We hosted our first SAP Fiori Innovation Day in our Dublin, Ireland office on Feb 21, 2024. As the name implies, it was a mix of helping customers understand how to implement SAP Fiori in their organizations and a look at innovations that will make people more productive by using artificial intelligence. We had a variety of lectures, examples, hands-on workshops, practical tips for implementing SAP Fiori, and demos of a variety of AI use cases throughout the day.
After an introduction by Liam Ryan, the managing director of SAP Ireland, the chief product owners of SAP Cloud ERP UX Engineering, Katja Zoch and Sebastian Steinhauer, kicked off an overview of our strategic direction and a discussion on “No-frills AI in SAP S/4HANA.” The no-frills refers to simple interfaces that make life easier for both end-users interacting with SAP Fiori elements apps and developers creating those apps. Functionality over fanciness. The presentation incorporated some new AI innovations being delivered as part of SAP S/4HANA.
Chief product owners of SAP Cloud ERP UX Engineering,
Katja Zoch and Sebastian Steinhauer presenting at the SAP Fiori Innovation Day in Dublin
We continued the day with demos of My Home and Collaborative ERP, two recent innovations that make SAP S/4HANA Cloud more intuitive than ever before by combining a mixture of human and machine intelligence. After showing the latest and greatest in our user experience portfolio, we pivoted to options that customers have today for rolling out SAP Fiori apps in their environment. We touched on the SAP Fiori app reference library, how to find the apps you need, and activate them in your environment.
SAP partner mymediset discussed their journey from SAP GUI to SAP Fiori elements using our latest tooling, and how using SAP Fiori tools gave them a boost in efficiency. Adaptation projects make it easy for customers to extend their systems while keeping a clean core.
After lunch, another SAP partner, sovanta, discussed the importance of designers and developers working together to ultimately serve the needs of the business user. Good communication based on the SAP Fiori design guidelines helps to keep the project focused.
The bulk of the afternoon was breakout sessions. In our hands-on track, participants had the opportunity to build an SAP Fiori elements app using the flexible programming model. This was a chance to use the new SAP Build Code, which contains SAP Business Application Studio, SAP Fiori tools, and many other application development accelerators.
Non-developers had the opportunity to dig into the business benefits of using SAP Fiori tools to build SAP Fiori elements applications, a closer look at how the design process should run to streamline development, along with two more demos of using AI to solve focused business problems. One demo was on automating user assistance to improve the speed of creating documentation along with its quality. The other focused on how AI can help business resolve disputes more easily.
The final sessions were also on AI. First up, SAP partner Bluestonex discussed how to embrace AI in the enterprise and talked about the AI capabilities they have implemented using SAP Fiori.
The day finished with a talk from the SAP Fiori tools team. The presentation focused on the increasing prevalence of AI in the enterprise space, and how SAP is bringing AI innovations to customers. It included demos using generative AI to create SAP Fiori elements applications directly from a customer business requirement document and finished with a demo converting a sketch on a flipboard into an SAP Fiori elements application without writing any code.
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The event would not have been possible without support from our generous sponsors. Please visit their websites to see how they can help you accelerate your SAP Fiori journey and add intelligence to the applications you rely on to run your business.
If you missed it, we plan to have more SAP Fiori Innovation Days during the year.
Learn about some of the topics we discussed:
- Subscribe to the SAP Fiori development newsletter, in which we share updates on SAP Fiori elements, SAP Fiori tools, SAPUI5, and SAP Business Application Studio every other month.
Online information about SAP Fiori development tools, technologies, and adjacent topics.
- SAP Community topic page for SAP Fiori elements: www.sapfiorielements.com
- SAP Community topic page for SAP Fiori tools: www.sapfioritools.com
- Flexible Programming Model explorer: https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com/test-resources/sap/fe/core/fpmExplorer/index.html#/overview/introdu...
- SAP Joule: https://www.sap.com/products/artificial-intelligence/ai-assistant.html
- SAP Fiori design guidelines: https://experience.sap.com/fiori-design/
- SAP Fiori app reference library: https://fioriappslibrary.hana.ondemand.com/sap/fix/externalViewer/
Courses with self-paced learning on SAP Fiori app development and SAP Fiori usage
- openSAP course on Developing and Extending SAP Fiori Elements Apps: https://open.sap.com/courses/fiori-ea1
- openSAP course on SAP S/4HANA UX for Business and Functional Experts: https://open.sap.com/courses/s4h34
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