Hello SAP User Experience Community:
With SAP User Experience solutions, you and your customers can provide a consistent user experience that engages your customers with their business processes. Ranging from solutions such as Screen Personas, SAPUI5, SAP NetWeaver Gateway, to the collection of highly configurable SAP Fiori Apps, SAP brings to you a set of solutions and tools that will help you increase adoption, productivity and usability of the applications you build.
TheSAP Education's User Experience Education Portfolioenables you to take advantage of opportunities for SAP User Experience excellence. Through SAP Education, you gain the necessary skills in established frameworks and SAP solutions to ensure sustainable growth, cultivation of design skills, and the consistency of your user’s experience. SAP Education's goal is to teach its learning community how to handle business and end-user requirements and turn these into professionally designed applications and business processes. Whether you need to customize and extend SAP Fiori, build user-centric and consistent learning solutions with Workforce Performance Builder, or create Screen Personas flavors to increase productivity, user adoption and improve overall user satisfaction, SAP Education has courses to meet your needs.
SAP User Experience Courses in the SAP Learning Hub:
SAP Education offers multiple delivery formats and learning solutions. If you find that attending a live classroom poses a time and financial challenge, SAP Education introduces the ALL NEWSAP Learning Hub, the On Demand Learning Platform from SAP. Upon availability, all SAP course content is immediately uploaded to the SAP Learning Hub, including the new SAP User Experience courses below. It is no mystery that it's important to refresh and deepen SAP software knowledge to stay relevant and competitive in this fast-paced IT market. It can be difficult to find time- let alone funding- for traditional classroom training. The SAP Education Learning Hub is a complete, cost-effective and cloud-based learning solution from SAP that connects you to ALL the latest content across all SAP products and solutions.
If you are not sure that SAP Learning Hub is the right solution for you, SAP Education offers a FREE Discovery Edition of the Learning Hub. In the free edition, you can explore and assess the free content available to you. You will find entire courses in the free edition as well, so as to give you the experience of just how valuable becoming a full member of the SAP Learning Hub can be. Get started– register for free access to the Discovery Edition, and begin to experience the benefits for yourself.
How to Book Training at SAP Education:
Booking your SAP User Experience training with SAP Education couldn't be simpler:
- Online– you can book online using our Training & Certification Shop at https://training.sap.com/. Bookings that are made online will be processed within 24 hours, Monday to Friday. For the latest SAP User Experience course schedules (by country), you can go directly to theSAP User Experience Online Catalog and Training Schedules. Visit this page frequently, since SAP Education will continue to add more courses and schedules throughout the year.
- OnDemand: If you cannot find the course you are looking for, or the course dates do not fit, we can try to schedule the course for you – on demand! Find out more about out about our OnDemand Service. On Demand scheduling is currently only available for customers located in the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.
Key Product Areas in the SAP User Experience Curriculum:
The following is a list of core products that make up the SAP User Experience solution and education:
- SAP Screen Personas
- SAP SAPUI5
- SAP Fiori
- SAP NetWeaver Gateway
- SAP Workforce Performance Builder (WPB)
Introduction to the SAP User Experience Education Portfolio:
The SAP User Experience (UX) Education Portfolio covers the products and solutions noted above. To ensure that you understand the role of User Experience in the design of UX-centric applications, SAP Education recommends the Design Thinking for Business Innovation course as an optional prerequisite course for all learner roles. This course is not a hard pre-requisite for the User Experience role based learning tracks, but it is a great starting point for those of you who need practical exposure to the world of Design Thinking.
You will also find courses in the UX curriculum for SAP Workforce Performance Builder. These courses are excellent starting points for those of you who are responsible for developing learning solutions for your applications, business processes and solutions. SAP Workforce Performance Builder is fully aligned with the SAP User Experience design strategy and a great way to ensure that your users have the same excellent user experience when engaged in learning assets created with SAP Workforce Performance Builder.
Now, let me lead you through the training available by solution area:
SAP Fiori Education Portfolio
SAP Fiori is a collection of customizable and extendable apps that represents the new SAP user experience paradigm. SAP Fiori offers various business roles a simple, easy-to-use experience for SAP software functions, and works seamlessly on desktop, tablet, or smartphone. Below are the courses available to improve your skills to install, configure and extend the SAP Fiori solution:
- THINK1: Design Thinking for Business Innovation - Live Experience (2 days ILT). You will learn the Design Thinking as a creative problem solving approach to enable you and to use in solving customer individual challenges, like defining user experience for your apps, new strategies, organizations, processes and of course defining new end-to-end IT solutions and its corresponding requirements. Target Audience: This course is suitable for a broad audience:
- All people who work with others to solve problems
- All people who are involved in the definition of an IT specific solution and user experience requirements
- People who would like to run the methodology within their own company and act as multipliers
Get inspired by IDEO's David Kelley in this Video Clip - Design Thinking and enjoy the Design Thinking Experience in one of our Training Centers to learn how to apply the approach to overcoming a variety of challenges in business.
- SAPX03: SAP Fiori Implementation and Configuration (4 days ILT). This course is designed to give you the opportunity to gain an in depth understanding of SAP Fiori functionality, including an overview of the SAP Fiori architecture, authorization, installation, & the deployment of SAP Fiori Apps. In this course, you will learn the architectures using the Any DB deployment and the HANA-based architecture with HANA XS Engine for Analytical Apps. The course covers the installation of the XS Engine for SAP Fiori Analytical Apps and the configuration of Analytical Apps (KPI prerequisites, general overview, how to create KPIs). Participants will also gain familiarity with the basics of SAP NetWeaver Gateway OData Services and the various configurations required for Transactional Apps, Fact Sheets, Analytical Apps and the SAP Fiori Launchpad. There will be intensive hands-on exercises performed during the course to gain experience with standard configuration, customization and extensions of SAP Fiori Apps. Target Audience: Application and Technology Consultants, System Administrators, Solution Architects, Developers.
If you are new to ABAP, SAPUI5 and/or SAP NetWeaver Gateway, the following courses are highly recommended.
- GW100: SAP NetWeaver Gateway - Building OData Services (3 days ILT). Learn deployment options for SAP NetWeaver Gateway. The course begins with an introduction to REST Services, OData and OData query options. You will then learn data modeling basics to start the development of OData services with the SAP NetWeaver Gateway Service Builder. Other topics include: modeling and implementing OData services manually, BOR/RFC Generator, redefining services, service composition, registering and testing a service, and finally security. Target Audience: Developers.
- BC400: ABAP Workbench Foundations (5 days ILT). In this course, you will learn how to create ABAP programs and the most important Repository objects using appropriate ABAP Workbench tools. Learn to navigate in the Workbench, use the syntax help, process source text with the ABAP Editor, test programs using the Debugger, engage in project-oriented development using the Transport Organizer, gain familiarity with important ABAP statements, define elementary and structured data objects, work with internal tables, use function groups, function modules, as well as classes, methods and BAPIs, and so on. Target Audience: Developers.
- BC401: ABAP Objects (5 days ILT). In this course, you will learn how to analyze and design classes (UML). You will learn and work with classes, instances, references, inheritance, interfaces, polymorphism, and events. The course covers special object-oriented techniques, global classes/interfaces (Class Builder), and class-based exception concepts. Target Audience: Developers.
- SAPX05: SAP SAPUI5 User Experience Development (3 Days ILT) – SAPX04 recommended if new to HTML5. This course is designed to give participants the opportunity to gain an understanding of SAP SAPUI5. Participants will learn how to program applications using SAPUI5 by creating a new project in Eclipse. Additional topics in this course include: Model – View – Controller, data binding, data binding – oData, resource handling / localization, Notepad controls, components, extending SAPUI5, styling & theming, CVOM charts; SAPUI5 Mobile, and optimizing SAPUI5. There will be hands-on exercises performed during the course to gain experience with SAPUI5. Target Audience: Developers.
- Expect an Associate Level certification exam for SAP Fiori Implementation and Configuration in Q3 of 2014.
SAP SAPUI5 Education Portfolio
- THINK1: Design Thinking for Business Innovation - Live Experience (2 days ILT) – Recommended Pre-requisite. (see above for description).
- SAPX04:HTML5 Foundations for SAPUI5 Development (2 Days ILT) – Optional. This course is designed to give participants the opportunity to gain an understanding of HTML5 by introducing the basics of web programming techniques using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery. This course is a pre-requisite course for all courses on SAP SAPUI5, especially if a developer is new to the field of web development. There will be hands-on exercises performed during the course to gain experience with HTML5 so as to prepare the participant for follow up SAP SAPUI5 classes. Target Audience: Developers.
- SAPX05: SAP SAPUI5 User Experience Development (3 Days ILT) – SAPX04 recommended if new to HTML5. This course is designed to give participants the opportunity to gain an understanding of SAP SAPUI5. Participants will learn how to program applications using SAPUI5 by creating a new project in Eclipse. Additional topics in this course include: Model – View – Controller, data binding, data binding – oData, resource handling / localization, Notepad controls, components, extending SAPUI5, styling & theming, CVOM charts; SAPUI5 Mobile, and optimizing SAPUI5. There will be hands-on exercises performed during the course to gain experience with SAPUI5. Target Audience: Developers.
SAP Screen Personas Education Portfolio
- THINK1: Design Thinking for Business Innovation - Live Experience (2 days ILT) – Recommended Pre-requisite. (see above for description).
- SAPUX: SAP Screen Personas 2.0 Development (2 Days ILT). SAP UX is a browser-based rendering engine for classic SAP DynPro screens. It provides consumer-grade personalization features that enable IT professionals, key-users and end-users to simplify business application screens quickly and easily in order to improve the visual appeal, end user productivity and performance of SAP. Target Audience: Power Users, Developers.
SAP Workforce Performance Builder Education Portfolio
In line with SAP's User Experience strategy, SAP Workforce Performance Builder (WPB) provides enterprise wide learning and performance support. This powerful solution enables companies to build learning solutions covering the entire IT landscape in a consistent user experience (UX) that in turn will improve productivity and adoption of SAP and non-SAP applications and new/existing business processes. SAP Workforce Performance Builder speeds up process execution, and reduces time for searches of required reference materials to a minimum. The onboarding process of new employees can be accelerated by supporting them with context-sensitive guidance, location-based training, in and outside the office by supporting the main mobile platforms. For superior user experience and a fast ROI, SAP Workforce Performance Builder provides the best-in-class and easy to use content creation and maintenance capabilities, even the localization and update of contents can be done automatically.
SAP Education has 2 core courses that will teach you how to enrich the learning experience of your users with a consistent User Experience (UX) across all learning initiatives for your organization. Learn how to enable your users quickly and easily with SAP Workforce Performance Builder for increased productivity, consistency of learning, and quicker adoption of applications and business processes, resulting in a lower total cost of ownership, and faster ROI for the entire IT-landscape.
- SWPB02: SAP Workforce Performance Builder - Producer (3 Days ILT). This course begins with an overview of the SAP Workforce Performance Builder solution, after which you will begin by building navigation content using Producer. You learn how to prepare your environment for content development, create a Work area, create and edit a recorded project, work with bubbles, work with macros, and apply re-recording and translation techniques. Other topics include: playing back a recording, creating documentation, creating Book Pages, creating quizzes and assessments, setting up scoring and finally publishing your content. Target Audience: Project team members who are responsible for creating learning solutions.
- SWPB01: SAP Workforce Performance Builder - Manager (1 Day ILT). In this course, you will defining Objects and projects in Manager. You lern how to work in Property Sheets, manage Users, roles, organizational units and permissions. You will then learn how to create content structures and assign tasks to Authors, create business processes, and define collaboration of WPB content. Lastly, you will use the reporting capabilities of WPB Manager, publish and assign courses and other content. Target Audience: Project team leaders and administrators who need to configure and administer WPB Manager.
I hope you found this information useful. Please let me know if I can clarify anything for you.
Best regards,
Vivaldo