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SAP Screen Personas and Adapt UI simplify classic apps. April 2025 roadmap update

PeterSpielvogel
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert
‎2025 Apr 03 9:23 PM
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Customer adoption of SAP Screen Personas and Adapt UI for classic apps within SAP S/4HANA Cloud continues to grow. The most popular scenarios in which people simplify the classic screens in public cloud environments are sales orders and purchase orders. In this post, I’ll discuss when to use SAP Screen Personas and SAP Fiori apps, the SAP Screen Personas roadmap, and some specific next steps for customers and partners to optimize your UX transformation journey.

SAP Screen Personas is one way to deliver the SAP Fiori user experience

In a recent call with a partner supporting a large retailer, they asked if their customer should use SAP Screen Personas to simplify the classic sales order apps or to use the latest SAP Fiori app for Manage Sales Orders. Generally, if there is an SAP Fiori app that SAP ships, we recommend you evaluate it. SAP Fiori apps based on SAP Fiori elements receive ongoing innovations, including embedded AI capabilities that continue to evolve.

Most organizations will use a combination of SAP-delivered Fiori apps, adapted SAP Fiori apps, SAP Screen Personas flavors for classic applications, and SAP Fiori elements apps that they build themselves to provide a complete and consistent UX to their users. So, you should probably use a combination of both SAP Screen Personas AND SAP Fiori.

SAP Screen Personas is one of several steps that SAP has taken over the past decade to make its ERP screen easier to use:

Continuous improvement is part of the SAP UX Engineering culture

Within SAP Screen Personas, we are continuing to innovate to make it easier for you to streamline business processes that still rely on classic apps. In addition to all the basic screen editing functions that have been available for over a decade, we are making scripting more powerful and providing more capabilities to manage the tables that are so common in classic apps. With all the innovations in the SAP Fiori design system, we have also added more granular controls so you can give the classic screens the SAP Fiori user experience to improve usability and ensure consistency across the entire SAP portfolio.

SAP Screen Personas flavors can launch from My Home, alongside SAP Fiori apps, again providing a consistent way to access core ERP functionality. In short, the SAP Screen Personas roadmap focuses on continuing to innovate with new features and integrate into the rest of the portfolio so you can enjoy better usability and more UX consistency in your SAP ERP systems.

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VA01, VA02, VA03, ME21N, ME22N, ME23N remain among the most common transactions

SAP Screen Personas is a key part of SAP’s user experience strategy

  • SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition – the ability to simplify classic screens is built into the Adapt UI menu. If you open it for an SAP Fiori app, you can edit the screen with SAPUI5 Flexibility. If you open Adapt UI in a classic app, you will launch the SAP Screen Personas screen editor.
  • SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition – the add-on is available for download.
  • SAP S/4HANA (on-prem) and ECC – the process is the same as for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, since you control your IT environment.

Since we added it to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition as a standard feature, that should be solid evidence that the ability to adapt the UI of classic apps is something important to us. We are supporting SAP Screen Personas functionality through at least 2040.

SAP Screen Persons flavors are part of a clean core strategy, as they do not touch the core transactions / classic apps.

How to improve the user experience of your SAP ERP system

Customers

  • If you run SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Fiori apps should be your go-to solution, whenever possible. The SAP Fiori app reference library has a list of all the apps that are available in your environment.
  • For classic applications that don’t have an SAP Fiori app, you can use the power of SAP Screen Personas to hide fields you don’t need, pre-fill content if the information does not change, or automate repetitive actions using the scripting engine.
  • SAP Screen Personas is built into SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition as part of the Adapt UI capabilities. For SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and on-prem, you can install the add-on in less than an hour, if you know what you are doing. There is no additional license fee to use SAP Screen Personas in any environment.

Partners

SAP Screen Personas should be one of several key tools that are part of your UX transformation tool kit. If you don’t have expertise today, you can start with the free training course on SAP Screen Personas on the SAP Learning platform.

Learn more about SAP Screen Personas

I hope you start using Adapt UI for Classic Apps or SAP Screen Personas to make your business users happier and more productive.

For the SAP UX Foundations team, Peter Spielvogel.
(Yes, this is a new name for our organization. Same mission, same goals. The new name reflects that we have product managers and UX experts working together with engineers to achieve our goal of delighting SAP customers with a better user experience in SAP S/4HANA.)