This design is required when you have chosen not to use the SharePoint 2007 Single Sign-On service and some Business Analytics Servers reside in different domains than your SharePoint servers.

Because user credentials are not stored by the Single Sign-On service, Business Analytics Servers cannot retrieve these credentials via the Token Service. Because the SharePoint and Business Analytics Servers are in different domains, cookie forwarding cannot bridge this gap.

This results in manual authentication, requiring users to login to each Business Analytics Server as they access mashups or apps hosted by that Business Analytics Server to create a session or when an existing session with a Business Analytics Server expires.