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This is a another summary of a BI 2014 session I attended last week.

Figure 1: Source: SAP

Figure 1 shows dissatisfied users, with users not using data

If you know question BI will have the answer

Today with visual Discovery people are seeing themselves as more self-service so need less of IT

Figure 2: Source: SAP

Figure 2 shows that we want to avoid the traditional timeline

Figure 3: Source: SAP

Figure 3 indicates our brains are wired for visuals

Retention rate without visual is 10% after 72 hours

Figure 4: Source: SAP

At a glance, can you answer the question shown in Figure 4?

This is why visuals are needed.

Figure 5: Source: SAP

Figure 5 shows when to blog on SCN.

Data Geek Challenge: Analysing the @SCNblogs twitter timeline

Figure 6: Source: SAP

Figure 6 shows the data sources including support for universes 3.x and 4x

It is “one click” to import

Figure 7: Source: SAP

Figure 7 shows two workflows, with one on the desktop and online

If it is on the desktop 30M cell limit

Figure 8: Source: SAP

Business Analysts know domain, but want to automate repetitive tasks but restrict coding (which is usually passed to IT)

Figure 9: Source: SAP

On this slide, the speaker was asked: “can you use What If’s with Lumira? Yes with Logical IF”

Figure 10: Source: SAP

Lumira was rewritten in HTML5 to allow publishing to various platforms including mobile, tablet, etc

The following Figures 11 & 12 are from SAP but from another session; they were not covered in the session but I thought relevant to this presentation: