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openSAPIntroduction to SAP Fiori UX

WEEK 1, UNIT 1

00:00:13 Hello and welcome to the SAP Fiori User Experience openSAP course.

00:00:19 I’m excited to have you here with me and am looking forward to a fun-filled 6 weeks sharing

SAP Fiori UX knowledge with you!

00:00.26 My name is Prakalp Phadnis, I'm a principal consultant in the Global Mobility Services SWAT

team and have been focusing on all topics related to Fiori for the past two years,

00:00:37 and have been working at SAP for about 8. During this time – on the Fiori front – I have led the

Learning Room at the SAP Learning Hub on Fiori,

00:00:46 run enablement sessions for partners, implemented Fiori at customers, and contributed to

various Fiori and mobile-related topics.

00:00:54 Together with two of my SAP colleagues and various guest instructors, also SAP colleagues,

we will guide you through the next six weeks to deliver a thorough introduction to SAP Fiori

User Experience.

00:01:07 The next instructor you’re going to meet is Elizabeth Thorburn. Elizabeth has been at SAP for

about 9 years, and she's a part of the Customer Experience Group.

00:01:17 And her team’s main mission is to focus on the needs of SAP customers by taking them on a

journey, as SAP evangelizes our innovative products to drive an exceptional end-to-end

customer experience.

00:01:30 She is currently focusing specifically on the SAP Fiori launchpad, and is hosting, among otherthings, design councils to achieve this mission.

00:01:41 Our third main instructor is Jamie Cawley. Jamie is also with the Customer Experience Group;

he has been at SAP for about 10 years,

00:01:49 and his focus currently is the Rapid Development Environment – internal project name is

“River”, you may have heard of this – but he's also an expert on the Fiori launchpad.

00:02:02 In addition, we are very happy to have Bob Caswell with us. Some of you who took the

openSAP RDS course may already recognize Bob from that course.

00:02:15 Bob will, in this week, in the first week, go through some of the RDS packages and their

relationship to the Fiori offering.

00:02:25 Daniel Huber and Marcus Behrens – they're from the SAP Smart Business team –

00:02:30 and they will teach units in week 3 and 6 on the topics of Fiori Search & Smart Business

Content as well as run the exercises related to these topics.

00:02:40 Now, there are about 300 role-based applications in the..., which are applying the Fiori User

Experience paradigm.

00:02:50 And they're providing enhanced user productivity and personalization for customers on the

SAP Business Suite.

00:02:56 So SAP Business Suite, any database, any traditional database, and also the SAP Business



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Suites that are powered by our HANA database.

00:03:06 And these apps represent the new SAP User Experience paradigm. This course will provide

you with an introduction to Fiori.

00:03:15 It will provide an end-to-end introduction to Fiori. At the end of these six weeks, we hope that

you will be able to understand our user experience strategy –

00:03:24 why we are focusing on Fiori, why it was developed. We would hope that you will be able to

articulate what exactly SAP Fiori is made up of,

00:03:34 the different app types, the different architectures that these app types are based on.

00:03:40 We hope you will be able to talk about what it takes to successfully install, configure,

and...SAP Fiori,

00:03:50 and what tools are being provided by SAP to help you make this process as easy and smooth

as possible; and finally, also be able to extend SAP Fiori applications.

00:04:05 User experience (or UX for short) is about the overall experience that a person has when using

a product –

00:04:17 whether it's a Web site or an application, or whether it's on a mobile or it's on a handheld or

desktop, whatever.

00:04:24 And especially when using these applications how easy they're to use, the ease of use, how

pleasing they're to use,

00:04:36 how close they get to their end user. And this is what we're considering in all our products, in

all our systems and services at SAP.

00:04:48 For SAP, the user experience needs to be as simple as possible so that the users can achieve

their goals as well as possible when interacting with our systems.

00:04:58 And when the right balance is struck between the three concepts of technology, business

needs, and desirability –

00:05:05 as you can see in the slide over here – that intersection is where innovation is really

happening.

00:05:12 And SAP is striving to be exactly in that sweet spot when developing new products and

solutions.

00:05:17 So to quote from our user experience strategy:

00:05:22 “Following these design principles, SAP will make superior user experience and design an

integral part of a brand experience, just as the SAP platform has reconfirmed our reputation for

innovation”.

00:05:38 Now to reach these design goals, SAP is focusing on three important areas:

00:05:45 New – which is to provide consumer-grade user experience for new applications

00:05:50 Renew – which is to improve the user experience of our existing applications, starting with the

most commonly used business scenarios

00:05:58 And finally Enable – which is to enable our customers by giving them the ability to improve the

user experience of

00:06:07 SAP software in those ways that allow them to decide which of these business-critical – er,



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sorry – business scenarios which are most mission-critical for them,

00:06:17 and important for them can be, you know, enhanced.

00:06:22 This strategy is further complimented by SAP's offering of specific user experience design

services that aim to support customers in their future user experience endeavors.

00:06:33 Our vision is to provide the leading user experience for business applications. And our mission

is to simplify your world with design.

00:06:43 So why did we create SAP Fiori? Well, we created this SAP Fiori User Experience to be the

center of our renew part of the strategy.

00:06:56 We took the most commonly used business scenarios and created Fiori applications for them.

00:07:03 SAP Fiori, as you’ll soon learn, is the new user experience for SAP software.

00:07:09 It provides optimal usability for simplified business interaction and provides greater ease of

use.

00:07:18 To date, we have about 300 scenarios and growing – extensive portfolio.

00:07:24 We are spanning a number of business areas, business roles. And in this week, Elizabeth will

work with you on exactly these topics.

00:07:34 Now by this time, if you're still listening, it means that we haven’t scared you off with a...

00:07:41 with a lot of strategy and with a lot of other information. So this is good because it's not our

intent.

00:07:48 However, I do want to talk a little bit about what kind of skill sets are core to really leveraging

the information that you'll be receiving during the course of these weeks.

00:08:04 Most of our work is done within the ABAP stack so, obviously,

00:08:11 knowledge of ABAP programming is not required, it's not mandatory but it's good to have.

00:08:17 HTML5, JavaScript – these are all skills which will really enhance the takeaway from these

next weeks.

00:08:27 If you have worked with SAPUI5, that's a big bonus because our front end is based on

SAPUI5.

00:08:34 If you have basis skills, meaning ERP implementation experience, that's a great advantage.

00:08:41 Those of you who have experience within creating OData services and manipulating OData

services will feel comfortable.

00:08:50 And also the NetWeaver Gateway, or the front-end server as it's called now, is an integral part

of what we'll be doing for the next six weeks.

00:08:59 And also SAP HANA. Now HANA because a large part of our content is leveraging the HANA

database.

00:09:11 So if you have taken the HANA Academy courses or the openSAP HANA courses, then that

makes you, you know, empowers you to take away as much as possible from these six weeks.

00:09:24 Just to be clear: These are just an indication of what kind of skills we're looking at during these

weeks.

00:09:32 It's not a mandatory requirement, there's no hard requirement here, but just an indication of



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what kind of skills we're going to be looking at.

00:09:43 Now over the next six weeks in this course, we will provide videos, various videos during the

week. And after each video, there is a self-test.

00:09:56 At the end of the week, there is a cumulative exam on the topics that we have covered during

the week.

00:10:02 And then, there is some kind of a point to grading system attached to it.

00:10:07 In addition to the videos and the assignments, you will have...there is an online forum where

you can participate, collaborate with other students.

00:10:16 We will be there, instructors will be there. We will drive discussions, answer any questions that

we need answering.

00:10:23 And generally, you know, be there to help as needed.

00:10:27 There are exercises in this course; they're not mandatory but it's great hands-on time in the

system,

00:10:35 so I do encourage you to take some time to do the exercises.

00:10:39 And it does give you a very, very different perspective to...

00:10:45 what we're doing, what's happening in the system than just hearing me or anyone else talk

about it.

00:10:52 And finally at the end of all this, finally in week 7, there's a final exam.

00:10:57 Yes, there's a final exam. You can take that exam to act on something called...

00:11:07 record of achievement – that's the word I was looking for, sorry about that.

00:11:11 Record of achievement. And...yeah, and I hope as many of you as possible will be at thatstage.

00:11:20 I'm very happy, we're thrilled to have you here and look forward to sharing our knowledge with

you on Fiori over the next six weeks.

00:11:28 And in the next unit, Elizabeth will take you through the overview and the user experience

strategy.

00:11:36 So it's going to be very interesting. I look forward to meeting you all again in week 2 when I'll

be back to talk about more technical stuff – that's the week we'll talk about deployment.

00:11:45 But until then: Good luck and let's get started!



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WEEK 1, UNIT 2

00:00:12 Hello and welcome to week 1, unit 2: the UX Paradigm.

00:00:17 My name is Liz Thorburn and I'm part of the Customer Experience Group focusing on the SAP

Fiori launchpad.

00:00:23 I'll be with you for the remainder of the week as we focus and discuss the SAP Fiori UX basics.

00:00:30 In the first unit, Prakalp welcomed you to the course and discussed at a very high level the UX

paradigm in terms of design innovation,

00:00:37 and detailed the course structure.

00:00:39 In this unit, we'll be discussing the SAP UX paradigm in detail.

00:00:43 I'm going to start this unit off by showing you a quick two-minute video

00:00:47 that gives a nice introduction to SAP Fiori UX and the design principals it follows.

00:00:52 From there, we'll revisit the SAP UX strategy Prakalp introduced you to and talk about eachpart in detail.

00:00:59 We'll compare the old UX to the new SAP Fiori UX and we'll briefly discuss the UI5

development guidelines SAP Fiori UX follows.

00:01:07 Let's dive right in by watching the video.

00:01:13 What's the secret of real-time business?

00:01:17 It's simple: getting the insight you need at the right time for instant value.

00:01:23 Instead of struggling to connect analysis with execution,

00:01:27 it's harnessing the power of faster-than-ever and advanced analytics to drive smarter decisions

for instant insight to action.

00:01:36 Instead of making you wait,

00:01:38 it's responsive, enabling you to see the structure in the chaos and find the needle in the

haystack

00:01:45 quickly and interactively.

00:01:48 Instead of information at multiple places

00:01:50 it's a single source of truth so you can analyze KPIs with real-time consistent information

00:01:58 and, in case of deviations, trigger follow-up actions immediately.

00:02:03 Instead of using days, hours, or even minutes-old information,

00:02:07 it's using real-time data for an informed up-to-the-second view of any business situation,

00:02:13 even enabling forecasting and simulation.

00:02:17 Instead of forcing you to use a generic user interface,

00:02:21 it's personalizing the view for key roles across your organization,

00:02:25 so you can always stay on top of your business by deciding and acting in real time



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00:02:31 more accurately, more interactively, more collaboratively.

00:02:36 Whatever your line of business, it's personalized yet simple access to real-time information

anytime and anywhere

00:02:44 for instant insight to action.

00:02:47 Natively designed to work with the SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA,

00:02:52 it leverages SAP Fiori design principles for a truly new user experience.

00:02:58 It's responsive. It's real time. It's individualized. It's beautiful. It's SAP.

00:03:05 SAP Smart Business cockpits. The simple secret behind real-time business.

00:03:17 The video we just watched has a heavy focus on the analytical app types, which we'll discuss

in more detail later.

00:03:23 But overall, it provides you with a nice first glance at SAP Fiori UX.

00:03:27 It's simple, it's intuitive, it's role-based, and it provides business users with one entry point for a

completely reimagined user experience.

00:03:35 So now that we know what SAP Fiori UX is let's talk about why we developed it.

00:03:40 Think about the world today in terms of technology.

00:03:43 It is constantly evolving and changing at a rapid pace.

00:03:46 Most people are equipped with at least one mobile device and even small children can pick up

a device and intuitively know how to navigate through it.

00:03:53 This new evolution is amazing and has become the new standard.

00:03:57 Younger generations are going to demand the same ease and simplicity of their business

processes

00:04:02 that they have come to expect from their personal lives.

00:04:04 Think for a minute about the sites you access on a daily basis, such as a Google, Amazon, or

any of the social media sites.

00:04:11 They are all intuitive and easy to use.

00:04:13 This new situation is defined as the consumer user experience and it is the new standard.

00:04:18 Going forward, SAP Fiori is our new user experience for SAP software.

00:04:23 It applies modern design principles for a completely reimagined user experience.

00:04:27 SAP Fiori UX is the new face of SAP to business users in all lines of business across devices

and deployment options.

00:04:35 It provides optimal usability for simplified business interaction and ease of use.

00:04:40 SAP solutions, such as our SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA,

00:04:45 are applying the SAP Fiori UX to provide a personalized, responsive, and simple user

experience.

00:04:50 Now SAP users can enjoy a real-time user experience that is intuitive and beautiful.



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00:04:57 In the welcome session, Prakalp introduced you to the SAP User Experience strategy: New,

Renew, Enable, and Design Services.

00:05:05 Let's talk about each part of the strategy, starting with New.

00:05:08 The New part is our commitment to providing consumer-grade user experience for all new

applications we develop.

00:05:14 SAP is a world class innovative software company, so although our core is enterprise software

we will continue to be innovative and produce new applications.

00:05:23 The second part is Renew, which is where SAP Fiori UX was developed.

00:05:27 We looked at everything in our portfolio and, collectively with some of our customers, we made

a list of the most frequently used business processes

00:05:35 and set out to develop an improved and simplified user experience.

00:05:38 We didn't stop at SAP Fiori apps.

00:05:40 This renovation is being done throughout SAP's entire portfolio

00:05:44 and will continue until everything is simplified and delivers a beautiful and intuitive end-user

experience.

00:05:50 As I've mentioned, going forward, SAP Fiori is the new user experience for SAP software.

00:05:56 The Enable part of the strategy speaks to SAP recognizing that not all of our customers work

the same.

00:06:01 What may be a core and highly used business function for one customer might not be the

same for another customer.

00:06:08 We didn't want to create a new user experience strategy and then pigeonhole some of our

customers by not offering what they needed.

00:06:14 Therefore, we set out to create enablement tools that provided customers the ability to improve

the user experience of SAP software

00:06:21 that they find mission-critical.

00:06:24 An example of such an enablement tool is SAP Screen Personas.

00:06:27 It is a simple drag-and-drop approach to modify SAP GUI screens to make them more

appealing.

00:06:33 The final additive to our user experience strategy is Design Services.

00:06:37 In working with our customers to develop our own user experience strategy, our customers

expressed their desire to do the same.

00:06:43 Design Services is our way of transferring our strategy and value of a solid user experience

through advising.

00:06:50 We developed a three-step approach for our customers to first understand our UX strategy,

00:06:55 to second define and execute their specific UX strategy

00:06:58 and third to leverage SAP's user experience Design Services.

00:07:03 As you can see, this strategy is very important for us and we've made and continue to make



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efforts to ensure this strategy is realized across all of SAP.

00:07:10 With that in mind, this course will focus entirely on SAP Fiori UX from the Renew portion of the

strategy.

00:07:18 You commonly see flower pictures associated with SAP Fiori UX

00:07:22 and the reason being Fiori means flowers in Italian

00:07:25 and it represents our intent to deliver consumer-grade, completely reimagined user experience

00:07:30 to our most broadly and frequently used business transactions.

00:07:33 SAP Fiori UX is the new face of SAP to business users in all lines of business across devices

and deployment options.

00:07:41 With over 300 role-based apps to date, the new user experience speaks a consistent design

language and makes use of a common technical infrastructure.

00:07:50 By blurring traditional computing boundaries and using interactive and attractive UI elements,

00:07:56 SAP Fiori UX provides a consistent end-to-end user experience.

00:08:00 The launchpad, which the screen in this image, is the central entry hub to all SAP Fiori apps

via tiles.

00:08:08 The launchpad provides services for navigation, personalization, single sign-on, and search.

00:08:13 In addition, it can be adapted to meet end-users' needs.

00:08:16 Users enter the launchpad through their device of choice and are greeted with apps that are

assigned specifically to their role.

00:08:22 These apps allow end users to easily conduct transactions, get insight, and take action, as well

as view factsheet and contextual information.

00:08:31 There are five design principles that the SAP Fiori UX emulates.

00:08:35 The first design principal is Role-based.

00:08:38 We wanted to design apps that are centered only on the tasks that are relevant for a specific

user's function or role.

00:08:44 To achieve this, we broke down complex applications into easy-to-use apps that are tailored to

end user's needs and accessible from one single place.

00:08:53 The second design principal is Responsive.

00:08:55 SAP Fiori UX is designed and developed to facilitate a consistent user experience on multiple

devices.

00:09:02 It supports multiple form factors for phones, tablets, and desktops,

00:09:06 multiple interactions such as touch, mouse, or keyboard,

00:09:09 and multiple technologies, including iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and PC.

00:09:15 The third design principal is Simple.

00:09:17 SAP Fiori UX is focused on delivering a straightforward, intuitive user experience focusing only

on what is important for each specific user.



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00:09:26 To continue catering to the new generations that are technically savvy,

00:09:29 all important things needs to be extremely easy to use and learn.

00:09:33 The fourth design principal is Coherent.

00:09:36 Again, in alignment with the goal of simplicity, SAP needed to ensure all new Fiori apps speak

the same language

00:09:42 so that deployment and use are easy no matter what the circumstances.

00:09:46 These apps all feel similar because they all embrace established best practices.

00:09:51 Finally the fifth design principal is Delightful—beyond the expected and making an emotional

connection with end users.

00:09:58 We wanted to make end users better at their job, to feel like they are an expert and can easily

see the impact of their contribution.

00:10:05 We wanted to provide business users with beautiful apps that enable them to be smart and

proactive by providing an assistant, not just a tool.

00:10:12 These five design principals put together create a beautiful user experience that is consistent

regardless of your role in the organization.

00:10:20 Employees and managers alike gain a consistent, coherent, simple, and intuitive user

experience across multiple devices to work smarter,

00:10:27 work more efficiently, and deliver on business objectives.

00:10:32 This slide gives you a nice overview of what the SAP user experience used to look like and

what it looks like following the new SAP Fiori UX standard.

00:10:40 This slide shows you approve requisitions, an ERP function.

00:10:44 The left side shows you what it used to look like and the right shows you what it looks like

using an SAP Fiori app.

00:10:50 Before, everyone accessed the same transactions to accomplish tasks regardless of their role.

00:10:55 This resulted in end users being exposed to much more data than they needed or even had

access to.

00:11:00 We needed to simplify this process

00:11:02 so we focused on the roles of our end users and extracted only the relevant information

needed per role to complete a task.

00:11:09 An employee, for example, would see different fields then a manager.

00:11:14 All of the SAP Fiori UIs are built using state-of-the-art SAPUI5 technology.

00:11:19 SAPUI5 is a client-side HTML5 rendering library with a rich set of UI controls

00:11:26 for building applications on any device,

00:11:28 providing a lightweight programming model for desktop and mobile applications.

00:11:32 To support you in developing applications, SAPUI5 tools come with a set of Eclipse-based

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00:11:39 They provide wizards to create application projects and views according to the Model View

Controller concept

00:11:45 and other features like JavaScript code completion, templates and snippets, and in-place

application preview.

00:11:52 Other benefits of SAPUI5 technology include a rich control set including charts for all devices,

00:11:59 an application development environment for all platforms,

00:12:02 OData integration for timeless software,

00:12:05 extensibility concepts for custom controls,

00:12:08 modern theming and branding concepts,

00:12:10 and it embraces open source framework(s) and Web standards.

00:12:14 It also targets developers with Web development skills, including HTML, CSS3, JavaScript.

00:12:21 The toolkit can be found using the link in this slide.

00:12:24 This now concludes unit 2: The UX Paradigm.

00:12:27 I'll see you soon for unit 3: Overview of SAP Fiori UX. Bye.



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00:03:01 But the problem with this is, it drives wrong decisions as data can be required by other

departments sooner.

00:03:07 Suite on HANA means less waiting times and higher user satisfaction through the use of

interactive dashboards as an example, leading to higher responsiveness and process

compliance.

00:03:18 This right here is the beauty of SAP Fiori. The SAP Fiori launchpad provides a web-basedentry point for SAP business applications.

00:03:29 End users can access the launchpad from any device and based on their login, they will be

presented with tiles assigned to their user.

00:03:36 The launchpad acts as a shell which provides beneficial capabilities for SAP Fiori such as

personalization, navigation and search.

00:03:44 Administrators design and maintain the launchpad using the launchpad designer tool.

00:03:50 The launchpad runs on multiple devices, using the responsive design paradigm, and is

deployable on multiple platforms.

00:03:57 It is designed according to simple and intuitive SAP Fiori user experience, while supporting

established UI technologies.

00:04:05 You should now understand that SAP is moving from the classical transactional approach to

using role based apps

00:04:12 that expose only relevant information and fields so that end users can work more productively

and efficiently.

00:04:18 That being said, SAP has developed 3 app types, each of them distinguished by their focus

and infrastructure requirements.

00:04:26 The first app type are transactional apps, and as the name indicates they allow you to performtransactional tasks, such as creating, changing or processing requests.

00:04:35 The second app types are analytical apps and they allow you to have role-based insight into

real-time operations of your business by collecting and displaying key figures directly in your

browser.

00:04:47 Analytical apps offer the ability to monitor your most important KPIs in real time where you can

react immediately on changes in market conditions or operations.

00:04:57 The third app type are Factsheets and they display contextual information about central

objects used in business operations.

00:05:04 For example, we have a Material Factsheet which Jamie will talk to you about in Week 6 andthey allows users to display contextual information about the Material.

00:05:13 In addition, Factsheets allow you to navigate from one factsheet to another related Factsheet

or to a transactional app.

00:05:20 You’ll notice that transactional apps have been developed to work on any database but they do

run best on the SAP HANA database.

00:05:28 Analytical apps and Factsheets require SAP HANA as the underlying database, no exceptions.

00:05:34 With SAP Smart Business cockpits, which apply SAP Fiori UX, users get instant insight to

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00:05:45 in one place, for the best simplified business interactions and ease of use.

00:05:49 SAP Smart Business combines multiple SAP transactions into one business process-oriented

cockpit.

00:05:57 The cockpits allow users to analyze and evaluate strategic or operational KPIs with graphical

visualization in real time

00:06:05 and to trigger the right action by launching the respective transactions. There are two sides to

all of the app types supporting SAP Fiori UX.

00:06:13 There is the runtime side and the design time side. The next couple of slides will discuss both

of these sides with the focus on SAP Smart Business.

00:06:24 SAP provides end-to-end insight to action scenarios based on real time KPIs for business

users in LoBs and industries.

00:06:31 Customers can either use the pre-defined content or they can define their own KPIs and drill-

down visualizations. Every value scenario comes with pre-defined KPI tiles and drill-down

configurations.

00:06:43 SAP provides 4 standard KPI visualizations. Based on threshold calculations the end user gets

alerted as soon as a KPI value becomes critical.

00:06:54 The end user can freely arrange his KPIs and other tiles based on the Fiori launchpad. In

addition, SAP provides a standard drill-down to analyze critical KPIs in real time.

00:07:05 The drill-down configuration can be easily adapted by simple configuration. Alternatively,

customers can use SAP Lumira for advanced analytics.

00:07:15 More detailed information on these topics can be found on help.sap.com and service

marketplace.

00:07:22 On the design time side SAP provides 8 Fiori apps for KPI modeling that allows business usersto define and adapt the SAP Smart Business content.

00:07:33 This was developed to simplify the KPI definition. The tiles are self explanatory but we will get

into more detail on these during Week 3 configuration.

00:07:42 Daniel Huber will take you through a unit detailing the specifics of these tiles and he is also

going to demo to you how to configure a smart business app end-to-end. This now ends our

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WEEK 1, UNIT 4

00:00:00 Welcome to Week 1, Unit 4.

00:00:14 SAP FIORI UX Architecture Overview. In the previous unit I introduced you to the three app

types currently supporting SAP Fiori UX.

00:00:24 Transactional Apps, Analytical Apps and Fact Sheets. In this unit we will be discussing the

architectures that the three SAP Fiori UX App Types follow.

00:00:33 As we move through this unit, you're going to notice some commonalities among the

architectures, as well as be able to understand the differences and how these apps can best fit

into your current infrastructure.

00:00:44 To start off the architecture topic, I want to discuss with you the deployment options for SAP

NetWeaver Gateway. Depending on your system landscape, you have two deployment

options.

00:00:55 A central hub deployment or an embedded deployment. When implementing Fiori apps into

our landscape, we at SAP recommend separating your business logic

00:01:04 and the UI components from each other by implementing the Central Hub Deployment Option.

00:01:09 This deployment option provides a single point of maintenance for UI issues as well as a

central place for themeing and branding SAP Fiori Apps.

00:01:18 You'll benefit from enhanced security do to there being no direct access to the backend data

and finally, the central hub option allows for decoupling the lifecycle of the UI app from the

backend.

00:01:29 This is especially important for transactional apps that can run on any database. The central

hub deployment option is the recommended approach and going forward you will notice all

architecture,

00:01:39 deployment and configuration topics as well as supporting documentation follow this

deployment option.

00:01:45 This site details the architecture of SAP Fiori Apps at the highest level possible. All clients

accessing SAP Fiori Apps,

00:01:55 regardless of app type must support HTML5. A reverse proxy server, we recommend using the

SAP Web Dispatcher, is required for analytical app types and fact sheets.

00:02:06 The ABAP frontend server is recommended for all app types and contains the UI components

and SAP NetWeaver Gateway.

00:02:14 An ABAP backend server is required for all app types and contains the backend business logic

in data as well as search models for fact sheets.

00:02:22 The SAP HANA Extended Application Service or HANA XS engine, for short,

00:02:29 is needed for analytical app types only and it replicates the data from the backend server and

remodels it using virtual data models.

00:02:37 As discussed previously, the underlying database can be any database for transactional apps

but it must be SAP HANA for factsheets and analytical app types.

00:02:46 In order to transfer application data and security credentials within your Fiori system



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00:02:43 so it's a nice handy resource that's easy to get to.

00:02:49 So as previously mentioned, this packaged approach typically delivers 20% to 80% savings in

implementation time and cost.

00:02:59 That's comparing it to a traditional implementation approach.

00:03:02 You can see the comparison here on the slide between the two approaches.

00:03:07 Designed-to-order is the more traditional approach, and it includes a lengthy blueprinting

phase

00:03:12 and overall has a more open-ended set of requirements in terms of the time required.

00:03:18 But comparing it to the assemble-to-order option,

00:03:22 you can see that implementing an SAP solution with SAP rapid-deployment solutions

00:03:27 nearly eliminates the blueprint phase and becomes much more predictable and reliable as an

approach used successfully.

00:03:36 And I should say this approach has been used successfully both internally and externally byinitial customers and SAP here in our own labs.

00:03:45 So what we're doing is bottling up the best practices that we've determined and sharing those

for you to enjoy.

00:03:54 Why the need for rapid-deployment solutions for UX? Isn't UX a beautiful customer-facing look

and feel?

00:04:05 Yes, it is. As you've already learned and heard in previous units,

00:04:09 Fiori is a new approach to use experience that really does focus on the end user first.

00:04:14 And of course while the experience itself is quite delightful, it's coherent, it's simple,

00:04:20 that doesn't necessarily mean that's how it comes across at first

00:04:24 when you as an IT professional or developer are the one who has to unbox and unpack the

necessary components to get it up and running

00:04:32 so that it can get to that end state where it's easily consumed by the end user.

00:04:37 So I like to think of it as a piece of furniture that you see on the showroom floor when you go

shopping.

00:04:41 And it looks great it's in its environment and that's how you want it to look when you go home,

00:04:46 but then when you get home with the boxes, you find that you have a lot of work to do

00:04:52 to get it to look exactly as you saw it on the showroom floor, looking nice in your living room.

00:04:58 So that's where RDS steps in. I'll break form from the analogy now.

00:05:02 It's the methodology and a prescriptive set of guidelines and instructions to get you to that end

state for the end users.

00:05:10 So it really helps you as an IT pro or developer get Fiori ready for those end users.

00:05:18 So what do we have available? How have we sliced and diced? How have we positioned user

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00:05:26 Perhaps the best way to understand each of these Fiori-based packages is to see them

compared side by side.

00:05:32 Now we're not going to go through all the details covered on this slide, but it's here provided for

your reference.

00:05:38 And I'll provide links later for where you can get even more details.

00:05:42 But the key takewaway is that there are three packages, three RDS packages, focused

explicitly on Fiori.

00:05:48 It's a key area for us in the rapid-deployment solution world.

00:05:52 So the first one is the Fiori Apps RDS.

00:05:56 This focuses on deployment and configuration of out-of-the-box Fiori apps.

00:06:01 Whereas the Fiori Design RDS takes SAPUI5 best practices

00:06:07 and shows specific examples for how to create your own custom maps

00:06:11 that are following the Fiori paradigm

00:06:14 and it includes some sample apps to get you started for creating your own apps.

00:06:18 So that's what you go for after you've already deployed the existing apps that SAP makes

available.

00:06:23 And then finally we have a third package focused on configuration of Fiori

00:06:29 specifically for the Business Suite powered by SAP HANA scenario.

00:06:33 So those new app types that move beyond the transactional use cases.

00:06:38 So depending on where you are and what you're trying to accomplish with Fiori—where you

are in the life cycle, if you will—

00:06:44 these three packages are the best approach for getting started.

00:06:52 How does this fit in to the overall SAP user experience strategy?

00:06:58 Just by way of quick review, you already saw this in unit 2.

00:07:03 Basically, Fiori apps and Fiori infrastructure are in the Renew category,

00:07:10 which means that SAP is provided apps out of the box for the most common use cases

00:07:17 and these two packages specifically help you get those apps up and running as quickly as

possible for those most common use cases.

00:07:26 Whereas the Fiori Design RDS is kind of for the long tail of scenarios covered

00:07:32 by SAP customers when they customize and create their own back-end integration touch

points.

00:07:40 So that's why we have this third Fiori package which is really about leveraging the same look

and feel that SAP provides out of the box through the other two packages,

00:07:48 but giving you guidance for how to create your own custom Fiori-designed apps.

00:07:59 One more view I wanted to show is how you should go about looking at these packages

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00:08:09 I like this view because on the x-axis you see required investment, and on the y-axis you see

level of improvement

00:08:16 or, you know, how much the user experience changes.

00:08:20 So the Fiori apps and Fiori infrastructure package are really a lower level of investment,

00:08:29 but aren't as big of a change.

00:08:31 Perhaps they are a big change from the traditional look and feel of SAP GUI,

00:08:35 but in terms of the work required since you're taking something that SAP has provided out of

the box,

00:08:42 they don't require as much investment to get that first baseline level of user experience

improvement.

00:08:48 However, if you want to make it your own and use the Fiori paradigm and user experience, the

Fiori UX,

00:08:55 for your own scenarios, that's why the Fiori Design RDS is a little bit higher on both the y-axis

and further along on the x-axis.

00:09:05 Because it requires more investment but it ends up allowing you to develop and design your

own experiences and apps.

00:09:16 So with that, I wanted to provide you a slide that has all the links for direct access to each of

these Fiori packages,

00:09:25 where you'd go to download the best practices included in each.

00:09:39 And I wanted to give you a quick demo of how that experience, what it looks like, and how

easy it is to get this content up and running.

00:09:42 So as you can see here, we have navigated to the page service.sap.com/rds-userexperience.

00:09:54 And on this page is a quick overview of much of what I just went through.

00:09:57 An overview of what rapid-deployment solutions are, the benefits, and then links provided on

the page for each of the specific packages.

00:10:06 And also in the left-hand navigation you can get to the different categories covered under the

topic of user experience.

00:10:12 Obviously for the purposes of this unit, we're interested in Fiori.

00:10:16 And so when you click on the Fiori link, you see this page,

00:10:20 which is more details on the Fiori packages and a little explanation for each.

00:10:26 And then with direct links to each package.

00:10:30 And finally, the links that I showed in the PowerPoint that you'll have for reference after this

session

00:10:26 are going to take you directly to each landing page for each specific user experience package.

00:10:42 So for example, this is the landing page for the SAP Fiori Infrastructure rapid-deployment

solution.

00:10:49 And they each have a similar look and feel so that navigation across each of them is really the



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same.

00:10:54 So you get a little blurb about what the package is about. In this case, we're talking about

00:11:00 refreshing the look and feel of Business Suite applications that run on Business Suite powered

by SAP HANA.

00:11:09 And you have three links underneath the initial description.

00:11:13 The Package fact sheet, which...let me show you what that looks like.

00:11:18 It gives you an overview of the key benefits, the solution scope, and what's included.

00:11:23 And also gives you a run-through of all the software used that you should be aware of that's

part of the package deployment.

00:11:32 The other links. You have a Customer presentation, which gives you more details in a

PowerPoint view

00:11:38 of what you can expect is the outcome and deliverables as part of the best practices.

00:11:44 And then there's a link to Experience SAP Fiori, which takes you to the SAP Fiori productpage,

00:11:49 which is where you can get the latest information about the product itself.

00:11:54 So under the Includes section, if you scroll down,

00:11:57 these are kind of the components that make up each of the packages,

00:12:02 so we have it sort of sliced and diced into key topic areas that sometimes we refer to as scope

items or building blocks.

00:12:09 So you can see here you'd start with Installation and configuration of common components

00:12:14 and move to Preparing the landscape for SAP Fiori applications.

00:12:17 Then there's a Fiori network and security and configuration guide. And so on and so forth.

00:12:22 You can see you can expand or collapse all, and also use these blue arrows on the side,

00:12:29 and this shows you a description of each of these components of the package.

00:12:34 And even more to the point, you can click on the Configuration guide link

00:12:38 and get a preview of the content that is included in that component of the package.

00:12:44 So here is the Installation and configuration of common components of SAP Fiori.

00:12:49 And all of the rapid-deployment solutions follow the same format,

00:12:53 so you have a table of contents that explains what's covered in the document.

00:13:00 In this case, an overview of the different landscapes for the different app types and then post-

installation topics.

00:13:08 And then you scroll through and very prescriptively, step by step with images and diagrams

and the corresponding guided text,

00:13:17 it's explained to you exactly what order and in what way you should install each of the

components for this part of the rapid-deployment solution.



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00:13:27 And then, last but not least, the most important point.

00:13:31 Scroll down further on the page...I'm going to collapse all here...you'll see this big orange

button.

00:13:36 And this is probably what you want to get to as quickly possible if you're interested in jumping

in.

00:13:42 If you click on the Download all button, it takes you through a download wizard.

00:13:45 And it basically downloads all of the content that you'd see through this preview mode on the

screen, plus even more.

00:13:51 So it's the full comprehensive set of best practices that then you have in an offline format.

00:13:59 It's in a ZIP file. You unzip, and then you have all of these documents that you can use for

reference.

00:14:07 So with that, thank you for joining me for unit 5.

00:14:13 And stay tuned for unit 6, which is going to provide some exercises for you to familiarize

yourself with Fiori UX.

00:14:21 And good luck with the rest of the course. Thanks for joining.



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WEEK 1, UNIT 6

00:00:00 Hello and welcome to Week 1, Unit 6 – an exercise to familiarize yourself with SAP Fiori UX.

00:00:19 Throughout this first week I’ve introduced you to the Fiori UX topic. I talked to you about the

SAP UX strategy,

00:00:26 the different app types supporting SAP Fiori UX and the architectures each type follows as well

as the Fiori Launchpad.

00:00:33 Bob also talked to you about the exciting Rapid Deployment options we currently have

available. We accomplished a lot in this first week and I hope you’re proud of yourselves.

00:00:42 Now is the time for you to take a break from lectures and get some hands on experience.

00:00:48 All of the exercises in this openSAP course are optional and your participation will have no

impact on your points earned or the final Record of Achievement.

00:00:56 If you’re planning to use SAP Fiori UX app types in the future then these exercises would be

beneficial, however, the choice is completely up to you.

00:01:05 We decided to break this exercise out into two parts, each with a how to guide.

00:01:10 The first part will get you setup to access a demo appliance landscape for the openSAP

course introduction to a SAP Fiori UX.

00:01:20 Although all exercises are optional you will need to go through this how to guide before you

can touch anything Fiori related.

00:01:26 I would recommend everyone to either set up an account now or download the how to guide

for reference later in case you decide to try something out.

00:01:33 The how-to guide can be accessed via the link included in the slide deck I'm showing here or

directly below the video at the bottom of your screen.

00:01:42 After your account is set up you can move to the second part which will log you into all the

different systems to make sure for future exercises you have access.

00:01:51 This means we’ll log into the front-end server, the back-end server, the SAP Fiori Launchpad

and the Launchpad Designer.

00:01:58 We won’t configure or make any changes to anything but instead we will walk through the

different parts of SAP Fiori UX so when we move to later exercises you are familiar with where

to go.

00:02:08 Everything you need to follow this part is described in the part 2 how-to guide.

00:02:14 Again, you can download it using the link in the slide deck I’m showing here or directly belowthe video at the bottom of your screen.

00:02:20 Please feel free to use the forum for support and/or discussions.

00:02:24 I hope that you have fun and I’ll see you again in week 3 for the configuration topic. Bye!

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