SAP Fiori Analytical apps and Fact Sheet apps are specifically designed to leverage the advanced capabilities of the SAP HANA database. Analytical apps require SAP HANA's in-memory computing power to perform real-time analysis and aggregations on large datasets, providing complex charts and key performance indicators (KPIs). Fact Sheet apps depend on SAP HANA's underlying enterprise search technology to find and present contextual information and key facts about central business objects from various sources. Without SAP HANA, the core functionalities of these two app types cannot be delivered.

B. Classic applications: These are not native SAP Fiori apps but rather traditional SAP GUI or Web Dynpro applications launched from the Fiori Launchpad. Their database requirement depends on the backend system, which is not necessarily SAP HANA.

D. Transactional apps: These apps are designed to be database-agnostic. They can run on any database supported by the SAP NetWeaver ABAP stack, including but not limited to SAP HANA.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP Fiori for SAP S/4HANA

"Types of SAP Fiori Apps": This official documentation explicitly states the prerequisites for each app type. It details that "Analytical apps run on an SAP HANA database and use virtual data models" and for Fact Sheets

"The search function in the SAP Fiori launchpad relies on search models that are stored in the SAP HANA database."

Reference: SAP Help Portal

SAP Fiori for SAP S/4HANA

Section: "Implementation and Operations"

Subsection: "Types of SAP Fiori Apps".

2. SAP Training Course TADM10 - SAP S/4HANA Implementation and Administration: The course materials for the SAP Administration certification directly cover the SAP Fiori architecture. In the unit on SAP Fiori

it is specified that Analytical and Fact Sheet applications have a mandatory dependency on the SAP HANA database for their core functions

whereas Transactional applications do not.

Reference: SAP Learning Hub

Course TADM10

Unit 7: SAP Fiori

Lesson: Describing SAP Fiori.

3. SAP Press

"SAP S/4HANA Administration" (ISBN 978-1-4932-1950-9)

Chapter 12: SAP Fiori: This book

which aligns with the CTADM curriculum

explains the Fiori architecture. Section 12.2

"SAP Fiori App Types

" clarifies that "Transactional apps can run on any database... In contrast

analytical apps and fact sheets require an SAP HANA database."

Reference: Page 485

Section 12.2.