Remote Usability Testing

Event: SAP Usability Testing
Testing Dates: May 17-19
Location: Online Remote Usability Testing Sessions Via Zoom
Prerequisite: You do not have to be registered as an SAP Sapphire Virtual attendee to participate.  Virtual usability testing is open to all SAP Customers and Partners.

What happens during a usability test?

Understanding your needs and the way you work, helps ensure that we build software that is right for your business. During these one-on-one 60 minute sessions you can usability test new and existing software and give your feedback directly to the product teams that build them. It’s a great opportunity to work directly with SAP to help shape the future of SAP products.

How many sessions can I sign up for?

We ask that you limit yourself to no more than four sessions to allow other attendees the chance to participate. If product teams need additional information from you in order to qualify your registration for their topic, they will contact you within one business day of the date of your registration. You will also receive your meeting request to attend the virtual session after your NDA is signed, so please make sure that when you register your email address is correct and that you check your spam/junk folder if you do not see a reply.

Why should I sign up for usability testing?

Because by participating and working closely together through each phase of development, ensures that the most usable products and solutions with the best user experience ends up in the hands of you, our customer. Reserve your spot today and together we can help the world RUN BETTER.

If you have any questions about registration or usability testing in general, please send an e-mail to usability.testcenter@sap.com.

Topic Overview:

Topic 1: Afresh Landing Experience For Midmarket (The New Way of Work)

The landing page is your navigation hub as well as a content hub for your daily work. You can now find the desired information and the tasks right after your logon.

Description We’ve constantly heard from customers and partners that it is challenging to locate the tiles on their home page for navigation purposes. And they seldom use the contents in the tile for information purposes because of the outdated numbers and the possible limitations of the tile container. That is why we try to build a solution to address your actual needs and:

  • Let you get your needed information from whatever detailed level you need directly on the landing page, and provide limited in-context actions per technical possibility
  • Allow you to perform tasks that are not relevant to any “floor plan” or “pages” directly on the landing page
Roles All kinds of users involved in implementing and using cloud solutions from SAP, such as SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, SAP Concur, SAP Fieldglass, SAP Business ByDesign, SAP Business One solutions, and more to test the next-generation 360 account management
Previous Experience Working experience and related business or technical awareness related to small and midsize business (SMB) market solutions are preferred.
Preview After being presented with clickable prototypes, you can finish specific tasks under use cases related to the landing page. The use cases are designed under two types of user roles:

  • End user working on the landing page every day
  • Solution partner or customer IT administrator who customizes the technical frame and contents on the landing page per enterprise needs

We want to get your feedback on the experience of doing the tasks.
Background Information Our goal is to limit the navigations and drill-downs when users need specific pieces of information relevant to their daily role-based work. The idea of a landing page with customizable leveled contents is our proposed solution to the goal.

 

 

 

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Topic 2: Arranging Clusters for Landscape Components for the Intelligent Suite Using SAP Cloud ALM

Discover how to model different business systems and tenants in the SAP Cloud ALM solution. Assign different landscape components to clusters and manage them together in a release supporting multiple parallel projects.

Description The landscape management system provides your landscape information. In SAP Cloud ALM, we collect this data and let you define your landscape component groups. These groups can be used in a landscape cluster of a project. During the usability testing, we analyze how you create these groups and how they belong to your implementation projects.
Roles ·       Release and deployment managers who manage deployments across different landscape tracks and production lines

  • Project leads who work with timelines and schedule creation of parallel running projects
  • System administrators who maintain landscape and tenant information
Previous Experience
  • Experience with system landscapes
  • No experience in SAP Cloud ALM needed
Preview You create a landscape component group based on the landscape management system data we collect in SAP Cloud ALM. With these groups, you can create your own landscape cluster, which can be used in multiple SAP Cloud ALM implementation projects. We analyze if the information and structure is understandable as well as usable and which additional information is required.
Background Information SAP Cloud ALM helps you reduce the cost of running an implementation by centralizing information and providing transparency. It is delivered preconfigured supporting different lifecycle processes of landscape and release management, deployment orchestration, requirement management, and process and test management.
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Topic 3: Asymmetric Reporting and Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud

Test the new concept for creating asymmetric tables for your dashboards, to cover your reporting and planning needs. This feature aims to help you create more complex scenarios by allowing the generation of groups with different combinations of members.

Description You have a chance to test out and provide usability feedback on the new concept for creating an asymmetric table. The feature’s goal is to allow users to create several groups, in the columns of the table, that contain different combinations of members. Until now, the whole table could be based on only one combination of members.
Roles People who find themselves working with or creating tables in a reporting or planning environment from time to time
Previous Experience We welcome any person who is curious about table creation. Some knowledge on creating or consuming tables for reporting or planning purposes would be beneficial but is not required.
Preview You are testing a click-through prototype for the asymmetric reporting and planning concept. It is based on the table, a component within the SAP Analytics Cloud solution that allows you to plan or report on business-relevant data.
Background Information SAP Analytics Cloud is our one experience for business intelligence, predictive analytics, and planning. Within the planning features, SAP Analytics Cloud offers a dashboard-building environment that includes the possibility to create a table to gather the relevant data for your business from your employees. Until now, this table allowed only for symmetric layouts; we are now exploring the possibility to build asymmetric ones.
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Topic 4: Build Business Applications Using Visual Tools in SAP Business Application Studio for Low-Code Development

Whether you lack programing skills or are a professional developer, with SAP Business Application Studio, you can more easily and quickly create business applications for your business needs. This powerful studio enables collaborative application development for both line-of-business (LoB) experts and professional developers by providing both low-code and pro-code integrated development environment (IDE) perspectives for enterprise application development. 

Description If you want to experience how you can create a full business application, preview it, and release it, using only visual tools, join this session. You do not need to type any code line, so no programing knowledge is required. Be a “citizen developer” and perform the main development tasks in the low-code environment of SAP Business Application Studio.
Roles  A user who is in at least one of the following roles:

  • LoB expert who knows the business needs and uses business applications; for example, sales representatives, finance and accounting personnel, HR personnel, marketing specialists, business analysts, customer service representatives, and so on
  • Developer who builds business applications for LoB users
Previous Experience  A user who has at least one of the following characteristics:

  • Has never learned programing languages and has no experience in coding, but has some technical skills, such us using electronic spreadsheets or ERP
  • Has learned programing and codes business apps on a daily basis
Preview The goal is for you to use visual tools to create a fully functional business application. You can also invite professional developers to contribute to your project, preview the application with sample and live data, and then release and deploy it to production.
Background Information  SAP Business Application Studio is a powerful modern development environment, tailored for efficient development of business applications for your intelligent enterprise. It’s a cloud service with desktop-like experience to support various development scenarios, such as the SAP Fiori user experience; extensions for SAP S/4HANA based on SAP Cloud Application Programing Model; SAP HANA; SAP Mobile Services; workflow; mobile; and more. It is suitable for users from nontechnical business users to basic-level developers and full-stack developers. It supports both back-end and front-end development using low-code visual editors as well as pro-code editors and terminal, command-line, and other productivity tools.
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Topic 5: Can You Save the Planet by Cutting IaaS Costs? Yes, You Can.

The SAP Landscape Management Cloud service enables you to analyze your costs and energy consumption in an SAP software–centric view across your system landscape and optimize them with built-in capabilities to run your SAP solution landscape in a sustainable and cost-efficient way.

Description You have the opportunity to test how you can analyze and actively optimize the costs and energy of your SAP landscape in an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) environment with SAP Landscape Management Cloud.
Roles
  • Business users
  • DevOps experts
  • Project owners
  • Sustainability experts
  • IT, technology director, or technology manager
Previous Experience It would be nice, but not mandatory, if you work with the SAP Basis team that manages and operates the SAP landscape in IaaS and you are aware of or responsible for the associated costs and energy.
Preview You can analyze the energy consumption and costs for your SAP landscape in the cloud. Also, you can learn how to reduce costs and improve the sustainability of your SAP software systems.
Background Information Providing the flexibility to scale rapidly to meet changing business needs, IaaS has a growing number of companies turning to this type of service. However, while an IaaS environment enables you to deploy solutions quickly, it also comes with some challenges:

  • How can you analyze and reduce the energy consumption of systems running on IaaS?
  • How can you avoid unexpectedly high costs?
  • How do you get an SAP solution–centric view on your IaaS costs instead of a resource-centric view?
  • How do you scale your SAP environment up and down to make the most of the flexibility offered by your cloud provider?

Available as software as a service (SaaS), SAP Landscape Management Cloud helps you gain an orchestrated view of your SAP solution landscape across multiple cloud providers and enables you to address these challenges.
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Topic 6: Composable Process Platform – Modular Configurable Business Processes

We envision a platform for providing and consuming business processes in a modular yet composable fashion – a reconfigurable system of interoperable business capabilities. It should operate all standard and custom processes within and across enterprises seamlessly.

Description In project “ProcessOne,” we are exploring how business processes can be modularized and how you can adapt quickly based on your own specific business needs. In addition, we are examining how this modularization can enable the realization of a process layer that spans across multiple business partners.

Help us shape the future of business processes, and discuss with us what you’d expect for a successful composable business within your organization and in cooperation with business partners.
Role/s Anyone who owns, designs, or changes end-to-end business processes, such as process managers, process owners, process designers, business process experts, C-level managers, transformation drivers, partner managers, business developers, and consultants
Previous Experience You are creating and managing business processes and are interested in optimizing business processes within your organization and across your business partners.
Preview This is an innovation project: You will provide feedback on how business processes are defined, executed, and optimized in your company. We will also explore how you collaborate with your business partners and how modularization could be beneficial for that. As part of scenario discussions, we might show some early-stage design concepts for validation.
Background Information While business process models – defined in business process model and notation (BPMN), for example – often serve as a documentation artifact or blueprint for development, we want to understand how potential building blocks could be defined, reconfigured, restructured, and extended in an executable environment to close the loop of a business process management lifecycle across multiple business partners – all within the same system.
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Topic 7: Futuristic Process Map for the Midmarket (The New Way of Work)

With our process map, experience the next-generation user interface paradigm that aims to achieve process excellence, driven by business users.

Description The process map is a refreshing take on bringing business users closer to the business processes they participate in all the time. It is a new user interface paradigm that reimagines work access and application navigation by putting business processes at the center of the application to improve process clarity. It empowers you to monitor and optimize processes so that you stay actively engaged in a continual process improvement. We look forward to your feedback on how the process map can support you to contribute to the success of your company by helping you achieve process excellence.
Roles In general, end users working with any ERP solution from SAP, such as SAP Business ByDesign, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, and so on, preferable in the following roles:

  • Business process experts
  • Business users in roles that relate to business technology and technical support
  • Consultants, including third-party consultants
Previous Experience Having experience in using an ERP solution is a must. Experience in business process modeling or experience in business process or business setup and configuration is also required.
Preview The process map aims to help you:

  • Understand the setup processes
  • Access work easily
  • Attend to critical tasks as quickly as possible
  • Monitor process health and performance
  • Take necessary steps to optimize processes
Background Information The process map brings business users closer to the business processes they participate in and helps them understand it well, adopt it, and then improve it in a way that it works not only for their company but also for them. Currently, business process optimization is mostly driven by a small group of process experts; we invite you to try our product, test our ideas, and get some advice.
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Topic 8: Group Financial Statements – Review Booklet

Test the new app for financial statement review. Analyze financial statements with your choice of relevant columns, rows, and filters. Navigate from the financial statement pages to an interactive analysis in a flexible mode.

Description Perform usability testing and give feedback on the SAP Fiori app “Group Financial Statements – Review Booklet.” The app contains business pages and your financial data displayed in guided mode. Each page is designed to answer specific business questions. Business pages are organized under the main types of financial statements: consolidated balance sheet, profit and loss statement, cash flow statement, and statement of changes in equity. This collection of pages forms a review booklet, which can be used to carry out a financial review. You also have the option to switch to flexible mode, which enables you to drill down into additional dimensions. These dimensions can be added to rows and columns for a more detailed, multidimensional analysis of your data.
Roles Group accountants or other financial professionals who need to monitor and validate multiple aspects of the financial statements during the closing process
Previous Experience We welcome any person who is knowledgeable about analyzing financial statements. Some knowledge on the closing process would be beneficial but is not required.
Preview You are testing a click-through prototype where you first open a business page containing financial data displayed in guided mode. Adjust the layout using predefined sets of columns, rows, and filters. Navigate from the standard financial report to a more powerful interactive analysis in a flexible mode.
Background Information This is a new SAP Fiori app for group accountants to achieve more transparency into group financial statements. Predefined business pages provide a huge value for group accountants. Those pages include all aspects of the closing work and allow guided navigation, as well as interactive filtering and drill-down.
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Topic 9: Impact and Lineage Analysis in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud’s Evolution Towards a Unified Data Suite

Discover how the new impact and lineage analysis feature supports your data-modeling journey and helps you explore, analyze, and maintain your enterprise repository.

Description You have the chance to test out new enhancements of the impact and lineage analysis diagram feature in the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud solution by playing through fictitious business use cases in a live system and in prototypes. As a key UI in the modeling journey, the impact and lineage analysis diagram provides a comprehensive visualization of your object dependencies across multiple systems and layers.
Roles Anyone whose daily work is about integrating, modeling, or analyzing data for broad usage across an organization
Previous Experience Experience with integrating, modeling, or analyzing data in a data warehouse context
Preview Use a live system as well as our latest prototype to solve a fictitious business challenge. We want to see how well our designs support you in getting the job done. We plan to ask you additional questions to get further input based on your role and experience.
Background Information SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is a fully managed, highly integrated, open, and scalable cloud-native data warehouse solution. The impact and lineage analysis in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud provides a simpler, graphical, and intuitive way to view and navigate through dependent objects within your enterprise repository and beyond. The UI allows you to identify which objects contribute to the lineage of your object and which objects will be impacted if you make changes to it.
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Topic 10: Innovative 360 Account Management for the Midmarket (The New Way of Work)

The 360 details pattern is a pattern that displays document information in different levels of details, from the simplest “bite” view to the moderate “snack” view to the full “meal” view. By using this pattern, you can view your account details and perform tasks in a flexible and efficient way.

Description The content on the account management page in the current SAP Business ByDesign solution can be simplified. Currently, users navigate through different tabs to pinpoint their desired information. The content layout needs to be simpler and more hierarchical. The user interaction should be more flexible and efficient. That is why we are building a new “bite-snack-meal” pattern with widget groups to address your actual needs:

  • The bite view gives an overview of the least necessary information you need.
  • The snack view serves as a transition between the simplest bite view and the fully expanded meal view. It offers further information to serve certain business needs without having to expand all the details.
  • The meal view displays the details of an account.
  • The content in these views is organized and integrated by widgets, with which you can group and customize your desired chunks of information.
Roles All kinds of users involved in implementing and using cloud solutions from SAP, such as SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, SAP Concur, SAP Fieldglass, SAP Business ByDesign, and SAP Business One solutions and more to test the next-generation 360 account management
Previous Experience Working experience and associated business and technical awareness related to SMB market solutions are preferred.
Preview After being presented with clickable prototypes, you can finish specific account management tasks under use cases. The use cases are designed for two types of user roles:

  • End users who work with account management
  • Solution partner or customer IT administrators who customize the technical frame and contents on the account management pages per enterprise needs

We want to get your feedback on the experience of doing the tasks.
Background Information Our goals are to reduce the clicks when users find specific pieces of information and to give them flexibility of grouping chunks of information as per their needs.
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Topic 11: New Community Features in SAP Help Portal

Use the new community features of the SAP Help Portal site (commenting on topics, asking questions and giving answers, and discussing topics with other users and SAP experts), as well as the new designs of overview and content pages.

Description The SAP Help Portal site is the central service for all SAP product documentation and help. We have renewed the design and plan to introduce community features that allow you to comment on SAP Help Portal content, discuss it with other users, ask questions, and receive or give answers.
Roles Any user role
Previous Experience No previous experience is required; the only requirement is that you are looking for help with SAP products.
Preview The biggest upcoming change to SAP Help Portal is the planned new community features, which for the first time can allow customers and partners to discuss or comment on content, ask questions, and get or receive answers. At the same time, we are introducing new designs that improve or facilitate navigation in SAP Help Portal and the reading of content.
Background Information Every software user needs help. SAP makes SAP product documentation available in SAP Help Portal. Until recently, SAP Help Portal was a public portal where you could get content from SAP without logging in. Personalization features were introduced last year. Registered users can, for example, define topic or product favorites. There are plans to introduce community features for registered users to enable knowledge exchange between SAP, partners, and customers.
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Topic 12: New Product Home Page in SAP S/4HANA Cloud

The new product home page in SAP S/4HANA Cloud gives you the relevant information you need at a glance by providing services such as navigation, personalization, actions, and analytics on a single screen. We want to let you balance between focusing on your daily work and tracking new situations that might require immediate attention.

Description The new intelligent product home page in SAP S/4HANA Cloud is the new entry point for our business users. We have designed it to be efficient, intuitive to use, and user focused. It is based on the spaces and pages concept and leverages the new Horizon visual theme. It draws attention to required actions and important tasks, provides quicker and easier access to apps, and adapts to meet individual business users’ needs.
Roles Business users working with more than one SAP S/4HANA application and consultants or IT experts who are experienced with accessing many applications from a single point of entry
Previous Experience
  • Familiarity with the SAP Fiori user experience and use of several SAP S/4HANA applications
  • Experience with use of some kind of entry point in the past, for example, a portal or a launchpad
  • Experience with SAP Fiori launchpad a plus
Preview We’d like to validate our designs and interaction concepts and better understand your needs and how you use the new product home page so that we can adapt our development plans, designs, and product road map accordingly. Based on a set of tasks, you can test the various elements of the product home page and provide feedback on concepts that, for example, draw your attention to important actions, tasks, and the navigation.
Background Information We are planning to introduce the new product home page in SAP S/4HANA Cloud that provides direct access to more information within the SAP S/4HANA Cloud environment. As part of ongoing improvements to the SAP Fiori user experience, the SAP S/4HANA Cloud product home page leverages the Horizon theme and extends the spaces and pages functionality.
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Topic 13: Predictive Analysis Library Workbench for the Midmarket: Leveraging Machine Learning to Boost Working Efficiency

Test this new predictive analysis library (PAL) workbench functionality, which increases users’ working efficiency drastically. Business users of the SAP Business ByDesign solution can use the power of machine learning to boost their business success with minimum effort and machine learning knowledge required.  

Description Use an intuitive-to-understand and intuitive-to-use tool that can help you design predictive analytic scenarios. Functionally, you can:

  • Design intelligent scenarios by selecting a data source containing historical data, meanwhile specifying what kind of data cleansing and data transformation would be done by the workbench automatically to improve the modeling quality of the data source
  • Train one or multiple machine learning models per scenario, experimenting with different model parameters
  • Evaluate and compare the quality of different models to decide which model is best suited for predictions based on new data
Roles Users involved in business analytics or data analysts who try to get deeper insight into how their business performs, predict success of new deals, automate routine and repetitive tasks, optimize business processes, and so on
Previous Experience Working experience with the SAP Business ByDesign solution is preferred. Some experience with data science is welcome but not necessary.
Preview Test prototypes and finish specific machine learning tasks under use cases.
Background Information We plan for PAL workbench to serve as part of the SAP Business ByDesign front end as a new work center. The tool is embedded into the UI for SAP Business ByDesign, and it uses the machine learning library (PAL) of the same SAP HANA database that the SAP Business ByDesign tenant runs on. It thus avoids risks of side-by-side solutions related to data transfer across different systems. Also, it imposes no extra TOC. It is designed to enable you to create new intelligent scenarios, build and train ML models, and evaluate their predictive performance. The applicability of the workbench is practically unlimited; it is purely up to the imagination of partners and customers as to what predictive scenarios they plan to design.

 

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Topic 14: Preventing Terrorism with SAP Watch List Screening

Test the screening hits functionality of the central SAP Watch List Screening solution, with its integration with SAP S/4HANA. The functionality helps you and your business avoid getting involved with high-risk or sanctioned businesses, individuals, and entities.

Description You have a chance to test out and provide usability feedback on the screening hits functionality in SAP Watch List Screening. Your feedback is used to improve the current solution and trigger improvements for future releases.
Roles Screening specialists or users who have experience in screening names on denied party lists, which helps ensure corporate compliance
Previous Experience Some experience with SAP Fiori apps would be an asset.
Preview You are testing the screening hits functionality of SAP Watch List Screening on a demo landscape in its current development state.
Background Information SAP Watch List Screening can help you and your business avoid getting involved with high-risk or sanctioned businesses, individuals, and entities. It does this by screening against lists from government agencies and international organizations to lower your exposure to risk and give you more consistent compliance across your enterprise.
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Topic 15: Process Modeling in SAP Cloud ALM Using SAP Signavio Solutions

You can test how process modeling in the SAP Cloud ALM solution leverages SAP Signavio solutions to provide a high-quality modeling experience. Test how to model processes and how the bridge between business process management and application lifecycle management could be established.

Description Review processes in the process authoring functionality of SAP Cloud ALM. Then edit one of these diagrams in the integrated SAP Signavio Process Manager solution. After the adaptation of the process diagram, you can enrich the model with additional information such as user stories, executables, or any other assets you have available.

Optional: You can select processes in SAP Cloud ALM to hand over to SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite and get them back after optimization for implementation.
Roles
  • Business process experts
  • Implementation consultants
  • Project managers
Previous Experience
  • Business process and application know-how
  • Process modeling and fit-to-standard workshops
  • No experience in SAP Cloud ALM or SAP Signavio solutions required
Preview You are testing prototypes and proofs of concept for the future release of process modeling in SAP Cloud ALM and SAP Signavio Process Manager, relating to the following topics:

  • Managing solution processes
  • Changing process diagram details
  • Enhancing process information
  • Roundtrip with SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite (optional)
Background Information SAP Cloud ALM helps customers reduce the cost of running an implementation by centralizing information and providing transparency. It is delivered preconfigured supporting different lifecycle processes of landscape and release management, deployment orchestration, requirement management, and process and test management.
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Topic 16: Re-Commerce Experience on Fashion, Luxury, and Retail with Feather by SAP

This session is suitable for re-commerce managers, consumers, warehouse associates, and managers with interest or experience in re-commerce, secondhand, or consignment business. Test the user experience for re-commerce journeys for consumer, store associate, and warehouse associate personas. The feedback on these tests enables us to better understand individual user journeys, improve the user experience, and enhance the functionality of our re-commerce offering, the Feather by SAP solution.

Description You have a chance to test out and provide usability feedback on the user experience for each of the following personas: consumer, store associate, and warehouse associate. This enables us to identify any missing functionalities in terms of user actions for each of the re-commerce flows.
Roles The consumer persona is a generic online shopper and can be tested widely. Store associate and warehouse associate personas are a bit more specific to brand stores and their warehouse facilities. For store associate, we are looking for individuals with experience in checking in in-store returns or products for resell. Similarly, for warehouse associate, you need some knowledge or experience of warehouse operations.
Previous Experience The consumer trade-in journey requires users who have used e-commerce (online shopping). For the store associate, experience in and knowledge of store operations around checking in returns and trade-ins is helpful. The warehouse associate requires some knowledge and experience of warehouse operations.
Preview You are testing prototypes for our alpha release flows for re-commerce journeys. Each flow has a unique set of actions to accomplish the tasks of shopping, product identification, condition grading, and check-in.
Background Information The re-commerce flows in Feather help shoppers in their trade-in journeys, assist store associates in checking in a product that is dropped off at the store, and provide an extensive interface with actions for the warehouse associate to conduct product identification, condition determination, cleaning, repairing, regrading, and pricing actions before the product is made available for online or in-store resell. The user interfaces shared provides a preview of the end-to-end product journey through the re-commerce cycle.
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Topic 17: SAP Cloud ALM: Change and Deployment Management

SAP Cloud ALM for implementation accelerates your SAP solution implementation. Change and deployment management functionality helps ensure a coordinated and organized way of deploying your configuration and development changes to production more easily.

Description Change and deployment management functionality in the SAP Cloud ALM solution helps cloud-centric organizations ensure a coordinated deployment of configuration changes to the production stage. Get insight into how to document your changes within features in SAP Cloud ALM and how this functionality interacts with the deployment mechanisms of different SAP solutions.
Roles IT project managers whose teams are responsible for configuring and extending SAP solutions, as well as IT change and release managers whose teams are using release calendars and deployment plans to trigger deployments to production in an organized way
Previous Experience You must have knowledge of IT change and release management, as well as basic knowledge of business processes and workflows in SAP software. Knowledge of JavaScript and the ABAP programming language is an advantage but not a must-have.
Preview Test an advanced version of the change and deployment management functionality in SAP Cloud ALM, where you can work with the feature application and the analytics capabilities. During your usability test where you process a configuration change together with the deployment throughout your landscape, you can gain insights into the product and learn how it can be used to ease the work of change and release managers. Your feedback can help us improve the product.
Background Information The change and deployment management functionality in SAP Cloud ALM allows you to improve user productivity by documenting and deploying changes in a simple manner. The integration into different deployment mechanisms, together with the change history in SAP Cloud ALM, supports you on your way to being audit ready and compliant. Providing the right information to the right users to make a decision to deploy or not leads to higher efficiency and fewer business disruptions. Change and deployment management is one of several ways to improve your application lifecycle management.
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Topic 18: SAP E-Mobility

The future of mobility is here. Experience how charging infrastructure for electric vehicles can be built up, managed, and run at scale in a modern cloud-based interface.

Description If you are passionate about electric vehicles and want to help drive the transition to a more widespread and intelligent charging infrastructure, take this exciting opportunity to look into SAP’s new and improved solution for e-mobility.
Roles
  • Individuals with experience in managing charging stations, charging sessions, or other processes regarding electric vehicle infrastructure (for example, charge point operator or charging infrastructure specialist)
  • Professionals performing power-grid-related activities such as maintaining energy levels, power consumption, and distribution across charging sites (for example, e-mobility service provider)
Previous Experience Some experience with charging infrastructure for electric vehicles required
Preview You are testing an interactive prototype for the future release of the SAP E-Mobility solution, with a special focus on the following areas: manage charging stations, view the dashboard, analyze ongoing charging sessions, and review error logs.
Background Information SAP E-Mobility allows companies to operate a networked charging infrastructure for electric vehicles at scale. Multiple customers are already using the solution to drive the transition to sustainable and convenient electric mobility. With this iteration, we are evaluating a planned redesign of the entire user interface, looking to achieve a more modern and efficient experience across the entire product. Your feedback plays a vital role in the direction and shape of the future of SAP E-Mobility.
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Topic 19: SAP Enable Now: In-App Help and Learning

SAP Enable Now is a holistic solution for creating in-app help and learning content, to drive user adoption of SAP and third-party applications. Our usability test focuses on your role as an end user using the provided help and learning content.

Description In our constant effort to simplify quick access to information – providing exactly the right help or tutorials in the moment of need – we want to test new development prototypes and early design sketches of our content presentation to our end users.
Role/s Applicable for all roles, because the help and learning content will be offered to all end users.
Previous Experience No previous experience is required.
Preview You will be testing an advanced prototype of the Web assistant, the customer-facing in-app help player, to determine the feasibility of proposed changes. We would also like to test the navigation within learning content (such as filtering and quickly finding the right information).
Background Information SAP Enable Now offers in-app help and learning, providing information to users when they need it most. We are currently unifying our products for more consistency and better overall usability. By providing the right information to the right users in the right context, we can help them get more done in less time with greater accuracy. SAP Enable Now is becoming the main solution for user enablement.
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Topic 20: SAP Enterprise Architecture Reference Library – The central modeling tool and directory for SAP’s Business-Process-as-a-Service-Strategy (BPaaS-Strategy)

SAP EA Reference Library contains functions for modeling, documenting, and providing complete business and solution scenarios.

Description  You will learn about the product SAP Enterprise Architecture Reference Library, which is currently in development. It contains functions for modeling, documenting, and providing complete business and solution scenarios.

You can evaluate the usability and basic concepts of the application.
Roles Enterprise-Architects and people experienced in process modeling
Prior experience People with experience in Power Designer, Enterprise Architecture Designer, Solution Manager, Signavio and other process modeling tools
Preview 
  • Modeling and managing business and solution processes
  • Explore the model and content of the SAP Enterprise Architecture methodology
  •  Overview of processes and BPMN diagrams
  •  Status management
  • Documentation material management
Background information SAP EA Reference Library contains functions for modeling, documenting, and providing complete business and solution scenarios to support our customers in implementing and optimizing their business processes.
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Topic 21: SAP for Me – Is Made for You!

The SAP for Me tool is a digital companion for SAP customers along their customer success journey. It is one single point of entry to SAP for customers and partners to get transparency across the various touch points with SAP. 

Description You have a chance to test out and provide usability feedback on new enhancements under development for a future release of SAP for Me.
Roles
  • Users who want to learn more about SAP for Me
  • Users who regularly need to get in touch with SAP (case or incident management, scheduling an expert, and so on)
Previous Experience No experience required
Preview You are testing prototypes for a future release of SAP for Me, relating to the following tasks:

  • Go through an onboarding to personalize your SAP for Me experience
  • Get notified about changes
  • Contact SAP support
Background Information SAP for Me helps you identify important actions at a glance and enables you to interact more easily and quickly with SAP.
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Topic 22: SAP Process Insights

Try out the new features of SAP Process Insights, a business transformation solution that helps you analyze your process inefficiencies and identify areas for improvement.

Description Here is a chance to try, test out, and provide usability feedback on new enhancements being developed for SAP Process Insights, our solution to evaluate process performance and plan your improvement path.
Roles
  • Process owners who monitor process adoption and operational KPIs and initiate action if targets are not met and who have experience contributing to and facilitating decision-making around process changes
  • Transformation drivers who are driving a transformation project in

an organization and need to identify which processes can be radically
transformed and outline how it can be done
Previous Experience
  • Good knowledge of processes and workflows within your business
  • Experience playing a significant part in process analysis
Preview You are testing prototypes for features of SAP Process Insights that are aimed at business transformation – through process and root-cause analysis and with direct recommendations. We’d like to understand the ideal workflow for you and get your feedback on the experience.
Background Information SAP Process Insights helps you analyze your process inefficiencies and identify areas for improvement. Process flows and performance indicators let you start your analysis. Correction recommendations and innovation recommendations help you plan for long-term improvement.
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Topic 23: SAP Product Footprint Management for Clean Operations

The SAP Product Footprint Management for clean operations empowers companies to estimate the carbon footprint of their individual products, providing more-reliable figures for external communication and actionable insights for making the right business decisions – in as simple a way as possible.​

Description The SAP Product Footprint Management for clean operations provides you with quicker and simpler insights into the carbon footprint of your individual products by enabling you to:

  • Communicate to B2B customers and consumers
  • Help make product portfolio, investment, and other decisions
  • Extend resource efficiency toward eco-efficiency
Roles All different kinds of users responsible for auditable environmental KPIs that help meet standards such as greenhouse gas protocol and thereby keep the promise to become climate neutral:

  • Managing director, leadership team
  • Sustainability expert
  • Plant manager, production expert
Previous Experience Experience should include basic knowledge of the business processes and understanding of the company value chain (from purchasing to production).
Preview Calculate product carbon footprints based on ERP data, and try out the effect of changes in the area of energy consumption. Afterwards, analyze calculated results to identify the origin of carbon emissions. At the end of our journey, we show a vision mock-up to get further feedback.
Background Information SAP Product Footprint Management for clean operations is a stand-alone cloud application​ that:

  • Estimates the bottom-up carbon footprint on an individual product level in a faster and more-simplified way
  • Offers preconfigured integration to the SAP Business ByDesign solution
  • Is open and flexible for other data sources, manual data entry, or partner solutions​
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Topic 24: SAP Product Footprint Management – Mapping Products with Emissions Factors

Join us as a sustainability hero, helping us test early prototypes for a future release of the SAP Product Footprint Management solution. In this feedback session, we focus on the process of mapping purchased products with emission factors.

Description You have the chance to preview and influence early prototypes of SAP Product Footprint Management. We count on your expert feedback to design better solutions, simplify the mappings process, and influence the end-to-end flow of calculating product footprints.
Roles Business IT experts working on Sustainability Initiatives for the CFO office, Sustainability LoB Departmental employees, Purchasing Material Experts working in Supplier Stewardship for sustainable sourcing, Product Lifecycle Assessment users from Product R&D.
Previous Experience
  • Experience with mapping emission factors with business data (focus on inbound, purchased products)
  • Experience maintaining large amounts of data and manual or automated mapping of processes in the realm of finance or sustainability
  • Experience with Microsoft Excel
Preview In this feedback session, we focus on the process of mapping purchased products with emission factors. On the basis of your feedback, we aim to diminish unnecessary steps, save users time on this task, reduce errors, and delight them with an improved experience. We plan to cover only mappings of greenhouse gas emissions.
Background Information SAP Product Footprint Management is a solution that lets companies calculate carbon footprints for their products and across the value chain. It considers the product lifecycle, helping companies disclose their products’ environmental footprints to regulators and enabling them to make their products more sustainable. SAP Product Footprint Management is part of a new portfolio of sustainability-specific business applications. SAP’s data-driven approach lets businesses embed sustainability comprehensively and gain actionable insights across the entire value chain so they can transition to low-carbon business processes.
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Topic 25: SAP Road Map Explorer: Business View

With the SAP Road Map Explorer tool, you can more easily find out about available and planned innovations related to your area of business and products. The new business view of SAP Road Map Explorer is designed to provide all SAP customers with an intermediate layer in which the road map priorities per product, industry, or process are shown and, at the same time, offer additional details and timelines for the road maps.

Description Make use of the SAP Road Map Explorer tool and all the available and planned innovations it offers. Now we’re going one step further to meet the different audiences for the road maps. With the new business view, we want to reach out to the intermediate levels in a company, those who both need to know road maps in their granularity and at the same time, need to have a strategic vision for the different products in the portfolio. The business view can give an overview of the road-map priorities, smart suggestions, links to related assets, and showcase of highlights. Additionally, we would like to capture insights about the enhanced smart filter bar and the view for innovations with multiproduct assignment, such as functionalities related to integration topics. With your feedback and contribution, you can contribute to shaping the future of SAP Road Map Explorer.
Roles Users being responsible for IT or business planning concerning optimization and transformation:

  • LoB managers and specialists
  • IT managers and specialists
Previous Experience Knowledge of SAP road maps or SAP Road Map Explorer is a “nice to have” but not mandatory.
Preview After being presented with our clickable prototype of our new concepts, answer some questions about your insights in order to make SAP Road Map Explorer even better.
Background Information SAP Road Map Explorer shows a comprehensive overview of all available and planned innovations that you can filter depending on your area of business, products in use, and so on. Our goal is to meet your needs in the area of road maps.
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Topic 26: SAP Sales Cloud – Sales Order

The SAP Sales Cloud solution helps salespeople create sales opportunities and quotes on products, which can then be converted into sales orders. Test a Create Sales Order flow, which allows salespeople like you to create an order in a single flow while you collaborate with your team and your business network or customers and make informed decisions based on customer and account insights or insights from your actions within the flow.

Description Sales order creation aims to help salespeople improve their margins while also pushing out as much product as possible from inventory. We have revamped the creation flow to include these use cases. Usability changes around product selection, product details, pricing information, and more have been included in this prototype.
Roles
  • Sales representatives who are responsible for creating sales orders for products
  • Sales managers responsible for managing sales representatives and handling accounts
Previous Experience
  • Experience working within the SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) application and SAP Sales Cloud
  • Current experience working in the business-to-business (B2B) sales area
Preview You can test prototypes and proofs of concept for the future release of SAP Sales Cloud relating to the following topic: creation of a sales order. During your usability test, where you can simplify screens based on a test script, you gain insights into the product and learn how it can be used for casual or advanced users of SAP CRM. Your feedback can help us improve the product.
Background Information SAP Sales Cloud helps salespeople create sales opportunities and quotes on products, which can then be converted into sales orders. Creating a sales order is an iterative process: the user can modify products, find out more information about them, add discounts to them, apply offers on them, and get intelligence that would help their margin. By providing the right information to the right users in the right context, you can give users the ability to get more done in less time with greater accuracy.
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Topic 27: SAP Screen Personas: Design Time

SAP Screen Personas software provides options to transform classic SAP GUI interface screens into designs inspired by the SAP Fiori user experience that are tailored for specific business roles. Business analysts or key users can create simplified versions of screens that are called “flavors,” with a design time capability with editors specific to subtasks. We want to increase the efficiency for business analysts and key users by focusing on key features and improving the overall creation flow.

Description The design time with focused editors has evolved over the past years, and features were added incrementally. To support business analysts and key users in creating flavors, we rethink the presentation of key features in the design time capability in SAP Screen Personas and the way to provide better navigation and interaction between different subtasks during flavor creation.
Roles
  • IT managers whose teams are responsible for maintaining, supporting, and customizing SAP S/4HANA; no ABAP programming language knowledge required
  • Business analysts who define processes and need to provide optimized means to end users who perform the process steps in an efficient and usable manner
Previous Experience
  • Experience using classic applications based on SAP GUI for your business processes
  • Basic knowledge of business processes in SAP solutions
Preview You are testing a prototype of a reworked design time. During your usability test, you can use design time features based on a test script. While you use the prototype, we ask you to provide your valuable opinion to improve the overall usability. In addition, you can gain insights into the product direction for flavor creation and help us shape the support for business analysts.
Background Information SAP Screen Personas allows companies to improve user productivity by bringing a great user experience to SAP GUI screens. Editors provide powerful features that allow screen simplifications by hiding unneeded controls, rearranging controls with the drag-and-drop editor, and adjusting the formatting and styles of UI elements. The integrated scripting engine allows for keystroke automation to eliminate manual user interactions, thus increasing end-user productivity. It can also be used to default data entries based on rules to eliminate input errors, thereby improving data quality in your system. By providing the right information to the right users in the right context, you can enable your users to get more done in less time with greater accuracy. SAP Screen Personas is one of several ways to improve SAP solution usability.
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Topic 28: Smart Search and Nudge for the Midmarket (The New Way of Work)

Powerfully search across products with a new function to help you get the information you need quickly, whether you are looking for business documents, searching for help, or troubleshooting information. The function is also intelligent, providing suggestions and recommendations to help you work more effectively – in connection with a chatbot or a Web assistant.

Description Experience a new way of search with examples showing how to more quickly find your important topics, processes, and related documents. Search in connection with a chatbot and a Web assistant, which can guide you quickly more quickly to the desired results. This new function provides a central point for all your bookmarks, such as favorites, notes, and tags, across the application and can help make your work more efficient.
Roles All kinds of users involved in implementing and using cloud solutions from SAP, such as SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, SAP Concur, SAP Fieldglass, SAP Business ByDesign, SAP Business One, and other solutions, to test the next-generation search and nudge functions for these solutions
Previous Experience No previous experience is necessary, but business knowledge with cloud solutions from SAP – such as SAP Business ByDesign, SAP Business One, SAP SuccessFactors, or SAP Concur solutions – can be helpful.
Preview Experience how to find your business objects and related documents and processes through the next-generation search in one place, assisted when needed by a chatbot or a Web assistant.
Background Information Today’s users want to interact with their cloud ERP software in new ways:

  • Users no longer need to travel through UIs to find particular data and documents or spend time searching multiple repositories to find help. Instead, powerful, Google-like search capabilities help users find relevant data and business documents in the system, as well as providing relevant help whenever needed.
  • Users no longer have to initiate every task or action. Instead, the system recognizes the user’s work patterns and priorities and supports them to work more efficiently by “nudging” them – for example, by alerting users to urgent tasks or by proactively providing relevant assistance when they get stuck.

 

 

 

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Topic 29: Test Tool for Incoming Bank Statement Processing Through the Map Format Data App

The Map Format Data app is used for processing input files and storing the data to the system. Discover and understand how the input file is parsed and mapped to output structures by using the test tool when working with format mappings.

Description You have a chance to test and provide usability feedback on the new protype of a test tool that is being developed for users of the Map Format Data app when creating new mapping formats for incoming bank statement processing. The test tool should help users understand how the input file is being parsed and how the rules are being applied when generating data for output structures.
Roles
  • Key users responsible for system configuration and setup
  • Users setting up format mappings for input file processing in bank statements (or treasury or advanced payment management)
Previous Experience
  • Understanding of file and data parsing and its processing in general
  • Experience with XML files and their structure
  • Experience with the Map Format Data app for input file processing a plus but not required
  • Experience with DMEE and DMEEX tools
Preview You are testing a prototype of test tool being created as a support for users working with the Map Format Data app for incoming bank statement processing when creating new format mappings. In the tool, you should be able to see how format mapping is being used for parsing input files and how the values are extracted for output structures. Your feedback can help us improve the developed test tool and affect its usability and functions.
Background Information The Map Format Data app is used for processing of input files (for example, flat file and XML) and storing the information to the system structures following defined rules in format mappings. These are used for mapping and transforming data based on requirements. SAP software can create format mappings and deliver them to customers or partners. Customers or partners can use delivered format mappings, maintain them, or create their own. Map Format Data allows users to manage and maintain format mappings, and it can be used in the areas of, for example, bank statements processing, treasury correspondence, or advanced payment management.
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Topic 30: The Future of SAP Fiori UI Sounds

A superior user experience not only provides a visually appealing user interface, but also harnesses the power of sound. Auditive feedback is a short audio signal for particular UI events. It can last from a few milliseconds to several seconds depending on the use case.

Description With SAP Fiori Sounds, we will introduce for the very first time, auditive feedback for our latest products! We designed and produced several sounds for particular UI events, e.q. for notification, errors, success, or warnings. New personalization capabilities will allow the user to change the sounds to the needs.
Roles  The SAP Fiori Sound feature is a benefit for any user role.
Previous Experience  No previous experience is required.
Preview You will be testing the first version of Fiori UI sounds! During your session where you will hear sounds of particular UI events e.q.notifications, errors, warnings, or success. You will gain a greater understanding into one of the latest features of Fiori and help us shape the development with your feedback. Join us in testing the latest UI sounds and share with us your impression on how you like them and whether they meet your needs. Sound good?
Background Information  More and more clients and applications expressing their need for auditive feedback in our products. With SAP UI Sounds we’re delivering on our promise to create accessible software for all people and needs. Via personalization, every sound can be adjusted and changed to the given scenario. This will close the feature gap and helps to ease the transition to our latest solutions.

 

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Topic 31: Visit SAP: Digital Guest Experience Concept

Explore the future of business meetings at SAP: Test a highly personalized solution that provides a smooth, hybrid guest experience before, during, and after visits to our new campus in the vibrant city of Berlin. Let’s “Visit SAP.”

Description Guests can find details about their visit to SAP in one place on their personal website (“web app”), which offers a wide spectrum of efficient, tailor-made solutions for their business (travel) needs.
Roles Current and prospective SAP customers, users of SAP products, and partners from all geographies who would like to meet and visit SAP. Preferably with business travel history, upcoming journeys, or remote meetings within Europe, specifically Germany and ideally Berlin.
Previous Experience Previous trips to any SAP location are a plus.
Preview In true user-centric fashion, you can interact with a vivid prototype of our brand-new visitor solution while sharing your feedback about business travel and remote meetings. At the end of your virtual trip, we plan to play a little game with you.
Background Information The “Visit SAP“ web app is a flagship project for the new SAP office in Berlin, which is intended to be an innovative place for dialogue with a digital, future-oriented work environment that inspires employees, customers, and partners. SAP is currently represented in the capital region with several offices in Berlin-Mitte, SAP Data Space, SAP Innovation Center Potsdam, and Schönefeld.
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