Some Kind of Magic

Low code is so yesterday. If you want to build an SAP Fiori app these days, just draw an idea on a paper napkin, upload it to the SAP Fiori Project Accelerator, and bask in the rays of glory. Who needs those pesky, expensive developers?

This is the impression you’d get from reading SAP marketing posts and some LinkedIn influencers. But as usual, here comes Reality Debbie Downer.

It is indeed possible to upload a sketch and have Fiori tools generate something from it. (Although we’ve already seen that Joule can also generate an app from just a description, so making a drawing feels like “slavery with extra steps.”) But that something is not going to be a fully functional app. And, ironically, the part that you can’t get from a drawing is usually the tough one.

There are also some prerequisites, and SAP Help doesn’t offer a simple answer to what exactly is needed to transform the prototype into a productive app. This kind of “magic” reminds me of Lioz Shem Tov’s act - brilliant and hilarious, but clearly not at all magical. JP

P.S. Check out my longer comment on this subject on LI.