Neptune UX Platform
Neptune UX Platform covers the entire development, management and life-cycle of SAP Fiori UX Apps. Enabling traditional SAP developers to produce SAP applications for mobile, tablet and desktop.
This component covers a unique ABAP oriented solution for developing modern user interfaces for SAP based on HTML5. Developers use a “drag & drop” designer for structuring HTML5 applications directly in their SAPGUI and use the standard SAP transport system for version control. Maintenance and modification of Neptune applications is superior to alternative IDE’s that relies on hand coding. SAP data is linked to the user interface through binding making it a simple process to add or remove fields and information from standard ABAP coding.
The applications can be tested either in the browser or directly in the SAP GUI with the Neptune GUI client. The solution also contains a “wrapper” that has support for testing responsive design where the application automatically adapts to the screen that the user is using.
The designer also has a very effective translation feature where you can translate all frontend text in an application easily.
There is very good support for HTML, JavaScript and CSS editing that includes syntax checking and auto-completion of code. There is also built-in support for embedded code fragments that increase the productivity of the developer. This also allows developers to customize the visual design and application logic using custom code and thus eliminating restrictions that apply to other drag & drop tools.
Neptune supports both SAP’s Theme Designer and custom CSS coding to customize the visual profile so that it is in accord with the customers design and color palette.
The Neptune server automatically transforms data from SAP format to JSON and compresses it to reduce network usage. This part of the solution is located on top of SAP’s standard web server ICF (Internet Communication Framework). The developer only needs to deal with internal tables and structures in SAP when linking data to the user interface. If you want the data available on the client in offline mode, you can easily configure this from the attributes in the designer.
Reimagine the SAP user experience with SAP Fiori
Personalize and simplify the user experience (UX) for your SAP applications. Using modern UX design principles, SAP Fiori delivers a role-based, consumer-grade user experience across all lines of business, tasks, and devices. Use SAP Fiori apps, or take advantage of new solutions that natively incorporate the UX.
Why SAP Fiori?
Because your employees expect a consumer-grade user experience. Business applications should be intuitive, personalized, and tuned to the way users actually work and our next-generation SAP Fiori user experience has been recognized for design excellence. With the SAP Fiori UX, you can:
- Improve user productivity by simplifying and automating day-to-day tasks across any device
- Boost user adoption with an appealing UX design tailored to key tasks and activities
- Increase compliance and data quality by making it easier to enter information into your system of record
- Reduce training and support costs with simple, role-based screens that speed ramp-up and minimize user errors
- Easily extend or build customized SAP Fiori apps with SAP developer tools and technology