SSO Liicensing

[Former Member]

Is NW SSO 2.0 licensed separately from NW?  We are running BI SAPNetWeaver 7.3 and I am hoping this covers NW SSO licensing?  Can anyone shed light on this?  Thanks in advance.

dennis

[Former Member]

No, NWSSO is licensed separately. Contact your SAP account manager for details. You can also see SAP Online Shop for list prices.

[Former Member]

Thanks Samuli,

Is there a single sign on option from SAP that does not require additional licensing.  We use ECC 6, EPM 10 and BIW 7.3 at my company.

Dennis Beausoleil

[Former Member]

Yes there is but it depends on your specific requirements (what UIs, what system integration, what features of BusinessObjects you are using, etc). With ECC and BW you could use AS JAVA to issue Logon Tickets and with EPM you could use the EPM specific SSO, see SAP KBA 1293640 for details.

[tim_alsop]

Hi,

You can also consider developing your own libraries which will require knowledge of cryptographic protocols etc. I don't recommend this, but some SAP customers have done this using open source code as a starting point, and they consider it to be 'free' but they don't consider the support costs involved when building these libraries. What happens if many months/years later somebody cannot logon ? Who do you contact to fix the home built solution ?

Also, I would suggest you consider the ROI (return on investment). If you have SSO, then users will have less passwords, and less passwords means more user productivity and reduced helpdesk calls, which all reduces costs. The cost saving is often far more than the license costs for a commercial product, meaning there is a very quick ROI.

Thanks,

TIm

[Former Member]

Thanks Tim,

At the following web page, SAP seems to be offering Single Sign On via SNC and MS Kerberos SSP.  However, this seems to be a solution for those SAP system landscapes operating under Windows 2000 or better.  Our SAP systems are running on RHEL 6.  Do you know if this approach will work for us?

Thanks again for your response.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwpi71/helpdata/en/44/0ebf6c9b2b0d1ae10000000a114a6b/content.htm?framese...

Dennis B

[tim_alsop]

No, that won't work. The libraries discussed are for Windows only, so you need code for Linux instead. You either need to use open source and build your own libraries or purchase a commercial product which includes the libraries for the operating systems you are using (if not windows).

Thanks,

Tim

[Former Member]

Thanks again Tim.  We are going to test NW SSO 2.0 and then decide whether or not to invest in this product.

[tim_alsop]

Remember that SAP NW SSO 2.0 is not the only product available which will do what you want.

Thanks,

Tim

[Former Member]

Tim,

What other options does SAP offer?  We are running ECC 6.0, BW 7.3 and SolMan 7 on Linus RHEL 6.

dennis b

[mvoros]

The solution does not have to come from SAP. Check Tim's profile but there are other 3rd party providers.

Cheers