Introducing SAP Fiori

You want to ensure that your users have the best possible experience when interacting with SAP Business Suite. You want to ensure that users can access critical business applications on any device without compromises. Finally, you want to ensure that the solution integrates with your existing IT system landscape and can expand to cover your specific needs. You want to make sure that SAP Fiori meets these requirements.

The SAP Fiori user experience paradigm consists of the following pillars:

• Role-based: Users have access to the applications where they perform their tasks, and the applications are specific to completing this task.

• Responsive: The application interface is responsive; it adapts to the size and device used by the users to access it.

• Simple: The scope of the application is simple. There is one user, one use case, and up to three screens for each application.

• Coherent: The applications are developed with a coherent structure. The apps all speak the same language, and can be implemented in multiple landscapes and environments.

• Instant value: A low adoption barrier provides instant value, both on the IT-system side and on the user-adoption side.

The SAP Fiori launchpad is the single point of entry to access all applications - directly via tiles or links, or by using Search. SAP Fiori offers a harmonized look and feel across all SAP products with embedded intelligent user guidance with cross-product and cross-device integration through comprehensive and adaptive home-pages, and notifications. For example:

• Role-based simplification of business processes
• From monolithic solutions to activity-based apps
• Empowerment of users and the way they work

Harmonized look and feel across all SAP products.

Embedded intelligent user guidance through Machine Learning, dynamic home-pages and a digital assistant.

Cross-product and cross-device integration through comprehensive and adaptive home-pages, a digital assistant and notifications.

Domain specific infos and actions including:

• Users can quickly get an overview of what needs their attention with Overview Pages, List Reports and Work Lists. Notifications provide an additional channel for alerting on urgent tasks or requests.
• Users can trigger quick actions - such as extending a contract, changing a delivery date - or drill down to the next level of detail. Users can also invoke the SAP CoPilot, an intelligent assistant supporting ad-hoc tasks in the context of their business activity.

Enter details and explore in depth. Lower down the pyramid, key and differentiating use cases will be re-imagined with the SAP Fiori user experience for example looking at all details of a business object via an Object Page, or changing frequently updated fields in a sales order (amount, date, new items).

Transaction apps offer task-based access to tasks like change, create, display (documents, master records), or entire processes with guided navigation.

Analytical apps provide insight to action. They give you a visual overview of complex topics for monitoring or tracking purposes.

Fact Sheets allow you to search and explore your data. They provide a 360 degree view on essential information about an object and contextual navigation between related objects.

The SAP Fiori launchpad offers themes and can be personalized to meet branding requirements.

It offers a stable URL for bookmarking and sharing. It is browser based and therefore works with multiple devices and browsers.

The launchpad also offers active tiles through which the user can receive updated information directly from the front page without opening the application.

The following personalization options are available to users in SAP Fiori launchpad:

• Adding applications from the catalog assigned to them

• Removing applications that they do not want to use

• Modifying and adding applications for filtered report results

For example, if the user is a group cash manager who is interested in the German market, the user can create an application to take them directly to the cash position of the German market. They can arrive at the cash position directly with one click from the SAP Fiori launchpad home page.

The spaces mode was developed to offer more flexibility to influence the launchpad layout for specific user groups. Pages are assigned to users via spaces that are assigned to business roles. The business role defines which users see a specific space. If you enable spaces for your users and define specific spaces and pages for them you can reach a better fit. By defining pages with meaningful sections you can define in which order the apps are sorted on the page. You can, for example, sort the most used apps in the top-level section and then create separate sections for apps that belong together. SAP delivers predefined spaces and pages that you can use to start.