ASUG webcast summary: Using SAP Experience Maker services to realize your user experience in a digital world
On April 4, 2018, Nis Boy Naeve, Vice President SAP Cloud Platform UX Product Management, spoke in the ASUG webcast, “UX: SAP Experience Maker services – the right tools and technologies to realize your user experience in a digital world”. He discussed several options for creating applications.
The webcast talked about
- Build, Web IDE, and Fiori Elements: key components to develop UI5-based Fiori apps for the browser
- SAP Screen Personas: a fast and easy way to render simplified classic screens on a mobile device
- Mendix: a rapid way to develop native Fiori apps
You can watch the complete replay of the webcast here (registration required).
Here is a transcript of the Q&A.
| Is there a plan to allow creation of Fiori Apps via other tools like Google Flutter.io RAD tool? | There are no plans at this point. |
| Will SAP deliver pre-built native iOS mobile apps or must the customer build all of the apps using the mobile development kit? |
SAP plans to deliver a few native iOS apps. Our focus is to provide an SDK that customers or partners can build apps to meet their specific needs.
Fiori apps (UI5) can already run on mobile browsers. |
| Can you enhance Fiori applications using Mendix? | SAPUI5 applications cannot be enhanced using Mendix. We recommend sticking with the technology used to create the app. |
| Can you replace the Enterprise Portal with Launchpad instead of Cloud Platform portal? |
This is a common question. The answer is “it depends.” If you use the Enterprise Portal for mostly employee and manager self service apps, you can replace with Fiori Launchpad. If you use Enterprise Portal as a corporate portal, then you cannot replace with FLP. Either keep both for now or switch to Cloud Platform portal. |
| Is the Mobile Card Kit read only? Could user be allowed to update specific field within the card? E.g. Customer Address changes .. |
First version of mobile card kit was read-only. New version adds limited writing capabilities. |
| What do you have to buy or subscribe to for the player approach he described (IT Administrator can update apps with a click)? | This capability is part of the mobile services coming with the SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Development Kit. |
| What is SAP’s approach moving forward for mobile device management? | We are moving towards mobile cloud services. For mobile device management specifically we recommend to use partner solutions. |
On behalf of the ASUG UX SIG, Peter Spielvogel.
Helpful post! Thanks much for a link to watch the complete replay of the webcast 🙂 but as registration is required so, I will register and watch it later. And, thank you for sharing a transcript of the Q&A. Useful information. Thank you!
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Ranjit, Nous Infosystems