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SAP Business Client 6.0 – The Next Generation of

NWBC Integrating Fiori Launchpad

January, 2016 Public

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Agenda

• A Chronicle: Version Characteristics and Key Features

• NWBC and SAP Fiori Integration

• SAP Business Client 6.0 New Connection Type SAP Fiori Launchpad

• Summary

• Support Timeline

• Further Information


A Chronicle: Version Characteristics and Key Features

NWBC 3.5

GA 16.05.2012

NWBC connection type:

Role-based navigation

L-Shape navigation panels

Signature theme

Multi-window

Side Panels

NWBC 4.0

GA 06.09.2012

NWBC connection type

Tabbed browsing

Corbu theme

Theme designer support

NWBC 5.0

GA 08.10.2014

+ SAP GUI connection type

Common NWBC/SAP GUI

infrastructure

+ Blue Crystal theme

Hierarchical favorites

Fiori apps integration(PL7 + UI add-on 2.0 SPS0 /

SAP_UI 750)

Business Client 6.0

GA 28.10.2015

+ Fiori Launchpad connection

type:

• FLP configuration

• FLP as start page

• Transactions launched using

embedded SAP GUI for

Windows(requires UI add-on 2.0 SPS01 /

SAP_UI 750 SP01 frontend server

for native SAP GUI support)

SAP Business Client 6.0 is the new name for the latest version of SAP NetWeaver Business Client

NWBC and SAP Fiori Integration


SAP Fiori Launchpad - Single Point of Access Across Clients

Browser

SAP Business Client

SAP Portal SAP Fiori Client

Mobile Clients SAP Portal Client

NW Business Client

SAP Logon

SAP Fiori

User

Experience

SAP Fiori launchpad runs standalone and on key SAP UI clients offering a unified SAP Fiori User Experience.


Steps to Fiori User Experience on the Windows Desktop

SAP Fiori standalone

apps in NWBC 5.0 PL7

SAP Fiori Launchpad in

SAP Business Client 6.0

SAP Fiori apps

in NWBC 5.0 PL7


SAP Fiori User Experience in NWBC 5.0:Fiori Standalone Apps

Human Resources

Procurement

Approve Leave Requests

My Benefits

My Leave Requests

My Paystubs

Approve RequestsApprove Shopping Carts

Approve Travel Expenses

My Spend

My Travel and Expenses

My Travel Requests

Finance

Cross LoB

Benefits

• 10 self-contained Fiori apps

• ESS / MSS scenarios

• Easy to configure in PFCG:

No need for business roles, catalogs,

groups, tiles etc


SAP Fiori User Experience in NWBC 5.0:Fiori Standalone Apps

More information: SAP Help: Running a Fiori Application Standalone ; SAP Note 2103156

Semantic object always = Shell

Action always = runStandaloneApp

In PFCG, you specify:

• PFCG type = SAP Fiori App

• SAPUI5 component

• Location (ICF node)

• Target system (configured in SM59)

• Example: My Leave Requests

Requirements

• NWBC 5.0 PL7 or higher

• UI add-on 2.0 SPS0 or SAP_UI 750 SP0

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_uiaddon10/helpdata/en/53/7758e0deb0477386ea400c915073b3/frameset.htm

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2103156


SAP Fiori User Experience in NWBC 5.0:All Fiori Apps

Benefits

• All Fiori apps are available

• Intent-based navigation

• Intent= Sem. Object + Action

• Different users perform different

actions on same object eg

Employee vs Payroll staff

• Configured in Fiori Launchpad

Designer and PFCG


SAP Fiori User Experience in NWBC 5.0:All Fiori Apps

More information: Configuring Navigation; SAP Fiori Reference Apps Library

Procedure:

In PFCG, you specify intent

• = Semantic object + Action

• eg CRM > Simulate Sales Pipeline

• = Opportunity + simulateSalesPipeline

Requirements:

• NWBC 5.0 PL7 or higher


http://help.sap.com/saphelp_uiaddon10/helpdata/en/bd/8ae3d327ab4541bcce8e7353c046fc/content.htm?frameset=/en/33/daedef95454af68903ef1238aa0373/frameset.htm&current_toc=/en/e4/843b8c3d05411c83f58033bac7f072/plain.htm&node_id=147&show_children=false

https://fioriappslibrary.hana.ondemand.com/sap/fix/externalViewer/


SAP Easy Access menu SAP Fiori launchpadNWBC Index page

SAP Business Client 6.0New Connection Type


SAP Business Client 6.0:SAP GUI for Windows Transactions (Native)

Procedure:1. Connect to Fiori server, get catalogs

2. Get Fiori Launchpad as home page

3. Launch transaction in SAP GUI for Windows

Requirements:

• SAP Business Client 6.0


This is the current state of planning and may change at any time.

Benefits: Fiori Launchpad, Fiori UX, and Desktop experience in one client


SAP GUI native

Summary

SAP Business Client 6.0 is the standard desktop client for the

Business Suite, providing one single point of entry to all the following:

• SAP GUI for Windows transactions

• FPM applications

• Fiori apps

• Fiori Launchpad

… thus offering a bridge between the familiar SAP GUI world and

SAP‘s strategic Fiori UX

Download it today for free from SAP Service Marketplace:

http://service.sap.com/installations, (then search in A-Z Index under B)

http://service.sap.com/installations


2018

Support Timeline for SAP Business Client

Today

SAP NWBC 4.0 EOL 31.07.2015


SAP NWBC 5.0

SAP GUI for Windows 7.40

SAP NWBC 3.5

Maintenance (EOL 09.01.2018)

EOL 31.12.2015



This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

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Further information• Documentation

• Notes

• Roadmap


Documentation

For detailed documentation of the Netweaver

Business Client please refer to:

SAP Business Client 6.0 in User interface add-on

2.0 for SAP NetWeaver documentation (Help Portal).

Until the next documentation release we also provide

a .pdf-documentation for 6.0*

NWBC 5.0 in User interface add-on 1.0 for SAP

NetWeaver documentation (Help Portal)

Backend System Requirements

Described in the documentation, chapter “Business

Client Versions”, on SAP Help Portal.

When using SAP GUI for Windows within SAP

Business Client 6.0, SAP GUI for Windows 7.40 is

required.

Additional Information

For more information about the SAP Business Client

6.0 please visit also the SAP NWBC space on the SAP

Community Network, and the SAP UX Explorer.

*to be replaced by the official SAP online documentation with the next release

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_uiaddon20/helpdata/en/03/ecbafb844b450a9314a5683b75ed80/content.htm?frameset=/en/62/244a942bd844678e7ab72a960ad6c9/frameset.htm

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/80c38938-fc65-3310-549f-ac5ddeb80e32?QuickLink=index&overridelayout=true&60627758350450

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_uiaddon10/helpdata/en/62/244a942bd844678e7ab72a960ad6c9/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_uiaddon10/helpdata/en/4c/5bd5ab97817511e10000000a42189b/content.htm?frameset=/en/62/244a942bd844678e7ab72a960ad6c9/frameset.htm&current_toc=/en/e4/843b8c3d05411c83f58033bac7f072/plain.htm&node_id=606

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_uiaddon10/helpdata/en/03/ecbafb844b450a9314a5683b75ed80/content.htm?frameset=/en/03/ecbafb844b450a9314a5683b75ed80/frameset.htm&current_toc=/en/e4/843b8c3d05411c83f58033bac7f072/plain.htm&node_id=701&show_children=true

http://scn.sap.com/community/netweaver-business-client

https://uxexplorer.hana.ondemand.com/_item.html?id=38


Notes

Software, operating system and browser

requirements as well as restrictions are listed in SAP

Note 2227396. Planned release dates for the next

patch can be found in SAP Note 2227431.

https://websmp102.sap-ag.de/~form/handler?_APP=01100107900000000342&_EVENT=DISPL_TXT&_NNUM=2227396

https://websmp102.sap-ag.de/~form/handler?_APP=01100107900000000342&_EVENT=DISPL_TXT&_NNUM=2227431


Roadmap

The SAP Business Client roadmap is published

within the SAP UI Technology Roadmap, section “UI

Client & Integration Topics”, on SAP Service Market

Place, under Cross Topics, cross product “SAP User

Interface Technologies”, and SCN.

http://service.sap.com/saproadmaps

https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-41321


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