In this blog post I will explain some tips that I learned while integrating SAP BusinessObjects Universe Designer/Infoview with SAP BW.

For the most part, the steps should be simple and quite standard (unless you face some unexpected issues).   First of all you need to install the platform and the integration kit for SAP. At the end of this process you will see that you can create universes on top of BW cubes or BW queries. You can easily publish the universe and retrieve your data in a report.

Now in theory, after configuring the user in the CMC (BO CMC --> Authentications --> SAP) a user should be able to log in to SAP BusinessObjects InfoView using his/her SAP credentials…

But in reality BusinessObjects will fail while importing the roles of the SAP user. Why? Because you will need a java connector, which doesn't come with the “out of the box” integration kit.

All you need to do is download the files from SAP (or from the bottom of this blog post), and make them available for your system.   Here a step by step guide:

1. Create the folders in your tomcat55 parent folder called Sharedlib
2. Copy there the sapjco.jar and the .dll files
3. Copy the .dll files into Windows/system32
4. Go to Tomcat configuration and add the complete path of the file sapjco.jar to the CLASSPATH string - restart tomcat

Notes: Do not confuse the sapjco.jar with other versions in the folder. Download the 32bit version even if your machine is a 64bit.   Now try to import your user's role in BO CMC --> Authentications --> SAP again and you will see that everything will work as expected.

If you have any questions or feedback about this solution, please let me know by leaving a comment below.

> Download this Shared file (contains sapjco.jar and the .dll files)