SAP Fiori for SAP S/4HANA

The word Fiori literally means “Flower” in Italian (that’s the reason when you open a home page sap Fiori application, we will see a picture of flowers). SAP Fiori is a Leading design for all SAP software and applications. It comprises a set of applications like work approvals, calculation apps, financial apps, and self-service apps etc. It enables multiple device applications (A user can start a process on mobile/tablet and continue the same process on desktop/laptops) and also provides role-based applications (300+) like Human Resources, Finance, Sales, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, R&D, Engg, Asset Management, etc.

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1)What is SAP Fiori?

SAP Fiori is a new user experience (UX) developed by SAP based on User Interface UI5 and OData services. It enables employees to work with SAP simply, quickly, and easily by eliminating the complexities involved in the SAP Landscape. SAP Fiori apps make SAP available in multiple devices like Mobile, tablets, etc and that helps the organizations to build productivity easily. Using modern design principles, Fiori apps provides customized, responsive, straight forward client experience and also delivers a role-based, consumer-grade user experience across all lines of business, and tasks. Being SAP Fiori stateless applications except for database operations you can execute each and every functionality at client side browser. Fiori apps performance better than ABAP screens, because Fiori apps is a lightweight browser-based screen, had more than 150 screen elements and also consumes less memory during execution.

2) Business Benefits

1. You can access SAP Fiori app from anywhere and also from any device like mobile, desktop, tablet etc.
2. Reduces training costs, and ramp-up time required for new user and allowing them to reach full productivity as soon as possible.
3. With Fiori apps, end user can get the access to the data they needed to perform their job. This in-turn reduces the additional burden of technical/HR support.
4. SAP Fiori and SAP Fiori Launchpad provides equivalent user experience (UI) across all SAP Products and a single interface to all enterprise apps. This UI helps to speed up incident resolution.
5. With SAP web IDE, it reduces the time to develop mobile apps ( SAP Fiori).
6. With minimum number of screen elements SAP Fiori user interface can avoid the potential cost incurred in fixing data errors in most cases.
7. Avoid unnecessary costs to replace software because of unsatisfied end users.
8. The simple and modern user interface of Fiori apps has the capability of motivate employees to utilize Shelf-ware licenses.
9. SAP Fiori reduces time to perform day-day activities by automating, which results in greater employee productivity rather than manual paper based processes.
10. SAP Fiori apps supports OData services for database interaction such as  OData External, OData Hana & Odata ABAP Services.

3) What is SAP Fiori Design Principle?

There are 5 design principles for SAP Fiori UI5

1. Role-Based:- SAP Fiori decomposes various sap transactions and changed them into beautiful user-interactive applications, which helps to show only relevant information to the users.
2. Responsiveness:- SAP Fiori delivers unmatched application response and query executions time when combined with SAP S/4 HANA services.
3. Simple:- SAP Fiori is designed to match user demand.
4. Seamless Experience:- all SAP Fiori apps are based on the same language and no matter deployment and platform you are into.
5. Delightful:- Fiori apps are designed to work with ECC 6.0 to make it easy to deploy on the existing sap system and to the users.

4) What are SAP Fiori Apps?

SAP Fiori apps are classified into 3 types

1. Transactional
2. Fact Sheet
3. Analytical

Each differentiated by their focus and infrastructure requirements

When installing SAP fiori apps, separate the front-end components with the user interface (UI) layer from the back-end components, which contains the business logic and the back-end data.

Make sure the access is sure, all SAP Fiori apps can be accessed over the intranet(inside the corporate network) and the internet (outside the corporate network),

Note:-

*use sap web dispatcher as reverse proxy server for fact sheets and analytical apps.

1) Transactional Apps:-

These apps let you perform transactional tasks such as creating a leave request for an employee. They represent simplified views and interaction with existing business processes and solutions and also run best on an SAP HANA database, but can also be ported to other databases with acceptable performance.