How to choose the right SAP User Experience (UX) Transformation Platform – SAP Personas or SAP Fiori?

User Experience: The Case for Change

SAP User Experience (UX) Solutions

For enterprises looking at making SAP attractive, aiming profits by creating easy user adoption of SAP, the news about SAP Fiori and Personas at Sapphire Now 2014 is a great news. The exciting news is that, the two user experience (UX) products,are now included free for SAP customers. Each of these complementary solutions helps today’s business users by making SAP more intuitive.

SAP Fiori applies modern responsive design principles for a completely re-imagined user experience. SAP Fiori UX represents a personalized, responsive and simple user experience across devices and deployment options. The ready-to-use 300+ role-based apps of SAP Fiori provide a wide range of choice for SAP users. The apps are categorized into three app types that include transactional apps that allow users to perform transaction tasks, analytical apps that provide users role-based insight into key performance indicators, and fact sheets that display contextual information and key facts about central objects used in business operations.

While, SAP Screen Personas is for customization of most classic screens in SAP ERP to increase personal Productivity. The simple, drag and drop approach to modify most SAP GUI screens. Using SAP Screen Personas makes simplifying business application screens quickly and easily for IT and business users without any programming knowledge. SAP Screen Personas improves the end-user productivity, visual appeal, and performance of SAP.

Comparison Matrix to choose between the SAP Personas and SAP Fiori

How to choose  SAP Personas or SAP Fiori?

For majority of SAP casual users in an enterprise, Fiori will be a right-fit to run routine and most common transactions. Fiori apps are ready to run apps with responsive designs that work in an intuitive way across smart phones, tablets and desktops, allowing users to update routine tasks from anywhere from any device. It helps in enhancing speed of business in every line of business. Updated information of inventory, leaves approval, sales and purchase order approvals, creating a dynamic supply chain management which can efficiently deal with challenging supply and demand situations allowing minimal changes for enhancement of look and feel, not allowing changes to the underlying transactions.

SAP Personas has do-it-yourself approach, primarily designed for desktops, helping in modifying specialized and complex screens, tabs or tables of any SAP GUI transaction quickly and easily. Requiring no programming, the most functional group of the organizations can simplify the processes by selecting the information they choose to appear in their own required context.

Based on your priorities, and addressing the below queries will help your enterprise choose the right SAP UI technology to assist your SAP UX transformation initiatives.

For more information regarding our services around SAP User Experience (UX), or to schedule a demo of SAP Fiori or SAP Personas, please email us at sales@innovapptive.com or click here to complete our contact form.

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