Apple Inc.and SAP entered into a collaborative partnership to improve mobile work tools forenterprise customers using iPhones and iPads.

The partnership will combine the capabilities of SAP's open platformas a service and business application suite with Apple's iOS to deliver live datato mobile users. SAP will develop native iOS apps for certain business operations.The companies also plan on to release a new iOS software development kit by theend of this year to allow designers, developers and businesses to design their owniOS apps.