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Fiori 2.0 – The future looks bright for SAP users!

Fiori 2.0 – The future looks bright for SAP users!

Published by Jan Penninkhof on June 12, 2015

As SAP Mentor, I’m with a privileged few that are allowed to join the internal SAP DKOM (Developer Kick-off meeting), which took place in Walldorf, in February this year. During DKOM, product groups get the opportunity to pitch their latest developments to a larger group of SAP developers and get their feedback. At DKOM, I was totally flabbergasted about a video shown by Maricel Cabahug, who is part of Global Design and User Experience, headed by Sam Yen. The video showed an visionary presentation of what Fiori could look like in the future and how applications basically wrap themselves around the user…

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SAP UX Tweetchat with Sam Yen (February 26th)

SAP UX Tweetchat with Sam Yen (February 26th)

Published by Jan Penninkhof on February 27, 2015

Last Tuesday, I had the opportunity to host/moderate a tweetchat with Sam Yen, who is chief design officer for SAP. I knew Sam Yen from a Teched Live interview that I did with him before, and knew about his passions with regards to user experience and design thinking. Sam has been leading the shift from feature thinking to design- and user-experience thinking at SAP. And that is important, as end-users expect much more from their users-experience. While doing their work at the office, today’s users expect the consumer-like experience that they see from their smart devices and consumer applications. Not only is…

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Reasons why SAP should open-source SAPUI5

Reasons why SAP should open-source SAPUI5

Published by Jan Penninkhof on November 20, 2013

Everyone that has been at a recent SAP Teched, or has come in contact with Fiori in another way, knows that SAP is dead serious about UI5, as the UI development toolkit going forward. At SAP Teched 2013, SAP announced that Fiori Wave 2 gets +150 new apps all based on UI5. Fiori will become the new user experience for a consistent experience across all SAP solutions More partners and individual developers inside the SAP ecosystem are also trying to adopt UI5, to keep up with the train that SAP has brought to speed. However, because of licensing issues, many…

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