SAP Fiori · Deployment Options & Fiori Cloud

In the classic Fiori cloud-edition architecture, several services (launchpad, apps, UI Theme Designer, Web IDE) ran in the cloud. How did they ever reach on-premise data — and what would break without that piece?

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