Reviewing SAP Lumira New Features – Clarissa Explains it All
Clarissa Dold of SAP’s Customer Solution Adoption team provided this webcast yesterday.
Agenda:
- Overview of Data Discovery Market
- What is SAP Lumira?
- Demo
As usual, the legal disclaimer applies regarding future functionality and things are subject to change.
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Clarissa reviewed the corporate reporting versus data discovery. Data discovery is driven by business users.
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Figure 2 shows that Lumira is part of the self-service data discovery BI suite.
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Figure 3 is a new slide to me; I didn’t take too many notes. Clarissa did mention the new acronym “HBA” or “HANA-based Analytics”.
What is Lumira?
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Figure 4 explains what Lumira is. Clarissa says it is not part of the BusinessObjects implementation project.
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Data loaded to Sybase IQ database and is loaded locally. It is different if access HANA online which has limited transformations
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Figure 6 shows Explorer and Lumira and how they fit.
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Clarissa said the release cycles are 4 to 8 weeks, offering improved SAP HANA support
It offers Tier 1 plus more language support, with additional chart types available
Personal edition is available in SP10 using CSV and Excel as data sources and a feedback feature.
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Clarissa reviewed the Lumira Cloud , where you can publish out of Lumira Desktop to Cloud and use on iPad and iPhone & share
Lumira Agent is a scheduler – as of SP11 to schedule updates on dataset and cloud
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Figure 9 shows the enhancements in SP11. Variables not support against ECC infosets
You can use calculated measures with HANA online data
Lumira Agent is new in SP11.
You can change legend color on certain charts – Java rendering only, not HTML5
The Connections list shows a list of all documents using so far in Lumira and where documents reside
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Figure 10 shows a new SP11 feature, with Union of data
Subset of Demo of SP11
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Figure 11 shows the custom grouping feature.
With SP11 the new cloud URL is cloud.saplumira.com and Clarissa explained it works like drop box functionality.
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Figure 12 shows the Lumira Agent – what kind of data scheduled, frequency
Summary
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Clarissa explained that no scripting is required for SAP Lumira.
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Figure 14 is a summary; note that Lumira is part of the BI Suite license.
Resources
Resources:
SAP Lumira 1.0 SP11 – New features at a glance part 1
SAP Lumira 1.0 SP11 – New features at a glance part 2
Help: http://help.sap.com/lumira
Thank you Clarissa for this webcast.
Thanks for the write up Tammy. I was a bit confused about the difference between BI On Demand and Lumira so this is a useful post.
Hi Tim,
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Kind & Regards,
John.
I am not sure what happened to the pictures or how to restore.
Jason Lax - I didn't cut and paste, I uploaded from the computer; any ideas?
Thank you
Hi Tammy,
When you upload the picture into sdn.sap check whether picture is store in the format of PNP because it's support that format only. Kindly check your picture format.
Fixed: republishing the blog solved it.
Thanks for this Tammy.
It would be nice to see an update here on the evolving changes of Lumira and how Explorer compares, compliments Lumira. We are involved with APJ's Lumira Design Council and very successful users of Explorer's self-service functionality for desktop and mobile.
Kind regards
Your response (as it's not showing up properly).
Lester - we appreciate you being on the Design Council, perhaps going through them with this request would be the best method for you.
Also, seeing as how you have been very successful users of Explorer, perhaps a comparison from your point-of-view would be extremely helpful (just be sure to make a new post with that).
//bijan
We're recording some demo's of our journey with Explorer at the moment and a
demo of where we see Explorer overlapping with the Lumira solution. I'll need
to work out how to upload video clips to SCN if it's possible and link it back
to my profile with a URL link.
Open to any suggestions on how to upload!
Kind regards
Supported video sites are:
youtube.com, vimeo.com, video.google.com, events.sap.com, dailymotion.com
//bijan
HI Lester
Would love to see your perspective and learn about your journey. Say, what do you think of an hour session to walk us through your experience and show us your demo over a conference call? I would have my SAP BI product management colleagues and myself on the call. Please let me know if you are interested 🙂
Important thing to note here is that SAP Lumira in this context and slides specifically refer to SAP Lumira desktop as of last year, not Lumira solution as a whole, which now has desktop, server, cloud and mobile parts.
Thanks Sharon that's part of the update I was wanting to see.
Lester, if you are looking for more updates on the solution as a whole, I would highly recommend looking at newer documents, here are a few:
You should frequent the home page of the Lumira community on the SCN - the homepage is constantly updated with the most-up-to-date information.
//bijan
Thanks!
Would love to do share our journey Sharon, I'm actually sending you a message through linkedIin at the moment 🙂