You need to have an Azure Blob account to create a new connection to this cloud source.

You need to know your Azure storage account , shared access signature (SAS) token , and container name to proceed. 

  1. Select Connections from the menu. 
  2. Select New connection.
    The Connect to a service dialog displays. 
The Connect to a service dialog. The dropdown choices are Amazon S3, Azure Blob,Google BigQuery, PlanIQ, Salesforce and Predictive Insights.
  1. Select Azure Blob from the dropdown.
    The dialog box expands below.
  2. Complete the dialog entries:
    • Enter a new Connection name. Use a unique name of up to 60 characters that starts and ends with a letter or number. Letters used must be in the Latin alphabet . You can include spaces, hyphens (-), and underscores (_), but no other special characters.
    • Enter your Storage account name.
    • Enter your SAS token.
    • Enter your Container name.
  3. Click Connect to save your settings for this connection.

Also see: Create SAS tokens for your storage containers .

Set your Azure account

You set your Azure storage account to integrate with your Anaplan models via CloudWorks.

Ensure that your SAS token remains valid for the entire duration of your integration. If it expires, the integration will not work.

You can either create a new Azure storage account or use an existing one. Shared access signature (SAS) is a URL that grants restricted access. Use ‌SAS when you want to grant access to storage account resources for a specific time range. With SAS, you need not share your storage account key. 

Example account configuration:

  1. Create or open an Azure storage account.
  2. Select your services, resource types, and permissions:
    • Allowed services: select only Blob
    • Allowed resource types: select all three, Service, Container, and Object
    • Allowed permissions: select only Read, Write and List.

      Set these three categories as stated, or your integration won't be valid.
  3. Enter your permission Start and End, dates, and times.
  4. Select the time zone from the drop-down list.
  5. Enter the Allowed IP addresses.
  6. Select your preferred routing tier (Basic, Microsoft network, or Internet routing).
  7. Select your Signing key from the drop-down list.
  8. Click Generate SAS and connection string.
Azure dialog for account set up. Permissions display.

The SAS and connection strings display.

SAS container level tokens and URLs blurred for security reasons.

You can't use SAS tokens generated at the blob (file) level. To be compatible with CloudWorks, generate your SAS tokens at either the Storage Account or Container levels in Azure.

CloudWorks fully supports Azure stored access policies .

Set your Azure container

An Azure container is a standard package of software. Containers bundle an application’s code together with configuration files and libraries.

You can either create a new Azure container or use an existing one. Example container configuration:

Azure container list with the ... ellipse drop-down list displayed.
  1. Create or open an Azure storage container .
  2. From your list of containers, select the to the right of the Lease state column.
  3. Select Generate SAS from the dropdown list.
  4. From the Generate SAS dialog:
    • Select the Signing key in the drop-down list.
    • Select the Permissions: Read, Write, and List.
      (Refer to the 'Permissions' screenshot, bottom of this page.)
    • Enter the permission Start and End, dates, and times.
    • Select the time zone from the drop-down list.
    • Enter the Allowed IP addresses.
    • Select the Allowed protocols.
  5. Select Generate SAS token and URL.

The Blob SAS token and URL display.

Container SAS dialog with SAS token and URL blurred.
SAS permissions Read, Write, and List selected.