SAP recently introduced two new solutions that greatly improve the user experience, SAP Fiori and SAP Screen Personas. Each helps today’s business user by making SAP more intuitive. The following table explains how companies should deploy these complementary solutions.
| SAP Fiori | SAP Screen Personas |
Solution overview | SAP Fiori is a set of 25 apps that deliver a simple, intuitive user experience across your customers’ most frequently used business transactions. The design offers a seamless experience from laptop to mobile devices, which allows individuals to accomplish tasks quickly and easily. | SAP Screen Personas provides a simple, drag and drop approach to modify most SAP GUI screens. It enables IT and business users to simplify business application screens quickly and easily without any programming knowledge. SAP Screen Personas improves the end-user productivity, visual appeal, and performance of SAP. |
Tag line | Keeping simple things simple | Personalization without programming |
Transaction support | Top 25 transactions | All SAP GUI transactions |
Out of the box functionality | Ready to run | Personalize any transaction in minutes |
Primary focus | Smartphones, tablets, desktop | Desktop (Windows and Mac), Windows 8 tablet |
Business value | · Increase user productivity and satisfaction · Reduce work completion time · Increase adoption of business processes · Deliver consumer-grade user experience |
Personalizable | Not necessary. Fiori apps run out-of-the-box on any device. | You can modify any aspect of the SAP GUI to suit your unique needs. |
If you are looking to make your users more productive and increase adoption of SAP in your enterprise, then one or both of these solutions will help you reach your goals.
August 28, 2013 Update
Read about how to choose between SAP Screen Personas and SAP Fiori.
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