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JoPalacio
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9 years ago
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Gateway SAP BW

Hi All I need your help.... We have been reviewing the Gateway subject with architecture and we have two questions that we need to make sure are clear so we can understand the complete concept and ...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

     

    Hi JoPalacio,

    Firstly, for more details about Power BI security, please review this article: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-admin-power-bi-security/ .

    Secondly, yes, Power BI gateway acts as a bridge, providing quick and secure data transfer between Power BI and SAP BW. And gateway should be installed on a computer that can be left running all the time and is connected to the Internet. For more details about requirements of installing Power BI gateway, please review this article: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-gateway-onprem/ .

    Thirdly, you don’t need to install RFC of SAP in the server that install gateway. Assume that you install and register on-premises gateway, you would need to sign in Power BI Service and add SAP data source under the registered gateway. There is an example for your reference, in the following screenshot, after you enter server name, system number and so on, it will establish the connection to SAP BW.


    At last, for your fourth question, if you mean that let other users add data sources under registered on-premises gateway, you would  need to add users on the Administrators tab for the gateway, this way, users can administer the gateway.  For more details, please review this article.




    Thanks,
    Lydia Zhang

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DougP
Frequent Visitor
9 years ago

Hi Anonymous JoPalacio

 

I think you do need to install the SAP Netweaver RFC on the server - this caused an issue when trying to set up a Data Source in the gateway explicity stating that SAP client tools needed to be installed.

 

 

Installing the relevant files resolved this issue.

 

Thanks,

Doug

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snaik
Frequent Visitor
4 years ago

Hi Doug,

We are also getting the same error when trying to register the SAP BW data source on the PowerBI gateway.  Can you please tell me which server you have installed the RFC? Our BW is has it all. My desktop I have a BW connector installed and I am able to connect SAP BW from my PowerBI Desktop. However, I cannot connect SAP BW from the PowerBI service.  This is the first time we are trying to establish a connection between SAP BW and PowerBI, we are not able to figure out where is the problem and what is missing where. The error does not exactly specify or I am not able to understand.  

 

Thank you for your help. 

Shailaja