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What story does your data tell? Take a look at SAP Lumira, SAP's newest data visualization tool. Whether you're a new user or a seasoned BI expert, learn what SAP Lumira can do to identify trends and find hidden insights in business data. From data acquisitions to data manipulation to data visualization, get the details on the steps to take to add some color to your data. From an administrative perspective, you'll want to know how SAP Lumira fits into existing BI landscapes and which deployment option, installation, and configuration is best for each setup. This introduction to SAP Lumira will help make each picture-or chart-worth a thousand words.

Highlights:

Self-service business intelligence
Data manipulation and visualization
Interactive boards, reports, infographics
Custom charts
Stories and datasets
Interoperability
Sharing and publishing
Object Picker
Prepare, Visualize, Compose, Share rooms
Software development kits
SAP Lumira Server
SAP Lumira Cloud

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Getting Started with SAP Lumira: Get to Speed on the next generation of SAP business intelligence. Learn how to model and visualize data to tell a Story. Explore the options for desktop, server, and c

Acknowledgments ... 15

Preface ... 17

1 Introduction to the SAP Lumira Suite ... 21

1.1 Changing Requirements and SAP Lumira ... 22

1.2 Self-Service Business Intelligence with SAP Lumira ... 24

1.3 SAP Lumira Cloud and SAP Lumira Server ... 30

1.4 Interoperability with Other SAP Systems ... 32

1.5 Summary ... 33

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

2.1 License Model ... 36

2.2 Downloading SAP Lumira Desktop ... 39

2.3 Installing SAP Lumira Desktop ... 41

2.4 Uninstallating SAP Lumira Desktop ... 47

2.5 SAP Lumira Registration ... 51

2.6 Updating SAP Lumira Desktop ... 54

2.7 User Interface Presentation ... 59

2.8 SAP Lumira File Format ... 65

2.9 Setting Preferences ... 69

2.10 Supportability ... 71

2.11 Summary ... 77

3 Data Acquisition ... 79

3.1 Data Acquisition Overview ... 79

3.2 Text Files ... 86

3.3 Windows Clipboard Copy ... 89

3.4 Microsoft Excel ... 91

3.5 Query with SQL ... 95

3.6 SAP HANA ... 110

3.7 SAP BusinessObjects BI Universes ... 121

3.8 SAP BusinessObjects BW ... 134

3.9 Dataset Edit and Refresh ... 142

3.10 Summary ... 147

4 Data Manipulation ... 149

4.1 The Prepare Room ... 150

4.2 Objects in SAP Lumira ... 156

4.3 Hierarchies in SAP Lumira ... 161

4.4 Calculated Objects ... 174

4.5 Object Actions ... 188

4.6 Data Actions ... 191

4.7 Filtering and Sorting Data ... 201

4.8 Multiple Datasets ... 206

4.9 Configuring Auto-Enrichment ... 212

4.10 Summary ... 216

5 Data Visualization ... 217

5.1 Visualize Room Overview ... 218

5.2 Building Charts in SAP Lumira ... 220

5.3 Charts Types in SAP Lumira ... 227

5.4 Measures in Charts ... 257

5.5 Chart Customization ... 269

5.6 Filters in Charts ... 271

5.7 Hierarchies and Navigation in Charts ... 272

5.8 Chart Preferences ... 273

5.9 Visualization Gallery ... 275

5.10 Related Visualizations ... 278

5.11 Summary ... 283

6 Story Composition in SAP Lumira ... 285

6.1 Compose Room Overview ... 285

6.2 Story Anatomy ... 287

6.3 Creating a Story ... 288

6.4 Compose Room Organization ... 290

6.5 Interactive Boards ... 291

6.6 Infographics ... 301

6.7 Reports ... 311

6.8 Customizing Entities ... 315

6.9 Summary ... 337

7 Sharing in SAP Lumira ... 339

7.1 Share Room Overview ... 340

7.2 Printing Visualizations ... 343

7.3 Sending Visualizations by Email ... 345

7.4 Publishing a Dataset or a Story to SAP Lumira Cloud ... 346

7.5 Republishing and Scheduling with SAP Lumira Agent ... 351

7.6 Saving a Document to SAP Lumira Cloud ... 360

7.7 Publishing a Dataset or a Story to SAP Lumira Server ... 363

7.8 Publishing Datasets to the File System ... 366

7.9 Publishing a Dataset to SAP HANA ... 368

7.10 Publishing a Dataset to SAP Explorer ... 371

7.11 Publishing Datasets and Visualizations to SAP StreamWork ... 374

7.12 Publishing Datasets and Stories to SAP BusinessObjects BI ... 377

7.13 Summary ... 382

8 SAP Lumira Cloud ... 383

8.1 SAP Lumira Cloud Access ... 384

8.2 Connecting from SAP Lumira Desktop ... 390

8.3 SAP Lumira Cloud User Interface ... 392

8.4 Importing to SAP Lumira Cloud ... 402

8.5 Visualization and Composition Online ... 409

8.6 Sharing Resources in SAP Lumira Cloud ... 414

8.7 Creating a Team ... 420

8.8 Mobile Access ... 426

8.9 Summary ... 433

9 SAP Lumira Server ... 435

9.1 Downloading SAP Lumira Server ... 436

9.2 Using SAP HANA for SAP Lumira Server ... 438

9.3 SAP Lumira Server User Interface ... 445

9.4 Importing to SAP Lumira Server ... 452

9.5 Visualization and Composition Online ... 454

9.6 Sharing Resources in SAP Lumira Server ... 457

9.7 Summary ... 462

10 Integrating SAP Lumira with SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 ... 463

10.1 SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Add-On Overview ... 464

10.2 Installing and Configuring SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Ad