What you need to know about SAP Fiori, Cloud Edition

SAP Fiori, cloud edition

SAP Fiori is the new user experience (UX) for SAP software that applies modern design principles. SAP solutions, such as the SAP Business Suite powered SAP HANA, are using the SAP Fiori UX to provide a personalized, responsive and simple user experience.

SAP Fiori, cloud edition provides a new cloud based, simple deployment option for SAP Fiori. It runs on SAP HANA Cloud Platform, while consuming the business data from the customers’ on-premise system.

SAP Fiori, cloud edition is delivered in two editions:

SAP Fiori, demo cloud edition – provides customers the opportunity to explore, extend and brand SAP Fiori via a selected number of applications across Line of Business.
SAP Fiori, cloud edition – allows customer to run SAP Fiori on the cloud for productive use. It is delivered with selected number of SAP Fiori apps across Lines of Business covering the most frequently and commonly used use-cases.

With SAP Fiori, cloud edition customers can:

Run SAP Fiori apps in the cloud connected to their existing SAP Business Suite systems
Extend and customize SAP Fiori apps with SAP Web IDE
Develop customer specific apps following the Fiori design
Provide a role based, personalized and multichannel entry point with SAP Fiori launchpad
Customize the look & feel of the Fiori apps and the launchpad with SAP UI theme designer
Retrieve business data from SAP Business Suite system via SAP HANA Cloud Platform, OData provisioning service.

Fiori Apps

It comes with limited number of SAP Fiori apps across Lines of Business covering the most frequently and commonly used use-cases.

Extensibility

With SAP Web IDE customers can extend existing Fiori apps, and develop new apps following the Fiori design, while consuming business data from the on-premise SAP Business Suite systems.

Fiori Launchpad

Provides a role-based, personalized and responsive entry point to business applications across multiple back-end systems, ensuring access only to these applications which are relevant for the user's daily work.

Theming and Branding

Adapt to the company specific look & feel using the UI Theme Designer.

Secure consumption of business data

Securely consume business data from the on-premise SAP Business Suite systems to the cloud with SAP HANA Cloud connector and SAP HANA Cloud Platform, OData provisioning service.

What is SAP Fiori, cloud edition?

SAP Fiori, Cloud Edition, offers simple implementation of the SAP Fiori user experience (UX) through cloud services running on SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP). Customers can run SAP Fiori apps and SAP Fiori launchpad in the cloud while consuming business data securely from their on-premise SAP Business Suite in a hybrid architecture. Here the UI layer is delivered to the cusotmer as a cloud service in his account. It is delivered with selected SAP Fiori apps across lines of business covering the most common self-service scenarios. If SAP provides new apps or any updates on the UI layer, the customer gets these updates automatically.

What are the main benefits customers can expect from SAP Fiori, cloud edition?

With SAP Fiori, cloud edition customers need less hardware on-premise, since SAP provides the apps through cloud services running on SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP). In additon you gain security. If SAP provides new apps or any updates on the UI layer, the customer gets these updates automatically.