Create Apps from SAP Hybris C4C Data in Qlik Sense Cloud

Qlik Sense Cloud allows you to create and share data visualizations and interact with information in new ways. CData Connect Cloud creates a live connection to SAP Hybris C4C. By pairing Qlik Sense Cloud with CData Connect Cloud, you get true cloud-to-cloud connectivity to all of your SaaS and cloud-based Big Data and NoSQL sources — no need to migrate your data or write your integrations. Simply connect to Connect Cloud from Qlik Sense Cloud and get instant, live access to your SAP Hybris C4C data.

In this article, we walk through two connections:

1. Connecting to SAP Hybris C4C in Connect Cloud
2. Connecting to Connect Cloud from Qlik Sense Cloud to create a model and build a simple dashboard

Configure SAP Hybris C4C Connectivity for Qlik Cloud

Connectivity to SAP Hybris C4C from Qlik Cloud is made possible through CData Connect Cloud. To work with SAP Hybris C4C data from Qlik Cloud, we start by creating and configuring a SAP Hybris C4C connection.

(Optional) Add a New Connect Cloud User

As needed, create Users to connect to SAP Hybris C4C through Connect Cloud.

1. Navigate to the Users page and click Invite Users
2. Enter the new user's email address and click Send to invite the user
3. You can review and edit users from the Users page

Add a Personal Access Token

If you are connecting from a service, application, platform, or framework that does not support OAuth authentication, you can create a Personal Access Token (PAT) to use for authentication to the CData Connect Cloud OData service. Best practices would dictate that you create a separate PAT for each service, to maintain granularity of access.

1. Click on your username at the top right of the Connect Cloud app and click User Profile.
2. On the User Profile page, scroll down to the Personal Access Tokens section and click Create PAT.
3. Give your PAT a name and click Create.
4. The personal access token is only visible at creation, so be sure to copy it and store it securely for future use.

Connect to SAP Hybris C4C from Connect Cloud

CData Connect Cloud uses a straightforward, point-and-click interface to connect to data sources.

1. Log into Connect Cloud, click Connections and click Add Connection
2. Select "SAP Hybris C4C" from the Add Connection panel
3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to SAP Hybris C4C.

   SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer uses basic authentication. Set the User and Password to your login credentials.

4. Click Create & Test
5. Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add SAP Hybris C4C Connection page and update the User-based permissions.

With the connection to SAP Hybris C4C configured, you are ready to connect to SAP Hybris C4C data from Qlik Sense Cloud.

Create a Qlik Sense App from SAP Hybris C4C Data

This section walks through adding SAP Hybris C4C data to a Qlik Sense app for visualizations, analytics, reporting, and more.

Create a New App and Upload Data

1. Log into your Qlik Sense instance and click the button to create a new app
2. Name and configure the new app and click "Create"
3. In the workspace, click to open the new app
4. Click to add data from files and other sources
5. Select the Microsoft SQL Server connector and set the configuration properties.
   • Set Server to tds.cdata.com
   • Set Port to 14333
   • Set Database to the connection you created (e.g. SAPHybrisC4C1)
   • Set User name to the Connect Cloud user (e.g. user@mydomain.com)
   • Set Password to the PAT for the above user
6. Select an owner for the connection
7. Select a SAP Hybris C4C entity (Table) to view
8. Click Next, configure the model, and load the data into Qlik Sense.

Generate Insights or Customize Your App

With the data loaded into Qlik Sense, you are ready to begin discovering insights. You can build custom visualizations, reports, and dashboards engineered to gain actionable insights into your SAP Hybris C4C data.

More Information & Free Trial

Now, you have created a simple but powerful dashboard from live SAP Hybris C4C data. For more information on creating OData feeds from SAP Hybris C4C (and more than 100 other data sources), visit the Connect Cloud page. Sign up for a free trial and start working with live SAP Hybris C4C data in Qlik Sense Cloud.