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The Fiori trick

SAP finally wants to deliver on the promise of the one-domain model. But the goal is not sound IT performance, but trickery on the user interface.
Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine
August 6, 2020
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Fiori and SAP UI5 are not a bad invention. Why the award-winning user interface has to mutate into an integration tool will not be clear to the SAP community any time soon.

In any case, SAP board member Thomas Saueressig pointed out the importance of end-to-end processes in a webinar and noted that harmonization can also be realized with Fiori. SAP CEO Christian Klein has promised the integration of all cloud purchases into SAP's ERP, saying that SAP will reach 90 percent of its self-imposed goal by the end of this year.

In an SAP community call, Executive Board member Thomas Saueressig promised to do everything possible to make the integration a success at the user level. Strictly speaking, however, SAP is no longer integrating and consolidating, but is hiding all the breaking points under the Fiori interface. The graphical user interface thus becomes the paste that is supposed to hold everything together and must give the user an impression of harmony.

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Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine

Peter M. Färbinger, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief E3 Magazine DE, US and ES (e3mag.com), B4Bmedia.net AG, Freilassing (DE), E-Mail: pmf@b4bmedia.net and Tel. +49(0)8654/77130-21


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