BI4 Integration into the SAP Entreprise Portal 7.0.x

Hello Experts,

is it possible to integrate BI4 applications which use the BICS connection directly into the SAP Netweaver Portal without having a BOE-System, as it is currently possible with Xcelsius 2008?

Regards,

Markus Krämer

Hi Markus

Yes, you will able to integrate the new BI4.0 Dashboard (the new name of Xcelsius) into the SAP Netweaver Portal wihout having to install the BI4 plateform (BOE System). And yes BI4.0 Dashboard will be able to use the BICS connection.

Regards

We are considering this solution BW->BOBJ-->EP 7  but have one question?

Does the EP need BI Java installed?  I think No but need a confimation.

To my knowledge the Java Stack is required, so Xcelsius (=Dashboard Design) can directly access SAP BEx queries (via BICS, BICS JAVA that is)

WebIntelligence on the other side uses the BICS ABAP stack to connect directly to SAP BEx queries (via transient universes)

Hi David,

Does LaunchPad integrate into the EP as URL iView?

In other words could we schedule Webie documents to a users Webi Inbox, and enable the user to see access his Inbox via and iView in EP?

We have seen threads of how this can be accomplished in BO 3 but want to know if it comes as standard in BO 4.

Regards,

Tanya

Hi Gurus, 

It's posible a configuration of SSO with EP > ECC > BO? I mean set up SSO without BW?

Thanks in advance

Hi Colleagues,

My customer has NW 7.3 and BI 4.0.  They want to be able to provide access to the repting content through iViews in EP/KM and also to be able to provide controlled commentary - only author and commenter can see and then all when approved by author (or manager of some description.)

I see in the PIK document at 4.10.3 that this sounds achievable - but using EP 7.0.

Has anybody got this working with Bi 4.0 and EP 7.3?

Will BI4.1 support NW7.3 or is it 'planned'?

Any other advice welcome

Thanks & Regards

Bob

Hi David,

Could you add how to import the .epa files to Netweaver to this article?

In guide, you just mentioned that how to upload the .par fiels to system

There are so many cusmters missed this step because it was not mentioned in guide

Thanks

Sungho

@ Kedar Joshi says:  We are considering this solution BW->BOBJ-->EP 7  but have one question? Does the EP need BI Java installed?  I think No but need a confimation. David Francois Gonzalez  :  for the iview you need only the EP, but you need the BW for the security part.        

@ Tanya Rosch says: Hi David, Does LaunchPad integrate into the EP as URL iView?   In other words could we schedule Webi documents to a users Webi Inbox, and enable the user to see access his Inbox via and iView in EP? We have seen threads of how this can be accomplished in BO 3 but want to know if it comes as standard in BO 4.   David Francois Gonzalez  :  yes with the Iview list, we support scheduling. You can schedule a webi document to users webi inbox.          

 @Jaime Ernesto Ascencio says:  Hi Gurus, It's posible a configuration of SSO with EP > ECC > BO? I mean set up SSO without BW? David Francois Gonzalez  : The BI4.0 security is mapped with the BW, so I don't see how to set up SSO between your EP and BI4.0 without BW.                                                                                                                                                       

@ Bob Shurville says:  Hi Colleagues, My customer has NW 7.3 and BI 4.0.  They want to be able to provide access to the repting content through iViews in EP/KM and also to be able to provide controlled commentary - only author and commenter can see and then all when approved by author (or manager of some description.) I see in the PIK document at 4.10.3 that this sounds achievable - but using EP 7.0. Has anybody got this working with Bi 4.0 and EP 7.3? Will BI4.1 support NW7.3 or is it 'planned'? David Francois Gonzalez  :  In the future release, we want to improve the iView List or iView Viewer. As I know we don't want to invest more on KM. So As I know we don't plan to add more functionalities for the KM.  

Hi David,

How is now Portal integration with EP7.3? PAR files are no longer supported and we have to use PAR migration tool. The iView wizard is not the same. I manage to make SSO, Doc list and Document view work but its all manually typed in and you have to get the syntax correct.

Thanks

Ali

Hi David and Ali Ziza,

Could you share some insight into Bi4.0 integration with EP 7.3 ?

The scenario is  BW->BOBJ-->EP 7.3

Regards,

Milton 

Hi,

Thanks a lot for the detail info here.  I have a question to ask

I'd like to implement BOBJ 4.0 with EP 7.01 SP8.  After I upload the iview templates par file (com.sap.businessobjects.iviews.par). It shows upload successfully, but i cannot see them under the portal content template iview.  I also upload KM par file, which displays under KM Content manager.  Which version of EP version is compable to the BOBJ 4.0?

Thanks

Hi All

I will create a wiki for EP7.3 in Q2 2012.

Hi,

SSO to the launchpad, openDocument works fine on SAP EP 7.0 and BI4.

I am trying to cnfigure SSO to CmcApp but this does not work. authentication.default = secSAPR3 parameter is added to CmcApp.properties and I am able to logon to CMC by providing SAP Logon details on the login screen. However, SSO from EP 7.0 to BI4 CMC is not working.

SSO to BOBJ 3.1 CMC works fine so I am wodering is there any other parameter thats required for BI4 CMC?

Thanks

BW is prereq.

Strange integration...

So if your organisation doesn't have BW, what you must do?

Or no chance for SSO between BO and EP?

SAP continues to pretend that the world is sap-centric and therefore the security model is based on SAP BW. But when a company uses Active Directory, what makes it available?

I want to integrate SAP Portal with SAP Business Objects BI 4.x and both products are based on Active Directory authentication.

What is the response of SAP to this need ?

I hope that the answer is not "you can not do it."

Hi David,

under 2) Set up SSO for OpenDocument and BILaunchPad you wrote: "You need to modify the following files (in the <InstallDir>\SAP BusinessObjects\Tomcat6\webapps\BOE\WEB-INF\config\default )". In the BO-Admin Guide the SAP recommenends to edit configuration files in <InstallDir>\SAP BusinessObjects\warfiles\webapps\BOE\WEB-INF\config\custom and to redeploy the application with wdeploy. Is this way possible, too? Which solution is the better one?

regards

Daniel

I am trying to do secWinAD so that users can access WebServices with SSO to the Portal, not Tomcat.

Thanks for such a informative article.

Environment:

BOBJ 4.1 SP2

BW 7.4 . SAP authentication completed and working fine. We have only provided Application Server details as SAP-BW's server IP. Message Server is blank.

We are now trying to connect from EP but we are unable to connect.

For Connector settings : We are providing the Message Server as the IP of the BW server also we tried with FQDN but we are getting errors.

com.sapportals.connector.connection.ConnectionFailedException: Connection Failed: A nested exception occurred. Could not initialize physical connection. Connection Failed: A nested exception occurred. Could not initialize physical connection. Connection Failed: A nested exception occurred. Could not create JCO connection. Connect to message server host failed Connection parameters: TYPE=B DEST=<Java Rfc client> MSHOST=xxxxbwd.abc.co.in MSSERV=3600 R3NAME=BWD GROUP=PUBLIC PCS=1 LOCATION CPIC (TCP/IP) on local host with Unicode ERROR hostname 'xxxxbwd.abc.co.in' unknown TIME Wed Mar 12 14:51:58 2014 RELEASE 740 COMPONENT NI (network interface) VERSION 40 RC -2 MODULE /bas/740_REL/src/base/ni/niuxi.c LINE 1759 DETAIL NiPGetHostByName: 'xxxxbwd.abc.co.in' not found SYSTEM CALL getaddrinfo COUNTER 4 

Please help

Hi, We have systems like BI7.3(separate stacks for ABAP & Java), BI4.0 and NW7.3 Portal(UME configured w.r.t Active Directory(LDAP)).
SSO was already setup between BI7.3 & BI4.0. Is this possible to have SSO setup between NW7.3 Portal  & BI4.0? how do we achieve this?