Analysis authorization is the new authorization concept for analysis that isessentially based on business oriented security requirements. Sap bwbi consultant course content 40 hours sap bwbi course curriculum. Sap businessobjects business intelligence bi platform. In addition to their business suite software, they provide a variety of solutions, including sap businessobjects a business intelligence platform, sap manufacturing, and sap service and asset management solution, which supports service management, service parts management, and enterprise asset management. We can access this new tool using tcode rsecadmin which replaces the old rssm tool of bw 3. These systems are very complex from the view of administration and authorization. Authorizations for generated sap hana views sap help portal. By using practical examples, tips, and screenshots, the author brings readers new to sap security and authorizations up to speed. Sap bw on hana authorization when you create sap hana views based on bw system, there are certain type of privileges that are required to run the views in hana.
List of single roles by functional area access finance, marketing, apo list of single roles by organization unit access area, end market, regions etc list of single roles by user types power enduser developer support admin list of single roles by access usage types. Authorization in bi system allows a user to perform certain activity or grants permission to certain data. Analysis authorizations refer to the new authorization concept by which data access is controlled. Authorization is handled based on how the access level, application security, and. Bw365 user management and authorizations sap training. Sap business objects analysis for ms office authorization. I have also unticked store prompts with workbook and also checked remove data before saving options. Your sap training partner sap business intelligence stepbystep guide. Authorizations for the sap businessobjects bi platform. Pdf mastering the sap business information warehouse. Authorizations for all bw objects that can be displayed and edited using the.
Analysis authorizations in bi approach sap netweaver. The sap r3 authorization architecture is a complex structure and consists of several components interacting with each other. Defining authorization objects for custom database tables. In the authorization section enter the name zdivnt and press insert. Saps strategic focus on business intelligence core ycore for innovation ycomplete bi suite ycontinued leadership social yability to capture the decision yinformation in context yability to leverage the network extreme ybig data yreal time ypredictive one strategy for enterprise bi. Steffen has been working in the industry for over 10. This tutorial offers an overview of the implementation of sap business information warehouse sap bw from a corporate perspective. All users who want to display transaction data from authorization relevant characteristics or navigation attributes in a query require analysis authorizations. So an effective authorization model in bi should take into account the following key concepts. Expand business information warehouse, expand bi analysis authorization data and input give for authorization object. This type of authorization is not based on the standard sap authorization concept. This document shows the steps to be followed while implementing authorization is sap bw system. The key data structure is an authorization, an instance of an authorization object.
Introduction to sap business intelligence bi architecture bi platform enterprise data warehousing data modelling enterprise reporting, query and analysis. Assigning roles and user authorizations sap help portal. Analysis authorization analysis authorizationanalysis authorization. The authorization relevant bi objects are the so called info objects. An expert guide to new sap bi security features marc bernard sap labs slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. As a result of the distribution of queries using bex broadcaster and publication of queries to the portal, more and more users can access query data. Bikash mohanty bi authorization improvement approach create. Explore the sap tools and functions that play a role in designing and implementing an authorizations concept. Assuming you have the appropriate authorization, you can find a detailed description of the necessary settings by choosing extras. This wiki describes how the changes made in the analysis authorization are stored in bw system and how to manage this content depending on the bw system version. Summary use analysis authorization for authorization relevant characteristic and restrict the query output based on the. To store documents on the business intelligence platform, analysis uses the sap businessobjects business intelligence authorization concept to manage the folders containing analysis workbooks and powerpoint files. It also includes data modeling, administration and staging area. The sap standard authorization object stcode is used to control who can start the.
Bi and data warehouse options for sap customers steffen vierkorn head of research and consulting today. This means that the reports will include no transactions from the day the report is physically processed. Characteristic plant has no master data for xxx or. To allow you to work with bw workspaces, sap provides authorization templates, authorization proposal data and a role. Authorization checks for bw and bi objects sas help center. In this thesis i analyze the authorization concept of the sap. By providing a flexible architecture, our analytics platform can support your growth from a few users to tens of thousands of users, and from a single tool to multiple tools and interfaces. Note april 2009 any bi info object could be check marked as. Beginners guide to sap security and authorizations. Manual steps are always required afterwards though.
Authorizations of this type are not based on the standard sap authorization concept. He has authored numerous articles about saps business intelligence solution. In particular, developing and maintaining the authorization setup is a challenge. The philosophy behid analysis authorizations being that users are looking at sap bi for data analysis and their authorizations should also be according to the data that they want and not by the objects that they access want to access. The security concept in bi is different from that of a transaction system ecc. Due to the temporary closure of training centers current status here, all planned classroom training courses in the affected countries have been converted to our virtual learning method sap live class until further notice thus the original offer is still fully available in these countries for more details please check our faq. By deactivating the runtime version, the aa wont be used anymore for reporting but the status version will remain active. Sap bi analysis authorization customer exit variables. Analysis authorization simplified part 1 follow rss feed like. Can you post some documents on troubleshooting bi analysis authorization issues please. Prerequisites for document variants using the sap netweaver platform. Understanding business content business content, how to install bi contents. The sap authorization does not simply rely on authorization concepts pro vided.
We recommend assigning the authorization on sapbw4. Characteristic plant has no master data for xxx or you do not have authorization. Save return sap menu green arrow back, green arrow back. Sap bi authorization pdf this paper will take you through the bi 7. Authorizations for working with infosources for bw systems that are using a sap hana database. Click more to access the full version on sap one support launchpad login required. Allow full authorization for the io authorization relevant, used in the authorization object. Share insights and make better decisions with the sap businessobjects business intelligence bi suite. It is important to note that bi is refreshed once daily each morning. Contents 9 12 sap netweaver business intelligence 245 12. The runtime version only indicates if the authorization analyzis is available for reporting. The data stored in the infoprovider and it is made visible to the end user via bex query.
Visit sap support portals sap notes and kba search. Christian ahsoon has worked for sap businessobjects for years as a program manager on areas like administration, security, internationalization, and installation. Sap bi analysis authorization customer exit variables use analysis authorization for authorization relevant characteristic and restrict the query output based on the customer exit variable values based on authorization relevant characteristic values stored in custom table for different users. Obtain valuable tools and tables for identifying user master records and role and authorization information. The formerly used reporting authorization concept is basically replaced by the current analysis authorization concept. Analysis authorization authorization log tables sap. Sap business intelligence bi means analyzing and reporting of data from different. In bi, the roles and authorizations are governed by reports and the ability to authorize the characteristics and key figures in those reports among users.
Sap business information warehouse security guide 2 user administration and authentication system user delivered. Sap bi analysis authorization customer exit variables applies to. All changes on the analysis authorizations are logged on cltables, which is by design and desired. The goal of our effort is to automatically analyze the authorization setup of an sap r3 system against business policies. Business intelligence bi is an application used for giving meaning to raw data that an organization has. Manual creation of analysis authorization through rsecauth tcode 2. System creates user during installation standard user initial. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. They use their own concept based on the bex reporting and analysis features instead.
We use cookies and similar technologies to give you a better experience, improve performance, analyze traffic, and to personalize content. Go to pfcg and select authorization tab and click on change authorization data. The raw data is cleansed, stored and applied with business logics to be useful for enterprise users to make better business decisions. Sap bw i about the tutorial sap business warehouse bw integrates data from different sources, transforms and consolidates the data, does data cleansing, and storing of data as well. Sap business information warehouse sap bw, sap knowledge management sap km, sap strategic enterprise management sap sem. It gives a basic insight about the sap product speicifically to the newbies who are looking to start their career in sap bi. Authorization object, as the name itself suggests, is a method of restricting users to access any particular application created in the system. The assignment of authorizations to back end system users is based on roles that are predefined in the sap bw system. With the special bw authorization concept for displaying query data, you can far. Action means to view, refresh, edit, schedule, etc.
He is the head of research and consulting for barc, business applications research center. Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site. To this end we formalize the processes, authorization setup as well as the business policies in firstorder logic. These authorizations use their own concept that takes account the particularities of reporting and analysis in bi. The new bi authorization in sap netweaver 2004s amelia lo platinum consultant sap netweaver rig, sap labs, llc march th, 2006 amelia lo platinum consultant sap netweaver rig, sap labs, llc march th, 2006 northern california chapternorthern california chapter. In addition to discussions of sap idm, cua, sap access control, and the ume, youll learn about authorizations across the entire.