SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Cloud Connector

[UxKjaer]

Hi,

I am currently working with a Customer and exploring possibilities for Live connections. I initially got my hopes up that this could be done via the SAP Cloud Connector

However after a full day of experimentation, I've got my principal propagation to work and it does the initial auth via the cloud connector but then opens up the /sap/bw/ina/auth service where it asks for login and password.

Can this really be true that you can only serve live connections via CORS still and not via your cloud connector. I didn't set up SAML as I am using the SAP default IdP and I haven't seen a way to do this. But either way, I would hope that I could access my system via the tunnel.

I am aware of similar question was raised three years ago https://answers.sap.com/questions/392186/analytics-cloud-create-a-live-connection-via-cloud.html

But can someone please confirm whether this is still the case?

[Henry_Banks]

Hi uxkjaer

actually i came to find out recently that there are some new workflows that use the Cloud Connector

please take a look at this page in the help guide: https://help.sap.com/viewer/00f68c2e08b941f081002fd3691d86a7/release/en-US/f3963783c51e4442b0192aa4a...

I was doing a bit of digging around for another customer so will past this here:

New process flows that leverage Cloud Connector: https://help.sap.com/viewer/00f68c2e08b941f081002fd3691d86a7/release/en-US/f3963783c51e4442b0192aa4a...

1. a new Live connection approach called Tunnel Connection Type https://www.sapanalytics.cloud/product_updates/release-2020-12/#tunnel
2. a Cloud Connector-based Mobile SSO workflow https://assets.sapanalytics.cloud/production/help/help-release/en/35550182229c4cc6a3c2a3b43171800b.h...
3. Publishing/Scheduling Live data reports to recipients https://help.sap.com/viewer/00f68c2e08b941f081002fd3691d86a7/release/en-US/80cd6e51e1c943dfb40371525f7d8de9.html
4. Smart Predict on HANA Live (On premise) : https://blogs.sap.com/2019/12/03/sap-analytics-cloud-live-smart-predict-with-sap-hana/

I was trying to encourage my customer to configure a SAP Cloud Connector with their SAC/CP subaccount - also in their case to 'replicate' between SAC and S/4HANA onpremise Integration scenario: SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning with SAP S/4HANA

Hope this helps.

Regards,

H