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SAP Activate – What’s New in User Experience guidance with SAP Fiori for SAP S/4HANA

Jocelyn_Dart
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert
‎02-22-2024 5:45 AM

Good news for those implementing SAP Fiori for SAP S/4HANA!

Over the last couple of months, the SAP S/4HANA RIG team have been hard at work bringing several updates to the User Experience content and accelerators for SAP S/4HANA roadmaps in SAP Activate.

These updates bring the latest information for SAP S/4HANA 2023 (and 2022) releases to your project planning.

The following roadmaps now include User Experience content and accelerators:

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What’s Changed?

  • Much of the UX-related task content has been updated in SAP Activate Methodology for RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition.
  • Several accelerators have been updated and shared across multiple related roadmaps.  Here’s a quick summary of what’s changed.

Below you will find a quick summary of what to use when you are:

  • Getting started with SAP Fiori for SAP S/4HANA
  • Want to see an examples of how experts introduce UX
  • Planning to demonstrate SAP Fiori
  • Planning your SAP S/4HANA upgrade
  • Moving to Spaces and Pages layout
  • Looking to grow your usage of SAP Fiori 
  • Looking to add SAP Build Work Zone and SAP Mobile Start
  • Want more User Experience advice in SAP Activate

P.s. Much of the content in SAP Activate related to system conversions has also been updated by the SAP S/4HANA RIG team.  You can find more about the other updates in blog post News from SAP Activate SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2402

Getting started with SAP Fiori for SAP S/4HANA ?

Not sure how to explain User Experience to your business?

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Want to see an examples of how experts introduce UX?

See how I do it in the openSAP course SAP S/4HANA UX for Business and Functional Experts. Missed it? No problem! Join the course self-paced.

Review the video:

Planning to demonstrate SAP Fiori?

You will find it very helpful to review the SAP Fiori: Tips & Tricks for Users of SAP S/4HANA which is also listed in the SAP Activate accelerators.

You will need a User Experience Strategy to set your baseline expectations, architecture, features, and tools.  Accelerator User Experience Strategy Template (Public)  now contains much more assistance, along with some Guiding Principles to help you keep your team human-centred.

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Want to discuss your UX Strategy with your business?

Accelerator UX Adoption: UX Strategy and Guiding Principles Workshop (Public) now has a flipbook-style section showing how to make cross-functional feature in/out of scope decisions with your team.

Planning a SAP S/4HANA upgrade ?

Take a look at SAP Activate roadmap SAP Activate Methodology for SAP S/4HANA Upgrades

Even if you are going for a technical upgrade approach, you will still need to revisit your UX Strategy and launchpad feature usage. This ensures you cover any mandatory changes due to:

  • New, changed, or deprecated launchpad features
  • Obsolete, deprecated, or superseded apps
  • New, changed, or deprecated launchpad administration tooling

Accelerator UX Adoption: UX Strategy and Guiding Principles Workshop (Public) shows how to make cross-functional feature in/out decisions with your team, and document the reasons for change.  Accelerator User Experience Strategy Template (Public) has the latest best practices for launchpad features and administration tooling.

Missing some advice on upgrading your SAP Fiori for SAP S/4HANA? Please let us know what else you need in the comments.

Moving to Spaces and Pages layout?

You will find some suggestions on how to get started in UX Adoption: How to approach Design your Launchpad Layout​ Workshop (Public)

Doing a deeper dive with blog post Info Package: Making the Move from Launchpad Groups to Spaces (In SAP S/4HANA and in SAP S/4HANA Clo...

Looking to grow your usage of SAP Fiori ?

Looking for ideas on which apps to use?

You will find updated guides for selecting apps by UX Value at UX Value Goal App Selection Guides (Public)

With more than 3K apps, even with suggestions from tools such as SAP Signavio Process Insights, and Readiness Check, you’ll need a way to narrow down the focus.

The UX Adoption Planning process shows how to have a now/next/later discussion to engage with your business stakeholders.

You can find an introduction to the major steps in openSAP course SAP S/4HANA UX for Business and Functional Experts. Missed it? No problem! Join the course self-paced.

Review the videos:

You will find the entire matching series of updated workshop templates in SAP Activate.  You will even find some suggestions on which major decision points to focus on at each stage to keep it simple.

Use it all or just whatever helps you move forward. That’s the intention ... and how other customers tell us they are using the content.

Looking to add SAP Build Work Zone and SAP Mobile Start?   

With SAP S/4HANA focus on SAP Build Work Zone, standard edition.

You will find the latest guidance and suggestions at SAP Community topic page for SAP Build Work Zone 

As a first step, you should review the latest architecture guidance announcements in blog post SAP Fiori Deployment Options and System Landscape Recommendations

You will find some suggestions on where to incorporate SAP Build Work Zone in your UX Strategy in accelerator User Experience Strategy Template (Public).  You can engage your business on your SAP Build Work Zone journey by using the Cross-Functional Feature Decisions approach shown in accelerator UX Adoption: UX Strategy and Guiding Principles Workshop (Public) 

Then get the latest news on what’s possible by reviewing the latest roadmap blog posts from SAP such as:

Want more SAP Activate updates for User Experience?

Whew! There’s a lot of content in SAP Activate so if you see something that needs improving, please let us know in the comments! 

Don't forget to use the User Experience tag (in the left-hand filter pane) of SAP Activate to find the rest of the recommended UX content and accelerators already available in SAP Activate. 

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Find out more about SAP Activate on the SAP Activate topic page.

  • Follow the SAP Activate page on the SAP Community. Remember to turn on your notification to receive updates or information about items requiring your attention. 
  • Tune into the SAP Activate Minute videos in our SAP Activate Playlist. Subscribe to get notified when we drop new videos. We have big plans to add interesting new topics.

Find more from the SAP S/4HANA RIG team via tag S4HANA RIG

Find more on UX at our  SAP Fiori for SAP S/4HANA topic page

Other helpful links:

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