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by Andrew Cabanski-Dunning, SAP SAPinsider User interfaces (UIs) are supposed to be easy to use, yet managing all the UI options out there can seem complicated to many companies. This installment of the “User Experience” column discusses factors that explain this complexity, presents SAP’s “core and extensions” approach to UIs, and looks at UI options that best serve the three main types of SAP users—the frequent user, the occasional user, and the unique user.
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by Brad Surak, SAP SAPinsider As the use of mobile devices rapidly increases, so does the need to deliver business analytics in a way that mobile users can easily consume. In this article, Brad Surak, SAP's Vice President and General Manager of Mobile Analytic Applications, discusses the latest features of SAP's mobile analytic applications, including semantic zooming, and provides use cases to help illustrate the user experience.
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by Ira Berk, SAP SAPinsider Improved user interfaces have helped transform portals into effective application deployment vehicles and full-featured collaboration hubs. This article explores how SAP has enhanced the functionality of its own SAP NetWeaver Portal solution to help end users, developers, and administrators take advantage of the portal revolution.
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by Andrew Cabanski-Dunning, SAP SAPinsider Regardless of the device it runs on, simple and intuitive software is now considered part of the end user’s bill of rights. This article addresses the importance of flexibility — that is, how to deliver information to a variety of devices and environments in the way users want to work — as well as usability — that is, how user interfaces for enterprise software must change to natively fit into those new environments.
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by Kevin Nix, SAP SAPinsider A new generation of business users demands immediate access to their business solutions through mobile devices. Yet, few appealing mobile business applications are available. In this Q&A, Kevin Nix, leader of SAP's mobile initiative, answers key questions about why—and how—SAP is rising to meet these enterprise mobility needs.
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