SAP Fiori apps are divided into three categories. They are distinguished on the basis of their function and infrastructure requirement.
  • Transactional Apps
  • Fact sheets
  • Analytical Apps

Transactional Apps

The most important features of Transactional Apps are −
  • The first release of SAP Fiori included 25 transactional apps.
  • Transactional apps in SAP Fiori are used to perform transactional tasks like a manager-employee transactions such as leave request, travel requests, etc.
  • Transactional Apps run best on SAP HANA database but can be deployed with any database with acceptable performance. These apps allow a user to run simple SAP transactions on the mobile devices as well as desktop or laptops.
Example − Leave Request, Travel Request, Purchase Order.

Fact sheets

The important features of a Fact sheet are given below.
  • Fact sheets are used to drill the key information and contextual information in business operations. In SAP Fiori tiles, you can drill down to further details.
  • It also allows you to navigate one-fact sheet to all its related fact sheets.
  • Fact sheets also allow you to navigate to Transactional apps to run SAP transactions. A few Fact sheets also provide an integration option of geographical maps.
  • You can call Fact sheets from Fiori Launchpad search results, from other fact sheets or from Transactional or Analytical apps.
  • Fact sheets only run on SAP HANA database and also require an ABAP stack and they cannot be ported to SAP HANA Live tier-2 architecture.
Example − There is a fact sheet app with the center objects having details about vendor contract. You can drill down to further details like vendor details, contract terms, item details, etc.

Analytical Apps

Analytical apps are used to provide role-based real time information about the business operations. Analytical apps integrate the power of SAP HANA with SAP business suite. It provides real time information from large volume of data in front-end web browser.
Using Analytical apps, you can closely monitor Key Performance indicators KPIs. You can perform complex aggregations and calculations of your business operations and react immediately as per the changes in the market condition.
SAP Fiori Analytical apps run on SAP HANA database and use Virtual data models.


Serkan AKKAVAK
Computer Engineer
ABAP Developer & SAP MM SD Consultant
Contact : serkurumsal@yandex.com