SAP Fiori Road Map #ASUG Webcast Summary with Q&A

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This was an ASUG webcast from last week given by SAP's Dr. Thomas Reiss

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One UX is key

User centricity is important for user adoption and success

Focus on the web usage

Focus on consistent UX for desktop, tablet and phone

Classic web applications in S4 area that they follow Fiori design

Looking at native mobile experiences

Context awareness

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Fiori is the design

Have technologies and tools to help developers

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Design - support inclusion

Principles same as 2014

Practices - user research

More than one design language

Web - UI5 web components

2 design languages for mobile - iOS and Android

Planned Mobile Start

Digital

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Started in 2013 for casual user

2019 Fiori 3 design

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Core set of user experience aspects

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Examples from products

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Had one long home page

Put tiles in groups

Don't put all apps on home page; only important ones; still access via search

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Spaces - 2 more levels of flexibility

More than one page

Space corresponds to a role

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Flat tiles in 2105 and later this year with S/4HANA on premise

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Move to spaces

Demos:





Blogs:

https://blogs.sap.com/2020/11/06/sap-fiori-for-sap-s-4hana-best-practices-for-structuring-spaces-and...

https://blogs.sap.com/2021/02/25/recommendation-for-structuring-roles-spaces-and-pages-in-the-sap-fi...

Intelligence

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Intelligent - proactive for user

Achieve more with less effort

Secret is automation

How do it - guide user, natural language, work better and faster

Guide user

With AI need to understand what can be automated

Where can you augment?

Fiori provides guidelines, AI interaction patterns

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Proactive - system will proactively pull information from other areas for task

Reactive - trigger is external

Situation handling supports into one pattern

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If something goes wrong - notification, or recommendation, ranking (special kind of suggestion),

Matching - for finance, payments to invoices

If user takes same recommendation, can automate

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Procurement example

Rank list, most promising materials, explanation popover

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Recently introduced

Details of error

Customer can configure the related actions

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Central Entry Point is available now with content federation

 

 

Outlook

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Planned for this week for S/4HANA Cloud 2108

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Quick tour for Fiori Launchpad for the first time you logon

Coming this week for S/4HANA Cloud 2108

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Planned situation page for describing issue and proposals

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Investing in central entry point

SAP Task center - one place to look at

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Planned in a couple of months

Integrated with S/4HANA, planned integration with other solutions

One places to access native apps; not required to logon to the launchpad

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Widgets supported

Native notifications

Support for clip apps, sidebars

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Co-existence with classic Uis

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Strategy - seamless device support

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White circles are the future direction

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Later this year, plan to deliver templates for operational purchaser and cost center owner for chatbots

Create your own chatbot

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Similar design to copilot

 

Q&A:

Q: Do we have any limit to tiles to home page?  Is there a benchmark?

A: Recommendations - on a certain page not have more than 50; if more, performance gets worse

User research; see that many users only use 4-5 applications

Just provide apps they typically use

Can add via personalization

 

Q: Will spaces be available for on premise Fiori?

A: Will be available 1809 and upward

Use FES to hook up to business suite systems

 

Q: When will Fiori 3 be available for S/4HANA on premise

A: 2020 release

 

Q: Any integration SAP gui and Fiori

A: Integration runs via launchpad

 

Q: Is development needed for situation handling?

A: Situations are built in to S/4HANA; configuration can be used

Looking at doing adaptations to use case

 

Q: Can we enable launchpad service for BW/4HANA?

A: at the moment no, could launch a URL

Deep integration is not available

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