SAP Lumira Essentials
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SAP Lumira Essentials

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About This Book

Discover how to make your business data more interactive and engaging with SAP Lumira

About This Book

  • Create a powerful data discovery experience with the advanced capabilities of SAP Lumira
  • Find business insights in your data through data blending, wrangling, transformation, and visualization
  • A fast-paced guide packed with hands-on practical examples, real-world solutions, and best practices to get you started with SAP Lumira

Who This Book Is For

If you are a SAP user, business analyst, BI developer, or a junior data engineer who wants to use SAP Lumira to build creative visualizations, this book is for you. You should have a reasonable level of knowledge of SAP Business Objects and its components.

What You Will Learn

  • Deploy SAP Lumira on your computer and learn more about the SAP Lumira interface
  • Extract data from different sources using SAP Lumira's data connecters
  • Prepare, filter, clean, and format your data
  • Discover visualization techniques and data discovery methods
  • Administrate and customize SAP Lumira to get basic knowledge of its SDK
  • Create various charts to deliver fantastic data visualizations
  • Connect to SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform and SAP HANA to extract, prepare, and visualize data

In Detail

SAP Lumira allows you to combine data from multiple sources into a single view and create engaging visualizations quickly and easily. It is a reporting platform that helps users access data and independently perform analysis. With the increasing interest in data discovery, self-service BI, and visualization around the world, tools like SAP Lumira help to eliminate the complexities of analyzing and discovering data.

Learn data discovery techniques, build amazing visualizations, create fantastic stories, and share your visualizations through an electronic medium with one of the most powerful tools around—SAP Lumira.

You will begin with an overview of the SAP Lumira family of products. You will then go through various data discovery techniques using real-world scenarios of an online e-commerce retailer through detailed recipes on the installation, administration, and customization of SAP Lumira. Next, you will work with data, starting from acquiring data from various data sources, then preparing and visualizing it using the rich functionality of SAP Lumira. Finally, you will present data via a data story or infographic and publish it across your organization or on the World Wide Web.

Style and approach

This is a step-by-step guide to learning SAP Lumira essentials packed with examples on real-world problems and solutions.

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Publisher
Packt Publishing
Year
2015
ISBN
9781785281815
Edition
1
Topic
Informatique
Subtopic
Bases de données

SAP Lumira Essentials

Table of Contents

SAP Lumira Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
Why subscribe?
Free access for Packt account holders
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Meeting SAP Lumira
Big data analytics
Data discovery challenges
Data discovery versus business intelligence
The role of data discovery
Data discovery for your business
Data discovery best practices
Introducing SAP Lumira
Getting SAP Lumira
Installing SAP Lumira
The installation wizard
Silent installation
Getting familiar with the SAP Lumira interface
SAP Lumira preferences
Registering SAP Lumira
SAP Lumira license
Unicorn Fashion
Summary
2. Connecting to Data Sources
Data connectors
Microsoft spreadsheets
Text file
Relational data source
Operational datamart of Unicorn Fashion
Setting up the operational datamart
Setting up the MySQL database server
Load the Unicorn Fashion datamart
Configure the SAP Lumira connection to the database
Extract data using SQL
Manage connections and associated documents
Big data source
SAP applications
Summary
3. Preparing Data
Preparing a data tab
Preparing data
Cleaning and editing a dataset
Formatting dates
The split field
Renaming a column
Distinct values
Replacing data values
Connection between values
Enriching data
The time hierarchy
The geographical hierarchy
The custom hierarchy
Creating the calculated object
Summary
4. Visualizing Data and Telling Stories with It
The visualization data tab
Building visualization
Renaming fields
Creating the column chart
The sort order
Ranking dimensions
Creating the geographic chart
Filter dimensions
Creating the area chart
Creating the calculated dimension
Creating multiple charts
Creating a custom hierarchy
Creating trellis
Drilling down and up
Creating out-of-the-box charts
Creating a tag cloud
Creating a radar chart
Composing the data tab
Creating a Unicorn Fashion infographic
Adding pictures
Adding visualizations
Adding text
Summary
5. Rocking Your Data in the Sky – SAP Lumira Cloud
Getting started with SAP Lumira Cloud
System requirements
Supported types of files
Registering an account
The SAP Lumira Cloud settings
Introducing the SAP Lumira Cloud interface
Creating a new dataset
Uploading a document
Introducing the visualize tab
Composing the data visualization
Creating a public report
Teamwork in SAP Lumira Cloud
The roles of a team
Managing a team
The SAP Lumira Cloud mobile
Summary
6. Administrating and Customizing SAP Lumira
Introducing the SAP Lumira administration
Updating SAP Lumira
Uninstalling SAP Lumira
Sizing SAP Lumira
Adjusting memory settings
Multiuser sizing of SAP Lumira
Getting started with the SAP Lumira SDK
Meeting SAP Lumira's data visualization library
Deploying a custom extension
Creating a new extension
Creating a data access extension
Summary
7. Connecting to SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform and SAP HANA
Introducing the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform
Connecting to the SAP BO universe
Introducing the Unicorn Fashion universe
Import the universe to SAP BO
Supporting universes
Connecting to the Unicorn Fashion universe
Creating the bubble chart
Editing the data source
Publishing the dataset or story to SAP BI
Troubleshooting tips for a universe
Introducing SAP Explorer
Publishing the dataset in SAP Explorer
Restriction to publishing in SAP Explorer
Introducing SAP HANA
Connecting to SAP HANA
Restrictions for SAP HANA connections
Summary
Index

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