SAP BO 4.0 Update: Newly Added Authentication Types

What is Authentication?

In terms of software applications, authentication is the process of identifying whether a user has appropriate rights to access an application or data.

What is Authorization?

Authorization is the process of giving someone permission to do certain activity or access privileged applications/systems.

Authentication precedes Authorization or many a time, both happens at the same time.

SAP BusinessObjects Systems Security

In SAP BusinessObjects, system security is managed by the Central Management Server (CMS), security plug-ins, and third-party authentication tools, such as SiteMinder or Kerberos. These components authenticate users and authorize user access for the SAP BusinessObjects User Management System, its folders, and other objects. 

In the old version such as 3.x, we had the following authentication types when we try to login on SAP InfoView, CMC and/or any other SAP BusinessObjects applications.

In InfoView:

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In CMC Authentication:

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In the new SAP BusinessObjects 4.0, few more Authentication types are added such as : Oracle EBS, JD Edwards EntepriseOne, PeopleSoft Enterprise and Siebel.

These have to be custom installed and then enabled. The instructions to install and configure these utilities are given in the Installation guides

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I hope this will be helpful.

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Pointing the WebI Report to Prod system after migrating from Dev

After migrating the WebI report from BWD (or even BWQ) to BWP, you will get this error if you try to run the report:
“A database error occurred. The database error text is: The SAP SSO authentication process will fail because the current user doesn’t have an alias that matches system BWDCLNT… (WIS 10901)”

                                         Fig 1 - Database error when running a WebI Report   It is time to point this report to the BWP universe as it is still pointing to BWD. Follow these steps.



My environment:

SAP BW 7.01
SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 (WebI)
Webi Report built on top of a Universe which is on top of a BEx query

1. Open your Universe Designer and from the Tools menu, select Connections







Fig 2 – Universe Designer Tools option

 

    2.    Select your connection from the list and then click Edit

 

Fig 3 - Wizard Connection - Connection List

 

 3.   This will open up the Edit Connections, here you will have to change the connections parameters

 

Fig 4-1 - Edit Connections - Login Parameters [2-4]

 

 

 4.   The changed parameters should reflect BWP info and then click Next

Fig 4-2 - Edit Connection - Login Parameters [2-4]

5.   On the next screen, select the universe that your WebI report should be pointing to

Fig 5 - Edit Connection - Catalog-Database Parameters [3-4]

6.   On the next screen, just click Finish





Fig 6 - Edit Connections - Configuration Parameter [4-4]

7.   You will come back to the Connection Wizard, here highlight the Connection and then click Test

Fig 7 - Connections Test

       You should get this confirmation

Fig 8 - Connections Test Confirmation

8.    Now click Finish

Fig 9 - Connection Wizard Finish

Now logon to InfoView and run the report, the report should run fine.

Please comment/correct any thing in here

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