I’ve been seeing announcements of Fiori 2.0 pop up, and I can’t stop myself from thinking of it as a movie sequel.
I also considered monkeying with some of these sequels, but the Star Wars Intro Creator tool won me over. (BONUS CONTENT ALERT: at the bottom of this post are a bunch of less-than-worthy ideas I burned through to get to the primo stuff at the top.)
- Firstly, Fiori 2: The Revenge
- Secondly, Fiori 2: Electric Boogaloo
- Fiori 2: Judgment Day
- Fiori 2: Fiori Strikes Back
- Finally, Fiori: Requiem
I’ve always thought Fiori was a competent toolset and an expressive design language…and that it needs some more evolution. Yes, you could revitalize processes and quickly mobilize your ERP systems – but the Launchpad felt sparse, and I could never quite get things enough the way I really wanted.
I couldn’t get enough me in there.
Fiori 2.0 evolves in the right direction. The most visually appealing slice of that evolution is that now the Launchpad has two sideways-navigable areas that add nice context to my session. I click the little person icon in the upper left and everything slides to the right to give me what SAP calls the “Me Area”. I am more than a some puny drop-down control. And I deserve a whole screen! Additionally, I can change settings and – this is pretty cool – see a list of my recently-visited apps. I would have never thought that handy until I went back to OG Fiori without it.
The other screen-sliding action comes when I get notifications, the aptly-named “Notification Area”. I can view the right viewport of the Launchpad and see app notifications all lined up and ready for action. I dig this. With Original Recipe Fiori, I have to think about which “My [Something]” app has things for me to approve, and if I haven’t scrolled around enough they can easily disappear. Cool Ranch Fiori (give me a break, I’m trying here) gives me the sense that the computer is bringing things to my attention, not that I’m having to go hunt for what needs action.
When you click on one of the tiles, the header toolbar stays put and active. I like the feeling that the app is superimposed on the Launchpad. It fits the theme of giving me more power: I don’t “escape” an app to get back to my Launchpad, it’s more that it just goes back to where it belongs and I stay in charge. The default Belize theme lends everything a pleasant ambiance of breezy, ethereal lightness.
The most exciting thing is something I haven’t had a chance to try yet. SAP says that CoPilot is part of Fiori 2.0, and since I’m a nut for digital assistants I’m eager to try it on for size. Part of the promise of digital assistants is that apps disappear into the background. Here’s hoping that CoPilot is (or will become) so good that I start to forget about the apps.
Here’s that JV squad of sequel ideas:
- Firstly, Fiori: The Next Generation
- Fiori: The Squeakquel
- Fiori: The College Years
- Quantum of Fiori
- Fiori Greatest Hits Vol. II
- Just 2 It
- Fiori: It’s What’s for Dinner
- The Wrath of Hasso
- Fiori: The Other Other White Meat
- The 2.0 Towers
- Fiori Returns
- Fiori and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- Super Fiori Bros. II
- Son of Fiori
- Fiori Part II
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