SAP Fiori has been available for a couple of years now and if you’d ask someone ‘what is Fiori?’ a year ago they would have answered; ‘free apps’.
Several companies has started their SAP Fiori adventure with this idea in mind. In that case the IT professional, most of the time ABAP minded with extended front-end knowledge, was trained to understand SAP UI5. After that de IT staff would check the list of applications for suitable apps.
Experiences with standard SAP Fiori apps
- After a second glance most of the picked solutions didn’t fit the exact needs. Therefor updates were required.
- If the update wasn’t the issue than integration would definitely be. In several occasions a fair amount of work needed to be done to get things up and running. It takes knowledge and experience to install the Fiori Launchpad in a way that makes the right assets and features available per user and per task.
- When the chosen Fiori app is fully operating companies usually figure out that it doesn’t fully fit the needs of the process and tasks. In this case the conclusion is mostly that it was easier to have started from scratch instead of using a free finished app.