{"id":3653,"date":"2022-07-13T16:54:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T15:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/?p=3653"},"modified":"2024-03-05T09:56:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T08:56:06","slug":"book-review-security-for-sap-analytics-cloud-authorizations-and-provisioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/book-review-security-for-sap-analytics-cloud-authorizations-and-provisioning","title":{"rendered":"Book review: Security for SAP Analytics Cloud – Authorizations and Provisioning"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a while since I reviewed some SAP related books here at\u00a0HackingSAP.com<\/a>\u00a0and what better way to pick this up again than with a book on SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) that was even written by my very own Interdobs colleague Martijn van Foeken!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Security for SAP Analytics Cloud – Authorizations and Provisioning<\/a> is a so called SAP Press E-Bites<\/strong>. These are digital-only (PDF, ePub, online) books on specific topics and tasks, with a length of around 100 pages. <\/p>\n

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The configuration of your SAC platform is (hopefully) something you do only at the start of a new SAC implementation and – if properly done – take advantage of for years after. For authorizations this means that you design and apply a solid authorization setup and only need to extend this with additional folders and\/or teams whenever this is necessary. That’s what this book will help you with.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Martijn walks you through the steps of managing users, teams, roles, folders and other SAC objects that users can create. He shows you how to do all this manually within the SAC platform itself, but also how to move the whole user management completely out of SAC by connecting the SAC tenant to a custom Identity Provider (IDP). Microsoft Azure is often used for this and is therefor also used as an example in the book. With such a setup we can for example let users login with their Microsoft credentials and let the system automatically generate a SAC account when a new user logs in for the first time.\u00a0Martijn also describes how to assign users to teams and roles by using SAML attribute mapping. With this you can use security groups in your custom IDP to manage team and role memberships in SAC. The book ends with a chapter on automated (mass) user and team provisioning via a REST API.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So in conclusion, this E-Bite is a quick read on SAC authorizations and it will give you a good understanding of what is possible and how to apply the various options in a step-by-step manner. As this is a very fundamental topic for a successful implementation of SAC, but probably not something you work at on a daily base, this E-Bite is definitely something to check out if you want to get up to speed fast!<\/p>\n

Security for SAP Analytics Cloud: Authorizations and Provisioning<\/a><\/strong>
Martijn van Foeken
98 pages, E-book formats: EPUB, MOBI, PDF, online
ISBN 978-1-4932-2254-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a while since I reviewed some SAP related books here at\u00a0HackingSAP.com\u00a0and what better way to pick this up again than with a book on SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) that was even written by my very own Interdobs colleague Martijn van Foeken!\u00a0 Security for SAP Analytics Cloud – Authorizations and Provisioning is a so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[183,299],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-3653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","category-sap-analytics-cloud","tag-sap-press"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKaa2-WV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3683,"url":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/book-review-sap-analytics-cloud-financial-planning-and-analysis-sap-press","url_meta":{"origin":3653,"position":0},"title":"Book review: SAP Analytics Cloud – Financial Planning and Analysis (SAP Press)","author":"Xavier Hacking","date":"August 16, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Another review on yet another SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) book? 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