IdM Integration with BusinessObject 4.x

[jon_pryor]

Our company is looking into automating all provisioning to BusinessObject 4.x and potentially utilizing our IdM 7.2 to do the provisioning. I found the following discussion from 2011.

http://scn.sap.com/thread/1867078

We are looking at doing the following:

1. User Provisioning
2. Folder Security/Rights Assignment
3. Universe Security (Row Level/Data Security --> Manage Universe Security)

A few questions.

1. Feasibility. Has this been attempted by anyone (low/high complexity)?
2. Is there an connector that SAP provides for the integration to be seemless?
3. Does documentation exist for discussing the integration between IdM and BO 4.x?

Thank you.

Jon "JP" Pryor

[bxiv]

I haven't dealt with the BO 4 SQL tables directly, but I would first verify if that is where the users are stored and just leverage IdM's SQL foo to pull in the users and then you will probably have to create something custom in IdM to write the values back to BO.

Query:  Have you looked at pointing BO security to a BW system and control the BO access via roles/profiles in a BW system?  As an added benefit IdM would then be interfacing with an ABAP stack for your security needs/requests in the BO arena.

[terovirta]

Billy Warring wrote:

Query:  Have you looked at pointing BO security to a BW system and control the BO access via roles/profiles in a BW system?  As an added benefit IdM would then be interfacing with an ABAP stack for your security needs/requests in the BO arena.

Or do the same mapping between BO and AD groups and provision to AD. Probably the same complexity as with BO to BW mapping.

[jon_pryor]

Thanks for the replies.  Right now, we are in the 'investigating' phase.  I'll take some of these ideas to see how they can meet our customer requirements and report back if there are any break throughs.

Thanks.

JP