At WEL Networks we are always looking at innovative ways to deliver the best in safety, best in service. This trial was extremely successful and it gave our Executives hands-on experience with the Unvired application before selecting Unvired and Cirrotec as our mobile solution providers. Having the ability to approve purchase orders away from their desks simplifies and streamlines the PO approval process, driving commercial efficiencies.
As customers increasingly adopt SAP Fiori apps, the topic of SAPUI5 comes up frequently. While React and Angular are fairly well understood, there is still some awareness lacking when it comes to SAPUI5. So, in this blog, we aim to demystify SAPUI5 based on our customer app development experience as well as information gleaned from ASUG sessions.
SAP SAPUI5 is an HTML5 framework for creating cross-platform, enterprise-grade web applications efficiently. It is a single app implementation for all browsers, platforms, and devices. It is used in various SAP products including SAP Fiori and S/4HANA.
As the reference UI technology for the SAP Fiori user experience, SAPUI5 provides:
- SAPUI5 Flexibility: SAPUI5 flexibility provides an easy and cost-effective way to extend apps to deliver a tailored experience to users. Adapting standard applications for specific use cases is more efficient in contrast to building custom UIs from scratch.
- Adaptation/Layering of Changes: There are 3 roles including Developer, Key User, End User that allows the adaptation of the standard apps. Customers can develop ‘standard’ apps and let their key users adapt these apps for individual LoBs/ teams. Adaptation projects allow a developer to create variants of existing applications.
- UI5 Web Components: These deliver SAP Fiori 3 design, enterprise-grade stability, accessibility, internationalization, and themes. They provide reusable controls without the full SAPUI5 framework, and in fact complement SAPUI5.
- Integration cards: These expose application content in a consistent and unified way.
- Smart Controls: These are the foundation of SAP Fiori Elements making UI development fast and easy with reduced TCO. Included are Metadata-driven ‘smart’ controls like the smart table and the smart filter bar.
- SAP Business Application Studio (BAS): BAS is the development environment for SAP Fiori/UI5 apps and is part of the SA{ Business Technology Platform (BTP).
Various resources can be accessed using the following links:
OpenUI5 is the open-source SAPUI5
Developing Web Apps with SAPUI5 | openSAP
Developing and Extending SAP Fiori Elements Apps | openSAP
Training: SAP Fiori Overview: Design, Develop and Deploy | openSAP
Pl. feel free to email us at sales@unvired.com or contact us here if you would like to discuss this topic.
