Gateway SAP BW

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