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Figure 1.4 Custom Visualization

1.2.3 Gathered Into Narrative Stories

After you have created visualizations, you can use them in stories, graphical andnavigable narratives used to describe your data by grouping charts together to cre-ate a simple presentation.

In stories, the graphical layout organization is important, because it must presentand highlight the visualizations. In stories, visualizations can be enhanced by add-ing text and images.

There are three types of stories:

ReportsReports can be compared to the reports you can create with classical businessintelligence applications. They can be used to restitute and analyze largeamounts of data. To ease analysis, they can be made interactive through sectionnavigation, as shown in Figure 1.5. Reports are based on only one dataset.

Interactive boardsInteractive boards are used to create cockpits from which you can monitoraggregated data. In interactive boards, graphical representation is more com-mon than textual figures in order to display information that can be easilygrasped, as shown in Figure 1.6. Like reports, interactive boards are based ononly one dataset. They can be dynamic, thanks to interactive controls.

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Figure 1.5 A Report in SAP Lumira

Figure 1.6 An Interactive Board in SAP Lumira

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Figure 1.9 Displaying an SAP Lumira Story on a Mobile Device

1.4 Interoperability with Other SAP Systems

In addition to the SAP Lumira suite, SAP Lumira content can also be shared withother SAP systems in order to favor interoperability between SAP products.

For example, if you have deployed SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1, then you caninstall its add-on for SAP Lumira. This add-on creates a bridge between your SAPLumira Server and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1. You can use the SAP BusinessOb-jects BI 4.1 framework to store, display, secure, and manage SAP Lumira content.If youve already set up a security model, then you can inherit from it when inte-grating SAP Lumira with SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1.

You can also use SAP Lumira Desktop data acquisition and manipulation enginesto extract data from a data source and then publish the generated dataset to otherSAP systems:

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SAP HANA; in which the dataset is saved as an analytic view.

SAP Explorer; in which the dataset is saved as an information space data source.

SAP StreamWork; in which the dataset is saved as a dataset. You can also savevisualizations in SAP StreamWork.

1.5 Summary

The SAP Lumira suites popularity can be explained easily: it answers several cur-rent BI requirements and does so for free.

The SAP Lumira suite consists of a set of products and services available on thedesktop, the server, the cloud, and mobile devices. This offering allows you toretrieve data from data sources, turn them into graphical visualizations, and orga-nize them into stories. Such content can be also shared with other SAP products:SAP HANA, SAP Explorer, SAP BusinessObjects BI, and SAP StreamWork.

In the next chapter, well discuss the installation and configuration of SAP LumiraDesktop.

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Acknowledgments ............................................................................................ 15Preface ............................................................................................................. 17

1 Introduction to the SAP Lumira Suite ...................................... 21

1.1 Changing Requirements and SAP Lumira ....................................... 221.1.1 Requirements and User Expectations ................................ 221.1.2 SAP Lumira and the Data Artisan ...................................... 24

1.2 Self-Service Business Intelligence with SAP Lumira ....................... 241.2.1 From Rapid Acquisition .................................................... 261.2.2 To Beautiful and Customizable Visualizations ................... 271.2.3 Gathered Into Narrative Stories ........................................ 28

1.3 SAP Lumira Cloud and SAP Lumira Server ...................................... 301.4 Interoperability with Other SAP Systems ....................................... 321.5 Summary ....................................................................................... 33

2 Installation and Configuration of SAP Lumira Desktop ........... 35

2.1 License Model ............................................................................... 362.1.1 Using the 30-Day Trial ..................................................... 372.1.2 Adding a Keycode ............................................................ 37

2.2 Downloading SAP Lumira Desktop ................................................ 392.3 Installing SAP Lumira Desktop ....................................................... 412.4 Uninstallating SAP Lumira Desktop ................................................ 472.5 SAP Lumira Registration ................................................................ 512.6 Updating SAP Lumira Desktop ....................................................... 54

2.6.1 Running Update ............................................................... 542.6.2 Checking for New Updates ............................................... 572.6.3 Automatically Checking for New Updates ......................... 58

2.7 User Interface Presentation ............................................................ 592.7.1 Welcome Page ................................................................. 602.7.2 Rooms ............................................................................. 632.7.3 Menu Bar ......................................................................... 64

2.8 SAP Lumira File Format ................................................................. 652.8.1 File Extensions and Location ............................................ 652.8.2 Creating and Opening Documents .................................... 662.8.3 Saving and Closing Document .......................................... 67

2.9 Setting Preferences ........................................................................ 692.10 Supportability ................................................................................ 71

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2.10.1 Online Help ...................................................................... 722.10.2 Sending Feedback ............................................................ 722.10.3 Error Messages ................................................................. 742.10.4 Tracing ............................................................................ 75

2.11 Summary ....................................................................................... 77

3 Data Acquisition ........................................................................ 79

3.1 Data Acquisition Overview ............................................................ 793.1.1 Supported Data Sources ................................................... 803.1.2 Acquisition Offline Mode ................................................. 803.1.3 Acquisition Online Mode ................................................. 813.1.4 New Dataset Creation ...................................................... 813.1.5 Active Directory and Single Sign-On ................................. 833.1.6 Data Acquisition Parameters for Automatic Detection

and Performance .............................................................. 843.2 Text Files ....................................................................................... 863.3 Windows Clipboard Copy ............................................................. 893.4 Microsoft Excel .............................................................................. 913.5 Query with SQL ............................................................................. 95

3.5.1 Standard SQL Drivers ....................................................... 963.5.2 Installing/Uninstalling a Driver ......................................... 983.5.3 Creating a Dataset from Relational Databases ................... 1003.5.4 Creating a Dataset from a Hadoop Database .................... 1063.5.5 Creating a Dataset from OData ......................................... 108

3.6 SAP HANA .................................................................................... 1103.6.1 SAP HANA Offline Mode ................................................. 1113.6.2 SAP HANA Online Mode .................................................. 1163.6.3 Answering SAP HANA Variables and Input Parameters ..... 117

3.7 SAP BusinessObjects BI Universes .................................................. 1213.7.1 Universes Support ............................................................ 1223.7.2 Retrieving Data from Universes ........................................ 1233.7.3 Adding Filters ................................................................... 1283.7.4 Answering Contexts and Parameters ................................. 130

3.8 SAP BusinessObjects BW ............................................................... 1343.8.1 Retrieving Data from SAP BW .......................................... 1343.8.2 Answering SAP BusinessObjects BW Variables .................. 137

3.9 Dataset Edit and Refresh ............................................................... 1423.9.1 Editing Data Sources Connection Parameters ................... 1423.9.2 Editing Dataset Parameters ............................................... 1443.9.3 Refreshing the Dataset ..................................................... 146

3.10 Summary ....................................................................................... 147

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4 Data Manipulation .................................................................... 149

4.1 The Prepare Room ......................................................................... 1504.1.1 Prepare Room Components .............................................. 1504.1.2 Menu Bar ......................................................................... 1514.1.3 Grid View ......................................................................... 1534.1.4 Facets View ...................................................................... 153

4.2 Objects in SAP Lumira ................................................................... 1564.2.1 Dimensions ...................................................................... 1564.2.2 Measures ......................................................................... 157

4.3 Hierarchies in SAP Lumira .............................................................. 1614.3.1 Creating a Time Hierarchy ................................................ 1624.3.2 Geographic Hierarchies by Name ...................................... 1654.3.3 Geographic Geography by Longitude and Latitude ........... 1714.3.4 Custom Hierarchies .......................................................... 173

4.4 Calculated Objects ......................................................................... 1744.4.1 Calculated Dimension ...................................................... 1754.4.2 Calculated Measures ........................................................ 1764.4.3 Formula Syntax ................................................................ 1774.4.4 Formula Examples ............................................................ 1784.4.5 Formula Table .................................................................. 180

4.5 Object Actions .............................................................................. 1884.6 Data Actions .................................................................................. 191

4.6.1 Common Actions ............................................................. 1914.6.2 String Actions ................................................................... 1924.6.3 Numeric Actions .............................................................. 1964.6.4 Date Actions .................................................................... 1994.6.5 Value and Column Actions ............................................... 199

4.7 Filtering and Sorting Data .............................................................. 2014.7.1 Filtering Data in a Column ................................................ 2024.7.2 Displaying Filters in Other Rooms .................................... 2044.7.3 Sorting Data ..................................................................... 205

4.8 Multiple Datasets .......................................................................... 2064.8.1 Adding a Dataset ............................................................. 2064.8.2 Merging Dataset .............................................................. 2074.8.3 Appending Datasets ......................................................... 210

4.9 Configuring Auto-Enrichment ........................................................ 2124.9.1 Enrichment Files ............................................................... 2124.9.2 Versioning Rule ................................................................ 2124.9.3 Enrichment File Format .................................................... 2134.9.4 File Syntax ........................................................................ 214

4.10 Summary ....................................................................................... 216