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1. Fiori: What Is It And Lessons From a Customer Deployment
Paul Snyman
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2. SAP Fiori
• What is SAP Fiori?
• Benefits
• Architecture
• Client example: Time Entry
• Lessons Learned from a customer deployment
• Configuration overview
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3. 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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4. What is Fiori - How does it look?
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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. Example Fiori Landscape
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9. SAP Fiori Architecture Options
Central Hub
Embedded
SAP NW Deployment Options
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10. Fiori Software Components
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11. Client Example: Time Entry
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12. Client Example: Time Entry
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13. Client Example: Time Entry
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14. Client Example: Time Entry
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15. Client Example: Time Entry
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16. Client Example: Time Entry
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17. Client Example: Time Entry
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18. Client Example: Time Entry
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19. Client Example: Time Entry
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20. Client Example: Time Entry
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21. Client Example: Time Entry
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22. Lessons Learned from a Customer Deployment
• 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.
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23. 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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24. Thank you
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Kiitos, durdaladawhy, ‫ , ش‬asante sana,
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terimah, mahalo, takk, kasih, mamnoon, dhannvaad, dziêkujê, tapadh leat,
grazie,
dakujem, khawp khun,
ngiyabonga
Paul Snyman
Email: paul.snyman@us.epiuse.com
Twitter: @snymanpaul
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