Javascript has become new norms for developing applications. Processing at the UI end is becoming more fashionable and every major software-related companies are having their own JS framework. For enterprise giant SAP, SAPUI5/Open UI5 is the new framework. Google and Facebook also have their own framework Angular.js and React.js respectively which are few among the top.

 

When we take a closer look at SAP, ABAP or ABAP/4 was used majorly to create enterprise application and there was a lot of development done with SAP ABAP editor which is inbuilt with SAP Frontend UI also eclipse was second popular IDE used to write ABAP code.

 

We also saw the introduction of Web-Dynpro a few years back to leverage Java for developing enterprise applications. After Sun Microsystem was acquired by Oracle and Oracle and SAP are a well-known competitor in the ERP marketplace it was clear for SAP to move away from Java world. Then comes the era of Javascript. In the meantime in the Javascript world after ES6 version of Javascript the possibility and things you can perform were impressive and with HTML5 not only you can leverage the responsive nature of building a mobile application but also can make it much much better looking with CSS3.
And With these open source technologies, UI5 was created.

 

Now comes the major challenge to replace all existing application in SAP with UI5, the answer was SAP Fiori, Fiori means flowers in Italian and apps build with UI5 do follow 5 basic guideline principles to make it look beautiful as a flower. SAP Fiori was launched with 25 applications with HCM, Timesheet apps few popular among the first 25 apps. Now the portfolio of Fiori apps is much bigger covering a wide spectrum of functional fields and more than 500+ apps.

 

When we try to predict the future with SAPUI5/Open UI5 and Fiori, we are going to see more of open source stacks coming in like Node.js and Angular.js influence with UI5.

Now the major question comes here: Is it worth learning UI5 or if you are already a UI5 developer it is worth spending time to upgrade the skills and the answer is yes!

 

Till now we have only seen the tip of the iceberg and there is a lot more to come. At UI5CN we spend a lot of our time( as we don’t have anything else to do) to help people who are starting their career with SAP or upgrade their skills to go to the next level.

 

 

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