Down the Rabbit Hole: Everything you need to know about SAP Fiori Lighthouse Apps

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Down the Rabbit Hole: Everything you need to know about SAP Fiori
Lighthouse Apps
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Down the Rabbit Hole: Everything you need to know about SAP Fiori Lighthouse Apps
Evolution from SAP GUI Interface to SAP Fiori
What is SAP Fiori UX?
What are SAP Fiori Lighthouse Apps?
SAP Fiori Lighthouse App Scenarios
How does VC ERP Consulting implement SAP Fiori?
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Global economic growth is proving resilient with strong labor markets, robust household
consumption and business investment and better-than-expected adaptation to ERP
Solutions.
ERP Solutions like SAP S/4HANA helps businesses to gain real-time insights with in-built
AI/ML capabilities and automate business processes. However, without a clear interface
employees cannot fully use all its functionalities.
SAP Fiori, overlay for SAP S/4HANA, makes it easier to navigate this robust SAP ERP
solution and makes it accessible even for non-technical users. This modern interface
offers a consistent and user-centric approach for all.
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Evolution from SAP GUI Interface to SAP Fiori
Before we get into SAP Fiori, let us revisit where it all started – the SAP GUI Interface.
This interface was a much-needed change from the green screen but with time needed
innovation and greater ease-of-use in addition to being mobile friendly. Therefore, there
was a need for a simple, intuitive, coherent, responsive and role-based UI design.
According to SAP experts, the primary motivation for creating SAP Fiori was to handle
SAP systems in an easier manner. Fiori has been evolving since 2013 from a small set of
25 applications for tablets and phones.
In this article, SAP Fiori implementation experts at VC ERP tell you how amazing SAP Fiori
and SAP Fiori Lighthouse Apps can prove for your SAP S/4HANA solution ecosystem.
Let us start with the basics first.
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What is SAP Fiori UX?
SAP Fiori is the user interface in SAP S/4HANA that goes beyond the normal conventions
of design, promising high performance, standardization and ease of use. It offers a
personalized, responsive and simple interface for performing everyday tasks across
various devices and platforms.
Scales the design and development of enterprise software
Offers Role-based modular design approach
Redefines the enterprise user experience by focusing on user tasks and workflows
SAP Fiori covers a wide range of business processes, including financials, human
resources, and customer relationship management. It’s designed to improve productivity
and provide a more intuitive user experience for SAP customers.
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What are SAP Fiori Lighthouse Apps?
SAP Fiori Lighthouse Apps are a set of pre-built, ready-to-run SAP Fiori applications that
provide a best-practice user experience for specific business processes. These apps are
designed to work with SAP S/4HANA and are used to provide users with quick access to
important information and functionality in areas such as finance, human resources,
procurement, sales and so on.
SAP Fiori Lighthouse Apps fulfill one or more of the following criteria:
Offers a delightful user experience
Support tasks and processes that were not supported before
Simplify work and increase the efficiency of tasks and processes
SAP Fiori lighthouse apps offer immediate business benefit to the user of S/4HANA, SAP
S/4HANA Cloud and SAP Business Technology Platform when compared with SAP
Business Suite. For maximum impact the implementation of holistic business roles is
highly recommended.
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SAP Fiori Lighthouse App Scenarios
In general terms, lighthouse means ‘to show path or throw light on darkness’. SAP Fiori
Lighthouse App scenarios offer immediate business benefits to SAP S/4HANA business
users. These apps handle business tasks for specific use cases.
Areas with SAP Fiori lighthouse apps
Finance
Extended Warehouse Management
Industry Retail
Industry Utilities
Industry Consumer Products
Now that we are about SAP Fiori Lighthouse apps, let us take a look at some high value
SAP Fiori features that bring value to every business user
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Fiori Enterprise Search
SAP Fiori Enterprise Search provides full-text search, navigation and access to structured
and unstructured information across multiple systems.
SAP Fiori Enterprise Search allows you
Full-text search for business objects and documents
Sophisticated suggestions while typing
Direct navigation into source systems/transactions
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Fiori Notifications
Get notified about situations spontaneous/triggered that demand timely intervention
with SAP Fiori Notifications. Send notifications to users as these notifications will
automatically appear in the notification center viewport and add a little badge for new
notifications with a count of the number of new notifications waiting for you to view.
In the latest S/4HANA releases (SAP S/4HANA 1709 and above), business users can also
personalize their notifications by type. They can:
Mute notifications they are not interested in
Promote notifications that are important to them to high priority
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Fiori Default Values
Set default values for new parameters which will be applied as filters in relevant sales
apps with Fiori Default Values.
With Fiori Default Values you can:
Enter a primary value that you most commonly use, e.g. when entering data
Enter additional values that you use e.g. as a search filter in analytics and Manage
apps
Pass the parameters to Fiori apps and to classic apps
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Fiori Personalization
Adjust your display to suit your working conditions and your physical & cognitive needs
with Fiori Personalization. As a business user, on the Fiori Launchpad you can
personalize:
Which groups and tiles are shown on your Home Page
Language, date and time formats
Colour, contrast and fonts (via themes)
Whether user profiling is used to improve your search results
Which notifications are demoted (hidden) or promoted (raised to high priority)
User Assistance
Access User Assistance by configuring SAP Web Dispatcher & the SAP Fiori Launchpad.
Implement SAP Fiori with the best SAP S/4HANA implementation partner in India, VC ERP
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How does VC ERP Consulting implement SAP Fiori?
Our decades of SAP Implementation Expertise lends us a unique view of finding the
perfect balance between your industry standardization and business customization even
while implementing SAP Fiori apps for your SAP ERP ecosystem.
At VC ERP Consulting, the experts
Identify the best-fit Mobility Platform
Modify & Customize Standardized Apps
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As an award-winning SAP Gold partner, our 21+ year old legacy is built on the solid
foundation of integrity, customer service & the commitment to enable businesses to
achieve superior industry benchmarks with state-of-the-art SAP Fiori Consulting &
Development Services. Our SAP Fiori Services include -
SAP Fiori Standard App Implementation
SAP Fiori Standard App Enhancement
SAP Finance
SAP Controlling
SAP Sales & Distribution
SAP Material Management
SAP Production Planning
SAP Quality Management
SAP Project System
Human Capital Management
Get in touch with our SAP Fiori consultants & advisors at VC ERP Consulting for free
consultation to implement SAP Fiori for your SAP S/4HANA ERP Solution ecosystem &
business applications today!
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