SAC Ariba Connection - OData Details

[former_member3694]

Hello SAP Experts,

I want to connect Ariba to SAC via OData. I read in this forum that it is possible, but I don’t know how to establish the connection.

I have a user for the Ariba developer portal and created an application. All I need is a guide or information on which authentication type and which parameters are necessary to connect Ariba and SAC. Can someone help?

Thanks,

Thorsten.

[former_member3694]

Thank you for your answer.

If you are talking about this business content "SAP Procurement Ariba" there is no mention of OData. It says:

Data Connectivity:
Excel based upload from SAP Ariba Spend Management & SAP Ariba Buyer Network

But I will try to configure the cloud connector to allow SAC import connection.

Thanks.

Br, Thorsten

[DebjitSingha]

Thanks thorsten.schopf for correction.
I updated it. If you are safisfied with the answer, can you please close this thread.

[former_member3694]

Sorry I can't close this thread. Your answer is a way to try but I'm not yet sure if it works or I don't understand it correctly.

The Cloud Connector is for connecting SAC to on premise SAP products? I used it for BW to SAC and S/4 to SAC.

I want to connect SAC and Ariba via OData. But I don't know what the correct authentication type is and what the correct parameters are.

These are the possible authentication types:

• Basic Authentication
• OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials
• OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code

Or is the connection between SAC and Ariba: Ariba -> Cloud Connector -> SAC?

Thanks.

[former_member3694]

Hi,

thank you for your answer. I'm still trying to establish a connection to Ariba. In the guide to configure the Cloud Connector it says:

URL Path:(Configure Cloud Connector)

Set to one of the following for OData services:

• Endpoint for SAP S/4HANA Cloud or On-Premise: https://<host>:<port number>/sap/opu/odata/sap/<TechnicalServiceName>.
• Endpoint for SAP ByDesign Analytics: https://my310690.vlab.sapbydesign.com/sap/byd/odata/crm_customerinvoicing_analytics.svc.
• Endpoint for SAP ByDesign: https://my343094.sapbydesign.com/sap/byd/odata/analytics/ds/SrmivB03.svc.
• Endpoint for SAP Hybris C4C: https://my306768.vlab.sapbydesign.com/sap/c4c/odata/v1/c4codata.
• Endpoint for SAP IBP: https://pt6-001-api.wdf.sap.corp:443/sap/opu/odata/IBP/EXTRACT_ODATA_SRV/

And there is no mention of Ariba. Can you tell me the correct URL for Ariba?

Thank you for your help.

Br.

[pranav07]

IS THIS POSSIBLE SAC SALESFORCE Connection - OData Details?

[former_member3694]

Salesforce has his own connection Type in SAC.

But I'm wondering if I need the Ariba Developer API (https://eu.developer.ariba.com/api/) or is this not necessary and I can connect the Cloud Connector to Ariba?

The Ariba administrators are not sure which connection URL could be the correct URL.

Could you give an example of a correct Ariba URL?

Thanks.

[ajmaradiaga · Accepted solution]

Hi thorsten.schopf ,

At the moment there is no direct connectivity between SAC and Ariba. Saying that, if you happen to have an SAP Data Intelligence instance in your landscape, it is possible to build a pipeline to extract data from Ariba (using the OpenAPI connector and APIs available in the Developer Portal) and send it to a dataset in SAC. This has been covered in the following blog post -> https://blogs.sap.com/2020/09/09/using-sap-data-intelligence-to-send-reporting-data-from-sap-ariba-t....

Regards,

.A

[former_member3694 · Accepted solution]

Thank you Antonio Maradiaga for your answer.

Nice blogpost and a good guide but unfortunately we don't have SAP Data Intelligence. But I will keep it in mind as a possible solution!

I found a guide on how to connect Ariba to the Cloud Platform. Is there a possibility to connect Ariba to Cloud Platform and then to SAC?

https://help.sap.com/viewer/ea72206b834e4ace9cd834feed6c0e09/Cloud/en-US/94918b69f0cf46b2aaf4ebfa39c...

Thank you.

Br, Thorsten

[ajmaradiaga · Accepted solution]

thorsten.schopf , if you will be extracting data from the Ariba APIs, you can access/connect to it from anywhere. There is no need for a "special connection" to retrieve data from Ariba. You can develop a simple application locally and interact with the Ariba APIs. For example, you can use Postman (REST client) to retrieve data from Ariba.

That being said.... do you have access to a HANA instance and is there a connection configured for this HANA instance in SAC? If so, the easiest way to get Ariba data "to SAC" will be to have a program extract data from Ariba and store/replicate it in HANA, then you will be able to query the data in SAC.

Ariba API <- application retrieve data and sends to -> HANA <- SAC queries.

See this blog post to find out how to create an application to retrieve data from Ariba and send it to HANA -> https://blogs.sap.com/2020/11/20/storing-sap-ariba-data-in-the-sap-hana-json-document-store/, it is storing it as JSON but it can easily be converted to row format to store it there.

Hope this helps.

[former_member3694 · Accepted solution]

Thank you. Now I have two possible solutions. This helps a lot!

Hopefully SAP will create a direct connection between Ariba and SAC someday.

[ajmaradiaga · Accepted solution]

It is something that it is being worked on at the moment. Unfortunately I don't have details on when it will be available but I'll let you know if I hear anything.