Business Client
SAP Business Client provides a best-of-both-worlds entry point for business experts working primarily on desktops. Allowing access to SAP Fiori apps via the Fiori Launchpad, while automatically launching SAPGUI transactions in SAPGUI for Windows (instead of SAPGUI for HTML).
- SAP Business Client topic page in SAP Community
- SAP Business Client 6.5 with Belize theme
- SAP Business Client 6.0: Released!
User Assistance
Please note: The context sensitive User Assistance documentation is provided via SAP Enable Now. The documentation can be extended for your organization in the Cloud or On Premise using SAP Enable Now (note licence may be required).
- User Assistance Documentation
- SAP Enable Now - video high level summary
- SAP Enable Now and the Intelligent Suite
- SAP Enable Now Info Center
Optional Add-Ons
- SAP Content to Go help documentation
- SAP CoPilot overview - Digital Assistant for the Enterprise
- SAP Content to Go - iOS devices only! Anywhere, anytime access to up-to-date business data from your mobile device
Trial Environment
SAP S/4HANA 1709 Fully-Activated Appliance: Create your SAP S/4HANA 1709 system
- The NetWeaver Enterprise Procurement Model
- Sign up for a free SAP Cloud Platform trial account
- SAP Development Tools - including Eclipse-based ABAP Development Tools, and Cloud Connector
- Connecting a CAL S/4HANA Instance to SAP Cloud Platform Web IDE
Training Courses
TechEd
- LT144 - SAP Fiori 3 (TechEd 2018)
- CNA215 - See the Big Picture of the ABAP RESTful Programming Model (TechEd 2018)
- CNA202 - How to Get to SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics (TechEd 2018)
- CGE205 - What's New in SAP Fiori elements (TechEd 2018)
- S4H140 ABAP Programming Model for SAP Fiori (TechEd 2017)
OpenSAP
Be Visual! Sketching Basics for IT Business (Q1 2019 edition)
- Create and Deliver Cloud-Native S/4HANA Extensions (2019)
- SAP Cloud Platform Version Control with Git (2018)
Extending SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP S/4HANA (2017) - how to extend the UX
- Using SAP Screen Personas for Advanced Scenarios (2017)
- Introduction to SAP Screen Personas (2017)
- Extending SAP S/4HANA with SAP Cloud Platform (2017)
- Developing Web Apps with SAPUI5 (2016) - course on freestyle apps, always check if you can use SAP Fiori Elements as this requires a lot less development effort
- Build Your Own SAP Fiori App in the Cloud (2016)
- Developing Mobile Apps with SAP HANA Cloud Platform (2015)
Designers
Recommended resources for designers leading Design-led Development, and needing to design with Fiori apps, design with Fiori extensions, and prototype for Fiori.
- Skill Up on Design and User Experience (experience.sap.com) - advice & guideance
- SAP BUILD Learning Center - learn Design-Led Development includes easy accelerators
- Fiori Design Guidelines (experience.sap.com) - comprehensive Fiori style guide
- SAP Design and Co-Innovation Center Scenes - Digital Storyboarding Kit - create use case stories
- Fiori Design Prototyping Resources - prototype new Fiori apps & Fiori app extensions
- SAP BUILD Prototyping Tool & User Studies - prototype & get user study feedback
- SAP Icon Explorer - standard SAP Fiori icons
- Developing Software using Design Thinking (openSAP)
- Software Design for non-Designers (openSAP)
- Basics of Design Research (openSAP)
- BYO Fiori in the Cloud 2016 (openSAP)
Lessons Learned
Analytics Specialists
- Analytics in S/4HANA – real shape of embedded analytics and beyond embedded analytics
- BW Query on CDS View, OData from BW and value of BW Query in S/4HANA
- How to create custom Fiori Multidimensional Reporting application in SAP S/4HANA on premise
- How to find a predefined VDM for a selected SAP S/4HANA database table
- Example: Custom CDS View using predefined Virtual Data Model and Extend View in S/4HANA
- S/4HANA Embedded Analytics: Design Studio Template vs WebDynpro grid visualization of analytical queries
- Fiori for S/4HANA – Why some S/4HANA apps are marked as Accessible
Developers
Official guides for S/4HANA 1809
- Extend and Develop SAP Fiori apps
- SAPUI5 UI Development Toolkit for HTML5
- ABAP Programming Model for SAP Fiori
- ABAP CDS Development User Guide
- BOPF Development User Guide
- BOPF Developer Guide
- Gateway Foundation Guide
- OData - When to use @OData.Publish vs SEGW Referenced Data Source
- ABAP Daemons (similar to Linux cron or Windows Services)
- SAP Web IDE (including Developer Guides)
- CoPIlot Skill Builder Developer Guide
Other references and blogs
Fiori app blogs and how-tos:
- Fiori Elements wiki
- Fiori Overview Page wiki
- Introduction to the ABAP Programming Model for SAP Fiori in S/4HANA
- Introducing ABAP 7.51 - A New ABAP Model for Transactional Application Development (SAPInsider Article by Karl Kessler)
ABAP CDS Views:
- Getting Started with ABAP Core Data Services (CDS)
- ABAP CDS Tooling FAQs
- How to convert a HANA Calculation View to ABAP CDS
- Introduction to Annotations & Vocabularies
- Introduction to Annotation Tags & Properties
- Annotation's usage in S/4HANA Intelligent Product Design
- CDS Annotations for Meta-driven UIs
- Metadata extensions for ABAP CDS
- Why CDS Views are the new ABAP Objects
Transactional Apps:
- Introduction to Business Object Processing Framework
- Understanding Durable Locks for Drafts
- Developing Transactional Apps from Scratch (SAP Help tutorial)
- Create Fiori app using CDS with BOPF- For beginners Part 1
- Create Fiori app using CDS with BOPF- For beginners Part 2