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SAP Lumira Essentials - Dmitry Anoshin
Table of Contents
SAP Lumira Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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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
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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
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Technical Editor
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Copy Editors
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Project Coordinator
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Indexer
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Graphics
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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