SAP Fiori 101 (Updated - 2019)

SAP Fiori is a framework that provides the porting of applications on mobile devices and was released in 2013. It enables applications to be used on desktop computers, tablets and smartphones. SAP Fiori supports HTML5. The initial release had few applications to start and gradually increased to complete the SAP Business Suite.

SAP Fiori is the UX of the Intelligent Enterprise that changes the way you work. It equips designers and developers with a set of tools and guidelines to create apps for any platform faster than ever – providing a consistent, innovative experience for both creators and users. SAP Fiori enables you to turn new ideas into great apps as quickly as the market demands.

Three types of Fiori apps:

• Transactional apps - which allow users to perform SAP transactions on mobile devices as well as desktops. For instance, there is a transactional app for creating a leave of absence request and another for approving a purchase order.
• Fact sheets - which display information about key business objects in SAP. For example, there is a fact-sheet app for viewing a central purchase contract; it allows users to also drill down into related entities, such as vendor contacts, items under contract, and terms.
• Analytical apps - which allow users to display key performance measures and other aggregate information about the business.

SAP Fiori 2.0
SAP Fiori 2.0 was released in October 2016 and is the leading design for all SAP applications providing a harmonized user experience across on premise and cloud solutions. A new visual theme – named Belize – comes along with light and dark flavors. Using SAP S/4HANA, the UI Theme Designer allows you to adapt the theme to your corporate identity.

SAP Fiori 3 - September 2019 update 
SAP has chosen to deliver the SAP Fiori 3 innovations in a stepwise approach. With SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1908 and SAP S/4HANA 1909, the very first step becomes available to end users: the new Quartz theme as a successor of the Belize theme used with SAP Fiori 2.0, and the new shell header bar, which also replaces the viewport introduced with SAP Fiori 2.0.

Designed and developed by all SAP product teams, SAP Fiori 3 offers a more consistent and integrated experience across the entire SAP portfolio. This helps decrease training time, increases application effectiveness and provides consistency of use across devices from anywhere. Embedded artificial intelligence in SAP Fiori 3 provides intelligent home pages that show everything a user needs to focus on, and supports proactive business situation handling, which offers explanations, insights and proposed actions.

The new SAP Fiori 3 theme “Quartz Light”
The new Quartz theme is lighter and more neutral, to blend more into the background, giving application content the center stage. It is simple and minimalistic, making it easy for customers to theme it to their brand.

SAP Demystified: SAP Fiori

The SAP Fiori design language is used in SAP applications, including the S/4HANA and C/4HANA suites, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Data Hub, SAP Ariba and others. Applications that use the Fiori design language are often called Fiori applications or Fiori user interfaces (UIs). SAP Fiori designs can be implemented using almost any technology, though SAP provides Fiori-compliant UI libraries in its SAPUI5 JavaScript library, as well as the SAP Cloud Platform software development kit (SDK) for iOS and SAP Cloud Platform SDK for Android.

SAP Fiori 2.0
SAP Fiori 2.0 was released in October 2016 and is the leading design for all SAP applications providing a harmonized user experience across on premise and cloud solutions. A new visual theme – named Belize – comes along with light and dark flavors. Using SAP S/4HANA, the UI Theme Designer allows you to adapt the theme to your corporate identity.

• With SAP Fiori 2.0, the SAP Fiori Launchpad is your central and role-based entry point  to access all apps.
• With the viewport concept, the user’s desktop has been expanded to the left and to the right. While users can access the Me Area to the left, notifications on the right keep them well informed.     
• The SAP Fiori 2.0 concept also includes new SAP Fiori elements – Overview Pages, List Reports, and Object Pages – which can be easily developed using SAP Web IDE

Types of Fiori apps:

• Transactional applications designed for interacting with individual business objects such as customers or sales orders, managing lists of business objects or carrying out a specific business process such as posting of financial documents.
• Analytical applications meant to analyze a business question or visualize a business process or set of key performance indicators (KPIs) at a higher level.
• Fact Sheets, designed to display all the relevant information regarding a specific business object in one place.

Functional Capabilities
SAP Fiori UX design principles - The design concept is based on five core principles that combine to deliver a deeply satisfying user experience:

• Role-based - Deliver the right information at the right time via multi-faceted user interfaces
• Adaptive - Get instant, relevant insight – whether using mobile apps or a desktop computer
• Simple - Zero in on your most important tasks, functions, and activities
• Coherent - Deliver a consistent UX across the enterprise – whether you need to fulfill a sales order, review your latest KPIs, or manage leave requests
• Delightful - Enrich your work experience with intuitive,  easy-to-use SAP Fiori apps

Modern user experience
SAP Fiori 2.0 is a modern UX that encompasses visual design, information architecture, and interaction patterns:

• Visual design – SAP Fiori 2.0 offers a refined visual language. Clean and consistent layouts throughout the user interface convey the content with clarity. Experience modern, visually pleasing aesthetics with a strong focus on ease of use 
• Information architecture - Give business users ready access to the information they need to complete their tasks
• Interaction patterns - Harness simple and intuitive interactive patterns to boost productivity company-wide

SAP S/4HANA and SAP Fiori
With SAP S/4HANA software using the SAP Fiori 2.0 user experience (UX), you can simplify user onboarding and increase productivity. From the SAP Fiori launchpad as the single entry point, to the domain-specific information and actions, you gain the relevant information you need at a glance to get work done.

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