As with most things in 2020, SAP TechEd is virtual. While we won’t have a chance to move to the new venue in Austin this year, SAP TechEd is still a great way to learn about the newest technologies and innovations to bring the SAP Fiori user experience to your organization. While it will be disappointing not to see people in person, there are some advantages to an all-online SAP TechEd:
Like any SAP TechEd, we have a combination of lectures, hands-on workshops, strategy talks, and roadmap sessions. The user experience and design sessions are organized into one of several content tracks:
One adjustment for the virtual format is that lectures are now 40 minutes rather than the traditional hour. And, we have a new short-form 20-minute lecture/demo format called a “Breakout”.
A big part of SAP TechEd is the opportunity to interact with product experts and ask questions. During the live sessions, there will be a chat-based Q&A, so be sure to tune in and find the information you need to accelerate your UX transformation. Each session airs twice, so there will usually be one that fits your work schedule.
Similar to an in-person SAP TechEd, we will also have usability testing. See what topics are available and reserve your spot to help us deliver a better user experience. https://experience.sap.com/sapremoteusabilitytesting/.
If you are interested specifically in SAPUI5, please read the blog by Oliver Graeff on those sessions. https://blogs.sap.com/2020/11/05/sapui5-at-sap-teched-2020-tune-in
For a focused blog on digital experience and portals, please see this post by Aviad Rivlin. https://blogs.sap.com/2020/11/11/digital-experience-and-portals-at-sap-teched-2020-get-ready/
Here are some highlights from the User Experience and Design sessions for SAP TechEd 2020.
Lectures (includes 40-minute lectures, 30-minute roadmap sessions, 30-minute strategy talks, and 20-minute breakouts). See below for the hands-on sessions.
I listed the streaming times for Central European Time (UTC+1) and Eastern time (UTC-5) working hours. Since SAP TechEd is for all our customers and partners around the world, you might need to do some conversions to find the time that fits your schedule. If the times are not convenient for you, you can watch on-demand, although you will miss the opportunity to ask questions of the speakers or get help from the hands-on facilitators.
Clicking on the link will take you to the session in the catalog and you can add it to your agenda (time will display in your time zone).
2-Hour Hands-on Workshops
Looking forward to “seeing” you at SAP TechEd.
For SAP UX Engineering, peter.spielvogel.
- Everyone can attend without having to find travel budget
- No need to present or find another way to cover the cost of your ticket – SAP TechEd 2020 is entirely free
- All sessions are recorded, so no issues when two interesting sessions run at the same time
- More opportunity to attend hands-on workshops, as you can attend up to four live and access some of the exercises after SAP TechEd
- No time away from home
Like any SAP TechEd, we have a combination of lectures, hands-on workshops, strategy talks, and roadmap sessions. The user experience and design sessions are organized into one of several content tracks:
- Integrated Intelligent Suite (IIS) – check out the sub-track “Seamless user experience” for a dedicated list of UX-related sessions
- Application Development & Integration (DEV) – the sub-track “Establish an engaging user experience across different channels” lists sessions with a UX focus
- Digital Transformation with the Intelligent ERP (DT).
One adjustment for the virtual format is that lectures are now 40 minutes rather than the traditional hour. And, we have a new short-form 20-minute lecture/demo format called a “Breakout”.
A big part of SAP TechEd is the opportunity to interact with product experts and ask questions. During the live sessions, there will be a chat-based Q&A, so be sure to tune in and find the information you need to accelerate your UX transformation. Each session airs twice, so there will usually be one that fits your work schedule.
Similar to an in-person SAP TechEd, we will also have usability testing. See what topics are available and reserve your spot to help us deliver a better user experience. https://experience.sap.com/sapremoteusabilitytesting/.
If you are interested specifically in SAPUI5, please read the blog by Oliver Graeff on those sessions. https://blogs.sap.com/2020/11/05/sapui5-at-sap-teched-2020-tune-in
For a focused blog on digital experience and portals, please see this post by Aviad Rivlin. https://blogs.sap.com/2020/11/11/digital-experience-and-portals-at-sap-teched-2020-get-ready/
Here are some highlights from the User Experience and Design sessions for SAP TechEd 2020.
Lectures (includes 40-minute lectures, 30-minute roadmap sessions, 30-minute strategy talks, and 20-minute breakouts). See below for the hands-on sessions.
I listed the streaming times for Central European Time (UTC+1) and Eastern time (UTC-5) working hours. Since SAP TechEd is for all our customers and partners around the world, you might need to do some conversions to find the time that fits your schedule. If the times are not convenient for you, you can watch on-demand, although you will miss the opportunity to ask questions of the speakers or get help from the hands-on facilitators.
Clicking on the link will take you to the session in the catalog and you can add it to your agenda (time will display in your time zone).
| Streaming Times | Session ID / Format (min) | Title / Abstract | Speaker(s) |
Dec 8 5:10pm EST Dec 9 11:10am CET | IIS208 | *** Customer session *** Yorkshire Water uses SAP Fiori Elements to build Fiori apps quickly Learn how Yorkshire Water used SAP Fiori elements to rapidly develop analytical visualizations. We built the apps we need quickly, and we don’t need a massive team of developers to achieve this. SAP Fiori Elements means all our apps look consistent and the underlying power of SAP S/4HANA makes most screens instantaneous. | Mark Castle, Yorkshire Water |
Dec 9 7:00pm CET 1:00pm EST Dec 10 6:00am CET | ST110 Strategy (30) | Create a Future-Proof User Experience for Your Intelligent Enterprise Streamline processes by mining the potential of a consistent, integrated, and intelligent user experience (UX) based on the SAP Fiori 3 design system. See how an efficient and delightful work experience can help your enterprise move from digital aspiration to digital realization. Understand the underlying strategy and how we support you in your efforts to leverage and realize a great UX in your company. | Alex Lingg, Frederic Berg, SAP |
Dec 9 7:30pm CET 1:30pm EST Dec 10 6:30am CET | IIS819 Road Map (30) | Road Map: SAP Fiori Get a holistic overview of where the SAP Fiori user experience (UX) is heading. This session covers the design direction and corresponding key technology highlights such as the spaces and pages concept of SAP Fiori 3, the central entry point, and our plans for further simplifying UI development. | Tom Reiss, SAP |
Dec 8 6:50pm EST Dec 9 12:50pm CET | DEV804 Roadmap (30) | Road Map for SAPUI5 SAPUI5 is the leading user interface (UI) technology to develop enterprise-ready web apps, including SAP Fiori apps. Check how SAPUI5 combines new qualities such as openness, flexibility, and high innovation speed, with established strengths in SAP software, including enterprise readiness and standard support. Get an overview on both new and planned capabilities available in SAPUI5. | Oliver Graeff, SAP |
Dec 9 6:50pm EST Dec 10 11:50am CET | DEV805 Roadmap (30) | Road Map: SAP's Portal Offerings and SAP Work Zone Join this session to learn about the road map for the SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP Cloud Platform Portal, and SAP Work Zone. | Aviad Rivlin, SAP |
Dec 9 9:40pm EST Dec 10 3:40 pm CET 9:40 am EST | IIS102 Lecture (40) | SAP Fiori Launchpad: What's Hot and What's New SAP Fiori launchpad provides a role-based, responsive, central entry point for your business apps. Join this session to learn how to get started with SAP Fiori launchpad in your organization. Learn about the latest product updates and recommendations, new tools for efficiently managing launchpad content, the road map toward a central entry point across on-premise and cloud systems, and the latest design experience following the SAP Fiori 3 user experience. | Sibylle Brehm, SAP |
| On-demand | IIS128 Lecture (40) | SAP Fiori 3: SAP's Consistent, Integrated, and Intelligent UX Understand the reasoning behind the design concepts of the SAP Fiori 3 user experience. Why do the product standard consistency, spaces, and situations contribute to a consistent, integrated, and intelligent user experience? How did customer feedback influence this evolutionary step of SAP Fiori? | Kai Richter, SAP |
| On-demand | IIS131 Lecture (40) | Build SAP Fiori apps at scale using a repeatable process Streamline SAPUI5 app development by using standard page types that cover scenarios for most SAP solutions. Starting with reusable templates, find out how to use SAP Fiori elements to build apps with a consistent user experience. This is the same process that SAP uses to build Fiori apps for SAP S/4HANA. | Sebastian Steinhauer, Katja Zoch, SAP |
Dec 8 10:00 pm EST Dec 9 2:40pm CET 8:40am CET | IIS204 Lecture (40) | Modernize SAP Fiori app development using SAP Fiori tools Building amazing SAPUI5 apps for your SAP ERP system is faster and easier than ever. Our SAP Fiori tools work with SAP Business Application Studio or Visual Studio Code to let you create powerful apps with minimal coding. Start with SAP Fiori elements floorplans for common scenarios and adapt for your unique business needs. | Ashley Tung, Klaus Keller, SAP |
Dec 8 5:10pm EST Dec 9 11:10am CET | DEV107 Lecture (40) | SAP UX mobile strategy realized with SAP Cloud Platform Enjoy the same ease of use and convenience using your enterprise software as you experience with your personal mobile apps. Get the latest on SAP UX Mobile Strategy for S/4HANA and the Intelligent Enterprise and how SAP leverages SAP Fiori Mobile Design Language, SAP CP SDKs for iOS and Android and the Mobile Development Kit to provide user focused native mobile apps. | Sami Lechner, Thorsten Stephan, SAP |
Dec 8 4:10pm EST Dec 9 10:10am CET | DEV108 Lecture (40) | SAPUI5 - All you need to know SAPUI5 ensures best user experience for SAP Fiori and beyond. This includes an improved performance and new tools for developers. To easily adopt a consistent SAP Fiori experience, SAPUI5 is evolving with UI Integration Cards and UI5 Web Components to also integrate with other UI technologies stacks as well. This lecture takes you on a journey how UI5 is evolving, what is available and what is coming. | Stefan Beck, SAP |
| On-demand | DEV210 Lecture (40) | Engage, Empower, and Innovate with SAP Work Zone Learn how SAP Work Zone helps organizations keep users engaged and productive by intelligently connecting them with data, content, and information. Experience how SAP Work Zone can help you improve employee productivity and bring all apps, tasks, and content to the attention of your users – when they need it, on the device they need it. | Ulrich Hoffmann, SAP |
| On-demand | DEV211 Lecture (40) | Recommendations for Building a Central Entry Point on SAP Cloud Platform A central entry point for business applications simplifies access and increases user productivity. Join this session to learn how to design and configure a central launchpad for multiple systems on SAP Cloud Platform. | Thomas Hensel, SAP |
| On-demand | IIS114 Breakout (20) | Beyond SAPUI5 and SAP Fiori Elements SAPUI5 and SAP Fiori elements are SAP’s established go-to Web UI technologies for business applications. In recent years, SAP also published other UI-related technologies such as Fundamental Library and UI5 Web Components. Visit this breakout session to learn about the differences among these technologies and when to use which one. | Marius Obert, SAP |
Dec 8 4:50pm EST Dec 9 10:50am CET | IIS126 Breakout (20) | The Future of Mobile Work SAP's vision for a modern and mobile workplace is this: experience new mobile apps and mixed-reality solutions in the context of real business scenarios within the enterprise of the future. Get insights into strategic projects aimed at providing the best user experience of your workplace, allowing context-sensitive and intuitive system interaction. | Robert Wasserman, SAP |
Dec 8 8:00pm EST Dec 9 12:40pm CET | IIS130 Breakout (20) | Accelerate SAP Fiori adoption with SAP Screen Personas Deliver a modern, intuitive user experience as you plan for or implement SAP S/4HANA. Now is the right time to move from SAP GUI transactions to the Fiori UX. SAP has tools such as SAP Fiori elements, SAP Fiori tools and SAP Screen Personas that allow you to modernize your UX with minimal coding. | Peter Spielvogel, Sylvia Barnard, SAP |
Dec 9 10:20pm EST Dec 10 3:40pm CET 9:40am EST | IIS261 Breakout (20) | Design-Led Development at SAP: How to Meet the Needs of Your Users Get insight into SAP's design-led development approach, which helps ensure that products really meet the needs and pain points of customers and end users. Learn about the best practices and tools SAP provides for this | Dina Glatzel, SAP |
Dec 9 10:40pm EST Dec 10 2:40pm CET 8:40am EST | IIS268 Breakout (20) | Implement SAP Fiori Efficiently for SAP S/4HANA During this session, learn about fundamental aspects of tools, information, and services for discovery, activation, and configuration when implementing the SAP Fiori user experience (UX) for SAP S/4HANA | Sven Krueppel-Berndt, SAP |
| On-demand | DEV117 Breakout (20) | Build Cross-Platform Mobile Solutions for iOS and Android During this breakout session, we will build a cross-platform application using the mobile development kit from SAP. In addition, we will create a micro app using the SAP Mobile Cards app. If you want, you will be able to see the results of the session on your own device | Sami Lechner, SAP |
Dec 9 10:20pm EST Dec 10 3:20pm CET 9:20am EST | DEV214 Breakout (20) | Mobile Enablement for the SAP Work Zone Explore the options for developing cross-platform applications for SAP Work Zone, and leverage the SAP Mobile Cards app and the mobile development kit to enable mobile channels for your business applications. Examine how to get mobile-ready with minimal development effort in the back end. | Sami Lechner, SAP |
| On-demand | DEV215 Breakout (20) | SAP Asset Manager - What’s new and what’s next Learn about the latest features like linear asset management and offline maps which have been released with the 2005 version of the mobile SAP Asset Manager. Furthermore you will get insights into the current road map and the planned features for release 2010. | Kunal Mehta, SAP |
Dec 9 9:20pm EST Dec 10 2:20pm CET 8:20am EST | DEV301 Breakout (20) | UI5 Tooling - The build and development tooling for UI5 UI5 Tooling is a state-of-the-art way to develop UI5 projects by consuming SAPUI5 or OpenUI5 via npm. Visit this breakout session to understand what UI5 offers in the open source space and how this gives you a modern and flexible development experience. | Peter Muessig, Merlin Beutlberger, SAP |
Dec 8 10:30pm EST Dec 9 4:30pm CET 10:30am EST | DEV900 Expert Q&A session | Build Desktop or Mobile SAP Fiori Apps with SAP Business Application Studio | Keren Rotenberg, Oliver Graeff, Sami Lechner, Mariana Naboka, Ashley Tung, SAP |
2-Hour Hands-on Workshops
| Streaming Time | Session ID | Title / Abstract | Main Facilitator(s) – all SAP employees |
Dec 8 6:50pm EST Dec 9 12:10pm CET 6:10am EST | IIS201 | Bring the Full SAP Fiori User Experience to Your Screens in SAP GUI This hands-on session gives you a chance opportunity to transform screens in the classic SAP GUI interface into simple, role-based, adaptive designs using SAP Fiori UX without coding. The focus of this session presents how to use SAP Screen Personas software to make complex SAP GUI screens more intuitive. This proven approach improves user productivity, reduces training time, and increases data quality with minimal load on your IT team. | Krists Magons, Tamas Hoznek |
Dec 9 3:50pm EST Dec 10 8:50am CET | IIS360 | Simplify Development of SAP Fiori Apps with OData v4 Using OData v4 will you to improve the efficiency of SAPUI5-based business applications and allow them to do more complex tasks with less programming. Develop a standard list report / object page app using SAP Fiori elements. Learn how to apply annotations to personalize the visual appearance of the app you are developing. | Christian Kolbowski |
Dec 9 7:30pm CET 1:30pm EST Dec 10 6:30am CET | IIS361 | Create Analytical SAP Fiori Apps Quickly and Efficiently Embed analytics into your SAP Fiori elements app with the analytical list report page template. Explore how different annotations can change the look, feel, and behavior of your SAPUI5 app to meet your business requirements and enable you to create impressive analytical apps rapidly. | Suneet Agarwal |
Dec 8 8:30pm EST Dec 9 2:30pm CET 8:30am EST | DEV164 | Developing Apps with SAPUI5 Learn how to build a freestyle app in the cloud using SAPUI5 following our latest recommendations and updated best practices. Develop apps quickly and efficiently with SAP Business Application Studio and evolved UI5 Tooling, including new controls and updated application templates. Understand how to structure your app code to get the maximum out of recent and upcoming framework improvements. | Martin Haeuser, Florian Vogt |
| On-demand | DT267 | SAP Fiori for SAP S/4HANA – Rapid Activation and Content Management During this session, learn and experience how to efficiently implement the SAP Fiori user experience for SAP S/4HANA, using the latest tools for scoping, rapid activation, and content adaption and customization. | Carola Steinmaier, Sven Krueppel-Berndt |
Looking forward to “seeing” you at SAP TechEd.
For SAP UX Engineering, peter.spielvogel.
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