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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

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.
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Data connectors


In the previous chapter, we met SAP Lumira for the first time and we played with the interface, and the reader could adjust the general settings of SAP Lumira. In addition, we can find this interesting menu in the middle of the window:

There are several steps which help us to discover our data and gain business insights. In this chapter we start from first step by exploring data in SAP Lumira to create a document and acquire a dataset, which can include part or all of the original values from a data source. This is through Acquire Data. Let's click on Acquire Data. This new window will come up:

There are areas on this window. They are:

  • A list of possible data sources (1): Here, the user can connect to his data source.

  • Recently used objects (2): The user can open his previous connections or files.

  • Ordinary buttons (3), such as Previous, Next, Create, and Cancel.

  • This small chat box (4) we can find at almost every page. SAP Lumira cares about the quality of the product and gives...

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