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SAP Analytics Cloud Security | SAML SSO with Microsoft Azure AD | Hands-on Video Tutorial
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SAP Partner Innovation Lab and SAP HANA Academy have published a series of video tutorials on the topic of SAP Analytics Cloud security. In this blog post you will find the videos embedded with references and additional information. For some related blog post, see
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Hands-On Video Tutorials
SAML SSO
The default authentication method for SAP Analytics Cloud is provided by a dedicated SAP Cloud Identity tenant. To enable single sign-on, you can configure a SAML-compliant (they all are) identity provider (IdP).
In this tutorial, we show how to configure SAP Analytics Cloud for Microsoft Azure AD.
What You Learn
You can watch the video tutorial in about 10 minutes. What you learn is
- How to configure SAML SSO for SAP Analytics Cloud
- How to configure Microsoft Azure AD as identity provider for SAP Analytics Cloud
- How to revert the configuration using the Identity Provider tool
Prerequisites
For this activity you need
- System owner access to an SAP Analytics Cloud tenant
- Administration privileges on a Microsoft Azure AD tenant
To change the authentication method of SAP Analytics Cloud, go to System > Administration > Security (as system owner).
The SAML SSO configuration screen for an SAP Analytics Cloud Azure AD enterprise application.
Your SAP Analytics Cloud tenant as Microsoft enterprise app accessible from
SAP Analytics Cloud
SAML SSO with Microsoft Azure AD
In this video tutorial we show how you can configure Microsoft Azure AD as identity provider for SAP Analytics Cloud SSO (SAML).
0:00 – Introduction
0:30 – SAP Cloud Identity
1:15 – Configure SAML SSO
3:15 – Azure AD create enterprise application
5:00 – Configure SSO
7:00 – Verify mapping
8:50 – Identity Provider Administration tool
References
SAP HANA Academy YouTube Playlist
To view other SAP Analytics Cloud security videos, see the dedicated YouTube playlist
SAP Analytics Cloud Documentation
For the generic documentation, not specific to any specific identity provider, see
Here you find information about the optional parts, not covered in the video, and also how to configure group mappings.
For the Identity Provider Administration tool, see
Microsoft Documentation
How to configure SAP Analytics Cloud as an Azure AD enterprise application is documented as tutorial. Links to this tutorial are included in the user interface when creating the enterprise application and when configuring SSO with SAML (as the configuration guide).
SAP Community
How to configure SAP Analytics Cloud SAML SSO for Azure AD is covered in the following SAP Community blog posts. Note that there are some minor user interface changes.
- SAML integration between Microsoft Azure Portal and SAP Analytics Cloud by Mohammed Ashraf (2018)
- Integrating SAP Analytics Cloud with Azure AD SAML by Andrew Taylor (2020)
Project Orca
For those that wondered about the origins of the *.projectorca.cloud URL reference in the Azure AD user interface, project Orca was the internal code name used when SAP Cloud for Planning was being developed in 2015.
For a short history about the genesis of SAP Analytics Cloud, see
The orca shows up in some of the design work.
Project Orca
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