SAP Lumira

Last year SAP enhanced their tool called Visual Intelligence at and made it much more user friendly. In general, the graphs became more advanced, while the self-service data visualization development effort was simplified. They also renamed the tool Lumira. This blog is about a brief introduction to SAP Lumira.

SAP Lumira is a self-service data visualisation tool, enables business users to access, transform, and visualize data of any size in a repeatable and self-service manner. The tool emphasizes a simple user-friendly interface and creates very captivating visualizations which allow users to swiftly analyse data without the need for scripting.


 SAP Lumira’s drag-and-drop interface is easy to become familiar with, and with a few clicks data from multiple sources can be gathered, combined, and visualized. After the tool is installed and system access is setup, training is really not needed, but some basics by someone who knows the tool can be helpful.

 SAP Lumira's Capabilities include:

  • Maximizing business knowledge by integrating wide-scale insights and drill-down to granular details.
  • Accelerating decision-making with immediate fact-based solutions to intricate business questions by avoiding list tables and fixed format reports. Interaction is key.
  • Increasing self-service data usage without increasing the workload of the IT department.
  • Visualizing any amount of data in real time using SAP HANA and simple deployment to mobile devices.

Data Visualization


Naturally the visual options are the real reason why you might want to start using Lumira. This is where the tool excels. It has much more graphical features than most of its industry competitors, and complex graphing with 3-dimensions, heat, and bubble charts are standard. Also included is the capability to easily create map-based charts using geolocational data to view your information by country, state, county, city, etc. with the ability to drill down by merely clicking within the map. 


Lumira also provides the ability to add text, images, shapes, pictograms, and input controls via simple drag-and-drop functionality. The extremely clean and highly intuitive interface makes creating visually pleasing and informative charts easy for end-users, no matter their experience level. A powerful element within Lumira is the Infographic. This can be utilized to create highly visual, non-interactive narratives, such as newsletters, which can be effortlessly absorbed by the viewer at a glance.





SAP Lumira solution portfolio includes SAP BusinessObjects Lumira, Standard Edition, SAP Business Objects Lumira server for Teams and SAP BusinessObjects Lumira, server for BI.

SAP Lumira Cloud

SAP Lumira Cloud enables the use of self-service BI in a secure cloud environment, including the capability to access, visualize, and share data without IT assistance. This solution empowers users to explore information and expose insights with the ease of drag-and-drop. Flexible and ‘budget-conscious’ licensing options are available toward rapid cloud deployment.

Service for SAP Lumira Cloud will end on 30 September 2016

SAP is embarking on a new cloud native analytics solution called SAP Cloud for Analytics that will combine the capabilities of data discovery, planning and predictive within a single cloud platform and will allow for embedded workflows within other applications. More on it here.

SUPPORTED LANGUAGES

Chinese (Simplified), Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish

DATA SOURCES

Microsoft Excel, SAP HANA, Hadoop, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SAP BusinessObjects Universes, SAP BW, and more…

REQUIREMENTS

Available only on a 64-bit operating system
Must have administrator rights
You have minimum drive space: 4GB
Minimum Memory RAM: 4GB
For more information on new releases, product and installation guides, and product availability matrix, see here

Comments

  1. gracylayla1 April 2018 at 23:47

    This is a great post. So clear and easy to follow. Thanks for the tangible and attainable help. All your hard work is much appreciated. Really very good information sharing here, Thank you for sharing. I just wanted to share information about SAP Lumira Online Training.

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