Understanding SAP Fiori Application Types

Analytical apps provide insight into the real-time operations of your business by collecting and displaying analytic information and indicators, such as KPIs, directly in your browser. To do this, the analytical apps combine the data and analytical power of SAP HANA with the integration and interface components of SAP Fiori.

For example, Overview Pages, Analytical List Pages, and other apps that mix transactional and analytical capabilities.

Transactional apps perform transactional tasks, such as creating a leave request for an employee or managing quotations. SAP Fiori transactional apps represent simplified views and interactions with existing business processes and solutions. They generally run on any database except if they are developed and shipped with SAP S/4HANA Then, they run only with SAP HANA database.

Each SAP Fiori app has a unique App ID. When running the app in the SAP Fiori launchpad, choose About in the Me Area. The subsequent UI shows information about the app including the App ID.

The App ID can be used to search for the documentation of the app in the SAP Fiori reference library and it is visible in the header of the documentation.

Since the release of SAP S/4HANA 1610, SAP GUI for HTML Applications, which are also classic transactions, can be found in the SAP Fiori reference library. Due to SAP Fiori 2.0 and the SAP Belize theme, they are an official part of SAP Fiori. The transactions are limited to those targeting end users and those available in SAP S/4HANA 1610 or later.

Like SAP GUI for HTML Applications, transactional Web Dynpro ABAP applications are also part of SAP Fiori 2.0. All SAP GUI for HTML Applications and Web Dynpro applications are shown as exclusive to the SAP HANA database in the SAP Fiori reference library. The reason for this is that the documented release is SAP S/4HANA 1610 or later – and this one is exclusive to the SAP HANA database.

Business Process Intelligence is an integrated process management suite that provides you with insights, which then can be transformed into actions. Process Discovery is a free analysis tool to get started with Business Process Intelligence and SAP S/4HANA.

Any successful digital transformation includes the analysis of current business processes, the performance, and the existing gaps. And the SAP’s solution to get these unique insights is a free service – Process Discovery for SAP S/4HANA Transformation.

Process Discovery has evolved from the SAP Business Scenario Recommendations on Spotlight. It is an analysis tool to get you prepared for the SAP S/4HANA Transformation. It is free of charge for every SAP maintenance customer.

Process Discovery is aimed at answering the questions "Why moving to SAP S/4HANA?", "What are the benefits?", "What is different, and what is new?". It also provides information about how SAP can support customers in their transformation journey.

Process Discovery provides customers with unique insights in terms of business process performance and system usage based on data extracted from the ECC (SAP ERP) system. It compares the performance and usage to one of the industry peers, so customers can better understand what topics they want to target first in terms of transformation. It gives tailor-made recommendations based on the insights. This helps to build a business case for moving to SAP S/4HANA and secure the buying from business executives.

The solution helps customers to analyze business processes and understand their current business process performance. The main goal is to automate the business processes and to implement intelligent technologies to support business goals. Also, Process Discovery helps to identify new functionalities from SAP S/4HANA provided by SAP Fiori apps, and also the capabilities of SAP BTP.

Process Discovery is a combination of two complementary tools:

• interactive PDF for business executives
• provides executive summary
• starting point to build a case for SAP S/4HANA
• gives recommendations

This PDF document is mainly meant to support business executives. It gathers all the information about the SAP S/4HANA content. It provides recommendations that customers can use together with SAP and with the partners to build a business case and leverage the capabilities of SAP S/4HANA.

Process Discovery Solution – currently named Spotlight (might be renamed)

• reporting tool as online application
• analyzes process performance and efficiency
• identifies areas for improvement and sees where is potential for automation
• identifies where processes can be standardized

The Process Discovery solution is an online analysis report called Spotlight that is mainly meant for process experts. It helps them prepare to move to SAP S/4HANA, gives recommendations on how to fill the gaps, create innovations, and automations enabled by SAP BTP, or when to design new processes.

When customers transition form SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA, they would want to make use of SAP Fiori. They would also want to find out how to improve their existing business processes and what SAP Fiori Apps can be used for that.

Process Discovery on Spotlight can make recommendations based on data from customer's ECC system. The data is extracted via a data extraction report (it requires an implementation of some SAP notes) and loaded into the Spotlight tool.

It generates a detailed master report how to optimize existing processes, but also gives recommendations which Fiori Apps to use.

Access the demo Spotlight environment via this link: https://demo.spotlight.cloud.sap

On the Start your Transformation Journey to SAP S/4HANA with Process Discovery page https://www.s4hana.com, you will find instructions how to prepare your ECC system in order to be able to use Process Discovery and how to order the service tool.

There is as a lot of useful information such as the sample Process Discovery Summary PDF document, which you can download. And, you can also access the online demo environment of the Spotlight solution.