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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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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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SAP Lumira license

SAP Lumira, as with other SAP products, is an enterprise solution. Despite the fact that it offers us a free personal edition of the software, this is not enough for all the capabilities which we want to learn. For example, we want to connect SAP BusinessObjects and SAP HANA, and we want to access databases because in real life most data is based in databases or in SAP applications.

We have several ways to get all capabilities of SAP Lumira:

The first two points are self explanatory, but I would like to elaborate a bit on the third. Every quarter, SAP offers their customers temporary keys for most of the SAP Products, such as SAP BusinessObjects, SAP Data Services, and so on. It is funny, but many enterprise companies run their business based on these trial keys. It is forbidden to do it, so be careful because SAP can visit you with an audit at any time. But for home use it is fine.

In order to download temporary keys, as well as other SAP Software, you need S-user. This is an account for the SAP portal. You can ask for access to the SAP portal through your SAP manager, if your company runs SAP, or you can try asking the guys on the SAP forum.

Tip

SAP S User ID is a unique number that SAP uses for identification of people on its web portals and databases. For example, you need an S User ID in order to access the SAP support portal or register for SAP certification. In this way, the S User ID is very similar to forms of authentication used by other large IT companies.

If you are a happy guy who has an S-user ID, I will show you how to download your bundle of trial keys:

  1. Go to http://service.sap.com/support and log in to the portal using your S-user ID and password.
  2. On the Home Page you will find the menu:
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    • Help & Support: Here, you can search SAP notes about various errors or software issues. In addition, you can create a new ticket for the SAP support team; this is only available, if your company bought SAP support.
    • Software Downloads: This allows you you to search for SAP software and download it. In addition, you can find updates and service packs.
    • Keys & Requests: This is our menu, where we can find temporary keys.
    • Release & Upgrade Info: This is where you can find useful information about new versions of products.

All other menus are not that useful and we can miss them.

  1. Click on Keys & Requests.
  2. In the new window find Temporary key and click on it.
  3. It will open a new window, and ask you to log in again. Keep calm, this is SAP.
  4. Finally, it gives you the list of keys in PDF format.
  5. Open the file and find the Lumira key in Section 1. Copy it.
  6. Open the SAP Lumira application and go to Help->Enter Code. Paste the code.
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We have activated SAP Lumira, and we are ready to explore the data and learn SAP Lumira. But, before we start, we should meet with one fake ecommerce retailer.

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