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You can find your tenant ID in the SAP Analytics Cloud URL. For example:

For SAP data centers: https://xxx.sapanalytics.cloud/sap/fpa/ui/tenants/<tenant ID>/app.html

For non-SAP data centers: leave this entry blank.

 Note
Leave the System Alias field under Additional Properties blank.

e. Under Inbound Communication User Name Authentication Method , select the user you created in Step 3g, with Authentication with OAuth 2.0, using
the input help of the User Name field.

f. Set all Outbound Services to inactive.

g. Save the communication arrangement.

 Note
You can connect multiple SAP Analytics Cloud tenants to one SAP S/4HANA Cloud system.

4. Enter your SAP S/4HANA system information to SAP Analytics Cloud.

a. Switch back to the New S/4HANA Live Connection dialog.

b. In the Token Service User field, enter the User for Inbound Communication user name you created in Step 2g.

c. In the Token Service Password field, enter the password you created in Step 2g.

d. Enter the following space-separated list as OAuth Scope:

SAP_BW_INA_BATCHPROCESSING_HTTP SAP_BW_INA_GETCATALOG_HTTP SAP_BW_INA_GETRESPONSE_HTTP

SAP_BW_INA_GETSERVERINFO_HTTP SAP_BW_INA_LOGOFF_HTTP SAP_BW_INA_VALUEHELP_HTTP

e. Select OK.

Results
The live data connection is saved, and users will have access to SAP Analytics Cloud.

 Note
Users must have Read or Maintain privileges on the Connection permission in order to view models and stories created from this connection. For more information, see
Permissions.

The connection is not tested until you create a model. For more information, see Create a New Model.

Next Steps
When you log on to SAP Analytics Cloud, you are notified if the service provider certificate is about the expire. For information on how to renew the certificate, see Renew the
SAP Analytics Cloud SAML Signing Certificate.

Related Information
Live Data Connection Overview Diagram
Renew the SAP Analytics Cloud SAML Signing Certificate
Manage OAuth Clients
Enable a Custom SAML Identity Provider
Live Data Connections to SAP S/4HANA

Live Data Connections to SAP Integrated Business Planning Using a Direct Connection
You can create a direct live data connection to SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain.

Prerequisites

You must have system details and login credentials to the SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP) system.

 Note
The SAP Analytics Cloud enterprise live connection can be created only when SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain (SAP IBP) is configured. To
configure SAP IBP system see Live Data Connection to SAP Analytics Cloud.

Setup SSO (optional): If you want users to have a single sign-on experience to your data, check you are using same Identity Provider (IdP) for SAP Analytics Cloud and
SAP NetWeaver. For more information on setting up your identity provider in SAP Analytics Cloud, see Enable a Custom SAML Identity Provider.

Configure your Web Browsers

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Context
Your browsers must allow 3rd party cookies from the SAP IBP domain and pop-ups from the SAP Analytics Cloud domain. This can be configured in the browser's settings. As
an example, see the steps below for Google Chrome.

Procedure

1. At the top-right of your Google Chrome browser, select Settings .

2. Under Privacy and security select Site Settings Pop-ups and redirects .

3. In the Allow section, add the domains relevant for your SAP Analytics Cloud tenant.

[*.]sapanalytics.cloud
[*.]hanacloudservices.cloud.sap
[*.]hcs.cloud.sap
[*.]analytics.sapcloud.cn

4. Go back to Privacy and security and select Cookies and other site data.

5. Under Sites that can always use cookies add your SAP IBP domain.

Create the Live Connection in SAP Analytics Cloud

Procedure

1. From the side navigation, choose Connections (Add Connection) .

The Select a data source dialog will appear.

2. Expand Connect to Live Data and select SAP Integrated Business Planning.

The New Integrated Business Planning Live Connection dialog will appear.

3. In the dialog, enter the Name and Description for your connection.

 Note
The connection name cannot be changed later.

4. Add your SAP Integrated Business Planning Host name.

HTTPS Port is optional.

5. (Optional) Choose a Default Language from the list.

This language will always be used for this connection and cannot be changed without administrator privileges.

6. Under Authentication Method select SAML Single Sign On (Standard-Compliant) which is available as the default option.

7. Select OK.

 Note
After creating a connection to a remote system and before creating a model from a remote system, you must log off and log on to SAP Analytics Cloud again.

Results
The connection is saved.

 Note
The connection is not tested until you create a model. For more information, see Create a New Model.

Related Information
Live Data Connection Overview Diagram
Import Data Connection to SAP Integrated Business Planning
Ask a Question

Restrictions to SAP Integrated Business Planning Live Data Connections

The following product restrictions apply when the user creates a live data connection to SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain.

Models

Advanced modeler capabilities are not supported.

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Visible columns and Add/Copy/Delete rows are not supported.

Stories
Hierarchies are not supported.

Blending is not supported.

Filtering across models is not supported.

The stories in the SAP IBP app Manage Analytics Stories cannot be transferred and used with the SAP IBP live data connection.

Calculated dimensions are not supported.

Geo map widget is not supported.

Dynamic images feature is not supported.

Scheduling publication is not supported.

SAP IBP connection and model are not in the scope of the performance analysis. They are not available as part of the performance statistics and analysis tooling in the
SAP Analytics Cloud.

Smart Features
All the Smart features are not supported by the SAP IBP live data connection.

Planning
Planning models and the planning related features are not supported by the SAP IBP live data connection.

Data Analyzer
Booked members is not supported.

Cascading effect is not supported.

Measure-based filtering is not supported.

Live connection to SAP Cloud Applications

You can copy an existing Live Data Connection from your Embedded SAP Analytics Cloud tenant to your Enterprise SAP Analytics Cloud tenant.

You can create Live Data Connections to SAP Cloud Application using Calculation Views.

SAP Cloud Application Connection to SuccessFactors

SAP Cloud Application Connection to SuccessFactors

SAP Cloud Application Connection using Calculation Views

SAP Cloud Application Connection using Calculation Views

SAP Cloud Application Connection to SuccessFactors

You can copy an existing Live Connection from your Embedded SAP Analytics Cloud tenant for SuccessFactors to your Enterprise SAP Analytics Cloud tenant.

Prerequisites
You have enabled the live connection between SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Analytics Cloud. For more information, see Enable Live Connection from SAP
SuccessFactors to SAP Analytics Cloud

You have enabled and configured Stories in People Analytics on your SAP SuccessFactors tenant.

It is preferable to have a common Identity Authentication service between SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Analytics Cloud for SSO.

 Note
You must be assigned the Story Admin permission in SAP SuccessFactors to be able to configure the live connection on SAP Analytics Cloud.

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Procedure

1. From the side navigation, choose Connections Create New Connection .

The Select a data source dialog will appear.

2. Expand Connect to Live Data and select SAP Cloud Application.

The New SAP Cloud Application Live Connection dialog will appear.

3. Select application from the dropdown available.

In this example, SAP Sucessfactors is selected.

4. Enter the Application URL and Company ID for the selected application.

a. The Sign In button gets activated when the Company ID is entered.

b. If SSO is enabled, once you select Sign In, you are signed in automatically.

If not, a Log on dialog appears. Provide user credentials to log in.

You can view all the available connections once you sign in.

5. The SAP Analytics Cloud window appears with the list of Clone Connections.

6. Select the listed connection and click Next to copy it.

 Note
If the connection already exists in the tenant, an error message is displayed.

7. Select the connection you want to clone and click Create.

 Note
The connection details cannot be edited later.

The connection to be copied is created.

8. The new connection details are displayed in the Clone Summary page.

 Note
Select the Back button to go back and edit the properties (if needed).

9. Select Finish to complete the workflow.

10. Select the  (Refresh) icon on the Connections page to view the new connection created.

Next Steps

Once the connection is set up, you can test the connection by creating a new Story.

 Note

The steps to create a story might differ depending on whether you’re working with the Classic Design Experience, or the Optimized Design Experience. We
recommend using the Optimized Design Experience to benefit from all the latest improvements brought to stories.

All the features supported in People analytics is available with this connection.

The permissions granted to users in SAP SuccessFactors apply to the stories created in SAP Analytics Cloud.

There are limitations to the features supported by live SAP SuccessFactors connections to SAP Analytics Cloud. Planning, predictive, and smart features for instance
are not supported.

Related Information
Query Designer for SAP Analytics Cloud Stories

SAP Cloud Application Connection using Calculation Views

With the new SAP Cloud application connection, you can access and use Calculation Views to build stories in the SAP Cloud Application.

Procedure

1. From the side navigation, choose Connections Create New Connection .

The Select a data source dialog will appear.

2. Expand Connect to Live Data and select SAP Cloud Application.

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The New SAP Cloud Application Live Connection dialog will appear.

3. Select application from the dropdown available.

4. Enter the Application URLand click Get Connection.

The connection name and description will get populated.

You can also edit Connection Name and Descriptiondetails.

5. Select Create.

 Note
If the connection is not created, contact your system administrator.

Live Data Connections to SAP BW and SAP BW/4HANA

You can create live data connections to SAP BW or SAP BW/4HANA systems using the Direct and Tunnel connection types.

Direct Connection

 Note
To make the direct live connection available to users on the internet, see Direct Live Connections in the Internet Scenario.

The Direct connection using CORS is recommended for these reasons:

You will have direct connectivity with no additional devices required. Your browser directly connects SAP Analytics Cloud, your IdP, and backend data sources by
securely unlocking the same-origin policy.

Because there are no additional devices, a direct connection enables better performance.

This configuration is easy to set up.

To use this connection type, you must configure Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) support on your SAP BW system.

Live Data Connection to SAP BW Using a Direct CORS Connection via Unified Connectivity

Live Data Connection to SAP BW Using a Direct CORS Connection via ICM Script

Tunnel Connection

You can use the Tunnel connection type if your organization wants to expose some of your data to users outside of your corporate network, without giving them VPN rights.

Example: Giant Bread Company wants to expand their business, so they hire Very Clever Consultants (VCC) to do market research for them. VCC prepares a story with market
analysis. VCC wants to safeguard this data inside their own firewall, but provide access to their customer. They don't want to give Giant's executives VPN access to VCC's
network, but by providing a tunnel connection, VCC can give access to the report and its data, without compromising their network.

Note that tunnel connections are slower than direct connections.

Live Data Connection to SAP BW Using a Tunnel Connection

 Note
Systems on SAP data centers support only SAML connections, while systems on non-SAP data centers support Basic and SAML connections. A two-digit number in
your SAP Analytics Cloud URL, for example eu10 or us30, indicates a non-SAP data center.

This connection type is not supported in SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office.

Supported Features with Usage Restrictions

SAP Analytics Cloud Support Matrix for Live Connectivity to SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BW/4HANA

For information on usage restrictions, see 2788384 .

For information on BW version dependencies, see 2715030 .

 Note
HTTP/2 is supported for SAP BW data sources. This backwards compatible protocol optimizes network and server resource usage to increase performance.

When to use HTTP/2

Measurements show that performance gains can be expected when there are long running queries with multiple widgets.

Fast queries (query execution time is 2 seconds or less)

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If there are fast running queries, for example because of OLAP caching, there will be no noticeable difference in the overall story loading performance.

Slow queries

If the query execution time is 3-5 seconds or longer, browser connections would likely stall during story loading (previously, under HTTP/1.1), especially when there
are multiple widgets on one page. But utilizing HTTP/2, a performance improvement of 20-30% is expected.

Use the Number of parallel sessions for BW data sources setting in SAP Analytics Cloud to make sure that the BW server can process the sent requests in parallel
(to prevent the backend becoming the bottleneck). However, be aware that higher values for this setting will increase the load on the BW server, so you'll need to
ensure that the BW server is configured to handle this load. It might be necessary to increase icm/max_conn and other parameters. For more information, see the
following two documentation links.

How to enable HTTP/2

Backend side: See https://help.sap.com/doc/saphelp_nw751abap/7.51.0/en-US/c7/b46000a76445f489e86f4c5814c7e8/frameset.htm and this blog post:

https://blogs.sap.com/2016/10/19/connectivity-news-abap-7.51/ .

Client side

SAP Analytics Cloud only supports HTTP/2 connections using the direct connection type.

Be aware that all browser vendors support HTTP/2 exclusively over HTTPS.

Related Information
Live Data Connection Overview Diagram
Import Data Connection Overview Diagram
Ask a Question

Live Data Connection to SAP BW Using a Direct CORS Connection via Unified
Connectivity
Setup Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) between your SAP BW or SAP BW/4HANA system and SAP Analytics Cloud to establish a direct live connection.

Who does this apply to?

Users with Create, Read, Update, Delete and Maintain permissions for Connections.

Users with Execute permission for Other Data Sources.

Admin, Application Creator, BI Content Creator, BI Admin, and Planner Reporter standard application roles.

Setting up a live connection requires working with the SAP Analytics Cloud system owner and different IT and application stakeholders within your organization. Most
configuration steps are done on your SAP NetWeaver ABAP Application Server (AS) before creating the connection in your SAP Analytics Cloud tenant.

Prerequisites
Check that you are using a supported version of SAP BW. For more information, see System Requirements and Technical Prerequisites.

 Note
Additional correction notes must be applied for some versions of SAP BW. For more information, see SAP Note 2541557

If your SAP NetWeaver ABAP AS version does not meet the specifications in SAP Note 2547381, stop here and follow the steps in this article instead: Live Data
Connection to SAP BW Using a Direct CORS Connection via ICM Script

Configure SSL on your SAP NetWeaver ABAP AS. For more information, see Configuring SAP NetWeaver AS for ABAP to Support SSL, and SAP Note 510007.

Configure cross-site cookies: To ensure that Chrome and other browsers allow cross-site access to your SAP on-premise data source cookies from SAP Analytics
Cloud, you must configure your SAP on-premise data source to issue cookies with specific attributes. Without these settings, user authentication to your live data
connections will fail, and Story visualizations based on these connections will not render.

For steps on how to do this, see SameSite Cookie Configuration for Live Data Connections.

Setup SSO (optional): If you want users to have a single sign-on experience to your data, check you are using same Identity Provider (IdP) for SAP Analytics Cloud and
SAP NetWeaver. For more information on setting up your identity provider in SAP Analytics Cloud, see Enable a Custom SAML Identity Provider.

If you have multiple authentication methods configured on your ABAP AS, see Alternative Logon Order.

Enable InA on your ABAP Application Server

Context
SAP Information Access (InA) is a REST HTTP-based protocol used by SAP Analytics Cloud to query your data sources in real time. Confirm that your InA package is enabled
and services are running on the ABAP AS for your data source.

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