SAP Fiori revolutionized SAP’s user experience by delivering role-based, intuitive, and consistent applications across devices. As enterprises embrace cloud strategies, the SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) — now known as SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) — plays a crucial role in extending, integrating, and enhancing SAP Fiori applications.
This article explores the synergy between SAP Fiori and SAP Cloud Platform, highlighting how they work together to enable modern, scalable, and flexible enterprise applications.
SAP Cloud Platform is a comprehensive Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering by SAP that enables businesses to develop, deploy, and manage applications in the cloud. It provides:
- Cloud-native development tools and runtimes.
- Integration services to connect on-premise and cloud systems.
- Extension capabilities for SAP applications.
- Analytics, machine learning, and IoT services.
SAP Fiori apps are traditionally deployed on SAP systems (on-premise or cloud). However, the SAP Cloud Platform enhances Fiori by enabling:
- Build and deploy custom extensions or side-by-side apps on SCP without modifying core SAP systems.
- Use SAP Cloud SDK and SAP Fiori tools to develop cloud-native Fiori apps.
- Enhance standard SAP Fiori apps with additional features, UI elements, or backend logic hosted on SCP.
- Deploy SAP Fiori Launchpad as a Service on SCP for cloud-centric access to apps.
- Centralize access to on-premise and cloud applications through a unified, role-based Launchpad.
- Enable seamless single sign-on (SSO) and identity management.
¶ 3. Integration and API Management
- Leverage SCP’s integration services to connect SAP Fiori apps with diverse backend systems (SAP and non-SAP).
- Use API Management to expose and consume APIs securely within Fiori apps.
- Develop SAP Fiori apps using cloud-based tools like SAP Business Application Studio on SCP.
- Automate build, test, and deployment pipelines using SCP DevOps services.
- Utilize Git-based source control integrated with SAP Cloud Platform.
- Agility: Quickly build and deploy new features or apps in the cloud.
- Scalability: Handle varying workloads with elastic cloud resources.
- Flexibility: Extend SAP solutions without impacting core system stability.
- Unified Access: Provide users with a consistent entry point across hybrid landscapes.
- Innovation: Integrate emerging technologies like AI, ML, and IoT into Fiori apps via SCP services.
- Creating custom Fiori apps to fill gaps in standard SAP functionality.
- Implementing complex business logic in cloud-based microservices.
- Building customer-specific UI adaptations with cloud-hosted extensions.
- Consolidating access to multiple SAP and third-party apps in a single Launchpad.
- Embedding analytics or machine learning models into Fiori apps.
To get started with SAP Fiori and SAP Cloud Platform:
- Set up your SAP Cloud Platform account and subscribe to necessary services.
- Use SAP Business Application Studio for Fiori app development.
- Leverage SAP Cloud SDK for backend integration and extension development.
- Configure Fiori Launchpad in SCP and integrate with your identity providers.
- Explore SAP’s documentation and tutorials on Fiori on SCP.
SAP Fiori and SAP Cloud Platform together empower organizations to deliver next-generation user experiences that are cloud-enabled, flexible, and integrated. By leveraging SCP’s cloud-native capabilities, businesses can innovate faster, extend SAP’s standard functionality seamlessly, and provide users with a unified, modern interface that drives productivity.
Whether you’re looking to extend existing apps or build entirely new solutions, SAP Cloud Platform is the ideal foundation to unlock the full potential of SAP Fiori in the cloud era.