SAP Fiori Overview
SAP Fiori Overview
• SAP Fiori is SAP's new face for all SAP Products to business users
for all devices. Fiori is the award-winning design system for all SAP
products.
• Fiori helps users get their work done more easily, providing a user
experience that is intelligent, consistent, integrated and collaborative.
• Quickly build and customize your own apps that are enterprise-ready,
adaptive, accessible, simple, and delightful.
• It offers a collection of applications used in routine business functions
such as work approvals, financial apps, calculation apps, and various
self-service apps. SAP Fiori can help you redefine your workflows.
SAP Fiori Overview
• Fiori aims to deliver a cohesive and simple user interface across multiple devices, including tablets, smartphones, & PCs.
• Create a consumer-grade user experience, turning casual users into SAP experts and empowering power users with
simple screens that run on any device
• With the SAP Fiori app builder, users can create and customize applications to address changing business needs while
ensuring that application designs remain consistent across all SAP products
• SAP Fiori provides 300+ role-based applications like HR, Manufacturing, finance, including transactional, analytical, and
fact sheet apps.
• SAP has developed Fiori Apps based on User interface UI5.
• When SAP Fiori is combined with the power of the SAP HANA, it provides an unmatched application response and query-
execution time.
• SAP Fiori user experience (UX) is used to provide a personalized and role-based user experience for enterprise-wide
engagement across lines of business.
SAP Fiori Overview
o Interact with SAP business applications by delivering a simple, intuitive,
and role-based interface across devices like desktops, tablets, and
smartphones.
o Built on the SAPUI5 framework and accessible via the SAP Fiori
Launchpad, Fiori replaces the traditional SAP GUI.
o Key advantages include faster onboarding, improved user satisfaction,
enhanced productivity, and consistent application design across SAP
products like S/4HANA, whether deployed on-premise or in the cloud.
SAP Fiori Design Principles
Role Based Responsive Simple Coherent Adaptive
• Designed for • Support how • Focus on • Provides one • Adapts to
you, your and where what is fluid, multiple use
needs, and you work any important seamless cases and
how you time experience devices
work
SAP Fiori Apps
Thousands of pre-built applications in the following
categories are available in SAP Fiori:
• Transactional apps:
• Analytical apps
• Fact Sheets
SAP Fiori Apps
Transactional apps:
• The first release of SAP Fiori included 25 transactional apps.
• Fiori transactional apps represent simplified views and interactions with existing business processes.
• With transactional apps, users are able to perform activities such as creating, changing, and approving
requests or orders, via guided navigation.
• Provide the functionality needed to perform transactional tasks, group apps into catalogs
• Manage approvals and purchase orders, among other company duties, more efficiently.
• Transactional apps in SAP Fiori are used to perform transactional tasks like a manager-employee transactions
such as leave request, travel requests, etc.
• Transactional apps can be generated based on SAP Fiori elements. These are dynamic SAPUI5 apps
controlled by metadata annotations in SAPUI5, SAP Gateway, or CDS views. The most common transactional
SAP Fiori element is the list report.
SAP Fiori Apps
Analytical apps:
• Analytical apps are used to provide role-based real time information about the business operations.
• Analytical apps will run on only Hana database.
• Use dashboards and visualizations to provide information in real time.
• Offer better insight into real-time business operations by collecting, displaying, and combining key analytics
data and metrics across the SAP Fiori UX.
• It provides real time information from large volume of data in front-end web browser.
• Using Analytical apps, you can closely monitor your most important Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in real
time and react immediately to changes in market conditions or operations.
• Fact Sheets: Provide in-depth perspectives on important business items and procedures.
SAP Fiori Apps
Factsheet apps:
• Factsheets emphasize key data points relevant to the business context and the factsheets apps are directly
integrated with SAP Fiori search in launchpad.
• Provide in-depth perspectives on important business items and procedures.
• Fact sheet apps are used to view essential contextual information or a 360-degree view of specific central
objects used in business operations. In SAP Fiori tiles, you can drill down to further details.
• Fact sheets also allow you to navigate to Transactional apps to run SAP transactions.
• It provides real time information from large volume of data in front-end web browser.
• You can call Fact sheets from Fiori Launchpad search results, from other fact sheets or from Transactional or
Analytical apps.
• It also allows you to navigate one-fact sheet to all its related fact sheets.
for Example: Customer Fact Sheet:
Displays detailed customer information, including company data, communication details, sales area, and
related documents.
Main Advantages of the SAP Fiori Cloud
Here are a few critical advantages of the SAP Fiori Cloud across the entire SAP architecture:
o Improve the speed and efficiency of onboarding and training for new employees.
o Encourage employees to complete tasks quickly and accurately to maintain high levels of employee engagement and
satisfaction.
o Leverage native mobile deployment capabilities and web apps to improve accessibility.
o Adapt and scale app development to meet evolving business and user needs.
o Create functional apps and ensure application designs remain consistent across systems.
o Increase efficiency of app creation, testing, and deployment processes across apps.
o You will have an easy-to-maintain and consistent design, ensuring a cohesive look and feel for your users across all apps.
o Rather than having to develop everything from scratch, you can make use of a proven system with ready-made building
blocks. This guarantees faster build times for new applications!
o You will have a tool to do quick quality assurance checks.
o Designing apps becomes more efficient when everyone involved speaks the same language.
o You will have a great platform for onboarding anyone joining the team! This will also help build awareness and appreciation
of the design system.
Performance
When SAP Fiori is combined with the power of the SAP Fiori user experience (UX) is used to provide a
SAP HANA, it provides an unmatched application personalized and role-based user experience for
response and query-execution time. enterprise-wide engagement across lines of
business.
Key Components of the SAP Fiori Design System
As an intuitive framework designed to provide a stronger foundation for user interface (UI) and user experience
(UX) functions, SAP Fiori provides a few key components that make it easier for users to improve application
development and deployment processes across teams.