AI Meets UX: What’s Next for SAPUI5 & Fiori

Just reviewed SAP’s upcoming roadmap items—and there’s a clear trend: embedding intelligence directly into the user experience layer. If you’re building or extending Fiori apps, here’s what’s coming by Q3 2025 to Q1 2026:

AI-Enhanced & Developer-Friendly Innovations:

Smart Developer Adaptation:

• Custom Code Layers: Build intelligent, upgrade-stable extensions with less friction.
• Smart Navigation (Launchpad Tile Targeting): Dynamic, context-aware navigation without deep app rewrites.

Smarter Tables and UI Behavior:

• Inline Editing: Edit rows directly in-place—ideal for task efficiency and AI-suggested inputs.
• Analytical Table Support: Better performance + future readiness for predictive UI integrations.

Intelligent Framework Upgrades:

• OData V4 Input Assistance: Streamlined value help, paving the way for AI-assisted input suggestions and context-aware selections.
• Standardized UX Patterns: More consistent, intelligent UX across all apps—SAP-delivered or custom.

SAP’s roadmap signals a shift toward context-aware, AI-augmented user experiences—enabling adaptive UI behavior, smarter defaults, and more efficient interaction patterns across the enterprise stack; ideal for AI integration