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SAP Fiori Road Map Highlights Webcast Summary
This was a webcast last week, presented by Dr. Thomas Reiss, SAP
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Agenda is shown above
Parts of target design are available today
Investing in S/4HANA Fiori evolution
SAP Fiori 3 Target Design
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Evolving to support intelligent suite
Use intelligence to guide users
Introduce step by step
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It is an evolution, starting in 2013 with casual user interface
Started with lightweight use cases
With Fiori 2.0, started covering desktop use cases, and on the road with mobile, native mobile experience
Conversational user experience with CoPilot
Fiori 3 – focus on consistency across all products, with integration
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Consistent, intelligent, integrated
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New Quartz theme (part of consistent)
Left is Quartz light, adopted by many products already
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Consistency in shell design, header at top screen
Target design, including colors
Product switcher – simple integration, if on S/4HANA, select product switcher to go to SuccessFactors
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Standardizing on a home page
Can have product specific home pages, role specific
Spaces concept
Featured group, personalizable part
Still have tiles, in target design, envision richer contact, want to avoid information overload
Looking at caching mechanisms to avoid overload on back end
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Can have multiple spaces, home, by role
Contain 1 or more pages
Flexible way of structuring content
Intelligent
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Intelligent system to support user
System is able to analyze data and make suggestions out of it, rather than just responding to query
Could be rule-based, not just machine learning
Home page – cards could only show most important things to look at
– featured area, personalized information pushed there
Apps that have dynamic pages
Digital assistant, conversational UI
Situational concept
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App design
C/4HANA team
Scoring model, likelihood that a lead will turn into opportunity
Start working from ranked list
Need user to trust system
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There is a popover explaining the calculation/ranking
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Digital assistant, conversational UI
Use natural language – voice or chat
“tell me what happened overnight” and show visual representation
Majority of interaction with internet is phones
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Proactive situation handling
Powerful, applied throughout application
For situations not common
You get a notification (rule based or machine learning)
Context is explained to you
System makes recommendations on how it can be solved
Integrated
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Try to eliminate time consuming logons on multiple system
SAP One Inbox – collect items from multiple systems
Top – central home page; not have to logon to multiple home pages
Fiori 3 Available today
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Examples of consistency across SAP products
Left – S/4HANA examples
Right – C/4HANA examples
Shell header and theme
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SAC – theme
Fiori 3 – Outlook 2020
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Spaces – first plan is to come in May with S/4HANA 2005
Multiple spaces
with one page, page can have multiple sections, sections can have tiles
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Next, planned, likey with S/4HANA 2008, S/4HANA 2020
Support multiple pages for each space
Idea is to have a space for each role
Could be personalized so user could change layout
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Two kinds of integration
Loose – product switch, go to shell icon, go to product switch to go from one product to another
Deeper – central launchpad on SAP Cloud Platform – embedded mode, shell header bar, seamless in same browser window
Navigate from one product to another
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What Product switch would look like
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Central Entry Point for Fiori Launchpad
Vision for intelligent enterprise
Entry point, logon, from there access all systems, across SAP solutions, on cloud or on premise
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One central inbox in the cloud from various local systems, giving you one view
Click on task, uses same shell
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Summarize what planning for 2020
Also working on notifications redesign
Situation page for select use cases
Central entry point on SCP is coming this year
Product switch is planned for the products shown above
SAP Developer Experience
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Continuously improving developer environment
Reduce TCD (total cost of development)
Stateful UI5 stack – useful for sales order
New control features, planning calendar
UI5 conference
Planned – UI5 test recorder – speed up creation of automated tests
UI5 flexibility
New UI tools – Business Application Studio – next generation Web IDE for building Fiori apps; provide Fiori tools to simplify Fiori development
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Investing in tools to help start project, what users need
Guided development to make it easier
Application modeler
Usage tracking – how people are using the apps
Fiori for S/4HANA Evolution
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For S/4HANA on premise, Fiori “offers a new way to work with system”
Doing user research, how people work, new UI, graphs, charts, building new Fiori apps
Fiori is role based
Fiori is supplemented by classic UI’s
Different users have different apps
Enterprise search is powerful
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Single entry point from Fiori Launch pad
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How to get up and running, with over Fiori 10K apps/tiles
Select roles interested in, use rapid Fiori activation, have launchpad available
Based on that, use FLP manager, adjust, and go live.
Fiori content reference library – look at roles, applications, try in sandbox
Adapt for needs
Working on harmonizing authorization, so will be just on backend
Planned Fiori apps – look at innovation discovery
New Road map is planned to come out in a few days – sap.com/roadmaps
Q&A
Q: With Fiori 3 will it be available outside S/4HANA?
A: Fiori 3, goal is that all SAP products use the target design
Will take a while
Q: Will there be any enhancements in Fiori 2.0?
A: New innovations are with Fiori 3, new apps support Fiori 3
Q: Can we directly implement Fiori 3?
A: Yes
Q: What is migration path from Fiori 2.0 to 3?
A: Upgrade Fiori Front End Server to 6.0
With S/4HANA recommend embedded deployment, automatically get it when go S/4HANA 1909
If Hub, you upgrade to FES 6.0
Q: What about reporting availability in different Fiori screens?
A: Smart Business is Fiori 3
SAC is target solution; it has Fiori 3 theme applied, Shell header is planned
Go to sap.com/fiori
What do you think?
Hi Tammy,
thanks for this helpful blog.
My understanding is that the vision of SAP is to have one central Fiori Launchpad on the SAP Cloud Platform for multiple SAP Systems.
Is there also an on-premise Central Fiori Launchpad available or planned?
Thanks in advance!
Hello - thank you for reading and commenting
I think the central Fiori Launchpad (in the cloud) would be connected to the on premise systems
To be certain, however, I recommend asking this as a question at answers.sap.com since I do not work for SAP.