Live Data Connection to SAP BW Using a Tunnel Connection
Setup the SAPCP Cloud Connector between your SAP BW or SAP BW/4HANA system and SAP Analytics Cloud to establish a live tunnel connection.
- Users with Create, Read, Update, Delete and Maintain permissions for the Connections privilege.
- Users with Execute permission for the Other Data Sources privilege.
- Admin, Application Creator, BI Content Creator, BI Admin, and Planner Reporter standard application roles.
- Setting up a live connection requires working with the SAP Analytics Cloud system owner and different IT and application stakeholders within your organization. Most configuration steps are done on your SAP NetWeaver ABAP Application Server (AS) before creating the connection in your SAP Analytics Cloud tenant.
- Check that you are using a supported version
of SAP BW. For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.Note
Additional correction notes must be applied for some versions of SAP BW. For more information, see SAP Note 2541557
- Configure SSL on your SAP NetWeaver ABAP AS. For more information, see Configuring SAP NetWeaver AS for ABAP to Support SSL, and SAP Note 510007.
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Configure cross-site cookies: To ensure that Chrome and other browsers allow cross-site access to your SAP on-premise data source cookies from SAP Analytics Cloud, you must configure your SAP on-premise data source to issue cookies with specific attributes. Without these settings, user authentication to your live data connections will fail, and Story visualizations based on these connections will not render.
For steps on how to do this, see SameSite Cookie Configuration for Live Data Connections.
- Setup SSO (optional): If you want users to have a single sign-on experience to your data, check you are using same Identity Provider (IdP) for SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP NetWeaver. For more information on setting up your identity provider in SAP Analytics Cloud, see Enabling a Custom SAML Identity Provider.
- If you have multiple authentication methods configured on your ABAP AS, see Alternative Logon Order.
Enable InA on your ABAP Application Server
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SAP Information Access (InA) is a REST HTTP-based protocol used by SAP Analytics Cloud to query your data sources in real time. Confirm that your InA package is enabled and services are running on the ABAP AS for your data source.
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Configure SAPCP Cloud Connector Tunnel Connection
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Create the Live Connection in SAP Analytics Cloud
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Now that you've configured your data source, you can finally create the live conection in SAP Analytics Cloud.