Welcome to the world of new SAP UI!
Most of SAP clients are happy with their systems. Meanwhile, most of client's users are not happy with classic SAP GUI as it's totally unsuitable for modern requirements:
- no mobile access
- limited number of UI controls
- no theme management
- scrolling issues ( programs are written for a specific screen size )
- no social networks and corporate web-services integration
Every software implementation is a risk and of course includes some costs on development and support. That's why SAPUI5 is associated with a new standalone expensive implementation but that's not! SAPUI5 is just an extension to existing SAP functionality and doesn't reqiure much efforts for creating the app.
If your product is well-designed, it has a model and set of APIs to work with it what you need to build your first productive SAPUI5 application is:
- Update the core. It's reqired step to support latest SAPUI5 version
- Build the OData model in SAP Gateway Builder
- Implement your API's as implementation for OData services
- Create the app based on a template in Web IDE (Master-Detail for example)
- Extend it however you like.
Once trying it your get an app with:
- huge amount of different UI controls
- same view on all devices ( PC + Tablet + Smarphone )
- flexible dynamic layout
Therefore if you have SAP NW 7.4 - your system is already ready for SAPUI5 implementation. No additional licenses are required. HANA is only optional but not mandatory component.
Please review the following site before any activity:
https://experience.sap.com/fiori-design/
Here you can find all design principles and concepts.
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