The study notes of the first unit of the SAP Fiori Elements open class on Open SAP

The syllabus of this open class:

Unit 1: Painting the big picture

This course will use SAP Fiori Elements to develop a series of applications, as shown in the following figure:

The current developments in user experience at SAP share one common vision: a consistent user experience - putting the user front and center.

The current development of SAP user experience has a common vision: a consistent user experience-putting users first.

There are measurable business benefits (monetary and human value) in good UX.

A good user experience can bring measurable business benefits (monetary and human value).

Consistency is at the heart of a great user experience and a key design principle of SAP Fiori.

Consistency is the core of a great user experience and a key design principle of SAP Fiori.

Ensuring UX consistency can:

(1) Increase the adoption rate of applications
(2) Improve the productivity of business users
(3) Reduce training time
(4) Improve data quality
(5) Improve user satisfaction

SAP UI5...

(1) Support the evolution of SAP Fiori design to achieve a consistent user experience across SAP solutions (and other solutions)
(2) Provide built-in support for SAP product standards such as security, accessibility, and internationalization
(3) Allow to implement a single responsive application for all browsers, platforms and devices
(4) SAP standard applications and customized UI can be extended without code

SAP Fiori Elements provides standard floor plans and uses metadata to simplify and accelerate the development of SAPUI5 applications.

The SAP S/4HANA development team uses SAP Fiori Elements to build most of the new applications.

SAP Fiori elements...

(1) Provide enterprise-level SAPUI5 application based on stable, optimized, out-of-the-box UI code
(2) Improve developer efficiency through extended development and maintain in a cost-effective manner
(3) Provide centralized management and consistent user experience, in line with the latest SAP Fiori design
(4) Guarantee upgrade stability and forward compatibility
(5) Allow scalability of standard floor plans with custom controls and logic

Most enterprise use cases involve providing an overview of business-related data, and
List of business objects and manage these business objects.