Single-sign-on for connection to SAP BW
Connector to SAP BW has enabled the easy access to data in SAP BW. However, scheduling the data refresh from SAP BW is not possible since the SSO feature is not available. This would be a good step to create dashboards using Power BI consuming SAP BW data.
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Thanks for your feedback – We plan to enable SSO over SAP BW later this calendar year. We don’t have a more concrete timeline at this stage, but stay tuned for status updates.
18 comments
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Julian
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Any news on this SSO issue? I think it is a big problem for Power BI's adoption in SAP dominated enterprises
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Jens
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Hey,
when is this function available for PBI, is there any road-map. For us it is the biggest show stopper.
Am I right, when I read the comment from Priya, that the announced function is not working, so when I try to setup a SSO connection to SAP BW with SAP secure login client and Kerberos as described in this white paper https://aka.ms/powerbiandsapbw it is not working?
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vishwanath
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Miguel,
When is this available.?This is the biggest show stopper for us to use this tool.
We never want to build the parallel security at workspace level. -
Anonymous
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when will tis be available?
i need the feature to make schedule auto refresh from sap bw data. -
Priya Jacob
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Hi, an update from the ticket I raised with PG on the Gateway SSO with SAP BW:
Win Auth. SSO to SAP BW is not yet supported from Gateway Service and we are being advised to not use the feature and also ignore what was documented in the formal blog below;
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/on-premises-data-gateway-april-update-is-now-available/-Priya
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Priya Jacob
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Hi, Have worked with the latest update and yet don't find a way to have
- SSO to SAP BW using Win Auth. while using the Message Server option in PowerBI Desktop (throws an invalid connection string error)
- SSO to SAP BW using Win Auth. from Gateway Service. Here, there isnt a way to bypass the mandatory User/Pwd entry though it gives you the option to select Windows & specify the SNC library. Does not make sense and Product Support does not have a clue after having raised a ticket with them.-Priya
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Anonymous
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Is there any update on SSO ?
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Avijit Dutta
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Is there any update regarding the possibility of SSO with SAP BW Message server connectivity?
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Neil Sowler
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Please provide an update on when this will be released
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Rúben Salvador
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Do you have a deadline for this, as this has not been an update about this since January.
This is something our company is awaiting for quite a while now.
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Prasad S
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Any update on this request?
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Harry Leboeuf
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It is not really a idea i'm posting, more a consideration hoping to find out how you guys are thinking about it, how it wil be implemented ..
In the DirectQuery mode, by Gateway, the users connects to PowerBi.com with his Office365 account.
In SQL models you can build a security system with logins and roles ...
But in many cases SAP uses its own usersnames and restrictions to data.
How will we be able to 'translate' the windows logon towards the SAP logon, because if the gateway is running with a 'See-All' user all connected users might also see all, in our case defenitly no option. As we can'd add any tables, calculated columns I don't see a way to play with the role-system ...
So, how will/might this be handled ?
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Ward Morris
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Miguel, is there a roadmap for other single sign on connections to source data via the Gateway? Even if it's a rough estimate by quarter or even year, it will help us to communicate the direction to upper management.
The only that I'm aware of at this point is SAP.
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Nicolas
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We are actually looking for one analytics plateform and SSO is a requirement.
I know that Tableau have now SSO, can you confirn it will be implemented in 2017 on Power BI ? -
Guy Lamoureux
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If only you knew the power of the SSO.
It is your destiny! Join me, and together, we can rule the BW environment as programmer and query ! -
Konrad Babiarz commented
Will this enable the Row Level Security when SSO will be working os SAP BW?
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chris golding
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I agree that single sign on for SAP BW connector is a requirement for a production rollout in our company. All of our applications, including SAP BW are single sign on. Without single signon we would be inundated with requests for manual password resets in our BW environment.
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Balaji
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This is critical to ensure BW data is not getting duplicated outside BW