Hi Everyone,
Just imagine if apple provides only 1 single app on your iphone which you would then need to use for all you tasks like phone, messaging, email, calendar, calulator, maps, etc. Does this sound appealing to you? I strongly believe not!. It feels same in the case of sap fiori as well and i think it needs a major redesign.
Read further to understand the problem i think needs to be addressed by SAP. And then do share your thoughts about the same.
We want 2 ipad apps for fiori, i.e., separate ipad apps for employee(self service) and manager(self serice). Employee ipad app should show the launchpad with only employee specific tiles and similarly manager ipad app should show only manager specific tiles. We decided to package the apps ourself instead of using the fiori client (whose source code was not shared by SAP so that we cold customize the icon and name).
However, since we have only 1 launchpad for fiori, we fear there is no way we can achieve our requirement in standard sap fiori. the only we figured we would need to create custom SAPUI5 pages with tiles as per out requirement, which would be a huge new investment all together(now and for future maintenance).
In future we would want to have more role specific ipad apps for example Sales Rep, Plant worker, etc to provide them access to mobile applications to help them perform their job roles.
Having a single launchpad actually forces us to have only 1 app for each platform and cram in all the applications for all roles into 1 single ipad app(SAP Fiori Client). By creating role specific apps for each platform, it somehow makes more sense since users can easily identify the specific applications available to them to perform the tasks specific to their job roles.
By the way, this is not something new. Just check SAP enterprise portal, we have roles and worksets. For a desktop environment we can have a portal of different roles. Similarly in fiori i think this feature needs to be added.
What do you guys think about this? Please share your thoughts.
SAP fiori was a major step by SAP towards revamping it's UI and i really like it. But i think there is a lot in fiori which needs to be improved by SAP before it becomes widely accepted.
Regards,
Varun Reddy