SAP Fiori is Free and You Can Now Get Started For Free

In case you missed SAP CEO Bill McDermott’s keynote at Sapphire Now, you missed the exciting news that SAP Fiori apps are available to SAP Customers at no cost. In a nutshell, this user experience (UX) product basically makes it possible for SAP’s world-class enterprise software to be delivered as a consumer user experience at no additional cost to an SAP customer.

So, what does this huge announcement mean to you as an SAP customer?

It means that as an SAP Customer you have a unique opportunity to simplify SAP’s traditional complex user experience and drive higher adoption of SAP ERP at no cost. However, to get started quickly, your internal IT team would require to quickly come up to speed with the associated pre-requisites and infrastructure by understanding the various nuances of the installation and configuration of transactional, analytical and fact sheet apps. This exercise could be a very time consuming and expensive exercise and DBChase, a leader within the SAP Mobile and UX space is offering for a limited time a free, no obligation implementation of one Fiori Transactional App.

At no additional cost, DBChase will work with your IT teams to bring up the required infrastructure and have a single Fiori transactional app up and running in less than 2 weeks in a sandbox or development environment.

What is Included within the Free Fiori Proof-of-Concept (POC)?

  • Installation and Configuration of Fiori Common Components
    • System Architecture
    • Installation Overview
    • Fiori back-end server installation
    • Fiori front-end server installation
    • Netweaver Gateway connectivity and trust configuration
    • Fiori release notes installation
  • Network, security and authorization configuration
    • User Management Overview
    • Security consideration for deployment of Fiori in a corporate Intranet segment
    • Security consideration for deployment of Fiori with Internet / mobile access
    • HTTP/S Enablement
  • Deployment and Verification of a Fiori Transactional App
    • Deployment and Configuration of one sample Fiori Transactional App for Verification. Customers can choose from the below list of transactional apps:
      • Approve Leave Requests
      • Approve Travel Expenses
      • Approve Shopping Carts
      • Approve Purchase Orders
      • Approve Requisitions
      • Approve Timesheets
      • Approve Purchase Contracts
  • Configuration of Fiori Central UI Component
    • Setting up Fiori LaunchPad
    • Fiori LaunchPad designer
    • Configuring Fiori start page
    • Creating catalogs, groups and roles
    • Assigning roles to users
    • Adding application to the LaunchPad
    • Using SAP Fiori Client
  • Preparing the landscape for Fiori Applications
    • Overview of Fiori Transactional Apps
    • Fiori’s user creation
    • Generic configuration of Fiori Transactional Apps