SAP Screen Personas and SAP Fiori are two complementary technologies designed to enhance the SAP user experience. While SAP Fiori focuses on delivering modern, role-based, and responsive web applications with a consistent user experience across devices, SAP Screen Personas provides powerful tools to simplify and personalize the traditional SAP GUI screens.
Integrating SAP Screen Personas with SAP Fiori enables organizations to leverage the best of both worlds—combining the flexibility and personalization of Personas with the modern design and accessibility of Fiori. This article explores how this integration works, its benefits, and practical approaches for implementation.
- Unified User Experience: Provide users with a consistent look and feel across SAP GUI and Fiori apps.
- Simplify Legacy Screens: Use Personas to transform complex SAP GUI transactions embedded within Fiori launchpads.
- Extend Fiori Capabilities: Add custom branding, dynamic scripting, or additional personalization options not natively available in Fiori.
- Faster Adoption: Enable gradual migration from traditional SAP GUI screens to Fiori by offering enhanced GUI screens accessible from the Fiori Launchpad.
The most common integration method is to expose SAP Screen Personas flavors as tiles within the SAP Fiori Launchpad:
- Create Personas Flavors to simplify and customize SAP GUI transactions.
- Expose Flavors as Web Dynpro or SAP GUI for HTML Applications.
- Create Fiori Tiles pointing to these flavors by configuring the Fiori Launchpad designer with appropriate semantic objects and URLs.
This allows users to access the familiar SAP GUI transactions with Personas enhancements seamlessly from their Fiori Launchpad alongside other Fiori apps.
Though less common, you can embed Fiori apps inside a Personas flavor using iFrames or web controls, enabling mashups of UI technologies.
- Authentication & Single Sign-On (SSO): Ensure both Personas and Fiori environments share the same authentication mechanism for seamless user experience.
- SAP GUI for HTML: Personas flavors are usually based on SAP GUI for HTML, which runs well inside browsers and is compatible with Fiori Launchpad.
- Performance: Optimize flavors to load quickly within the Fiori environment to avoid user frustration.
- Responsive Design: While Personas is optimized for desktop SAP GUI, ensure flavors adapt well when launched within browser-based Fiori.
- User Productivity: Users get simplified screens and faster access to transactions, reducing training and error rates.
- Consistent Branding: Maintain corporate branding and design language across all SAP user interfaces.
- Personalization: Enable end-users to personalize SAP GUI screens within the modern Fiori ecosystem.
- Cost Efficiency: Extend the lifecycle of existing SAP GUI transactions while leveraging Fiori’s modern UX delivery.
- Plan Your Integration Strategy: Decide which transactions benefit most from Personas customization and should be exposed via Fiori.
- Use Flavor Groups: Organize flavors and assign them to user groups for controlled access within Fiori.
- Test Across Devices: Ensure flavors launched from Fiori Launchpad function correctly on various devices and screen sizes.
- Monitor Performance: Use SAP tools to track performance impacts of launching Personas flavors from Fiori.
- Train Users: Provide documentation and training to help users navigate between Fiori apps and Personas-enhanced transactions smoothly.
Integrating SAP Screen Personas with SAP Fiori offers a strategic advantage in enhancing SAP user experience by combining modern UX design with powerful customization and personalization capabilities. This integration allows organizations to modernize their SAP environments without disrupting existing business processes, helping users become more productive and engaged.
By carefully planning and implementing this integration, SAP teams can ensure a seamless, efficient, and enjoyable SAP journey for their users.