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Single Sign On (SSO) to third party data sources (like SalesForce)

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Please feel free to redirect to a different forum if this location is not OK.

Also - if this has been discussed already - please let me know. So far I did not find SSO topics related to 3rd party data.

 

Question is:

Is there a way to make a PowerBI report utilize SSO with a 3rd Party (data is outside the servers, domains, or Azure cloud-setup of our organization).

 

I know SalesForce offers SSO delegated approach based on Delegated Identity OpenID.

So can we install such a solution in our PowerBI cloud/gateway configuration?

If "not" - any plans to offer this in the future? It is really a critical option to have in an enterprise solution.

 

About what I found on the forum so far.

Two work-arounds were suggested in a separate thread I posted:

1. Use Row Level Security (RLS)

2. Develop the report using your own credentials. Save as template (*.PBIT). Give the template to users and they will be asked to re-authenticate when they create a report from this template.

 

2nd solution did not work out. At no point was the user asked for a password.

 

One way or the other - either solution is not workable in a prod environment, so my question on SSO.

Using RLS would mean to transfer the entire complexity of already established SalesForce rules into PowerBI.

Yes, doable, but a huge undertaking and once done will require work to keep rights in sync.

 

Using a template is not practical even if it worked. I cannot possibly go to my CEO and ask him to go over the motions, nor can I schedule an appointment to do the deployment myself from his PC. Even if I could, it is not just the CEO who needs the access but a whole department as well. And I have to do this every time there is a change in the report or when a users gets modified SF rights.

 

If I am missing something about the template solution - please let me know.

 

Many thanks for helping with this!

 

 


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