This is a series of blogs written by SAP subject matter experts to prepare you for your journey to SAP S/4HANA. Ready? Let’s go!
Topic #14 is about the SAP Fiori design system and its role in accessing SAP S/4HANA innovations
SAP Fiori is the go-to user interface of SAP S/4HANA. SAP Fiori launchpad offers a role-based, single-access point for business users to access all UIs of SAP S/4HANA, including SAP Fiori apps, as well as visually harmonized classical UIs such as SAP GUI transactions. Therefore, those who don’t implement SAP Fiori will have only a limited benefit from the innovations in SAP S/4HANA.
The UX paradigm of SAP Fiori differs from the classical transaction pattern. Instead of big multipurpose transactions, SAP Fiori offers a navigation network of task-oriented UIs interconnected through SAP Fiori launchpad content. Selectively implementing only some individual SAP Fiori apps breaks the user experience and results in high implementation costs. Therefore, we strongly recommend starting with a copy of the business roles and catalogs delivered by SAP and adjusting them to your needs.
Here are key tools to support your SAP Fiori implementation:
- The SAP Fiori apps reference library lets you explore, plan, and implement SAP Fiori apps as well as classic UIs based on SAP GUI and the Web Dynpro development environment.
- The SAP Best Practices Explorer tool lets you visualize business process flows, including relevant SAP Fiori apps.
- You can quickly activate all SAP Fiori apps of a business role through rapid activation for SAP Fiori task lists.
- You can manage SAP Fiori launchpad content – from apps and technical catalogs, to business catalogs and roles – and visualize pages and spaces.
- To extend and customize the standard content provided by SAP, use the embedded key user in-app extensibility tools.
- You can develop your own custom apps using SAP Fiori elements and these SAP Fiori tools.
To learn more, we recommend the following courses available on the openSAP platform: SAP Fiori Overview: Design, Develop, and Deploy and Developing and Extending SAP Fiori Elements Apps.
Check out all topics of the series:
tip #1: Check Your Add-ons. Now.
tip #2: Check Your Finance Data Quality
tip #3: Don’t Just Rework Custom Code. Rethink it!
tip #4: How to Build Custom Extensions
tip #5: Plan Ahead with Compatibility Packs
tip #6: Gain Insight to Build a Solid Business Case
tip #7: Hardware Planning and Data Volume Management
tip #8: Curate Your Master Data before Deployment
tip #9: Understand the Functional Impact
tip #10: Fix Issues Without Bogging Down Conversion
tip #11: Optimizing Downtime in Conversions
tip #12: Find Relevant SAP Notes
tip #13: Accelerate your Rollout with Test Automation
tip #14: Implementing SAP Fiori
