SAP Customers and SAP Fiori

Enabling the features of SAP Fiori in organization

In light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, most of the IT Companies & Enterprise customers are not implementing new technologies and upgrading their systems or software. But this is the right time to implement minor projects and non-business impacting projects and be future ready.

In this article I will give details on SAP Fiori, this article is useful to all businesses who are using SAP ERP to run their business. Implement SAP Fiori and avail all the latest benefits of SAP Fiori. If you are already using SAP ERP and not using SAP Fiori it is right time to implement SAP Fiori.

Why SAP Fiori?

Upgrading to the new business user interface technology SAP Fiori simplify’s ERP solution for the business users and owners. The new user interface having major features that the same application having compatibility to run in Smartphones, Tablets and Desktops.

The life become easier for the organization once facility enabled that ERP transactions and analytics can be managed in handy using Smartphones. Its dream of many organizations to implement Fiori and facilitate business applications handy over smart devices.

The Fiori enablement for the enterprise is not a big challenge in SAP today. SAP has delivered Fiori applications cover app enterprise activities using Fiori applications in S/4 HANA. The Fiori applications can be extended and customize as per the organization specific business processes. The automation reduces the users time and efforts in making business transactions and analytics.

Should we wait for S/4 HANA migration to enable Fiori?

There is no need to wait for Fiori enablement till organization migrate or implement SAP S/4 HANA. The NetWeaver and Fiori delivered by SAP in ECC without any additional licenses required. There are some Fiori Standard applications delivered by SAP for the ECC versions can be enabled as plug and play. The customized Fiori applications can be developed & standard Fiori can be enhanced in ECC to fulfill the various business requirements. The customized Fiori applications developed in ECC will be migrated to S/4 HANA .

Major Benefits of Fiori:

? Excellent User Interface

? Device flexibility (Desktops/ Tablets / Smartphones)

? High level automation

? Ease of processing ERP Transactions

? On spot validations

? Comprehensive and predictive analytics in fraction of seconds

? Live business data reflects in analytics

? Drilling down in the analytics up to document level

? Business approvals in finger tips with respective reports

? Role based applications

? Integration with IOT services

? Using smartphone features like Bar Code & QR code scanners using device camera, Gro Location and etc.

? Integration with different gadgets & Sensors

? Speech to text recognition to reduce typing

? Platform independent

Types of Fiori Applications:

Transactional Applications: The Fiori automated transactional applications help user to post business transactions with easy user interface and automation reduces the time for posting transaction data into SAP. User can post the transaction using the smartphones once the Fiori is enabled.

Analytical Applications: Its really important for management to monitor the business data in multiple area’s every dat. The Fiori analytical applications deliver the required business information in the Smartphone with easy UI technology with device compatibility.

Fiori Development Challenges:

The Fiori development is not as challenging like previous days. The SAP is updating latest features every day in SAP WEB IDE and delivering seamless annotation concepts using HANA CDS technology. This make process easy for rapid Fiori development in building custom business solutions in the organizations.

Bottomline: If you are using SAP ERP to run your business and still not using SAP Fiori , I recommend to Implement SAP Fiori as Implementing SAP Fiori is not as challenging as previously. Implement SAP Fiori even if you are using old SAP ECC systems, this will make your SAP S4HANA transition easier.