Import Data Connection to SAP Integrated Business Planning

You can create a direct OData connection that allows you to import data from SAP Integrated Business Planning.

Prerequisites

To allow SAP Analytics Cloud to import data from SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP), you need to perform several setup steps in IBP, like creating a communication arrangement. For a complete list of the prerequisites in IBP, please follow the prerequisites section described on the IBP help page.

Context

Note
While OData exposes one-to-many navigation, SAP Analytics Cloud cannot follow these relationships because doing so would distort the measures at the parent level. OData v4.0 supports Lambda operators “any” and “all”, which can reduce the collection of children to a single Boolean value. For this to work, both the server and SAP Analytics Cloud must support OData v4.0.

Procedure

  1. From the side navigation, choose Start of the navigation path Connections Next navigation step  (Add Connection)End of the navigation path.
    The Select a data source dialog will appear.
  2. Expand Acquire Data and select SAP Integrated Business Planning.
  3. In the New SAP Integrated Business Planning dialog, enter a name for the connection.
  4. Enter the Data Service URL published during your configuration.
    Note
    You may add extra url parameters in the Data Service URL field, to accommodate data-source-specific constraints on authentication. For example, you may pass in the saml2=disabled parameter to disable SAML, or sap-system-login-basic_auth=X to disable custom login. All the parameters entered in the Data Service URL field (anything following "?" in the url) are only used in the authentication flow, and are ignored in the data queries.
  5. Select the authentication type.
    The following authentication types are available:
    • Basic Authentication
    Note

    Select the Enable users to schedule for story publishing option if you want to let your users schedule the publishing of stories.