SAP Business Suite UI Strategy Dr. Johannes Wasserfall / Andreas Henke 23rd October 2012

Agenda Introduction

UI Challenges  Details Business Suite UI Strategy  Expert Usage  Casual Usage  Mobile NetWeaver Business Client Desktop 4.0  Search  Entry Pages  Side Panels  Floor Plan Manager HCM Renewal  Lanes concept Summary © 2012 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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Introduction – SAP UI evolution Business Suite 7.0

R/3 Version 4.6

R/3 Version 1

R/2 Terminal Emulation Screen

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UI challenges

GARTNER REPORT

65% of the Expert User rated the SAP UI as good or very good

69% of Business Leaders and 80% of Casual User rated the SAP UI as poor or not good Gartner Report March 2011

GENERATION Y

In four years Generation Y will account for nearly half the employees in the world. They exhibit a different work mode

End user demands are shaping the IT

strategy Oliver Bussmann, CIO of SAP AG

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SAP Business Suite UI Strategy

User experience – strategy based on usage types

Casual Usage

Increase efficiency Support real mobile scenarios

of Expert Users

Highly engaging persona centric apps Mobile First!

Expert Usage

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User experience - scenario categorization Expert Usage

Casual Usage

In the Office Preferred Device: Desktop

Preferred Device: Tablet

Applications that require a desktop for their complexity, screen size or keyboard functionality

Scenarios that can be accomplished on the desktop as well as on a mobile device (if away from desk)

Mobile Preferred Device: Phone Scenarios that support roles primarily working out-of-office (e.g. customer facing roles, service roles, B2B, B2C,...) connected

Expert tasks

not connected

Expert Use Cases

Increase efficiency Dedicated mobile scenarios

of Expert Users Core processes

Execution monitoring and decision preparation

extended version on desktop

Mobile task Worker Scenarios

Transition to new work environment Mobile First!

Decision support and status reporting Self Services

ESS-Scenarios Casual User

Casual Use Cases

Cross themes: Social / Collaboration, Search, Automation, Embedded Analytics, Extensibility © 2012 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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User experience – new face of the SAP Business Suite

Future Technologies Main focus: Casual Usage

More Continious Efficiency Features

Integration of Social Media Capabilities

Main focus: Expert Usage Existing Technologies

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More Continious Efficiency Features in NWBC/GUI and WebDynpro ABAP

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NWBC 4.0 SAP NetWeaver Business Client 4.0 Desktop

User interface clients Major clients for SAP Business Suite (except portal)

Current

New

SAPLogon / SAPGUI

SAP NetWeaver Business Client

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SAP NetWeaver Business Client 4.0 desktop SAP NetWeaver Business Client offers a modern, ABAP based environment to integrate different UI technologies in one user interface with one single point of entry.

Relevance:  For IT departments and expert usage  With NWBC 4.0 in Q3/2012

Client-Side Integration  Integrated user experience through a universal UI Client that can bring various UI technologies together into one shell  Tight integration with ABAP role repository (PFCG)  Visual integration by adoption of SAP Corbu design for SAP GUI, WDA and HTML

Flexibility  Desktop installation available (Microsoft Windows based)  Tabbed Browsing enabled  Side panel to leverage application Integration on low TCO

SAP Business Suite content-ready  Easy consumption of pre-defined content such as new roles, new side panel applications, new Power Lists (POWL) and latest WD applications (available since SAP ERP 6.0 EhP 2)  Different Search capabilities (Search provider enabled) © 2012 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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SAP NetWeaver Business Client – basic principles

Basically the NWBC provides:  Frame incl. the main navigation Roles can be loaded either from PFCG or PCD (portal role repository)

 Access across several UI technologies and applications in one single environment: Embedded rendering engines for different types of applications (Dynpro, Web Dynpro ABAP, BSP, BI, HTML)

 Generic functions e.g. search, help, desktop integration, menus

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SAP NetWeaver Business Client – feature set overview

 Role-based access to SAP business applications  Harmonized user experience through integration of SAP GUI, WebDynpro and BSP based applications  Embedded and reused SAP GUI (e.g. easy access menu favorites)  Quick Launch search field  Available in two flavors: – NWBC for Desktop (Windows based) – NWBC for HTML (browser based)

 SidePanel Enhance SAPGUI applications without modification  Browser like navigation (NWBC 4.0) – Index and New Tab page navigation – Pinned tabs

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Browser-like navigation in NWBC for desktop 4.0: Options to find and launch applications

Overview Pages    

Index Page New Tab Page Service Map Start Pages

Panels  Navigation panel  Favorites panel

Quick Launch  Launch applications  Search for applications or content

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Quick launch and type ahead

Different sections Directly start a transaction or launch a web address Search results in  ABAP transactions and WebDynpro ABAP applications available in the WebAS

 Open Search results of the selected OS providers  Favorites and Recent Items  Navigation Items coming from the user’s menu (PFCG roles)

Search providers in general Options for the display of the search providers

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Side panel variations

Reports

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Application Details

Visual Enterprise Integration

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Floor Plan Manager (FPM) SAP Floorplan Manager provides a framework (based on Web Dynpro ABAP) to really tailor SAP User Interfaces to your end users needs – increasing their efficiency, effectiveness and even more joy of use. Relevance  For end users (personalization), power users and administrators (customizing) as well as UI developers (configuration)  Focus on applications for professional usage  With Business Suite 7i2011 (based on NW 7.03)

Simple UI Configuration – Flexibility if Needed  Easy adaptation (even via power users) - simple tasks achievable without training and without coding (WYSIWYG)  Modification free extension of SAP applications  Development of customer specific user interfaces  Built in guideline compliance reg. user interface

Increased Efficiency through Integrated Tooling  Flexible UI Designer (FLUID) predefined floorplans and building blocks for common use cases  Application Creation Tool (ACT) guided creation of new applications from scratch  Application Enhancement Tool (AET)

SAP Business Suite content  More than 1000 FPM applications available in SAP Business Suite 7i2011

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SAPUI5 - Lanes SAP HCM Renewal

Visual appealing start pages / SAP HCM renewal 

Visually appealing start pages provide a structured, efficient entry into the work day

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Typography acts as structuring element and information carrier

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Personalizable content and background images

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Integrated social media and collaboration

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Summary Corbu design  New state of the art visual design for SAP Business Suite  Fresh, modern and unique visual identity

Side panels  Modification free extension concept  Effectively gain via information consumption within the process context (no screen change required)

Floor Plan Manager  Create you own Web Dynpro ABAP applications with the Floor Plan Manager  Many CHIPs (Side Panels) are created via the FPM

Lanes / SAPUI5  Visually appealing start pages based on SAPUI5  HCM Renewal first application to adopt to the Lanes concept

NWBC 4.0 Desktop  SAP NetWeaver Business Client offers a modern, ABAP based environment to integrate different UI technologies in one user interface with one single point of entry. © 2012 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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Thank You! Dr. Johannes Wasserfall Director Usability@Suite Program Cross Compliance - On-Premise Suite

Contact information:

SAP AG Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16 68190 Walldorf, Germany T + 496227 7-67506 F + 496227 78-20891 [email protected]

Johannes Wasserfall On-Premise Suite Cross Compliance

Andreas Henke Director Usability@Suite Program Cross Compliance - On-Premise Suite

Contact information:

SAP AG Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16 68190 Walldorf, Germany T + 496227 7- 63097 F + 496227 78- 34159 [email protected]

Johannes Wasserfall On-Premise Suite Cross Compliance

Questions

SAP rapid-deployment solution for side panel content in SAP NWBC Solution Overview SAP rapid-deployment solution of side panel content in SAP NetWeaver Business Client offers a package to enhance the user experience for SAP applications. It provides context-related business content and supplementary information (including external) taking SAP ERP transactional data to the next level, including master data, analytics and related services. Users have key business process data at their fingertips for the following areas:  Financials 

Procurement

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Quality Management

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Sales & Distribution Using the flexibility of Web Dynpro Side Panel this is achieved without any additonal code. The user gets layouts and ready-touse gadgets (SAP CHIPs) like charts, forms, etc. that enhance the context of a transaction. The context is dynamically defined by data currently being processed in the SAP GUI. The data is presented in an easy to consume format which increases user productivity allowing users to make more informed business decisions in their every-day work.

Benefits 

Increased user productivity

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Provides insight at the point of action for better decisions

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Non-disruptive deployment: No customizing and coding of transactions

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Easy configuration & extension – no additional skill set required

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Open for partners and customers to create additional CHIPs and enhance SAP‘s CHIP catalog easily

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Low implementation costs

http://service.sap.com/rds-ui-sidepanel © 2012 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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Mobile Delivered SAP Mobile Applications in 2011/12 Line of Business HCM  SAP Employee Lookup  SAP Timesheet  SAP Leave Request  SAP HR Approvals  SAP Manager Insight  SAP Interview Assistant  SAP Learning Made Easy  Mobile Workflow

Analytics

FIN

 SAP Retail Execution

 SAP BusinessObjects Mobile

 SAP Travel Receipt Capture

 SAP Electronic Medical Record

 SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

 SAP Payment Approvals

 SAP Transport Notification and Status

 SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management*

 SAP Cart Approval

 SAP Transport Tendering

 SAP Travel Expense Approval

 SAP Policyholder Lookup EAM and Service  SAP Field Service

CRM  SAP Customer Briefing  SAP CRM Sales  SAP Customer & Contacts  SAP Customer Financial Fact Sheet  SAP Sales Order Notification  SAP ERP Order Status  SAP Material Availability

Industry

 SAP EAM Work Order

 SAP In-Store Product Lookup  SAP Order Entry

Consumer  SAP Citizen Connect

ERP and others  SAP ERP Quality Issue  SAP EHS Safety Issue  SAP GRC Access Approver

 SAP GRC Policy Survey  SAP Mobile Apps (iOS)  SAP Store (Android)

SAP Store

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NWBC Desktop download information Where to download the NWBC-Client ?

Download Version

Download

Note with Release Date Info

NWBC 3.0

http://goo.gl/oJlzl

1535554

NWBC 3.5

http://goo.gl/9dfVv

1593491

NWBC 4.0

http://goo.gl/saiyA

1707623

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