This was a
Visual BI Webcast today. Below are my rough notes. I learned much more about 2.1 features below as well.
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Above is the packed agenda
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Lumira caters to dashboarding and agile data visualization as shown above
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SAP's convergence strategy is shown above
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New and improved user experience with Lumira 2.0
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New strength of interoperability - going from story in Lumira Discovery to Designer
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20% are analysts
80% are consumers of Designer
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Now Lumira 2.1 replaces BEx Web
Linked Analysis, extend across multiple pages, making it more interactive.
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Filter on measures is available in Discovery
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Forecasting is back in Lumira 2.1
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Publish with better security - save without data
Lumira Designer 2.1
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Commentary is back, a long awaited feature
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Scheduling is available at BI platform
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Dynamic component creation allows you to create components on the fly, especially for ad hoc analysis
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Trendlines are available
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Fit to page feature is available in export to PDF.
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New features for Conditional formatting are shown above
Performance Improvements in Lumira Designer 2.1
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Unload data source feature, use with parallel processing, to release backend sessions
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Interesting release and suspend feature is covered above
Upgrading
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Upgrade to versions above to see .lumx files on BI Platform
Migrating to Lumira
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Moving from XCelsius to Lumira Designer
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Moving from BEx Web Application Designer to Lumira Designer
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This is the first I've seen a mapping of BusinessObjects Explorer to 2.1 Lumira Designer
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Mobile and offline capabilities are shown above
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Mobile Lumira and Web Intelligence comparison; speaker said this was a benchmarking comparison
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More
benchmarking comparisons to Web Intelligence - not a valid comparison he said, due to Web Intelligence having a reporting use case
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Lumira can "templatize" application
Web Intelligence is best at complex calculations
Comparisons with other BI Tools
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Tableau is good at visualization and public and deployment
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SAP Lumira 2.1 connects best with SAP data sources, especially BW
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Some items in bold at the bottom of Power BI and Tableau
Is SAP Lumira 2.1 Ready for Prime Time?
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Visual BI's conclusion is shown above
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Known issues are shown above; patch 1 for 2.1 is planned for March (subject to change)
Question & Answer
Q: Can you schedule export to PDF?
A: Send as a PDF report to user
Other
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