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SAP Fiori for SAP S/4HANA – Fundamentals
Relevant for S/4HANA 1909, 1809, 1709, 1610, 1511
Welcome to the SAP Fiori blog series brought to you by the S/4HANA Regional Implementation Group (RIG). Throughout the series we shall cover the fundamentals of SAP Fiori, to simplify our delivery we will be leveraging the latest updates, content and methodologies from product management and experiences from field enablement. To help you we will highlight opportunities where business value and recurring benefits of a Fiori based value strategy will help make the right decisions when deploying SAP S/4HANA and SAP Fiori
The series is spread over ten informative blogs, starting with Fundamentals let’s begin.
- Blog 1 : Fiori for S/4HANA – Fundamentals
- Blog 2 : Fiori for S/4HANA – Value Proposition
- Blog 3 : Fiori for S/4HANA – Getting started
- Blog 4 : Fiori for S/4HANA – Architecture
- Blog 5 : Fiori for S/4HANA – Understanding Extensibility: UI Flexibility
- Blog 6 : Fiori for S/4HANA – Fiori 2.0 Implementation Guidelines
- SAP Fiori Roadmap
Fundamentals
SAP Fiori is the leading design (reddot award) for all SAP applications. SAP is evolving the SAP Fiori experience to all SAP solutions over time—providing a harmonized user experience across on-premise and cloud solutions leveraging the S/4HANA simplified data model.
Business Value
Why invest in a user experience? you quickly appreciate that value to the business delivers tangible and imperceptible benefits i.e. physical vs monetary.
- A unified experience across lines of business improves customer satisfaction, helps reinforce commitment of a culture of innovation. A downstream benefit being employee retention.
- Measure your potential savings by investing in a better user experience using the UX Value Calculator. Reference helpful business benefits and KPI’s.
Fundamental Assets
- UX with SAP Fiori : Implementation (Plan, Install, Operate, Adapt, Train)
- Fiori Deployment Options : On Premise and SAP Fiori Cloud
- Moving from Standalone to Embedded Deployment in Fiori for SAP S/4HANA: Step by step guide
- SAP Trial demo systems : On premise and demo guides
- Fiori Apps Reference Library : Library ; recommendations ; user guide
- SAP Fiori Journey Map : Customer Adoption Journey Map
- Simplification Item Catalog : Catalog and list
- SAP Roadmap Composer : SAP Activate Methodology for S/4HANA on premise and cloud
- SAP RIN Fiori for S/4HANA : 1909, 1809, 1709, 1610, 1605, 1511
- SAP Help: SAP S/4HANA : 1909, 1809, 1709, UX Technology, Fiori Cloud,
- Fiori software Provisioning : Maintenance Planner
- SAP Community Blogs : SAP Fiori Community
- Knowledge Management : SAP Learning Hubs, openSAP and SAP Training
Business Benefits
| Business Benefits (KPI’s) | Description | Type of Economic Impact |
| Reduce Av. Training cost of new users | SAP Fiori simple user interface can drastically reduce training costs, reducing ramp-up time required for new users and allowing them to reach full productivity sooner. | Cost Reduction |
| Reduce number of unnecessary calls to service desk | With SAP Fiori, end users get access to the information they need to perform their job. They don’t need to be handhold on how to use the product and can be self-service, hence reducing the burden on services desk support, such as technical SAP support and/or HR support. | Cost Reduction |
| Reduce IT average incident resolution time | Managing multiple UI technologies & access points is expensive for IT. SAP Fiori and SAP Fiori Launchpad allows IT to provide a homogenous UI across all SAP products and a single access point to all enterprise apps. Having a standardize UI can help speed up incident resolution and free up service desk capacity. | Cost Reduction |
| Reduce mobile app development effort | SAP Web IDE, reduces the time to build SAP Fiori (HTML 5) apps & streamlines the process to expose SAP functionality to mobile devices. | Cost Reduction |
| Avoid Costs Associated with Data Errors | Data errors, in most cases, are avoidable. Minimizing the number of screens with SAP Fiori simple user interface can avoid the potential costs incurred in fixing data errors. For example, having to processes customer returns due to incorrect sales orders. | Cost Reduction |
| Avoid costs to replace software due to unhappy end users | Employees spend a large part of their time using technology to accomplish their work. The experience employees have with these tools can greatly impact their job satisfaction. Unhappy employees will complain and in most cases not use the SW which can eventually force IT to replace it and incur in costs that are avoidable. | Cost Reduction |
| Increase Utilization of Shelf-ware Licenses | End users don’t use complex Software. SAP Fiori modern, simple user interface accessible “on the go” has the potential to motivate employees to utilize the SW, hence reducing shelf-ware licenses and as a side benefit increase compliance. | Cost Avoidance(usually no cash flow impact) |
| Reduction of time to perform employee activities | Manual paper based processes and complex Software wastes employee’s time. SAP Fiori, simple role based and mobile UI can dramatically automate and reduce the time required to perform day to day activities resulting in greater employee productivity | Productivity Gains (usually no cash flow impact) |
Special thanks to Mark Muir and Benjamin Hindelang for making this blog series possible.
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You’ll find much more on our SAP Fiori for SAP S/4HANA wiki
Do you have any questions? Let us know in the comments section.
Thanks,
SAP S/4HANA RIG
Great series Jorge! Your blogs have helped us a lot.
Um abraço!
Thanks Lucas! Hope we meet again soon.
JB
Wonderful.
Hello Jorge,
If I take a s4 Hana premise trial account, are there some cost involved? Could you pls confirm
Thanks
Smriti
Hi Smriti, You can find out all about the S/4HANA Trial on the landing page The software solution is provided free of charge. You will need to pay for Cloud Storage Costs through your provider, e.g. AWS. We recommend suspending your S/4HANA trial when not in use to minimize costs.
Rgds
Jocelyn
Hi Jorge!
Sorry if my question is a bit off topic...
I'm functional consultant, not the BC or UX expert, and I'm confused by this question:
My BC consultant installed the best practice package S/4HANA 1709 FS02 (for Germany), MA* packages, assigned all roles I need, but the fiori apps mentioned in testing scripts are still not available for me. And my BC consultant is trying to fix this problem by activating the corresponding OData services manually one by one. Is there some automated way to get all the fiori apps (used in our best practice) available?
Hi Jorge,
I'm wondering where to find some of the Blogs - 6, 7, 8, 10, 11?
BR,
Josef