We have an existing BW 7.31 on HANA and planning a BI 4.1 deployment on top of that using BICS interface, since we have made a lot of investment in BEX queries already (currently running on Enterprise Portal)
I have a done some reading on SCN/Notes/KB etc. and have a few questions.
Our BOE environment is a shared platform, with various backends. We one trying to get onto it with our BW backend. BI platform is using Enterprise Authentication. So the users login with corporate email address/password on BI
Our SAP BW environment runs with employee ID access
Now,
- If I enable SAP authentication between BI and BW, I will get prompted twice to login. Am I right? once for email to login to BI and once for employee ID access into BW
- From what I had read, this can be avoided by establishing a certificate trust using STS and performing an ‘SAML’ mapping between the BI employee IDs and BW employee IDs. And this needs to be done for each individual user.
- But we have more than to 7500 users; we need to map existing users
- Map new users as they get created
How do we accomplish this? Are there recommended ways to automate these processes?
Please let me know if you need additional detail.