Week 1 Unit 1:

Introducing SAP Screen Personas

Introducing SAP Screen Personas

Course Outline
Week 1
SAP Screen Personas Basics

Week 2
Building Simplified Screens

Week 3
Scripting and Troubleshooting

Week 4
Administration and Performance Tips

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Week 1 Agenda
Agenda
Unit 1: Introducing SAP Screen Personas
Unit 2: Understanding the Architecture
Unit 3: Summarizing the Product Basics
Unit 4: Building Flavors I
Unit 5: Following the Simplification Process

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Customers Simplify Screens in Many Ways

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SAP Screen Personas Works on All SAP GUI Screens
Across components
including (but not limited to):
FI Financial Accounting
CO Controlling
AM Asset Management
PS Project System
HR Human Resources

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Content
PM Plant Maintenance
MM Materials Management
QM Quality Management
PP Production Planning
SD Sales and Distribution

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Business Value 1: Help Your Employees Do Their Jobs Better

Improve user productivity

50 - 200%

User
Productivity

Factors to consider:
Number of users
% time spent on data entry
Average annual salary
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Business Value 2: Simplify How People Interact with SAP

Improve adoption
of business processes

20 - 70%

Number of
Systems

Factors to consider:
Number of enterprise applications
How many applications can you retire?
Annual maintenance cost
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Business Value 3: Make Your People Feel Smarter

Decrease training costs

40 - 60%

Training
Costs

Factors to consider:
Number of users
Training costs per user

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Business Value 4: Reduce Rework to Make Everyone Happier

Increase data quality

10 - 30%

Data
Quality

Factors to consider:
Number of data entry errors
Average cost to correct each error

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Unit 1 Wrap-Up
Summary

Next Unit

Learn about the architecture

What SAP Screen Personas is

What it does
How it can help you
How other customers are using it

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SAP affiliate company.
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any reason without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or functionality. All forwardlooking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place
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Week 1 Unit 2:
Understanding the Architecture

Understanding the Architecture

Week 1 Agenda
Agenda
Unit 1: Introducing SAP Screen Personas
Unit 2: Understanding the Architecture
Unit 3: Summarizing the Product Basics
Unit 4: Building Flavors I
Unit 5: Following the Simplification Process

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SAP Screen Personas Is Built into SAP GUI for HTML (Web GUI)

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Unit 2 Wrap-Up
Summary

Next Unit

Different product modes

What everything on the screen does
How the components work together

SAP Screen Personas fit in the SAP stack

The technical prerequisites
How to deploy SAP Screen Personas
Launching SAP Screen Personas

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services are those that are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as
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In particular, SAP SE or its affiliated companies have no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this document or any related presentation, or to develop
or release any functionality mentioned therein. This document, or any related presentation, and SAP SEs or its affiliated companies strategy and possible future
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any reason without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or functionality. All forwardlooking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place
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Week 1 Unit 3:
Summarizing the Product Basics

Summarizing the Product Basics

Week 1 Agenda
Agenda
Unit 1: Introducing SAP Screen Personas
Unit 2: Understanding the Architecture

Unit 3: Summarizing the Product Basics

Unit 4: Building Flavors I
Unit 5: Following the Simplification Process

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Unit 3 Wrap-Up
Summary

Next Unit

What are the different parts of the screen

What do they do
When to use each component

Build a simple flavor

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SAP affiliate company products and services are those that are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and
services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty.
In particular, SAP SE or its affiliated companies have no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this document or any related presentation, or to develop
or release any functionality mentioned therein. This document, or any related presentation, and SAP SEs or its affiliated companies strategy and possible future
developments, products, and/or platform directions and functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time for
any reason without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or functionality. All forwardlooking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place
undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates, and they should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.

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Week 1 Unit 4:
Building Flavors I

Building Flavors I
Week 1 Agenda
Agenda
Unit 1: Introducing SAP Screen Personas
Unit 2: Understanding the Architecture
Unit 3: Summarizing the Product Basics
Unit 4: Building Flavors I
Unit 5: Following the Simplification Process

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Unit 4 Wrap-Up
Summary

Next Unit

How to simplify a screen

How to add functionality to the screen
Which controls to use

Process for simplifying screens

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or release any functionality mentioned therein. This document, or any related presentation, and SAP SEs or its affiliated companies strategy and possible future
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any reason without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or functionality. All forwardlooking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place
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Simplification Process

Following the Simplification Process

Week 1 Agenda
Agenda
Unit 1: Introducing SAP Screen Personas
Unit 2: Understanding the Architecture
Unit 3: Summarizing the Product Basics
Unit 4: Building Flavors I
Unit 5: Following the Simplification Process

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SAP Screen Personas Is Part of a Broader UX Improvement Process

Automate Where
Appropriate
Build
Screens
Analyze Data
Requirements
Simplify
Processes
Identify
Processes

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The Right Team Ensures a Successful SAP Screen Personas Project

Business Process
Expert
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SAP Screen
Personas Expert

Design
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Process I

Discover

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Design

Develop

Effective
Task Flow

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Process II

Discover

Design

Develop

Discover
Determine who, why, task triggers, task steps, fields, and issues
Kick-off meeting to determine roles, key tasks, number and scheduling of participants
Remote interviews with end users
Review session with end users
Output: Wireframes and client-validated Journey Map includes existing screen flow and issues

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Process III

Discover

Design

Develop

Design
Design screens that resolve customer issues with elegance as design goal
SAP designers create preliminary solutions and validate with SAP business and technical experts
SAP team and customer iterate on designed solution
Customer signs off on design
Output: Wireframes, Visual Design, and Journey Map

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Wireframes I

Prototyping

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Wireframes II

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Process IV

Discover

Design

Develop

Develop
SAP technical team implements the solution
SAP project team and customer implement the agreed design proposal in SAP Screen Personas
Customer validates implementation

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Unit 5 Wrap-Up
Summary

Next Week

Building simplified screens

Plan your screen simplification project

Build the team
Involve end users
Iterate with rapid prototypes

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