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WALLDORF — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) today announce the signing of a joint declaration to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and monitor its implementation, in particular in the area of inclusive and sustainable industrialization, by utilizing innovative technologies including analytics, reporting, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, blockchain and others.

The joint initiative will focus on the development of an innovative platform, SAP Digital Boardroom, to monitor, manage and report on the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and their industry-related targets.

“SAP Digital Boardroom allows UNIDO groups to gain visibility across their entire organization, consolidate achievements on the SDGs and document their impact on people’s lives. Through data integration, the solution provides a single source of truth for strategic decisions, and that is critical for success in the fast-paced digital economy,” said Isabella Groegor-Cechowicz, global general manager for Public Services, SAP.

This new initiative demonstrates SAP’s commitment to the 17 UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development, which also includes membership in the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD) and IMPACT 2030.

“With SAP as a partner, we are making progress under the 2030 Agenda by harnessing the power of new technologies to overcome the digital divide and achieve prosperity for all,” commented Hiroshi Kuniyoshi, deputy to the Director General, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.

For more information, visit the SAP News Center. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.

Media Contacts:

Stacy Ries, SAP, +1 (484) 619-0411, stacy.ries@sap.com, ET
Jason Slater, UNIDO, j.slater@unido.org

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SAP Raises Outlook Backed by Outstanding S/4HANA Momentum

* Digital core business soars with over 6,900 S/4HANA customers – around 70% growth year over year
* Continued strong business performance despite significant currency headwinds
* Software revenue stable (IFRS) and up 3% (Non-IFRS at constant currencies)
* Cloud subscriptions and support revenue up 22% (IFRS) and up 27% (Non-IFRS at constant currencies)
* EPS up 35% (IFRS) and up 10% (Non-IFRS)
* On track to execute €500 million share buy back by year end, €288 million bought back in Q3

WALLDORF, Germany — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced its financial results for the third quarter 2017 ended September 30, 2017.

Read the Q3 2017 Quarterly Statement http://bit.ly/2jD3rjw #SAP #SAPCloud #AI

Some time ago I discussed SAP High Contrast Black, a theme that SAP has been providing in many solutions for decades.  A matching SAP High Contrast White has been long desired and with SAPUI5 version 1.48 has finally become a reality.  This blog brings you a first glance at High Contrast White and how it impacts your Fiori Launchpad and Fiori apps.

High Contrast White is an important new theme for anyone working on mobile devices in bright environments where there is dazzling and glare, such as on a mining site, or on a farm, or in city park, or on a container wharf.   

High Contrast White also helps anyone who find higher contrast helps them to see more details, such as people with severe short-sightedness, macular degeneration, glaucoma, and floaters/clouds in the eye. While these sorts of conditions can affect anyone at any age, they are particularly prevalent as we age.  So you may find your mature talent employees (over 45 years of age) may be particularly appreciative of a high contrast screen.

SAP High Contrast White is one of SAP’s newest addition to the Fiori Design Guidelines for accessibility users.  SAP High Contrast White is available for all Fiori and SAPUI5 apps in SAPUI5 and OPENUI5 as of version 1.48.

Given that version 1.48 has only been released very recently most customers are yet to upgrade to SAPUI5 1.48, so the easiest place you can see this is in the recently released SAP S/4HANA 1709 and also in SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1708.

In this blog you will see some brief examples of:

* High Contrast White in the Fiori Launchpad
* High Contrast White in Fiori apps

And you will also find out how you can set select this theme:

* Setting High Contrast White as a user
* Setting High Contrast White as a developer

The screenshots you will see are taken from S/4HANA 1709.

High Contrast White in the Fiori Launchpad

In the Fiori Launchpad, you can see in this example primarily white tiles are shown with a black border.The currently selected tab appears as a mid-blue.

The focus indicator that shows you where the cursor is currently placed appears as black dotted line on white (to make it easier to see the cursor indicator is also 2 pixels wide rather than the usual 1 pixel used for Belize and Belize Deep).  In the example below, you can see the cursor indicator on the Unused Contracts tile.

Notice that semantic colors on analytics tiles still apply, and are just subtly adjusted shades.

Greens are #006362 (0% red, 38.8% green, 38.4% blue) compared to Belize’s #2B7D2B (16.9% red, 49% green and 16.9% blue). Reds are #AB0000 (67% red) compared to Belize’s #BB0000 (73% red).

Naturally the colors of your corporate logo and any other images are unaffected.

On static tiles, you can see icons are in minimalist black on white, as in the following example.

High Contrast White in Fiori apps

In the example below you can see high contrast white applied to one of the S/4HANA Fiori Manage apps.  This particular app, like many of the Manage apps, uses the popular List Report floorplan.  Here we see the list shown with a grid table.  Once again you can see minimalist black text and lines on primarily white screen. The position of the cursor is highlighted in orange – here we see the cursor selecting a whole row to expand it to see more details.

Often details are shown using an Object Page – another very common Fiori floorplan.  On an object page again you can see High Contrast White appears as black text on primarily white screen.  The current tab is emphasized with a bold underline. Major section (aka facet) headings have a grey background.

Thumbnail images are unaffected.

In analytical charts, a deep color palette is applied to make comparison of charts and lines clearer, and a little more interesting.

This new color palette is particularly obvious on Overview Pages.

Setting High Contrast White as a User

It’s easy to turn on this new theme.  Just to go to the Me Area of your Fiori Launchpad and open the Settings dialog. You’ll find the settings for themes in the section Appearance.  Simply choose SAP High Contrast White.

Hint: You might notice there are 2 SAP High Contrast Blacks.  The older sap_hcb (marked with an artist pallet icon) and the newer sap_belize_hcb (showing the theme background colour in a circle icon).  You are recommended to use the updated sap_belize_hcb for Fiori to pick up on the latest Fiori settings and to smoothly navigate to classic UIs.

Setting High Contrast White as a Developer or Administrator

You can switch on the High Contrast White theme by appending the URL parameter to your Fiori Launchpad URL:

sap-ui-theme=sap_belize_hcw

And of course, just like High Contrast Black you can add sap_belize_hcw as a supported theme in your manifest.json file.

Becoming a SAP Fiori Accessibility guru

You’ll find more in the SAP Fiori Accessibility wiki.

Screenshots from S/4HANA 1709

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