Fiori and the Consumer Grade SAP Experience

Fiori and the Consumer Grade SAP Experience

Introductions

Fiori: Based on Design Thinking

What is Fiori?

Demonstration of SAP Fiori

How can this apply to your business?

Questions

Fiori: Based on Design Thinking

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Design Thinking is…

An approach to problem solving with a suite of tools designed to promote innovative, not incremental solutions.

Focused on understanding the human side of things.

Structured yet flexible

Iterative and collaborative

Design Thinking is an incubator for disruptive innovation

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Examples of Design Thinking

Thomas Edison

Well known for: 1093 patents including the light bulb and phonograph

Key learnings:

Light bulb unsuccessful on its own

Phonograph re-purposed by consumers

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Examples of Design Thinking

Apple Inc

Well known for: Manufacturer of Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, various software. $170 billion revenue in 2013.

Key learnings:

With iPod, Steve Jobs developed a product we didn’t know we needed until it was in our hands.

Users may not know what they need. OBSERVE

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The Goal of Design Thinking: Finding Innovation

What is SAP Fiori?

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Desirability (Human)

How do we make mobility consumer grade? Focus on user interaction

Seamless cross-device integration

Simple design, retire SAP GUI

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Feasibility (Technical)

How do we make mobility quick to implement and easy to maintain?

Standard communications channels (Odata)

Highly secure environment

Responsive development language (HTML5)

Simple system architecture

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Viability (Business)

How do we make mobility viable for EVERY business?

Pre-developed applications based on Design Thinking

Cover 90%+ of what most users do in the system

Make the applications easy to customize

Measure success in user acceptance

Low cost licensing model, cloud support for scalability

Project plans for days or weeks, not months.

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What is Fiori?

SAP Fiori is a collection of apps with a simple and easy to use experience for broadly and frequently used SAP software functions (Currently 227 apps)

Works seamlessly across devices – desktop, tablet, or smartphone.

Leverages SAP UI5 and SAP NetWeaver Gateway providing an end-to-end extensibility and easy to manage solution architecture.

Consumer grade SAP interaction

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What does this mean?

Users interact with SAP in a way not possible before

The end of SAP GUI as we know it

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Types of Fiori Applications

Transactional Apps (61) – Let you perform common tasks Create sales order

Create leave request

Approve purchase order

Fact Sheets (83) – Display key operational data and take action

Customer Fact Sheet

Quality Notifications

Supplier Fact Sheet (SRM)

Analytical Apps (83) – Key analytical data Cycle times

Sales performance

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Transactional App Architecture

Required components: Web Dispatcher

Netweaver Gateway (7.31 or 7.4)

SAP ECC 6.0

HANA Optional

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Fact Sheet Architecture

Required components: Web Dispatcher

Netweaver Gateway (7.31 or 7.4)

SAP ECC 6.0

HANA Required

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Required components: Web Dispatcher

Netweaver Gateway (7.31 or 7.4)

SAP ECC 6.0

HANA Required

Analytical App Architecture

Demonstration of SAP Fiori

How Can This Apply to Your Business?

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How Can This Apply to Your Business?

What users could benefit from mobile technology?

What users do not get the information they need today?

Where is the SAP GUI experience lacking?

How is your business keeping up with the next generation of workers?

Where has mobility fallen short?

Questions

Dickinson + Associates

Brandon Lage

Consultant

brandon.l@dickinson-assoc.com

630-747-6919

Twitter: @LageUnwired

Appendix

D+A Overview

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We Are:

Focus: Delivery of quality SAP Business Suite, BI/Analytics, and Mobility consulting services to customers across North America, Europe, and Asia.

Our People: A team of 140+ full-time SAP professionals reflects the ideal mix of years of relevant business knowledge, very strong SAP credentials, and solid communication skills. Our team has an average of 15 years SAP and 19 years business experience.

Offices: Chicago, IL (Headquarters) Satellites: New York, NY | Scottsdale, AZ | Cincinnati, OH

We are:

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Experience

What Sets Us Apart? Our People.

Experienced consultants with strong SAP knowledge, sound project management capability, and years of industry experience.

Proven experience in delivering innovative ERP solutions with minimal disruption to the business.

An open corporate culture that makes us “big enough to deliver value and small enough to care”.

We carefully create each project team or support team to match the client objectives and its culture.

Most important, we understand and believe strongly that Companies don’t implement SAP… People Do.

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0 – 3yrs 3 – 8yrs 8 – 14yrs 14+ yrs

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Partnership and Designations

SAP Gold Channel Partner

SAP Services Partner

SAP All-in-One Certified Solutions

SAP-Qualified Partner for RDS

Business Objects

Sybase Partner

SuccessFactors Partner

S A P Q u a l i f i e d P a r t n e rR A P I D D E P L O Y M E N T S O L U T I O N S

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Service Offerings

SAP Strategy

Implementation

Process Optimization

Services

SAP Upgrade Services

Application Support

Professional Staffing

Catalog of Fiori Apps

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