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SAP Lumira Essentials

SAP Lumira Essentials

By : Dmitry Anoshin
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SAP Lumira Essentials

SAP Lumira Essentials

3.5 (6)
By: Dmitry Anoshin
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Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Meeting SAP Lumira
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1. Meeting SAP Lumira
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Big data analytics
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Data discovery challenges
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Data discovery versus business intelligence
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The role of data discovery
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Data discovery for your business
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Data discovery best practices
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Introducing SAP Lumira
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Getting SAP Lumira
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Installing SAP Lumira
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Getting familiar with the SAP Lumira interface
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SAP Lumira preferences
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SAP Lumira license
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Unicorn Fashion
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Summary
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2. Connecting to Data Sources
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2. Connecting to Data Sources
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Data connectors
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Text file
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Relational data source
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Manage connections and associated documents
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Big data source
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SAP applications
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3. Preparing Data
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3. Preparing Data
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Preparing a data tab
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Preparing data
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Enriching data
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Creating the calculated object
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4. Visualizing Data and Telling Stories with It
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4. Visualizing Data and Telling Stories with It
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The visualization data tab
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Composing the data tab
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5. Rocking Your Data in the Sky – SAP Lumira Cloud
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5. Rocking Your Data in the Sky – SAP Lumira Cloud
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Getting started with SAP Lumira Cloud
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Teamwork in SAP Lumira Cloud
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The SAP Lumira Cloud mobile
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6. Administrating and Customizing SAP Lumira
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6. Administrating and Customizing SAP Lumira
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Introducing the SAP Lumira administration
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Getting started with the SAP Lumira SDK
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7. Connecting to SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform and SAP HANA
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7. Connecting to SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform and SAP HANA
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Introducing the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform
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Index
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Data discovery for your business

Let's discuss the various possible users of the data discovery tool and their advantages. Here's a small schema of possible data flows in an organization:

Data discovery for your business

There are many systems which generate data. Organizations try to catch all the data and put it in data warehouse. In addition, for big data volumes they can use Hadoop because it offers cheap storage, high scalability, distributed computing power, and can be used as a staging area for raw data.

On top of the DWH we have a business intelligence tool, such as SAP BusinessObjects, MicroStrategy, Oracle BI, or Cognos BI. This uses data from the DWH and gives the opportunity to build reports and visualize data. But it takes long a time to create the semantic layer via a BI tool such as the universe, schema or repository. In addition, it requires technical skills. As a result, there is no agility and it is not user friendly for any non technical business users.

Fortunately, we have a data discovery tool which can easily complement our existing BI tool. Let's look and compare how a data discovery tool can impact on our data flow in an organization:

Data discovery for your business

Data discovery tools have many advantages for the whole organization. It can be easy to connect with various data sources, and it doesn't require any technical skills from the business users. Users can combine and merge various data sources and visualize big data sets. They can easily find insights from data and use it for their decision making process.

In addition, let's now look at the benefits of using a data discovery tool for various roles in the organization:

  • Business management: It provides better information for the decision process, plus greater accuracy, richer detail, an enhanced ability to identify factors affecting business outcomes, and the connections among them.
  • IT managers: It eliminates the stream of individual support requests for analytics. It will free IT staff for other responsibilities and improves internal customer satisfaction.
  • IT staff: It allows them to dispense with the oodles of requests for data extracts.
  • Distinguished analysts: It gives greater productivity, fewer errors, and more time to spend on the more interesting aspects of data analysis. It allows better and easier data access, better integration among data sources, and the opportunity to probe data in greater detail. It provides a roader range of analytical methods.
  • Other data analysis roles: It provides access to a greater variety and depth of data, and to analysis methods.
  • Everybody else: It provides better information to support daily decision making at all levels of the organization.

We can continue this list with other roles in your organization and try to determine, what benefits they will get.

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