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    SAP Lumira Essentials
    SAP Lumira Essentials
    SAP Lumira Essentials
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    SAP Lumira Essentials

    By Dmitry Anoshin

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    If you are a SAP user, business analyst, BI developer, or a junior data engineer who wants to use SAP Lumira to build creative visualizations, this book is for you. You should have a reasonable level of knowledge of SAP Business Objects and its components.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateSep 3, 2015
    ISBN9781785285622
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    SAP Lumira Essentials - Dmitry Anoshin

    Table of Contents

    SAP Lumira Essentials

    Credits

    About the Author

    About the Reviewers

    www.PacktPub.com

    Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more

    Why subscribe?

    Free access for Packt account holders

    Preface

    What this book covers

    What you need for this book

    Who this book is for

    Conventions

    Reader feedback

    Customer support

    Downloading the example code

    Errata

    Piracy

    Questions

    1. Meeting SAP Lumira

    Big data analytics

    Data discovery challenges

    Data discovery versus business intelligence

    The role of data discovery

    Data discovery for your business

    Data discovery best practices

    Introducing SAP Lumira

    Getting SAP Lumira

    Installing SAP Lumira

    The installation wizard

    Silent installation

    Getting familiar with the SAP Lumira interface

    SAP Lumira preferences

    Registering SAP Lumira

    SAP Lumira license

    Unicorn Fashion

    Summary

    2. Connecting to Data Sources

    Data connectors

    Microsoft spreadsheets

    Text file

    Relational data source

    Operational datamart of Unicorn Fashion

    Setting up the operational datamart

    Setting up the MySQL database server

    Load the Unicorn Fashion datamart

    Configure the SAP Lumira connection to the database

    Extract data using SQL

    Manage connections and associated documents

    Big data source

    SAP applications

    Summary

    3. Preparing Data

    Preparing a data tab

    Preparing data

    Cleaning and editing a dataset

    Formatting dates

    The split field

    Renaming a column

    Distinct values

    Replacing data values

    Connection between values

    Enriching data

    The time hierarchy

    The geographical hierarchy

    The custom hierarchy

    Creating the calculated object

    Summary

    4. Visualizing Data and Telling Stories with It

    The visualization data tab

    Building visualization

    Renaming fields

    Creating the column chart

    The sort order

    Ranking dimensions

    Creating the geographic chart

    Filter dimensions

    Creating the area chart

    Creating the calculated dimension

    Creating multiple charts

    Creating a custom hierarchy

    Creating trellis

    Drilling down and up

    Creating out-of-the-box charts

    Creating a tag cloud

    Creating a radar chart

    Composing the data tab

    Creating a Unicorn Fashion infographic

    Adding pictures

    Adding visualizations

    Adding text

    Summary

    5. Rocking Your Data in the Sky – SAP Lumira Cloud

    Getting started with SAP Lumira Cloud

    System requirements

    Supported types of files

    Registering an account

    The SAP Lumira Cloud settings

    Introducing the SAP Lumira Cloud interface

    Creating a new dataset

    Uploading a document

    Introducing the visualize tab

    Composing the data visualization

    Creating a public report

    Teamwork in SAP Lumira Cloud

    The roles of a team

    Managing a team

    The SAP Lumira Cloud mobile

    Summary

    6. Administrating and Customizing SAP Lumira

    Introducing the SAP Lumira administration

    Updating SAP Lumira

    Uninstalling SAP Lumira

    Sizing SAP Lumira

    Adjusting memory settings

    Multiuser sizing of SAP Lumira

    Getting started with the SAP Lumira SDK

    Meeting SAP Lumira's data visualization library

    Deploying a custom extension

    Creating a new extension

    Creating a data access extension

    Summary

    7. Connecting to SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform and SAP HANA

    Introducing the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform

    Connecting to the SAP BO universe

    Introducing the Unicorn Fashion universe

    Import the universe to SAP BO

    Supporting universes

    Connecting to the Unicorn Fashion universe

    Creating the bubble chart

    Editing the data source

    Publishing the dataset or story to SAP BI

    Troubleshooting tips for a universe

    Introducing SAP Explorer

    Publishing the dataset in SAP Explorer

    Restriction to publishing in SAP Explorer

    Introducing SAP HANA

    Connecting to SAP HANA

    Restrictions for SAP HANA connections

    Summary

    Index

    SAP Lumira Essentials

    SAP Lumira Essentials

    Copyright © 2015 Packt Publishing

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews.

    Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book.

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    First published: September 2015

    Production reference: 1260815

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    Credits

    Author

    Dmitry Anoshin

    Reviewers

    Ahmad Abdel Mouti Assaf

    Vitaliy Rudnytskiy

    Arjun Srinivasan

    Gang Tao

    Commissioning Editor

    Dipika Gaonkar

    Acquisition Editor

    Reshma Raman

    Content Development Editor

    Anish Sukumaran

    Technical Editor

    Siddhesh Patil

    Copy Editors

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    Sonia Mathur

    Project Coordinator

    Izzat Contractor

    Proofreader

    Safis Editing

    Indexer

    Monica Ajmera Mehta

    Graphics

    Disha Haria

    Production Coordinator

    Conidon Miranda

    Cover Work

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    About the Author

    Dmitry Anoshin is a data-centric technologist and a recognized expert in building and implementing business/digital analytics solutions. He has a successful track record when it comes to implementing business and digital intelligence projects in numerous industries, including retail, finance, marketing, and e-commerce.

    Dmitry possesses in-depth knowledge of digital/business intelligence, ETL, data warehousing, and big data technologies. He has extensive experience in the data integration process and is proficient in using various data warehousing methodologies. Dmitry constantly exceeds project expectations when he works for financial, machine tool, and retail industries.

    He has completed a number of multinational full BI/DI solution life cycle implementation projects. With expertise in data modeling, Dmitry also has a background and business experience in multiple relation databases, OLAP systems, and NoSQL databases.

    He has a technical blog at http://techbusinessintelligence.blogspot.ru/ and publishes his presentations at http://www.slideshare.net/dimoobraznii.

    In addition, he has reviewed the following books for Packt Publishing:

    SAP BusinessObjects Reporting Cookbook

    Creating Universes with SAP BusinessObjects

    Learning SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

    I'd like to thank my wife, Svetlana, my daughter, Anna, and my son, Vasily, for their love and support. I love you all very much.

    About the Reviewers

    Ahmad Abdel Mouti Assaf holds a PhD degree in computer science and specializes in semantic web and information retrieval from Telecom ParisTech. Before moving on to start a new venture with a start-up in London, he worked with the business intelligence team of SAP Labs, France. His work revolved around enabling smart workflows and the semantic enrichment of data in SAP HANA and Lumira.

    In his spare time, he likes to toy with web development technologies, such as Node.js (JavaScript), Python, PHP, and so on. You can find more information about Ahmad at http://ahmadassaf.com.

    Vitaliy Rudnytskiy is a principal architect at SAP, where he is involved in building SAP Developer Center (http://developers.sap.com). His main interests lie in big data and fast data solutions, analytics, and data visualizations. Vitaliy graduated from the University of Technologies in Wrocław, Poland. Before joining SAP, he spent 10 years as a technology consultant in the U.S. and Europe. Vitaliy's work has been published in various industry magazines. He writes on his blog (Vital BI) and has been a speaker at multiple conferences on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2010, he was nominated and selected as a member of the prestigious group of SAP Mentors (http://sapmentors.sap.com), the community of top influencers in the SAP ecosystem. You can reach him on Twitter and GitHub at <@Sygyzmundovych>.

    Arjun Srinivasan is a graduate student pursuing computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA (USA). His primary research includes understanding how the techniques from visual analytics, information visualization, and machine learning can be leveraged effectively in the domains of business intelligence, product intelligence, and intelligence analysis. Arjun has previously worked at SAP Labs India. He has given multiple presentations on SAP Lumira and how it can be used by students in particular. To read more about his research and presentations, you can visit http://arjun010.github.io/.

    Gang Tao is an experienced software architect with experience in the business intelligence, data visualization, and ERP domains. He

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