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SAP Analytics Cloud Security | SAML SSO with SAP Cloud Identity | Hands-on Video Tutorial

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‎11-10-2021 12:00 PM








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 SAP Cloud Identity, Identity Authentication Service.

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 SAP Cloud Identity, Identity Authentication Service as identity provider for SAP Analytics Cloud

  • How to update and 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 an SAP Cloud Identity, Identity Authentication Service 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 Identity Authentication Service enterprise application.



SAP Analytics Cloud


SAML SSO with SAP Cloud Identity - Identity Authentication


In this video tutorial we show how you can configure SAP Cloud Identity - Identity Authentication as identity provider for SAP Analytics Cloud SSO (SAML).

https://youtu.be/hsai2QRMke0

0:00 - Introduction

0:30 - Default provider

1:15 - SAC: Configure SAML SSO

3:15 - SAP Cloud Identity

5:00 - Create Application

8:15 - Tenant Settings

8:25 - SAC: Configure SAML SSO

9:10 - Verify account

10:10 - Convert

10:30 - 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



SAP Cloud Identity Services - Identity Authentication Documentation


For the generic documentation, not specific to any specific identity provider, see

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.


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Over the years, for the SAP HANA Academy, SAP’s Partner Innovation Lab, and à titre personnel, I have written a little over 300 posts here for the SAP Community. Some articles only reached a few readers. Others attracted quite a few more.For your reading pleasure and convenience, here is a curated list of posts which somehow managed to pass the 10k-view mile stone and, as sign of current interest, still tickle the counters each month.

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