Identifying the SAP Fiori User Experience

IT and the use of electronic devices are no longer reserved just for experts, and have spread throughout all social groups. High-performance hardware stands against a wide variety of software products with different scopes and uses. As a result, it is important that software is easy-to-use.

The main drivers of this development are smartphones and tablets with their easy-to-use and flexible user interfaces. These user interfaces are no longer required to provide maximum functionality, but rather a comfortable user experience that puts the focus on the consumer.

Therefore, business software must also adapt and transform so that it provides good user experiences for all roles in an enterprise. The user interface plays an important role in supporting this trend. For SAP software products, the challenge is to keep a clear view and to understand the overall SAP strategy in the area of user experience.

SAP Fiori offers a unified user experience for various clients. Users must have a consistent, coherent, simple, intuitive, and delightful user experience on all devices to be able to work better and more efficiently.

As well as changing general settings like appearance, users can edit the home page. They can rearrange groups and tiles, create new groups, and add or delete tiles to or from an existing group. To add tiles to groups, the launchpad provides a tile catalog that displays all the tiles that are available to a user.

Modifying and adding applications for filtered report results is another personalization option available in the SAP Fiori launchpad.

For example, if a cash manager is interested in the market of a particular country, they can create an application that takes them directly to the cash position for that country. In the future, this will enable them to access the cash position of the country directly from the SAP Fiori launchpad home page with a single click.

The SAP Fiori launchpad offers help functionality that includes a guided tour for an app. This context-sensitive user assistance can be started by choosing the question mark in the upper right corner or by pressing F1.

A help area with help topics is displayed to the right of the app, and bubbles are displayed in the app window to indicate the most important elements in the app. When you select a topic or bubble, an information dialog box appears with more information about the feature.