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Requirements to integrate SAP with Power Platform

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Review the requirements with your team so you can identify opportunities and develop a plan of action that best suits your organization's needs.

Power Platform licensing

Review Power Platform licensing and ensure your organization has what it needs to proceed with an SAP + Power Platform project. Keep these points in mind:

  • Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI premium licensing supports setting up and using an on-premises data gateway with premium applications, flows, and connectors (SAP ERP and Dataverse).
  • The admins, developers, and functional business users who work with SAP solutions all need standalone licenses.
  • The admin who's setting up the on-premises data gateway needs a Power BI license.
  • Managed Environments is included in premium standalone licensing but is not included in the Developer Plan.
  • Admins can view Power Apps and Power Automate consumption in the Power Platform admin center (Note: this is a preview feature gradually being rolled out to different regions).

SAP subscription

Work with an SAP administrator to review your existing SAP subscription. Keep these points in mind:

  • The SAP ERP connector can work with any SAP system that uses RFC and BAPI calls.
  • An administrator who has valid S-User access to the SAP system(s) is required to assist through the integration process. The S-User is an SAP super administrator and has all the authorizations for the portal and can manage other necessary SAP roles as necessary.
  • SAP server and user accounts need to be set up to allow actions.

Windows Virtual Machine

Create a Windows Virtual Machine (VM) or provision a server specifically for hosting the on-premises data gateway for SAP integration with Power Platform and ensure that:

  • It meets the recommended requirements for gateway installation and management.
  • You review related considerations. For instance, if you're planning to use Windows authentication, make certain that you install the gateway on a computer that's a member of the same Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) environment as the data source.

On-premises data gateway

Set up an on-premises data gateway on your virtual machine or server along with a Microsoft .NET Framework, a Visual C++ Redistributable, and an SAP Connector for Microsoft .NET.

The on-premises data gateway set up with the additional components on your machine or server work together to support the SAP ERP connector.

Privileges

Be sure admins with the necessary privileges are available to coordinate and set up the on-premises data gateway along with the other components on the virtual machine or server:

  • A Microsoft Entra ID Global or Gateway (default user permission for anyone performing the install) admin
  • An SAP super admin (S-User)

More information:

Downloads

Go to these links to download and set up the on-premises data gateway and the additional components that support it on your machine or server:

Important

  • NCo 3.1 works with .NET Framework releases 4.6.2 to 4.8.1. Download the most recent .NET Framework listed in the Systems Requirements section of the gateway download page
  • You must choose the 64-bit version, the 32-bit version will not work
  • Version NCo 3.0 is no longer supported

Admin centers

Be sure admin centers are set up and ready to support an enterprise-level deployment. You or someone on your team need to have Global or system admin privileges to several different admin centers so you can configure and manage various components and users.

Related content

Next steps

Set up environments and data policies

See also

Frequently asked questions about integrating SAP with Power Platform