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Self-Service Business Intelligence with SAP Lumira

Figure 1.4 Custom Visualization

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Gathered Into Narrative Stories

Figure 1.5 A Report in SAP Lumira

After you have created visualizations, you can use them in stories, graphical and
navigable narratives used to describe your data by grouping charts together to create a simple presentation.
In stories, the graphical layout organization is important, because it must present
and highlight the visualizations. In stories, visualizations can be enhanced by adding text and images.
There are three types of stories:
Reports
Reports can be compared to the reports you can create with classical business
intelligence applications. They can be used to restitute and analyze large
amounts of data. To ease analysis, they can be made interactive through section
navigation, as shown in Figure 1.5. Reports are based on only one dataset.
Interactive boards
Interactive boards are used to create cockpits from which you can monitor
aggregated data. In interactive boards, graphical representation is more common than textual figures in order to display information that can be easily
grasped, as shown in Figure 1.6. Like reports, interactive boards are based on
only one dataset. They can be dynamic, thanks to interactive controls.

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Figure 1.6 An Interactive Board in SAP Lumira

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Summary

SAP HANA; in which the dataset is saved as an analytic view.

SAP Explorer; in which the dataset is saved as an information space data source.
SAP StreamWork; in which the dataset is saved as a dataset. You can also save
visualizations in SAP StreamWork.

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Summary

The SAP Lumira suites popularity can be explained easily: it answers several current BI requirements and does so for free.
The SAP Lumira suite consists of a set of products and services available on the
desktop, the server, the cloud, and mobile devices. This offering allows you to
retrieve data from data sources, turn them into graphical visualizations, and organize them into stories. Such content can be also shared with other SAP products:
SAP HANA, SAP Explorer, SAP BusinessObjects BI, and SAP StreamWork.
In the next chapter, well discuss the installation and configuration of SAP Lumira
Desktop.

Figure 1.9 Displaying an SAP Lumira Story on a Mobile Device

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Interoperability with Other SAP Systems

In addition to the SAP Lumira suite, SAP Lumira content can also be shared with
other SAP systems in order to favor interoperability between SAP products.
For example, if you have deployed SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1, then you can
install its add-on for SAP Lumira. This add-on creates a bridge between your SAP
Lumira Server and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1. You can use the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 framework to store, display, secure, and manage SAP Lumira content.
If youve already set up a security model, then you can inherit from it when integrating SAP Lumira with SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1.
You can also use SAP Lumira Desktop data acquisition and manipulation engines
to extract data from a data source and then publish the generated dataset to other
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Acknowledgments ............................................................................................
Preface .............................................................................................................

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Changing Requirements and SAP Lumira .......................................

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SAP Lumira and the Data Artisan ......................................
Self-Service Business Intelligence with SAP Lumira .......................
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From Rapid Acquisition ....................................................
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Gathered Into Narrative Stories ........................................
SAP Lumira Cloud and SAP Lumira Server ......................................
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Using the 30-Day Trial .....................................................
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Adding a Keycode ............................................................
Downloading SAP Lumira Desktop ................................................
Installing SAP Lumira Desktop .......................................................
Uninstallating SAP Lumira Desktop ................................................
SAP Lumira Registration ................................................................
Updating SAP Lumira Desktop .......................................................
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Running Update ...............................................................
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Checking for New Updates ...............................................
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Automatically Checking for New Updates .........................
User Interface Presentation ............................................................
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Welcome Page .................................................................
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Rooms .............................................................................
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Menu Bar .........................................................................
SAP Lumira File Format .................................................................
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File Extensions and Location ............................................
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Creating and Opening Documents ....................................
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Saving and Closing Document ..........................................
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Data Acquisition Overview ............................................................

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Supported Data Sources ...................................................
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Acquisition Offline Mode .................................................
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Acquisition Online Mode .................................................
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New Dataset Creation ......................................................
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Active Directory and Single Sign-On .................................
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Data Acquisition Parameters for Automatic Detection
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Text Files .......................................................................................
Windows Clipboard Copy .............................................................
Microsoft Excel ..............................................................................
Query with SQL .............................................................................
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Standard SQL Drivers .......................................................
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Installing/Uninstalling a Driver .........................................
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Creating a Dataset from Relational Databases ...................
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Creating a Dataset from a Hadoop Database ....................
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Creating a Dataset from OData .........................................
SAP HANA ....................................................................................
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SAP HANA Offline Mode .................................................
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SAP HANA Online Mode ..................................................
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SAP BusinessObjects BI Universes ..................................................
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Universes Support ............................................................
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Retrieving Data from Universes ........................................
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Adding Filters ...................................................................
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Answering Contexts and Parameters .................................
SAP BusinessObjects BW ...............................................................
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Retrieving Data from SAP BW ..........................................
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Answering SAP BusinessObjects BW Variables ..................
Dataset Edit and Refresh ...............................................................
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Editing Data Sources Connection Parameters ...................
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Editing Dataset Parameters ...............................................
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Menu Bar .........................................................................
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Grid View .........................................................................
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Facets View ......................................................................
Objects in SAP Lumira ...................................................................
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Dimensions ......................................................................
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Measures .........................................................................
Hierarchies in SAP Lumira ..............................................................
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Creating a Time Hierarchy ................................................
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Geographic Hierarchies by Name ......................................
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Geographic Geography by Longitude and Latitude ...........
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Custom Hierarchies ..........................................................
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Calculated Dimension ......................................................
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Calculated Measures ........................................................
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Formula Syntax ................................................................
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Formula Examples ............................................................
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Formula Table ..................................................................
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Data Actions ..................................................................................
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Common Actions .............................................................
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String Actions ...................................................................
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Numeric Actions ..............................................................
4.6.4
Date Actions ....................................................................
4.6.5
Value and Column Actions ...............................................
Filtering and Sorting Data ..............................................................
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Filtering Data in a Column ................................................
4.7.2
Displaying Filters in Other Rooms ....................................
4.7.3
Sorting Data .....................................................................
Multiple Datasets ..........................................................................
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Adding a Dataset .............................................................
4.8.2
Merging Dataset ..............................................................
4.8.3
Appending Datasets .........................................................
Configuring Auto-Enrichment ........................................................
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Enrichment Files ...............................................................
4.9.2
Versioning Rule ................................................................
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Enrichment File Format ....................................................
4.9.4
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