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Latest Enhancements in SAP ERPHCM Self-Services: HR Renewal,

SAP Fiori, and SAPUI5

Jeremy MastersWorklogix



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In This Session

• Understand the importance of SAPUI5 within the context of ESS,MSS, and self-services for HR professionals

• Explore the new offerings available with HR Renewal and SAPFiori and learn the differences between them (and overlap)

• Understand your different choices in portals, including SAPEnterprise Portal, SAP NetWeaver Business Client, SAP Fiorilaunchpad, and others

• Learn how to integrate SuccessFactors talent management

modules within the new self-services framework



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What We’ll Cover

• Background• The latest offerings

• Portal choices, choices, choices

• UI Integration with SuccessFactors

• Wrap-up



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Short History of SAP Web UIs

• Employee self-service ESS 3.1I (1997)

ESS 4.0B

ESS 4.5B (1999)

ESS 4.6B



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Internet Transaction Server



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mySAP.com WorkplacemySAP.com competes

with best-of-breed portalsPlumtree, Epicentric, andWebSphere



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ESS Within SAP Portal 5.0

SAP acquires TopTier(Israeli-based company)

for $400 Million

TopTier Portal becomesSAP Portal



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ESS on SAP ERP 2004 with Web Dynprofor Java

All services converted to

Web Dynpro Java

Homepage Framework,Floor Plan Manager, andObject and Data Provider

are introduced



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ESS on SAP ERP 6.0 with Web Dynpro for Java

Web Dynpro for Javamigration to Web Dynpro

for ABAP



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New ESS on SAP ERP 6.0 EnhancementPackage 5

New ESS on Wed Dynpro

ABAP

Alternative UIs like SAPNetWeaver Business Client(NWBC) introduced, but not

popular



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New ESS on SAP ERP 6.0 EHP5 (Bizcard)

Attempts made to

improve user experience,improved user

experience good forsome customers



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Manager Self-Service

• Manager self-service 1999: Manager ’s Desktop – SAP R/3 4.5B

Mid-2002: Business Package for Manager Self-Service (Java,HTML Business for Java [HTMLB])



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MSS on SAP ERP 5.0 and SAP ERP 6.0

• 2004: Business Package for Manager Self-Service (SAP ERP 5.0) – Web Dynpro for Java

• 2005: Business Package for Manager Self-Service (SAP ERP 6.0) – Web Dynpro Java (main UI technology) and Web Dynpro ABAP



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Third-party plug-ins forenhanced usability, but

still low customeradoption

Enhancement Package 5, SAP ECC 6.0 — MSS Forms



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More visuals added to

ESS and MSS services

Enhancement Package 5, SAP ECC 6.0 — Comp Planning



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Walldorf, We Have a Problem …

Courtesy pho to from NASA archives: Defense Video and Imagery Distr ibut ion Systemwww.dvidshub.net /



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Computing Technology — 1960s-Current

MainframeComputing

(1960s)Mainframes

Mini-Computing(1970s)

Mini-Computers

PersonalComputing

(1980s)PCs/Macintosh

Desktop InternetComputing

(1990s)

PCs/Macs +Internet

Mobile InternetComputing

(2000s+)

Tablets/Smartphones/

Phablets

Mainframe

Client-Server

Internet

Mobile



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Mobile First

Versus



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Device Agnosticism and Responsive Design



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What We’ll Cover

• Background• The latest offerings



• Wrap-up



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Arrival of SAPUI5

A collection of libraries that developers can use to

build desktop and mobile applications that run in abrowser

Soooooo, what is SAPUI5?

(SAP user interface fo r HTML5)

With the SAPUI5 JavaScript toolkit, developers can

build SAP web applications using HTML5 web

development standards



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The Road Not Taken

SAP Fiori HR Renewal

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.”

- Robert Frost



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HR Renewal Functional Offerings

My InformationWork Feeds

My Services

My Learnings

Search

My Team

My Team Services

Approvals

My KPIs/Status of All KPIs

My ReportsSubstitutions

Salary Statement

Leave Request

Team CalendarLeave Request Approval

CATS Approval

Employee Profile

Workforce Viewer

Discussions

Organization

Processes

Search

Tasks By Draft, Tasks by Time, Tasks byPriority

Time Account

Quick View

Employee Notes



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SAP Fiori Functional Offerings

Application Description Role

My Leave Requests Enables employees to create and submit leave

requests quickly and flexibly using their desktops or

mobile devices. The app also allows employees to

track the status of their requests and view their current

leave balances.

Employee

My Benefits Provides an overview of the benefit plans in which anemployee is enrolled

Employee

My Paystubs Enables employees to check and manage a digital

version of all their paystubs issued by the company for

each payroll period

Employee

My Timesheets Enables employees to manage their time entries Employee Approve Timesheets Enables managers to see all pending approvals for

their reports, enabling them to easily approve

timesheets

Manager

Approve Leave

Requests

Enables managers to approve or reject leave requests

for their direct reports

Manager



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Collisions …

• Leave Request

• Pay Statement

• Timesheet

• Workflow inbox



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Technology Options with Pros and Cons*

Technology Description Pros Cons

SAPUI5 New look and feel

employed by HR Renewal

for landing pages

Mobile-responsive

and advanced look

and feel

Requires SAP Gateway

server

Web Dynpro ABAP

(WDA)

Main technology used

today to enable HCM

content for the web

No additional costs

or servers required

Not mobile-responsive

SAP Fiori Cutting-edge applications

delivered by SAP

Mobile-enabled

versions of key HCM

applications

Requires SAP Gateway

server; only partial HCM

coverage

GUI/SAP Screen

Personas

Toolset to create

streamlined GUI HCMtransactions

Easy creation of

streamlined screensfor GUI

Toolset only; requires

build by customer to getvalue. Also, Windows

GUI-based rather than

web-based.

* From Jeremy Masters, Brandon Toombs, Kris Bland, Justin Morgalis, Self-Services w ith SAP

ERP HCM: ESS, MSS, and HR Renewal (SAP PRESS, 2015).



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What We’ll Cover

•

Background• The latest offerings



• Wrap-up



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Portal Choices

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Traditional SAP Portal SAP NetWeaver 7.4 (on-premise)

SAP NetWeaver, mobile edition (on-premise)

SAP HANA Cloud portal

• SAP NetWeaver Business Client Thin Client

HTML

• SAP Fiori Launchpad

• SAP Fiori Launchpad within SAP Enterprise Portal

• Third-party portals

SharePoint

WebSphere

Portal choices – lots of

them, but which one is right

for my organization?



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HR Renewal Highlights

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Use of CHIPs• Suite Page Builder (SPB)

• Role management (transaction PFCG)

• Launchpad customizing (transaction LPD_CUST)



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CHIPs in HR Renewal

Jeremy, what onearth are CHIPs?

Th A Chi



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These Are Chips …

S A Th



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So Are These …

A d Th



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And These …

CHIPs



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CHIPs

Stands for: Collaborative Human Interface Part

A small, widget-type, encapsulated, stateful piece of

software that can be combined in a layout with otherCHIPs to form a page or side panel

Also referred to as “lanes,” which can be expanded

Defaulting of CHIPs (Lanes) in HR Renewal



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Defaulting of CHIPs (Lanes) in HR Renewal

• There is no standard way to do the following:

Automatically assign employee and manager CHIPs (“lanes”)

for new users/employees (e.g., hires or rehires)

When an employee becomes a manager, automatically assignthe MSS-specific lanes

When a manager becomes an employee, automatically removethe MSS-specific lanes

When a contractor becomes an employee, automatically assignthe ESS-specific lanes (if this use case is relevant for yourorganization)

Help Overlay



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Help Overlay

HR Renewal Lanes with Available CHIPs



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HR Renewal Lanes with Available CHIPs

Provisioning CHIPs — Expert Tip!



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Provisioning CHIPs — Expert Tip!

Note: This is a custom program and not part of

the standard SAP functionality!

Custom CHIPs Program Details



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Custom CHIPs Program Details

• CHIPs program detects whether or not the user is an employee ormanager based on their role assignment (identified on theselection screen)

• CHIPs program copies table entries from a “model” ESS (e.g.,

ESS_MODEL) and “model” MSS user (e.g., MSS_MODEL) from

personalization in the following tables:

WDY_CONF_USER

WDY_CONF_USERT

WDY_CONF_USERT2

/UI2/CACHE

Note: This is a custom program and not part of

the standard SAP functionality!

HR Renewal’s Suite Page Builder — ContentAd i



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Admin

Page information withinHR Renewal’s Suite Page

Builder (SPB)

PFCG — Personalization



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PFCG Personalization

PFCG — Catalog Configuration



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g g

Launchpad Customizing



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p g

Content Assignment/Authorizations in HRRenewal



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Renewal

Lane(s)

Catalog

Role(s)

User

Lane assignmentvia catalog

Demo of HR Renewal



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SAP Fiori Highlights



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• Use of tiles

• SAP Fiori Launchpad Content admin

• Role management (transaction PFCG)

• Launchpad customizing (transaction LPD_CUST)

SAP Fiori Launchpad



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Widgets can beStatic, Dynamic,

Smart Business KPI,News, and Jam

SAP Fiori Launchpad Content Admin



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Visual tiles on SAP FioriLaunchpad assigned via

tile catalog

Content Assignment/Authorizations inSAP Fiori



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Tile(s)

Catalog

Role(s)

User

Lane assignmentvia catalog

Demo of SAP Fiori



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What We’ll Cover



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• Background

• The latest offerings



• Wrap-up

Integration with SuccessFactors Applications



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• SSO cookbook and user experience

• Introducing the Mashup

• UWL integration

SuccessFactors/SAP UI Integration



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• SAP provides a “cookbook” on Single Sign-On from On-premise

SAP Enterprise Portal to SuccessFactors

https://websmp209.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700000722352012E/SFICookbookSSO12.pdf *

* Requires login credentials to the SAP Service Marketplace

SuccessFactors/SAP UI Integration (cont.)



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SAP Portal

SuccessFactors

Mashup



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A mashup, in web development, is a web page or webapplication that uses content from more than one

source to create a single new service displayed in a

single graphical interface*

The main characteristics of a mashup are

combination, visualization, and aggregation

* From Wiki pedia: http :/ /en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Mashu p_(web_applic at ion_hyb rid)

How’s a Mashup Different Than a Portal?



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Portal Mashup

Classification Older technology, extension of traditional webserver model using well-defined approach Uses newer, loosely defined "Web 2.0" techniques

Philosophy/approach Approaches aggregation by splitting role of web

server into two phases: markup generation and

aggregation of markup fragments

Uses APIs provided by different content sites to

aggregate and reuse the content in another way

Content dependencies Aggregates presentation-oriented markup

fragments (HTML, WML, VoiceXML, etc.)

Can operate on pure XML content and also on

presentation-oriented content (e.g., HTML)

Location dependencies Traditionally, content aggregation takes place on the

server

Content aggregation can take place either on the

server or on the client

Aggregation style “Salad bar ” style: Aggregated content is presented

‘side-by-side’ without overlaps

“Melting Pot” style – Individual content may be

combined in any manner, resulting in arbitrarily

structured hybrid content

Event model Read and update event models are defined througha specific portlet API

CRUD operations are based on REST architecturalprinciples, but no formal API exists

Relevant standards Portlet behavior is governed by standards JSR 168,

JSR 286, and WSRP, although portal page layout

and portal functionality are undefined and vendor-

specific

Base standards are XML interchanged as REST or

Web Services. RSS and Atom are commonly used.

From Wikipedia: http: / /en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Mashu p_(web_applicat ion_hy brid )

Mashup #1: SAP Portal with SuccessFactorsEmbedded

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad_bar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melting_Pot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Create,_read,_update_and_delete

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSR_168


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Services_for_Remote_Portlets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REST

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REST

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Services_for_Remote_Portlets



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Create,_read,_update_and_delete

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melting_Pot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad_bar



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Mashup ofSuccessFactors

PerformanceManagement within

SAP Portal

Mashup #2: SuccessFactors with SAPTransaction Embedded



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Mashup of SAP TaxWithholding Information

service withinSuccessFactors

Mashup #3: Third-Party Portal with SAP orSuccessFactors Transaction Embedded



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Mashup of SAP LeaveRequest (UI5) withinMicrosoft SharePoint

Mashup #3: Third-Party Portal with SAP orSuccessFactors Transaction Embedded (cont.)



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Mashup ofSuccessFactors

Performance

Management withinMicrosoft SharePoint

The Integrated UWL



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• As of version

b1311,SuccessFactorshas a To-Do ListAPI using OData

protocol

IntegratedSuccessFactorsand SAP work

item inbox

What We’ll Cover



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• Background

• The latest offerings



• Wrap-up

Where to Find More Information



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• Jeremy Masters, Brandon Toombs, Kris Bland, Justin Morgalis,

Self-Services with SAP ERP HCM: ESS, MSS, and HR Renewal(SAP PRESS, 2015).

Available on the SAP PRESS website: www.sap-press.com/3585/ and on www.amazon.com

• Jeremy Masters and Christos Kotsakis, Implementing Employeeand Manager Self-Services in SAP ERP HCM (SAP PRESS, 2008).

Available on www.amazon.com

• Jeremy Masters’ blog: www.jeremymasters/blog

Where to Find More Information (cont.)



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• Amy Thistle, “Building and HR Mobile Strategy with the Right

Apps: A Q&A with Jeremy Masters” (SAPinsider , April 2013).

http://sapinsider.wispubs.com/Assets/Q-and-As/2013/April/Building-an-HR-Mobile-Strategy-with-the-Right-Apps-A-QA-with-Jeremy-Masters-transcript

• Jeremy Masters, “SAP HR User Experience and UI Options: Q&Awith Jeremy Masters” (SAPinsider , October 2013).

http://sapinsider.wispubs.com/Assets/Q-and-As/2013/October/Jeremy-Masters-on-UI-options-for-HR

7 Key Points to Take Home

It l i th l t f th t SAP’ b d l t



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• It was only in the last few years that SAP’s web development

protocol became standardized• SAPUI5 is a feature-rich programming stack useful for delivering

mobile-ready, Web 2.0 applications

• Although both utilize SAPUI5, SAP Fiori and HR Renewal are two

different solutions with varying out-of-the-box applications• Think strategically about which portal technology (SAP Portal,

NWBC, SAP Fiori Launchpad, etc.) is right for your organization

• The handling of CHIPs is an important part of the user experiencefor those using HR Renewal

• Just because there’s a “cookbook” for an integration, doesn’tmean it’s “easy as pie” to “bake”

• Mashups can be used to integrate web applications, includingSAP, SuccessFactors, and non-SAP solutions

Your Turn!



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How to contact me:Jeremy Masters

Email: [email protected] Twitter: @jeremymasters

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