Floe isn't designed for printing. Of course it isn't. SAP already provides 3 tools for designing print output. Floe is for everything else except printing. It generates email, SMS, HTML and PDF output, to cater for all kinds of business communication. Floe is for organisations who have moved on from printing, and are now moving [...]
Using Floe is one small step you can make to move towards a carbon-neutral future. As every organization seeks to reduce their carbon footprint, we must embrace new and innovative ways to make a difference. It will take a host of changes to business processes and policies to small baby steps towards a carbon-neutral future. Using [...]
Here’s an idea. Stop sending emails with PDF attachments. If I need a physical document, let me access my documentation through a web portal, or request it from a web form or chatbot. Don’t send employees PDF documents of their payslips and tax forms. Instead, make these available to be generated on demand. This means that [...]
Did you know that you are running legacy technologies for SAP output? Technologies developed 20 or 30 years ago, designed for something else, that have become the wrong tool for today’s communication needs? You’re in the same place as many other SAP customers. And it’s time to consider levelling up. History Let’s remind ourselves about the [...]
SAP Business Communication There are a number of different approaches to generate business communication from SAP and your company may use some or all of them: PDF document output. Typically generated when a business document like sales order, purchase order or invoice is created. Normally sent as an email attachment. PDF letter. In many cases [...]
Let’s assume that your organisation has a communication strategy. It it’s large enough to run SAP then it should (and probably does) have one. Your communication strategy will encompass a number of topics, such as: Communication Channels; Target Audiences; Communication Goals; Communication Activity; and Feedback. Your communication strategy should cover manually-triggered communication and system-generated communication. It [...]
Floe provides the opportunity to re-visit and re-think how, why, where, when and what we communicate to our business communities. Rather than rely on old email/print approaches, we can consider when to use ‘push’ or ‘pull’ communication methods, to provide our business communities the information they need when they need it. For internal communication, Fiori [...]
With Floe 220 comes the capability to create and manage a library of SMS message templates, and trigger the sending of those using a new API. So instead of an email notification, you can now choose between Email and SMS communication channels. SMS templates are managed in Floe Designer alongside Email templates: Each SMS can consist [...]
With Floe 220 comes Floe Drive – a free image repository. This provides a powerful way to handle images within Floe templates. It is easy to drag and drop images into the repository, and include images from your repository in any output template. There are, in fact, four different ways in which we can support image [...]
The latest version of Floe (FLOE220) delivers a single template designer for multiple use cases and output technologies. Floe now supports the generation of email, HTML, PDF and SMS, covering almost every SAP output requirement. Here are 5 fantastic new features: [1] Floe Drive, the new image repository Save images in Floe Drive: There is no [...]
