAP system. Consultants are only required in special cases