Syclo

{{Update|inaccurate=yes|date=November 2023}}

{{Infobox company|

name = Syclo, LLC|

logo = |

type = privately held company (LLC)|

foundation = 1995|

location = Hoffman Estates, Illinois
(additional offices in Chicago, London, and Stuttgart, Germany)|

key_people = Richard Padula, CEO
Jeffrey Kleban, EVP, Alliances & Partnerships|

num_employees = 100+|

products = Agentry Mobile Platform
Syclo SMART Mobile Suite|

industry = computer software|

homepage = [http://www.syclo.com/ www.syclo.com]

}}

Syclo, LLC (acquired and currently a part of SAP SE), was a mobile enterprise application platform (MEAP){{Cite web |last1=Clark |first1=William |last2=King |first2=Michael J. |date=2009-12-16 |title=Magic Quadrant for Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms |url=http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=172728 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110404043706/http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=172728 |archive-date=2011-04-04 |access-date=2024-07-08 |publisher=Gartner}}{{Cite web | url=http://www.syclo.com/content/pdf/Syclo_Gartner_MEAP_Report.pdf | title=Unknown}}{{Dead link | date=November 2024 | fix-attempted=yes}}{{Cite news |last=Team |first=Trefis |date=2012-04-12 |title=SAP Expands Mobile Enterprise Foothold By Acquiring Syclo |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2012/04/12/sap-expands-mobile-enterprise-foothold-by-acquiring-syclo/#6964ac93a915 |access-date=2018-06-11 |work=Forbes |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Mitroff |first=Sarah |date=2012-04-10 |title=SAP acquires Syclo to make businesses more mobile |url=https://venturebeat.com/2012/04/10/sap-acquires-sylco/ |access-date=2018-06-11 |work=VentureBeat |language=en-US}} and software provider based in the Chicago suburb of Hoffman Estates, Illinois, offering mobile applications to extend enterprise systems, including packaged software for enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise asset management (EAM), and customer relationship management (CRM), to handhelds, smartphones, and mobile computers for technicians and staff performing work away from a central office.

The company’s focus in the mobile middleware market is on business environments across industries, including utilities, oil and gas, and life sciences, that utilize field service management processes{{Cite web|url=http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?sessionId=&containerId=222007&sessionId=90D98F98A15C750D9329AE9C5C40BD02|title=Drake, Stephen (2010-02). "Syclo Private Vendor Watchlist Profile: Mobile Middleware with Industry-Specific Focus." IDC.}} and typically have significantly valued hard assets to service and protect.

Syclo offers the Agentry mobile platform, an extensible framework based on fourth-generation programming language for developing, deploying, and managing a wireless business application architecture.{{Cite web |last=Brooks |first=Jason |date=2001-10-08 |title=App Independence |url=https://www.eweek.com/mobile/app-independence/ |access-date=2024-07-08 |website=eWEEK |language=en-US}} Agentry also includes mobile device management capabilities embedded into its application platform. Syclo's SMART Mobile Suite of workflow-specific products, a software suite built on the Agentry platform, has been implemented by more than 750 customers in 35 countries and 20 different industries.{{Cite web|url=http://www.plantservices.com/industrynews/2009/086.html|title="SAP, Syclo Partner for Mobile." (2009-05-06.) Plant Services.}}

On 10 April 2012, SAP announced its plan to acquire 100% of Syclo equity in a deal whose Financial terms were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to be finalized in the second quarter of 2012.