openSAP Introduction to SAP Fiori UX

WEEK 2, UNIT 1

00:00:12 Hello and welcome. My name is Prakalp Phadnis.

00:00:15 I am a principal consultant in the Global Mobility Services SWAT team

00:00:19 and I am very happy to welcome you to this brand new session on Fiori at openSAP.

00:00:24 This week, the topic of our focus is deploying the components required for implementing Fiori

00:00:30 and some of the theory related to these activities.

00:00:34 In the previous sessions together with Elizabeth in week 1, you went through the UX, the user experience paradigm at SAP, the architecture,

00:00:43 and Bob Caswell took you through the RDS approach to knowledge sharing and implementation acceleration.

00:00:50 All of these are exciting topics for Fiori enthusiasts.

00:00:54 This week, unfortunately, the much more mundane topic of deployment.

00:00:59 But I hope that the exercises that we have designed will make it more exciting for you as we go along.

00:01:05 The slide you are looking at should be familiar to you.

00:01:10 Elizabeth took you through this in week 1.

00:01:12 Those who couldn't attend that session, please do take the time to familiarize yourselves with this slide.

00:01:18 It's a really good overview at a high level of what we are trying to achieve.

00:01:23 So the key message in this slide is, let's say, a one-minute architecture overview of how the Fiori applications are delivered

00:01:31 and what various layers that we are traversing and which components that we are using.

00:01:36 Starting at the very top, you see that there is a WebKit-enabled browser on either a desktop or a handheld device—it doesn't matter which—

00:01:45 which then goes through a proxy.

00:01:48 In some cases there is a hard requirement for this proxy to be an SAP Web dispatcher, but we'll get to that in a minute.

00:01:57 And then reach the SAP Gateway that we were...SAP NetWeaver Gateway 2.0, as it used to be called.

00:02:04 Now it's called the SAP front-end server, where the services are registered.

00:02:08 The front-end server, in turn, is responsible to call the correct OData services which are deployed on the back end.

00:02:15 And in some cases, the HANA XS engine is directly called from the Web dispatcher.

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00:02:22 This is based on what kind of protocol is being used for that call and there is a routing logic in the Web dispatcher to handle that.

00:02:33 That's the reason for the dependency.

00:02:35 But we'll look into that a bit more as we go through the types of applications and so on.

00:02:40 So going past all this dry and theoretical stuff, what does it get you?

00:02:48 In the top section of the slide, I've tried to do sort of a guided procedure,

00:02:58 tried to get you to see this is what we have, it gets you this, and so on and so on.

00:03:02 So what does this theory get you?

00:03:04 Well it gets you this wonderful launchpad.

00:03:08 Now again, Elizabeth will have taken you through the launchpad and shown you the various applications in that launchpad.

00:03:17 But look at the transition. This dry architecture gives you such a wonderful UI

00:03:22 and in my opinion, this UI almost doesn't require any...there is no learning curve.

00:03:28 It's a clean user interface. It provides the information that you need

00:03:33 and you can almost begin to be effective in this UI from the word go.

00:03:39 So the question is: Okay, that's great. I like the UI. I now know what the architecture is or at least remember what the architecture is.

00:03:46 How to get here? How to really get here?

00:03:50 So let's take a few seconds. Before we go down to the next side, let's take a few seconds

00:03:56 to think about the composition of the apps themselves.

00:04:00 You will remember that I spoke about OData services in the architecture slides

00:04:05 and those of you who are inherently programmers, you will not need any explanation for that.

00:04:13 But for the wider audience, the OData service is what provides the data.

00:04:19 It's the meat on the bone, so to speak.

00:04:21 And naturally, this service lives where the data lives, and that's in the back-end system.

00:04:25 It's deployed as an add-on.

00:04:28 To our the participants looking at this or colleagues who are looking at this who are SAP Basis colleagues, they will immediately know what to do with this.

00:04:38 Each service is served with a UI component that matches it.

00:04:44 So some of the UI components are standardized across services

00:04:48 and others are specific for the app or the scenario.

00:04:52 And similar to the OData services add-ons, the UIs are also delivered as add-ons.

00:04:58 And of course, you guessed right, these are delivered and deployed onto the front-end server.

00:05:04 So the SRAs or the OData service add-ons deployed on the back end, the UI add-ons

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deployed on the front-end server.

00:05:14 And together they shake hands and once that happens, this is the picture that you are seeing on the screen,

00:05:22 the launchpad populated with tiles, as they're called, with data in them.

00:05:28 Where and what do these add-ons look like in the back end? How can you see them? What do you do?

00:05:35 Because of the breadth that this course is going to appeal to, some of this stuff is very basic.

00:05:41 Those of you who are SAP-proficient may not have that much to take away from it.

00:05:46 But for those who are not, this is...the add-ons are in the back-end system, are visible when you access a certain menu structure.

00:05:57 Let me go and show you that in a minute.

00:05:59 But the back-end components, the foundation components, are available to you there to view

00:06:06 and also the components for the services themselves.

00:06:11 Let me just jump out of this PowerPoint for a minute

00:06:15 and go log in...sorry, I am already logged in.

00:06:19 So now I hope what you're seeing is the SAP GUI when I'm already logged in.

00:06:27 This is, by the way, a similar system to the one that you're going to be using.

00:06:33 There should be no visible difference for you. Everything should be exactly the same.

00:06:40 You can click exactly where I'm clicking to go find this information.

00:06:44 So all I did was click on the System button, the menu item here.

00:06:49 Scroll down to Status, and that opens up a System Status window.

00:06:55 Click on the little magnifying glass (the proper term is Component information, by the way).

00:07:00 Click on the magnifying glass. That throws up another window

00:07:04 and here you see all the components—I am marking the column there—

00:07:09 their release level, the SP level, and some descriptive text about these components.

00:07:14 So let's take one example here. What can I show you?

00:07:18 This one right here, for example: SAP_GWFND.

00:07:23 The SAP Gateway Foundation. Self-explanatory.

00:07:26 If we scroll down a little bit, let's see if we can find some of those SRAs since we're talking about back-end component deployment.

00:07:36 Just a little bit more scrolling...

00:07:38 There. Here we go.

00:07:43 There it is. So all these here, the SRA001, 002, 003, and so on and so on,

00:07:51 these are all these OData services add-ons that have been deployed.

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00:07:56 And each of them has a descriptive text. So although the name of the component may not be so intuitive,

00:08:04 you can see here 008 is, for example, Approve Travel Expenses. Just for example.

00:08:10 Now this is where you'll go and find this information in your system.

00:08:17 Going back to my presentation, if I can find it here.

00:08:22 So going back to my presentation and jumping one slide back.

00:08:26 Following the logic of the breadcrumbs or the guided procedure on top.

00:08:31 In the beginning, we had the architecture. That architecture gave you this as an end product, the launchpad and all the functionality within it.

00:08:38 Now to build this functionality, what we need is some of the basics like these SRAs.

00:08:46 And each of these back-end components have a handshake with a UI element to them, like I said in an earlier slide.

00:08:57 And let's go find these as well.

00:08:59 Now before we go there, you will see me do the same thing.

00:09:05 So I didn't change any systems. It's still being called ERP down here. You'll see that the client is the same.

00:09:11 That's because we're doing something called an embedded deployment. I'll come to that in a bit.

00:09:15 But our test system has both the back-end and the front-end components deployed in the same system.

00:09:26 Okay. So let me find those.

00:09:29 If I can do a little bit more scrolling here...there we are.

00:09:34 Perhaps mark this over here like this.

00:09:38 So here we have UI components. UI for ERP Central Applications.

00:09:45 The HANA Live content and Smart Business and so on.

00:09:49 These two deployed together—not necessarily on the same system—but these two deployed together shake hands

00:09:55 and give us what we need from our system to be able to use the launchpad.

00:10:05 Now going back to the presentation.

00:10:09 What I would like to highlight here just for one moment is that

00:10:16 we have a set of foundational components.

00:10:20 These are universal. Or rather, they are necessary for the Gateway to support its function as a front-end server.

00:10:29 And then there are some components which are generic.

00:10:34 So if I take you quickly back to this Status window here, I can show you that there was one which was called

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00:10:45 UI for ERP Central Applications. Generic UI.

00:10:49 And it's being used or reused. These UIs are being reused.

00:10:53 Here, for example, let's have a look at one of the ones which are specific

00:11:00 to the kind of module that one might be implementing.

00:11:03 For example, the one I've highlighted now is called UIX01HCM.

00:11:10 This UI component... you know, we're simplifying the whole thing,

00:11:14 the deployment, the maintenance and so on,

00:11:17 so this one add-on contains the UI for all the HCM scenarios.

00:11:23 The same applies for the next one. It's called Travel. All the travel scenarios are served by this one particular UI component.

00:11:34 Now where can you find these?

00:11:40 These components are downloaded for you.

00:11:44 You can do it in multiple ways.

00:11:49 But before we go to the actual place where you can go and find these components and download them,

00:11:54 I want to talk about something called the Solution Manager and Software Update Manager

00:12:02 and essentially the toolkit that we are recommending or even insisting should be used for deployment purposes.

00:12:11 The reason for this is because we are in a highly...not necessary volatile, but fast-moving area.

00:12:21 Fiori is evolving. There are a lot of changes being made.

00:12:25 And in that context, it is important to have a set of tools which

00:12:32 ensure that you're doing the right thing at the right time

00:12:36 and this is where this toolkit comes into play.

00:12:40 The Software Update Manager, for example, facilitates NetWeaver-based application system upgrades,

00:12:48 enhancement package updates,

00:12:50 and installation of Support Packages, for example, in a single harmonized UI.

00:12:58 While the Software Update Manager is shipped as a part of a toolset—again, you can go and download this—

00:13:05 it's independent of all the applications that we're talking about.

00:13:08 However, it supports the deployment, upgrade, and maintenance, as I mentioned.

00:13:13 You can get it from the Service Marketplace. In the next slide, I'm going to talk about the Service Marketplace for a bit.

00:13:21 But also, the Maintenance Optimizer transaction in SAP Solution Manager is an important point to discuss here

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00:13:28 because we are generating the XML stack list through this transaction.

00:13:33 Again, those of you who are Basis colleagues, you will know this by heart,

00:13:36 but I need to mention it for the wider audience.

00:13:40 The Maintenance Optimizer transaction is a central point of access for these maintenance activities.

00:13:45 It supports, again, the installation of updates and upgrades

00:13:49 and it can essentially completely manage the maintenance activities for the entire solution.

00:13:55 There are some prerequisites to setting up the Maintenance Optimizer transaction.

00:13:58 That's not the scope of our work over here.

00:14:01 However, suffice for you to know that this is our recommendation of how you will deploy Fiori.

00:14:12 Maintenance Optimizer is centrally accessible from inside Solution Manager.

00:14:17 And there's a very simple URL for you to access for more information on this.

00:14:22 So all you need to do is go to service.sap.com/mopz.

00:14:28 So Maintenance Optimizer, that's the short form or the transaction code for that.

00:14:36 While on the previous slide, I said I'm going to talk about the Service Marketplace.

00:14:42 The Service Marketplace is the one place which gathers all information related to SAP products

00:14:49 and it's essentially a one-stop shop.

00:14:52 Here you go. You have a user, of course.

00:14:57 In the slide deck you're looking at now, I've drawn a little marker, if you will, or red box, on the top right-hand corner.

00:15:06 There is the information to either log in or register or even reset your password if you're coming in from the outside as a non-SAP employee.

00:15:16 Now, why am I saying this now? It's because when I show you this, I'll already be logged in and you won't see that part here.

00:15:23 So I just wanted to emphasize.

00:15:25 And you need a user, even with Solution Manager. When you create this stack list and when you ask for the downloads,

00:15:34 you need an authorized user with the right permissions to do that.

00:15:39 Usually, this S-user is not something you create yourself.

00:15:42 It's connected to the licenses that your employer has or your company has, and so on.

00:15:49 So make sure that's something that you have with you when and if you go down the path of implementing this.

00:15:57 So let's jump out again of the presentation and find the Service Marketplace.

00:16:03 Interestingly enough, it says Welcome Guest over here.

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00:16:06 So it hasn't logged me on. But let's see if my single sign-on works.

00:16:11 Support Portal. Just an example. Let's go there.

00:16:22 Okay. A few minutes, a few seconds.

00:16:28 Okay. Excellent. My single sign-on worked. Here it says Prakalp Phadnis and so on.

00:16:32 Look at these breadcrumbs. I just wanted to show you a little bit of what it looks like in there.

00:16:38 Software Downloads. And then Installations and Upgrades. Let me just search for something really quick.

00:16:46 Let's say *fiori...Is that right? Yes...*. Enter.

00:16:52 And oh, look!

00:16:56 A number of hits. There are even a number of pages. 18 pages all in all.

00:17:01 So that's just a quick demo of the Service Marketplace.

00:17:09 Remember, you need an S-user, You can't see these...oh, what happened?

00:17:16 Okay, let me try again. You can't see these files if you don't have the licenses or the relevant authorizations.

00:17:24 In my case, being an employee, I can see a lot more than you probably would see.

00:17:30 Okay. All the components are downloaded from here.

00:17:35 Sorry, just one moment.

00:17:43 That's us back. Service Marketplace, yeah? Then that brings us to the end of this overview unit.

00:17:50 So what we did was we went quickly through the architecture that Elizabeth that covered with you in week 1.

00:17:55 We saw the results of having implemented all the required components, what kind of components they were, front-end, back-end.

00:18:03 We talked about where you can get these components, what you need to be able to download these components,

00:18:09 and we also talked about the recommendations that SAP has, or even directives that SAP has

00:18:15 for deploying these components—namely Update Manager and Solution Manager—for a successful deployment.

00:18:21 In the next unit (that's also me, by the way), we will cover the prerequisites

00:18:27 and we will look at SAP Notes, a very important topic.

00:18:34 And we will look at where to go...again, I want to show you the background of where to go

00:18:40 and where to find information, because that's almost more important than just giving you the information.

00:18:46 So thank you for your attention and see you next week.

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WEEK 2, UNIT 2

00:00:13 Hello and welcome to week 2, unit 2 “Validating the Prerequisites”.

00:00:17 This is going to be the shortest section you are going to see in this course.

00:00.23 Why, because there is really only very little to say and even less to show.

00:00:28 However, I decided to dedicate a unit to this topic as we have experienced that many challenges can be mitigated just by having done some of the preparation work prior to starting execution.

00:00:42 And because Fiori is such a fast moving topic (I mentioned this also in unit 1), there are improvements and additions in almost every quarter.

00:00:51 And it's vital that you spend some time on 1) determining the prerequisites and 2) ensuring that all the relevant notes are applied.

00:01:01 This helps, you know, mitigating any unknown behavior that you might be experiencing.

00:01:06 So SAP is providing the foundation to make the start as easy as possible by gathering all the relevant information in an easily accessible and equally easily referenced documentation.

00:01:19 And to reach this documentation, the only URL you are going to need is help.sap.com/fiori.

00:01:27 And all the necessary information is collected here and any further links or any further additional material that may need referencing is also identified over here: help.sap.com/fiori.

00:01:39 Now in order to find the prerequisites for your particular scenario, what you need to do is access the prerequisite list, which is published on this slide.

00:01:51 And I have a hyperlink in the presentation over here, I have already clicked on it.

00:01:57 So let me switch the view to Internet Explorer and show you the Prerequisites section.

00:02:08 Now, on the Help Portal, when you click on the “prerequisite” link, it will take you directly to the Installation section.

00:02:16 If you were to access this otherwise, just click on the installation topic, and that will throw up these subtopics where “prerequisites” is the second main subtopic.

00:02:27 And the prerequisites are listed in a logical order: They address databases, so either HANA –

00:02:34 prerequisites for, if you're running on HANA, prerequisites if you're running on any other database,

00:02:41 prerequisites based on...for the front-end server, the back-end server, which version of these servers so if you're on NetWeaver 7.31 or 7.40,

00:02:51 which SP you're on, what SP you need minimum, what SPS and versions you need for the ERP if you're deploying those scenarios.

00:03:02 SRM, CRM, and so on – you see them listed down here.

00:03:08 Now going back to the presentation. The second topic that we wanted to talk about or I said I'd like to talk about is SAP Notes.

00:03:16 And SAP Notes, again, are collected in the same place.

00:03:22 They're are also gathered under a title, let me, I have a link on the left-hand side again.

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00:03:30 It's called “release notes”, check the release notes. So I've clicked on this link and it will take you...

00:03:37 In this particular case, look away from the fact that it says “Transactional Apps” and “Fact Sheets” – they apply, the concept of notes applies to all types of applications.

00:03:47 And here all the notes are gathered together for you.

00:03:51 The central SAP Notes, they give you sort of an entry point if you will.

00:03:58 And they usually reference other notes so let's look at one by just clicking on it.

00:04:03 This particular one applies to the front-end server and it's about, it's a general information note for the UI and infrastructure components.

00:04:12 So there's that note, it's come up. And they always follow the same format:

00:04:18 some symptoms, the reasons, the prerequisites, what solutions are being offered and additional details.

00:04:26 And then look at this section here – additional needed notes – you have a number of notes that are referenced.

00:04:31 Always look through these and make sure that you're up-to-date and up to speed in your system.

00:04:40 Like I promised, shorter section, shortest unit.

00:04:44 And in the next unit, we're going to talk about deploying back-end components. So see you soon!

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WEEK 2, UNIT 3

00:00:12 Hi and welcome to unit 3 of week 2: Back-End Server Components Installation Overview.

00:00:19 I am happy to see that after two units there is still interest to follow this essentially dry and tough topic.

00:00:26 If you remember back to our earlier units, as well as Elizabeth’s units,

00:00:30 we spoke about the architecture of how the components are designed to be a handshake

00:00:36 between the back-end components and the front-end components,

00:00:39 where both depend on their respective foundation components as well.

00:00:42 So in this unit we will look at the back-end components, where to find them, and how to deploy them.

00:00:49 Before we go any further, let's have a quick look at the types of Fiori applications available to us today.

00:00:55 There are essentially three types of applications: the transactional applications, the fact sheets, and the analytical applications.

00:01:02 The types of applications being deployed dictate what kind of components to be deployed

00:01:09 and the back-end system that is required to deploy these components.

00:01:14 Talking about each of these types a little bit. Transactional applications are essentially task-oriented.

00:01:20 The name itself says, you know, a transaction.

00:01:22 So you are executing a specific action. For example, you are entering your time in your time sheet

00:01:29 or maybe you're a manager and you are approving leave requests or time sheets.

00:01:33 Usually these transactional applications are provided in archives called SRAs

00:01:40 and these archives, at the moment at least, are numbered from 1 to 20 or 21.

00:01:46 With the exception of three of them, for some reason. And these are called...these have names that start with GBHCM or GBAPP.

00:01:55 And let's stop there for a moment. I will jump into the SAP GUI and let's see these names.

00:02:04 I expect now that you're familiar with where we are in the GUI. So I'll just click on the magnifying glass and scroll down in this component list.

00:02:14 And there you see them. Let me scroll back up a little bit.

00:02:18 So we get both types of names there.

00:02:21 This is what I was talking about. SRA001, SRA002, and so on.

00:02:25 And then GBAPP and GBHCM.

00:02:29 So that's the naming anomaly, let's call it like that, in this particular case.

00:02:39 So. Transactional applications. Now moving on.

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00:02:42 Let's have a look at what fact sheets are.

00:02:45 Fact sheets make contextual data come alive.

00:02:48 They allow the user to review data at an overview level,

00:02:52 drill down into some details, and then finally navigate to a system in order to execute a specific action.

00:02:59 Fact sheets require both the ABAP stack as well as SAP HANA.

00:03:04 They require the Web Dispatcher.

00:03:07 And they use something called search models,

00:03:11 and these models are delivered as a part of the prerequisites enhancement pack for these type of applications.

00:03:20 The next type is analytical applications.

00:03:24 A little bit confusing—sometimes they are called smart business applications,

00:03:27 and in some other documents you may see them as analytical applications. Essentially the same thing.

00:03:32 They require and only run on the HANA platform.

00:03:37 They use something called a two-tier architecture. It's also called HANA Live,

00:03:43 where we are using something called virtual data models (VDMs).

00:03:49 And again, require the SAP Web Dispatcher.

00:03:52 These give the users a role-based insight into real-time operations for the business.

00:03:59 They collect and display key figures directly in the browser.

00:04:02 They provide real-time information on large data volumes

00:04:08 and a simplified front end for enterprise control.

00:04:14 This slide most of you will see and remember from earlier units.

00:04:20 While we have covered most of the salient points in this unit about app types,

00:04:24 there are always more details. There are updated details that are relevant, and more important information that needs to be discovered.

00:04:31 And all this can be found at help.sap.com/fiori.

00:04:37 Clicking on this link takes you to this page in the Help Portal.

00:04:45 Click on the text which says SAP Fiori App Types and Database Requirements.

00:04:50 And that gives you all the current requirements and all the current app types and an explanation of each of these app types,

00:04:58 including the architecture.

00:05:04 And then finally, at the end of this section, perhaps the most important slide.

00:05:10 Again, this may be a little bit of a repeat, but it just goes to show how important this

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recommendation is.

00:05:16 We are clearly recommending to use deployment tools like Solution Manager (Maintenance Optimizer transaction) and the Software Update Manager

00:05:25 and the HANA Lifecycle Manager to manage and deploy Fiori to your target landscape.

00:05:31 In some cases—in some cases only— you may have to use the transactions SPAM or SAINT

00:05:38 to add new Support Packages or updates to your existing Support Packages.

00:05:43 Yes, the Basis colleagues will tell you, these are actual transactions in SAP—I'm not just making them up—

00:05:49 SPAM standing for Support Package Manger and SAINT for Add-On Installation Tool.

00:05:55 And you can see that the titles on the menus here in the graphic also reflect that description.

00:06:04 And in some special cases, you can manage the entire deployment of a Fiori application

00:06:13 using these transactions, but that is really not the recommended approach.

00:06:20 To recap at the end of this session, we have looked at the back-end components based on app types,

00:06:29 we have looked at where to find them, we have looked at where to go for more information.

00:06:34 We have seen what kinds of tools and transactions are required to deploy these components,

00:06:39 and we've also had a look at the help pages.

00:06:41 In the next unit, we will repeat this exercise, but at that time focusing on the front-end components.

00:06:47 See you soon.

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WEEK 2, UNIT 4

00:00:12 Hello and welcome to week 2 unit 4: an exercise to familiarize yourself with deploying add-ons to the back-end server.

00:00:20 In the previous unit, we looked at the back-end components installation overview, and now it's time to get some hands-on experience if you so choose.

00:00:28 This is an optional exercise, as are all the exercises we have designed for you,

00:00:32 which means that there is no impact on your final score if you choose not to do it.

00:00:37 Let me spend a few minutes describing the structure of the task at hand as I envision it.

00:00:43 The task of deploying an add-on onto the back end is a straightforward activity if you are a specialized SAP Basis consultant,

00:00:50 and sometimes even then it's difficult.

00:00:53 But most of us are not Basis consultants, so don’t worry if you are not successful in deploying the add-on to your personal cloud instance.

00:01:00 We have prepared the groundwork to account for most of the possibilities, but cannot account for all of them.

00:01:06 On the other hand, if you are successful in deploying the add-on,

00:01:10 then please don't walk away from this exercise thinking Aha, that was a piece of cake, because it's really not.

00:01:16 For the purposes of this arena, we've tried to simplify the process as much as possible to give you a taste of what is required.

00:01:23 In this exercise, I would like to guide you through the end-to-end process of downloading, deploying,

00:01:30 and then identifying the recently deployed add-on and it's new version.

00:01:36 You will create a user on the Service Marketplace, find the add-on that we have chosen,

00:01:40 load it into the queue of your back-end system, run through the deployment process,

00:01:45 and finally view the change in the system status window that we've seen earlier.

00:01:51 In the how-to guide, linked both in the slide as well as at the bottom of your screen,

00:01:57 you will find detailed instructions for setting up the system and executing this exercise.

00:02:02 You can also use the forum for support and discussions.

00:02:06 Have fun.

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WEEK 2, UNIT 5

00:00:12 Hello and welcome to week 2, unit 5: Front-End Server Installation Overview.

00:00:18 Again, I'm happy that you are with us and you're finding these units interesting.

00:00:24 Let us do a quick recap on what we have covered.

00:00:26 So far, we have visited the following topics in these units:

00:00:31 the deployment of SAP Fiori-related components from a high level,

00:00:35 the prerequisites that you need, where to find updated information,

00:00:40 the deployment process, the tools that you require during the deployment process,

00:00:45 and how to deploy back-end components.

00:00:48 Now let us look at the required components and the process of deploying them for the front-end system.

00:00:56 You will all remember me talking about the Service Marketplace

00:00:59 and the downloads section in the Service Marketplace contains all the necessary media for all the components, including the front-end components.

00:01:08 So you may recall also that I talked about SAP focusing on simplifying the deployment process of Fiori.

00:01:15 As opposed to a one-on-one relationship between the front-end components and the OData service components,

00:01:23 we now have UI bundles that serve multiple back-end services.

00:01:28 For transactional applications, the UI applications are collected under the title FIORI ERP APPLICATIONS X1 1.0.

00:01:40 For fact-sheet-based applications, it is a little different,

00:01:44 and these are collected under the title UI FOR EHP7 FOR SAP ERP 6.0.

00:01:53 For analytical applications, the common search term that you will use—or you can use—is SAP SMART BUSINESS 1.0 FOR ERP.

00:02:03 Of course when you change the type of application that you're deploying, the corresponding back-end connotation will also change.

00:02:12 For example, if you are deploying a CRM-based Smart Business application,

00:02:18 then your search term may look something like SAP Smart Business 1.0 for SAP CRM.

00:02:27 In the earlier units, the emphasis I expressed on using the Toolkit also applies here.

00:02:34 Please use the Software Update Manager and the Maintenance Optimizer transaction in Solution Manager

00:02:40 to manage your deployment and to manage all your installation tasks.

00:02:44 As always, in some special cases, the deployment of the components can directly happen in the SAINT or the SPAM transactions.

00:02:53 This brings us to the end of this unit.

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00:02:56 Here in this unit, we looked at the front-end component deployment, the app types, and the components based on these app types.

00:03:05 We saw where to find the required information and which tools and transactions are required to deploy these as well.

00:03:11 The difference in this unit from the rest of the units is that I have not repeated the visit to the help pages.

00:03:18 However, I am certain that you are now completely comfortable with the help pages and there is no need to repeat this topic further.

00:03:25 In the next unit, we will repeat this exercise, but a little differently

00:03:29 because we will focus on the HANA-based scenarios.

00:03:33 See you soon.

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WEEK 2, UNIT 6

00:00:12 Hi and welcome to week 2 unit 6: an exercise to familiarize yourself with deploying add-ons to the front-end server.

00:00:20 In the previous unit, we looked at the front-end server components installation overview,

00:00:25 and now it is your time to get some hands-on experience if you choose.

00:00:30 This is an optional exercise, as are all the exercises we have designed for you,

00:00:34 which means that there is no impact on your final score if you choose not to do the exercise.

00:00:40 Because the previous exercise and this one are very similar

00:00:44 in the sense that we will repeat almost all the steps from when you deployed the back-end components,

00:00:49 I don't want to spend too much of your time introducing the exercise itself.

00:00:54 However, in this exercise, I would like to guide you through the end-to-end process of downloading, deploying, and then identifying

00:01:02 the recently deployed add-on and it's version level.

00:01:05 You will log in to the Service Marketplace—

00:01:07 remember we already created a user together—

00:01:10 find the add-on we have chosen, load it into the queue, run the deployment,

00:01:15 and verify the change in the system status window.

00:01:19 In the how-to guide, linked both in the slide as well as at the bottom of your screen,

00:01:25 you will find detailed instructions for setting up the system and executing this exercise.

00:01:30 You can also use the forum for support and discussions.

00:01:34 Have fun.

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WEEK 2, UNIT 7

00:00:12 Hi, and welcome to week 2, unit 7: SAP Fiori UX on SAP HANA – Deployment Overview.

00:00:19 This week, we've covered various deployment topics already

00:00:22 and you may be wondering why I've chosen to address the HANA-based Fiori scenario separately.

00:00:27 Walking through this unit should highlight the differences between what we've seen so far

00:00:33 and why the HANA-based scenarios are different in terms of deployment.

00:00:38 In these HANA-based scenarios, we are introducing the HANA XS Engine,

00:00:45 the virtual data models (or VDMs, as they are referred to in short), and the HANA studio.

00:00:51 The HANA studio is an integrated development environment (or ID for short) which hosts the HANA lifecycle manager.

00:00:57 And this plays an important role in this context.

00:01:00 The Web dispatcher also plays an important role in this architecture

00:01:03 and last but not least, the deployment tools in themselves are different.

00:01:08 Clicking on the link in the presentation will take you to the help pages

00:01:14 and on these pages, you will see the entire composition described in detail. Please do have a look.

00:01:22 The HANA lifecycle management tool, at the time of recording this, is on SPS 07

00:01:29 and is now capable of installing and upgrading all the HANA platform software components,

00:01:34 for example, the HANA studio, the database, the host agent, and so on.

00:01:40 It has improved batch processing capabilities, so configuration files and command line options.

00:01:46 And it has improved logging and error handling.

00:01:48 The new HANA lifecycle manager installer is contained in this.

00:01:56 Essentially, there are three ways to work with the HANA lifecycle manager.

00:02:00 You can either use a config file that you prepare up front,

00:02:05 work in a terminal window with user interaction or in a terminal window without user interaction,

00:02:10 and through a GUI (graphical user interface).

00:02:14 The GUI is a fairly standard SAP UI with guided procedures, radio buttons, and checkboxes.

00:02:20 In those cases where one may be running an interactive session in a terminal window,

00:02:26 those checkmarks in the GUI would correspond to values entered as comma-separated values.

00:02:35 The HANA lifecycle manager is a tool with which you can maintain your HANA systems.

00:02:41 Currently, I am limited to showing you only the screenshot and the path which you will follow in

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the tool.

00:02:48 And I understand that the screenshot may not be completely clear.

00:02:51 However, this is the view from the HANA studio of the lifecycle management tool.

00:02:59 And let me talk to the numbers in this screenshot, which are meant to show how to navigate within the tool itself.

00:03:07 Number 1, right-click on the system that you have in your studio.

00:03:14 That opens a context menu. In that context menu, number 2, is the lifecycle management menu item.

00:03:22 Clicking on that gives us number 3, which is the HANA lifecycle manager itself within this user interface

00:03:31 where you will then be able to update your HANA system, manage additional HANA components in the system.

00:03:37 You will be able to integrate the HANA system in your landscape and administer these systems as you would otherwise.

00:03:46 Now that brings us to the end of this unit.

00:03:52 Here we've seen some of the salient features as to why the tools that we're using to deploy HANA

00:03:59 are significantly different than the toolset we talked about earlier in this week.

00:04:04 In the next unit, you will look at an exercise based on the HANA studio. See you soon.

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WEEK 2, UNIT 8

00:00:12 Hi and welcome to week 2, unit 8: the exercise on HANA studio.

00:00:18 This is an optional exercise, as are all the exercises we have designed for you,

00:00:22 which means that there is no impact on your final score if you choose not to do it.

00:00:28 In this exercise, I would like to guide you through the end-to-end process of downloading, installing, and connecting the HANA studio to the back-end system.

00:00:36 In the how-to guide, linked in the slide as well as at the bottom of your screen,

00:00:41 you will find detailed instructions for setting up the system and executing this exercise.

00:00:47 You can also use the forums for support and discussions.

00:00:50 Have fun.

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