SAP Fiori Launchpad performance

SAP Fiori launchpad is the entry point to SAP Fiori apps on mobile and desktop devices. It is a shell that hosts SAP Fiori apps and provides the apps with services such as navigation, personalization, embedded support and application configuration.

However, it has been generally noticed that end users face a lot of performance related issues with the Launchpad. The primary reason for this is that the SAP libraries (SAPUI5 Javascript library in this case) are located in the ABAP Front End server (FES) and every time the Launchpad is rendered in the browser, http calls are made to the FES to load the Javascript libraries. This in turn results in high rendering time and thus affects the end user performance.

One of the ways to overcome this performance issue is to make use of a Content Delivery Network (e.g. Akamai) to load the SAPUI5 libraries. A CDN enables the browser to load the static web content (UI5 libraries) from a network server closest to the users current location.

The other options available for end users to run the Fiori apps with minimum performance issues are 1) Using the Fiori Client 2) Fiori Hybrid applications 3) Fiori Native applications. For details you can refer to this article.

For the CDN configuration, you can refer to SAP Help for details.

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