SAP Lumira Tutorial

SAP Lumira

Welcome to SAP Lumira Tutorials. The objective of these tutorials is to gain an in-depth understanding of SAP HANA.SAP Lumira is known as a visual intelligence tool that is used to visualize data and create stories to provide graphical details of the data. Data is entered in Lumira as a dataset and you can apply filters, hierarchies, and columns to prepare documents. You can choose various charts like Bar charts, Pie charts, etc. to visualize the data effectively. In addition to SAP Lumira Tutorials, we will cover common interview questions and issues of SAP HANA.

SAP Lumira Introduction

SAP Lumira (formerly called SAP Visual Intelligence) is a self-service, data visualization application for business users.

SAP Lumira grew out of SAP Business Explorer, the company's previous, but more basic, self-service data visualization tool. According to SAP, the two are meant to go hand-in-hand. For example, analysts using SAP Lumira can alter data structures and correlations in whatever way they want, without the help of their IT department, then push the data back into the system so it can then be consumed by more casual users in tools like Business Explorer.

SAP Lumira can either be used in conjunction with the SAP HANA in-memory platform or without.  SAP announced the general availability of SAP Lumira during the 2012 SAP Sapphire Now conference in Orlando, Florida, although it was known as SAP Visual Intelligence at the time. SAP announced that it had formally renamed the application SAP Lumira, at the following Sapphire conference in 2013.

SAP Lumira, standard edition allows you to connect to and visualize nearly any type of business data, whether it resides in various enterprise databases, the cloud, or spreadsheets. You can combine, enrich, and visualize data for immediate insights. Start making sense of all your data – go beyond static spreadsheets and basic presentations – without the complexity of traditional reporting.

With SAP Lumira, standard edition you can

• Acquire and enrich spreadsheet and enterprise data, connecting to SAP BusinessObjects Universe, SAP HANA, freehand SQL, Hortonworks Sandbox, MapR Sandbox, and many other sources.
• Maximize data knowledge and get the most up-to-date information without any coding or support from IT
• Expand your business intelligence by merging multiple datasets into meaningful visualizations
• Discover hidden insights by exploring any amount and any type of data in real-time, without sacrificing performance or security
• Unify your view of the business by bringing together data from enterprise sources across all lines of business as well as personal sources on your desktop
• Share data visualizations and collaborate with colleagues and business partners using SAP Lumira, the Edge edition
• Explore data and get answers on the go by publishing visualizations to SAP Lumira, the Edge edition

SAP Lumira is data manipulation and visualization tool. You can connect to various data sources, select and clean data, manipulate and visualize data with a diverse offer of graphical charts and tables. SAP Lumira is installed locally and can operate on data either remotely or on locally stored datasets. The charts that are created can be saved and sent out by email. Your datasets can be published to SAP Hana, SAP Explorer, the SAP Lumira Cloud, and SAP Streamwork activities. The charts that you create in SAP Lumira are saved in documents with the file format.SViD. This is a document that contains the data source connection information, the data definition and data, and the visualizations.

SAP Lumira Overview

Basically, SAP Lumira enables business users to access, transform, and visualize data of any size in a repeatable and self-service manner. The tool emphasizes a simple user-friendly interface and creates very captivating visualizations that allow users to swiftly analyze data without the need for scripting.

SAP Lumira’s drag-and-drop interface is easy to become familiar with, and with a few clicks data from multiple sources can be gathered, combined, and visualized. After the tool is installed and system access is set up, training is really not needed, but some basics by someone who knows the tool can be helpful.

SAP Lumira’s capabilities include:

• Maximizing business knowledge by integrating wide-scale insights and drill-down to granular details
• Accelerating decision-making with immediate fact-based solutions to intricate business questions by avoiding list tables and fixed format reports. Interaction is key.
• Increasing self-service data usage without increasing the workload of the IT department
• Visualizing any amount of data in real-time using SAP HANA and simple deployment to mobile devices.

Create a document and acquire a dataset from a Microsoft Excel file

Click on New Document

Acquire a dataset from a universe. Create a New Document

Select Universe

Design Query.

Acquire a dataset from a database using Freehand SQL

Create a new document

Provide details

Select Source table & Write Query

Building Visualizations and Storyboards

1Manage measures in a dataset-Execute Query

Delete column

Create a measure

Sort, rank, calculate, and filter values in a visualization-Execute any Query

Select any measure & set order

Can calculate

Sharing Results

Export a dataset as a HANA-Execute Query

Create a View

Publish a dataset to SAP BusinessObjects Explorer-Create a Query & publish to Explorer

Select Folder & Click on Publish

Log on to launchpad & check your report in a folder

Features of Lumira

The key features of Lumira are as follows −

• It allows you to predict future outcomes and forecast as per the changing market situations.
• You can create data visualizations and stories from multiple data sources.
• It helps you to adapt data to organizational needs to create stories with visualizations.
• You can share the visualizations on different platforms like SAP HANA, BO Explorer, Business Objects BI Platform, etc.

Conclusion

Overall, the SAP Lumira Cloud is the best tool available in the present market that lets us analyze data and collaborate with colleagues on datasets, stories, and other business intelligence artifacts from web browsers or mobile devices