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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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2. Connecting to Data Sources
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2. Connecting to Data Sources
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Data connectors
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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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Index

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Meeting SAP Lumira, talks about SAP Lumira, a powerful data discovery tool for end users. In this chapter, you will learn about SAP Lumira and the different data discovery processes, in addition to the SAP Lumira interface. It also teaches you how to deploy SAP Lumira on your computer. It also provides real-world examples, which will help you to learn the essentials of SAP Lumira.

Chapter 2, Connecting to Data Sources, explains the various data sources that hold valuable data. It provides information on the different kinds of data sources you can discover and how to use them with SAP Lumira data connectors.

Chapter 3, Preparing Data, takes you through the various techniques of data preparation, such as cleaning, filtering, formatting, enriching, and merging.

Chapter 4, Visualizing Data and Telling Stories with It, tells you how to discover data and create amazing visualizations based on your data. It teaches you how to tell a story with your data so that it is clear and interesting for everyone. SAP Lumira provides you the opportunity to build an infographic based on your data. It allows you to share data visualization, datasets, and data stories through various channels easily.

Chapter 5, Rocking Your Data in the Sky - SAP Lumira Cloud, gives you information about SAP Lumira Cloud. The leaders of the IT industry build clouds and move their applications to the cloud, which gives fantastic flexibility and performance. SAP Lumira isn't an exception. This chapter takes a look at SAP Lumira Cloud and explores the basic functionality of the cloud solution.

Chapter 6, Administrating and Customizing SAP Lumira, provides information about the management of SAP Lumira. SAP Lumira provides you the opportunity to extend the rich functionality of a tool using the customization of an SDK. It teaches you how to create a custom data visualization and acquire basic knowledge about the SAP Lumira SDK.

Chapter 7, Connecting to SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform and SAP HANA, extends the SAP BIP functionality with rich data visualization and the discovery functionality of SAP Lumira. It also teaches you how to use SAP HANA as a data source for data visualization and learn some useful techniques about how to handle it with extremely large datasets of SAP HANA.

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