SAP® Snowflake

This topic describes the steps to configure an instance for SAP® Snowflake for SAP customers without an existing Snowflake account.

Note

The SAP® Snowflake account provisioned is the Business Critical edition.

As an SAP® administrator, perform the following steps:

  1. Sign in to SAP for Me with an S-user ID or login name.

  2. From the sidebar menu, choose Portfolio & products.

  3. In the My Product Packages tab, select the SAP Business Data Cloud product.

  4. Select the Applications tab and in the SAP Snowflake card, click Start Provisioning. . The Provision SAP® Snowflake wizard dialog displays and guides you through the provisioning process.

  5. In the Provision SAP® Snowflake dialog, configure the following parameters and click Next:

    • Entitlement System: Displays the ID of the SAP® Business Data Cloud Entitlement set. Cannot be changed.

    • Name: Enter an appropriate name for the SAP solution.

    • Path: Select or create a resource group under which to group the solution components provisioned for SAP® Business Data Cloud. Create it in the same location selected for the SAP® Business Data Cloud cockpit system.

    • Business Type: Preset to Production.

  6. In the Select Application step, SAP Snowflake is pre-selected. . The Configure Parameters step displays.

  7. In the Configure Parameters step, configure the following parameters and click Next:

    • Region: Choose an available region in the SAP for Me portal. Snowflake recommends choosing the same region as the SAP® Business Data Cloud core for optimal performance.

    • Admin email: Provide the email address of the user to be defined as the administrator of your SAP Snowflake system. This user is responsible for adding additional users and for further configuration.

    • Admin First Name: The first name of the administrator of your SAP Snowflake system.

    • Admin Last Name: The last name of the administrator of your SAP Snowflake system.

    Provisioning begins and SAP® notifies you that a provisioning request was sent to the specified owner’s e-mail address.

  8. Click View in Resources to view the tenant within the indicated resource group. The Resources tab shows the current solution status, which should be Processing.

  9. Select the tenant below the new solution and click Details to view the details of the tenant.

  10. On top of the details view of the tenant, choose the View Details link.

    A pop-up window opens that provides an activation link to the SAP Snowflake account. If you are the SAP Snowflake system owner, select this link and complete the activation flow in SAP Snowflake (see Activating the SAP Snowflake Account).

    If not, share the activation link with the SAP Snowflake owner and ask them to complete the activation flow.

  11. After the account has been activated in SAP for Me, the status for your SAP Snowflake solution and tenant changes to Ready. In the details view of the SAP Snowflake tenant, in the Path field, select the URL to open SAP Snowflake and log in.

Next steps

The SAP® BDC admin may provision as many SAP® Snowflake accounts as they need with unique account names to help distinguish them. Every SAP® Snowflake account will need to be activated as described in the note below.

After activation, the SAP® Snowflake is ready for you to share Data Products from SAP® BDC to SAP® Snowflake. As part of the provisioning process, a Zerocopy Connector called DEFAULT_SAP_BDC_CONNECTOR is automatically created under the CONNECTORS.ZEROCOPY schema and enrolled with SAP® Business Data Cloud in the SAP® Snowflake account. You are ready to share data products from SAP® BDC and consume them in SAP® Snowflake. For more information, see Explore Data Products from SAP® BDC Connect for Snowflake.

Customers can create additional Zerocopy Connectors in the same SAP® Snowflake account and enroll them with the same or different SAP® Business Data Cloud tenant. Each Zerocopy Connector requires a new Invitation Link that can be obtained from SAP for Me. Each Invitation Link can be enrolled only once with SAP® Business Data Cloud.

Note

Customers can view the status of provisioning in the Details view. After provisioning is complete, the customer can click the Snowflake activation link available in the Details view to activate their SAP® Snowflake account, login, change their username and reset their password, setup MFA, and perform other operations.