Getting Started with SAP Lumira
1st Edition
Published on 31. December 2014
Book
Hardback
540 pages
978-1-4932-1033-6 (ISBN)
Description
What story does your data tell? Take a look at SAP Lumira, SAP's newest data visualization tool. Whether you're a new user or a seasoned BI expert, learn what SAP Lumira can do to identify trends and find hidden insights in business data. From data acquisitions to data manipulation to data visualization, get the details on the steps to take to add some color to your data. From an administrative perspective, you'll want to know how SAP Lumira fits into existing BI landscapes and which deployment option, installation, and configuration is best for each setup. This introduction to SAP Lumira will help make each picture-or chart-worth a thousand words.
Highlights:
Self-service business intelligence
Data manipulation and visualization
Interactive boards, reports, infographics
Custom charts
Stories and datasets
Interoperability
Sharing and publishing
Object Picker
Prepare, Visualize, Compose, Share rooms
Software development kits
SAP Lumira Server
SAP Lumira Cloud
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Persons
Author
Christian Ah-Soon has worked for SAP BusinessObjects for
15 years as a program manager on transversal areas like
administration, security, internationalization, installation,
semantic layer, and SDKs. He is co-author of SAP BusinessObjects
BI Security (SAP PRESS, 2013) and Universe Design with
SAP BusinessObjects BI, The Comprehensive Guide (SAP PRESS,
2014). Christian holds a Ph.D. in computer science and graduated
from TELECOM Nancy.
Peter Snowdon has worked for SAP BusinessObjects for many years in different roles starting as a developer and moving into product management and currently is an engineering manager. Peter has, in a previous life, tried a number of different topics including Building, Architecture, Accident Analysis and has an MA in English Literature and Economics as well as an M.Sc. in IT.
Content
Acknowledgments ... 15
Preface ... 17
1 Introduction to the SAP Lumira Suite ... 21
1.1 Changing Requirements and SAP Lumira ... 22
1.2 Self-Service Business Intelligence with SAP Lumira ... 24
1.3 SAP Lumira Cloud and SAP Lumira Server ... 30
1.4 Interoperability with Other SAP Systems ... 32
1.5 Summary ... 33
2 Installation and Configuration of SAP Lumira Desktop ... 35
2.1 License Model ... 36
2.2 Downloading SAP Lumira Desktop ... 39
2.3 Installing SAP Lumira Desktop ... 41
2.4 Uninstallating SAP Lumira Desktop ... 47
2.5 SAP Lumira Registration ... 51
2.6 Updating SAP Lumira Desktop ... 54
2.7 User Interface Presentation ... 59
2.8 SAP Lumira File Format ... 65
2.9 Setting Preferences ... 69
2.10 Supportability ... 71
2.11 Summary ... 77
3 Data Acquisition ... 79
3.1 Data Acquisition Overview ... 79
3.2 Text Files ... 86
3.3 Windows Clipboard Copy ... 89
3.4 Microsoft Excel ... 91
3.5 Query with SQL ... 95
3.6 SAP HANA ... 110
3.7 SAP BusinessObjects BI Universes ... 121
3.8 SAP BusinessObjects BW ... 134
3.9 Dataset Edit and Refresh ... 142
3.10 Summary ... 147
4 Data Manipulation ... 149
4.1 The Prepare Room ... 150
4.2 Objects in SAP Lumira ... 156
4.3 Hierarchies in SAP Lumira ... 161
4.4 Calculated Objects ... 174
4.5 Object Actions ... 188
4.6 Data Actions ... 191
4.7 Filtering and Sorting Data ... 201
4.8 Multiple Datasets ... 206
4.9 Configuring Auto-Enrichment ... 212
4.10 Summary ... 216
5 Data Visualization ... 217
5.1 Visualize Room Overview ... 218
5.2 Building Charts in SAP Lumira ... 220
5.3 Charts Types in SAP Lumira ... 227
5.4 Measures in Charts ... 257
5.5 Chart Customization ... 269
5.6 Filters in Charts ... 271
5.7 Hierarchies and Navigation in Charts ... 272
5.8 Chart Preferences ... 273
5.9 Visualization Gallery ... 275
5.10 Related Visualizations ... 278
5.11 Summary ... 283
6 Story Composition in SAP Lumira ... 285
6.1 Compose Room Overview ... 285
6.2 Story Anatomy ... 287
6.3 Creating a Story ... 288
6.4 Compose Room Organization ... 290
6.5 Interactive Boards ... 291
6.6 Infographics ... 301
6.7 Reports ... 311
6.8 Customizing Entities ... 315
6.9 Summary ... 337
7 Sharing in SAP Lumira ... 339
7.1 Share Room Overview ... 340
7.2 Printing Visualizations ... 343
7.3 Sending Visualizations by Email ... 345
7.4 Publishing a Dataset or a Story to SAP Lumira Cloud ... 346
7.5 Republishing and Scheduling with SAP Lumira Agent ... 351
7.6 Saving a Document to SAP Lumira Cloud ... 360
7.7 Publishing a Dataset or a Story to SAP Lumira Server ... 363
7.8 Publishing Datasets to the File System ... 366
7.9 Publishing a Dataset to SAP HANA ... 368
7.10 Publishing a Dataset to SAP Explorer ... 371
7.11 Publishing Datasets and Visualizations to SAP StreamWork ... 374
7.12 Publishing Datasets and Stories to SAP BusinessObjects BI ... 377
7.13 Summary ... 382
8 SAP Lumira Cloud ... 383
8.1 SAP Lumira Cloud Access ... 384
8.2 Connecting from SAP Lumira Desktop ... 390
8.3 SAP Lumira Cloud User Interface ... 392
8.4 Importing to SAP Lumira Cloud ... 402
8.5 Visualization and Composition Online ... 409
8.6 Sharing Resources in SAP Lumira Cloud ... 414
8.7 Creating a Team ... 420
8.8 Mobile Access ... 426
8.9 Summary ... 433
9 SAP Lumira Server ... 435
9.1 Downloading SAP Lumira Server ... 436
9.2 Using SAP HANA for SAP Lumira Server ... 438
9.3 SAP Lumira Server User Interface ... 445
9.4 Importing to SAP Lumira Server ... 452
9.5 Visualization and Composition Online ... 454
9.6 Sharing Resources in SAP Lumira Server ... 457
9.7 Summary ... 462
10 Integrating SAP Lumira with SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 ... 463
10.1 SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Add-On Overview ... 464
10.2 Installing and Configuring SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Add-On in SAP Lumira ... 465
10.3 Importing SAP Lumira Resources into SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 ... 479
10.4 Viewing SAP Lumira Content in SAP BusinessObjects BI Launch Pad ... 480
10.5 Central Management Console ... 482
10.6 Universe Refresh and Scheduling ... 486
10.7 Summary ... 488
11 SAP Lumira Software Development Kits ... 489
11.1 The VizExtensions Software Development Kit ... 490
11.2 The Data Source Software Development Kit ... 513
11.3 Summary ... 526
12 Conclusion ... 527
The Authors ... 529
Index... 531