SAP Fiori - what is it and lessons learned from a customer deployment

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Fiori: What Is It And Lessons From a Customer Deployment Paul Snyman

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SAP Fiori

• What is SAP Fiori? • Benefits • Architecture • Client example: Time Entry • Lessons Learned from a customer deployment • Configuration overview

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What is Fiori?

•  SAP Fiori mobilizes some of the most common business functions like workflow approvals, information lookups and self service tasks

•  It’s a collection of apps with a simple and easy to use experience for broadly and frequently used SAP software functions that work seamlessly across devices - desktop, tablet, or smartphone


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What is Fiori - How does it look?


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SAP Fiori - Key Benefits

§  Responsive Design - automatically adjust as per device form factor

§  Leverage Existing Landscape §  Prepackaged Instant Value

apps §  Great Enterprise User

Experience §  Supports various devices §  Requirement - HTML5

compatible browser


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What is Fiori - Technology Behind It?

•  SAP UI5 •  SAP’s HTML5 + Java Script UI development framework •  Future direction for SAP user interfaces

•  SAP NW Gateway •  Software layer for SAP ERP that exposes SAP data using OData (web) protocol


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SAP Fiori - Architecture

§  SAP Business Suite (ERP/SRM) §  System where Business Functionality resides. Fiori utilizes role based access as

defined in Business Suite §  ABAP Add-on

§  Pre-delivered Integration content/code for each of the app in Fiori suite. It covers Model Provider, Data Provider, ABAP Function Modules etc.

§  SAP NW Gateway §  It translates SAP ABAP objects to REST Odata format, which can be consumed by

UI5 application §  UI Add-on

§  Pre-delivered UI content/code for each of the app in Fiori Suite on top of SAP NW and UI5

§  HTML5 Browser §  Client which runs Fiori web app on your device (Desktop, Tablet, Mobile)


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Example Fiori Landscape


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SAP NW Deployment Options

SAP Fiori Architecture Options

Central Hub Embedded


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Fiori Software Components


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Client Example: Time Entry

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•  Ensure the client understands how mobile fits into business process. •  In client’s case, they looked only at pieces and not the whole and the gaps only became

evident once they saw the pieces. •  Understand what you are and are not getting with each application.

•  You really need to demo these apps to the customer and identify their limitations before commencement of the project in order to manage expectations

•  Understand the landscape and where you wish to host the UI and gateway components because there are several options. •  If using a separate Gateway, realize that you need production users to exist in the

Gateway system also. •  Be on the very latest versions of components necessary for Fiori.

•  How will users authenticate themselves? •  Most clients will have an enterprise authentication scheme, authentication piece was

more trouble than we anticipated. •  Decide on a strategy for making systems internet-accessible upfront.

•  Will the DEV Fiori landscape be accessible to internet users concurrently with PRD Fiori? •  Client QA testing was done internally on iPads, using internal URL that bypassed external

authentication/external URLs.

Lessons Learned from a Customer Deployment


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REFERENCES

•  Home Page •  https://experience.sap.com/fiori

•  YouTube Overview •  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYbn9Q6P0cU

•  Release Notes, Installation Guide and other information http://help.sap.com/fiori

•  Rapid Deployment Solution for Mobile Apps http://service.sap.com/rds-mobile-apps

•  Mobile Community SCN http://scn.sap.com/community/mobile


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