SAPUI5 and Fiori. Status and Future Perspective (PDF)

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Computer Science - Commercial Information Technology, grade: 1.7, Heilbronn University, language: English, abstract: Today almost every software and websites has a mobile compatible version and everyone can check anything on his mobile or tablet. This wasn't the case 7-8 years ago. For SAP, Graphical User Interface as known as GUI was very powerful at the time when SAP launched its ERP software. With time, many other software exists with the fleet of HTML5 based powerful and more appealing modern UI-technology.

For this, the old GUI was not able to stand with it. As everyone knows, today are smartphones and tablets more powerful than pc's. So, it was very important for SAP to find a solution and its was SAP Fiori - "One UX for all SAP Products". Fiori is based on a framework known as SAPUI5 which is built on top of HTML5 and is compatible with any device and any screen size. The first announcement from SAP about Fiori was in May 2013 with the first release of 25 transactional Fiori apps for the most common business functions, such as self-services tasks which known as ESS/MSS.

Today, there are more than 1140 true Fiori apps available in Fiori library. The number of apps can partially supplement the previous GUI transactions. SAP offers three types of Fiori apps with different database requirements. A distinction is made between Transactional apps, Analytical apps and factsheets. Only Transactional apps can run on any database that supports SAP ERP. The other 2 types require SAP HANA as database. Since 2013, Fiori has made great progress and will continue in the coming years.