Optimized SAP Fiori Application Management

SAP launched SAP Fiori with the intent of enabling businesses with the capabilities to create business apps that provided a consistent user experience across users, make all transitions between SAP systems seamless, and customize apps that can be integrated with SAP S/4HANA and other SAP enterprise software solutions.

SAP Fiori has become an integral part of the toolset companies use to streamline processes and better employee experience. It provides a rapidly deployed, touch-enabled interface to deliver access to business information on multiple devices—including smartphones and tablets. By making workflows the core of what it is offering, SAP Fiori can eliminate time spent on data entry and allow workers to concentrate on more pressing matters. An intuitive, single-point of entry to your business applications with a less content heavy experience allows users to be more productive with minimal training. Its intuitive design provides a consistent experience across various devices and deployment options, supporting all business processes from the simplest to most complex and casual to mission-critical—focusing on how your people actually work.

SAP Fiori authorization management is complicated and multilayered by nature, requiring significant education and knowledge for the latest technologies provided by SAP, releasing new applications with every release – sometimes needing a specialist each time. With SAP Fiori now being a must-have with SAP S/4HANA, the incorporation of authorization issues during the design of business processes is an even higher priority. Manual profiles such as SAP_ALL are not enough for functional testing. Additionally, challenges related to role concepts and their progress-oriented requirements and compliance appear and unlike the local system, the decentralized Fiori Apps Library does not have evaluation capabilities, which adds to the complexity. Another challenge is the manual identification of required related apps and maintaining consistent Fiori object transport. Managing Spaces, Pages, and Sections is particularly time-consuming, with tasks such as creating and linking these entities together manually. Effective authorization management is the key—in the digital world, companies need to secure their data, meet regulatory requirements, and ensure a good user experience for employees and customers.

Xiting’s Authorizations Management Suite (XAMS) enhances SAP Fiori application management by automatically identifying suitable Fiori apps based on existing authorization concepts. It uses an integrated Fiori Apps Library for high-performance comparisons and allows applications to be matched against the Simplification List within XAMS. The suite enables mass maintenance of Fiori catalogues for assigning applications (tiles) and target mappings, with quick creation facilitated by Excel import and export interfaces. Pages, Sections, and Spaces can also be efficiently processed. XAMS’s Role Designer allows for clear and rapid assignment of Fiori catalogues, groups, and spaces, while the Role Profiler performs automatic consistency checks on Fiori catalog contents within SAP roles. Finally, the Role Replicator ensures consistent transport of all associated Fiori objects to downstream systems.