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SAP Fiori Road Map #ASUG Webcast Summary with Q&A
This was an ASUG webcast from last week given by SAP’s Dr. Thomas Reiss
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The legal disclaimer applies as everything in the future is subject to change.
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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
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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:
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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