Week 1: SAP Fiori Overview

Unit 1: Introducing SAP Fiori

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Welcome to SAP Fiori Overview

Learn about SAP Fiori

▪ Week 1: Introduction
▪ Week 2: Design
▪ Week 3: Development
▪ Week 4: Deployment
▪ Final exam

This week: high-level overview

▪ Introducing SAP Fiori
▪ Designing a great user experience
▪ Architecture overview
▪ Development tools overview
▪ How to get SAP Fiori up and running

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Good user experience is more than just nice looks – there are many real business benefits

Monetary Value
Gain Productivity, Data Quality
Save Training Costs
UX Value Calculator
Decrease Change Request, User Errors

Human Value
Increase User Satisfaction, Customer Loyalty, Solution Adoption
Strengthen Relationship (IT and Business)

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User experience can be painful in many ways – if you don’t get it right!

Can’t find what you are looking for: app or business objects

Information spread all over the place

▪ Need to scroll a lot or go to many different sub-screens

Data entry not intuitive/app too complex

Relevant actions hidden/require many clicks

No or poor value help/drop-down lists

Unhelpful error messages/confusing actions

Slow/unresponsive

Unhelpful data visualization

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Appropriate visualization of data is important

Which channel had most feedback? Which carrier had lowest revenue?

Embedded
analytics

Semantic colors, Which month did

navigation links Which year had healthcare do better
How many units are unplanned? highest costs? than others?

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Design thinking is essentitial for good app design

Prototype

Ideate Validate

Discover Design Develop

Scope Synthesize Implement Deploy

Research Test

DESIGN THINKING

Understand your Fail fast, fail early Start development

end users’ needs Sketch out solutions, once user satisfaction
get feedback, try again is confirmed

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Good UX for hundreds of apps requires more than good app design

For hundreds of apps, users want:

▪ Consistency – visual and interaction
▪ Easy access to relevant apps
▪ Easy navigation between apps, business objects, etc.
▪ Common functions provided everywhere

Visual Consistency
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How to scale for good UX for hundreds of apps

Design system
▪ Allows UX to scale across many apps and products
– Consistently!
▪ Applies to various technologies

Development scales with

▪ Software frameworks and libraries
▪ UX integration runtime: central entry point, navigation services

Deployment scales via

▪ Tooling to get SAP Fiori running

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SAP’s UX direction: digital transformation

People •
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SAP Fiori
Business

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Technology •
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SAP Fiori design system

SAP Fiori 3 is SAP’s new target design, evolving

the SAP Fiori design language for all
SAP products to fully support the intelligent
suite in a consistent way.
User-Centric
Role-based, personalized, and simplified
Look
Visual design, theme, dimensions,
breakpoints
Feel
Motion design, interactivity, or virtual
haptics
Controls & Floorplans
Components and composition of the
user interface
Common Functions
Functionality available everywhere (e.g., search)

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The evolution of SAP Fiori

SAP SAP
SAP Fiori Fiori 2.0 Fiori 3
2013 2016 Conversational 2019+
with SAP CoPilot Consistent
Casual User Intelligent
Power User Mobile First step
Self-Services Integrated
iOS & Android available
today
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time without notice.
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