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SAP Lumira - Tips, Tricks, and Community

Experiences from the Real World

Andrew Fox

SAP Analytics Evangelist

itelligence Business Solutions (UK)

Twitter: @Analytics_Fox

Blog:

http://thinkingbi.wordpress.com

• Work within the solution visioning business

unit of itelligence UK specializing in SAP

BusinessObjects Analytic technologies.

• Wealth of experience with SAP

BusinessObjects from working in the Business

Intelligence sector for over 15 years in many

varied roles including consultancy delivery and

sales, business analysis and pre sales.

• UK&I SAP User Group volunteer and chair the

Special Interest group for Data Visualisation

and Dashboard Design.

About Me:

Agenda

• Introduction

• Real life uses cases

• Challenges experienced in the SAP

community

• Recreating some of the most influential

visualisations of all time using SAP Lumira

• Time for questions

How many of you are actually

using SAP Lumira?

SAP Lumira - What’s all the noise

about

SAP Lumira – What’s it all about?

• Simply it’s ….

Workflow

Agenda

• Introduction



community




Use CaseSales Meeting

Background

• I presented SAP Lumira at a SAP Inside

Track event in 2013

• Tim Guest - SAP Mentor saw a usecase

within his own company

– Unlock data in SAP Business One@Guest909

Getting Data from SAP Business One

• Execute embedded standard B1

reports (Sales Analysis)

• Export into Excel

• Manipulate Data

– Remove unwanted Item Groups

Overall feedback

• First Impression was “Simple & Slick”

• Quote “Feel is not as intuitive as SAP want it to be”

– Needed some education,

– Great “How to” videos

– Reached out via Twitter

– Couldn’t find the simple things like Sort Desc Measure

• Like “Save to Cloud” work from anywhere, Office, Home, Hotel

• Why Lumira not Excel?

– Looks better, liked animation, had impact

Quote

• "To delve deeper into the real time business data that is now readily available from SAP Business One, we use SAP Lumira. I get my

reports into Excel then simply upload to Lumira for slicing and dicing. There is a paid for version which can connect directly to SQL which we’re looking into.”

• Tim Guest, Director, Zoedale

Use CaseReinsurance

Background

• Global Reinsurance company offering

insurance since 1868,

• MS Lync implemented in another

global office and seen as another

communications medium & rolled out

globally

• After 3 months use management

wanted to evaluate it’s use.

– You could say “see what staff are

really doing with it”

Initial steps

• BI team members attended

an itelligence UK Hands on

Test Drive covering what’s

new in BI4.

• Saw a specific use case for

Lumira

• Downloaded free desktop

edition

UK CEO Presentation

And one more thing …..

We know who you are …..

Overall feedback

• Loved SAP Lumira

• Liked it was FREE

• Easy to install, get up and running

• Zero Training

• Didn’t take long to find the story in the data

• Missing: Ability to take Visualisations into PowerPoint for CEO

presentation pack. Resorted to screen prints

Use CaseHoneywell Aerospace

Background

• Dennis Scoville from Honeywell commented on a SCN Blog of mine

about SAP Lumira 1.17

Honeywell deliver a ASUG WebinarEmpowered Self-Service with SAP Lumira and SAP HANA

• 15 May 2014

• Hear how SAP HANA enabled the Honeywell Aero IT team to deliver

valuable information to end users quickly via two self-service usage

models:

– Information that empowers users to create new business intelligence (BI) content

– Data that empowers analysts to perform advanced ad-hoc data exploration to

identify new/unknown insight

Desire to provide Self Service BI

• What is Self-Service BI?

– Enabling access to enterprise-wide, governed information to business users

– Requiring no IT involvement after initial delivery of data sets

• What are the benefits of Self-Service BI?

– Empower business users to create personalised analytics and reports

– Encourages business decisions to be made based on information not intuition

– Reduce IT development and enhancement costs

First projectRevenue, Direct Cost and Direct Margin Predictability Model

• Sales Order Backlog as data foundation for Analytic View

• Existing Attribute Views were used for dimension and attribute data

– Business Segment Hierarchy (Customer)

– Region Hierarchy (Customer)

– Product Line Hierarchy (Material)

– Time Hierarchy (Fiscal & Calendar)

• All data was acquired and visualisation using SAP Lumira in

approximately 30 Minutes

Examples of content created




Overall feedback

• Minimal training for “Data Junkies”

• Universes should be created with pre defined filters

• Too many facets will degrade performance

– Explorer 12 – 15 Facets

– Lumira iro 25 Facets, remember Lumira uses horsepower of the

desktop

Overall feedback

• Free Hand SQL data sources can be difficult to work with

– Multiple SQL statements require multiple logins

– Serial refresh of queries. 6 Qrys in TOAD 5 mins, Lumira

30mins

• Supply Chain Finance Director uses Lumira Storyboards

– Pulls up Lumira in presentations & uses storyboard like

PowerPoint presentations

Take a look at the video

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgOAun_P-QY&feature=youtu.be

Gamification on Sap Community Network

The SCN Experience Goals

• Boost Participation

• Drive Behaviors

• Build Reputation

• Inject Fun

Messy Data

Q1. How are missions influencing

community adoption?

Data preparation – back to basics

Insight to Help SCN Focus on What Matters

Q2. What’s the best day to launch

missions on SCN?

Data preparation – back to basics

Increasing Mission Design Maturity

Q3. Can we reduce bad behavior?

Turning Data Into Insight Wow! These features really did wonders. Most of the people we reported from SD space are gone, that itself indicates the impact.” (Jyoti Prakash)

“I especially think the removal of points from Likes has eliminated about 2/3 of the point games.”

(Michael Appleby)

Agenda

• Introduction



community




Getting Lumira content inside BI4

platform without Lumira Server

• Reliance on Lumira Server

– HANA XS application Workaround using BI workspaces with Lumira Cloud public URL

Patching

• Keeping HANA, Lumira Server and BI

Platform in step can be challenging

Keeping up with releases

• Lumira desktop patch updates about every

6 weeks.

– Need admin privileges on PC to update

– What about those with a standard desktop

policy?

Confusion on where are SAP taking

Lumira

Beat the competition

V1.0 V1.20

Enterprise grade

Agenda

• Introduction



community




Most Influential visualizations of all time

John Snow

John Snow

• John Snow (1813 –1858) was

an English physician and a

leader in the adoption of

anaesthesia and medical

hygiene.

• He is considered one of the

fathers of modern epidemiology,

in part because of his work in

tracing the source of a cholera

outbreak in Soho, London

London Cholera Map – John Snow

• 1854. London. Cholera strikes.

In just 10 days, over 500

people have been killed in one

neighbourhood. The

mysterious cluster of deaths is

especially terrifying because

no one understands the

source. No one besides John

Snow, realized the water

supply was spreading the

disease.

Florence Nightingale

• Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910) was a

celebrated English social reformer and

statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.

• Nightingale came to prominence while serving

as a nurse during the Crimean War, where she

tended to wounded soldiers. She was known

as "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of

making rounds.

• As a nurse, how do you convince an army to

invest in hospitals and healthcare instead of

guns and ammunition?

Causes of Mortality in the Army in the East

• Florence Nightingale told

her story with data by

showing the staggering

amount of deaths due to

preventable disease

(shown in blue/grey).

• After this sanitation

became a major priority

for the British Army.

Summary

Things to Note and Remember

Key community themes to take away

• Love the FREE version

• Easy to use with minimal training

• Easy to install, get up and running

• Didn’t take long to find the story in the data

Andrew Fox

SAP Analytics Evangelist

http://itelligencegroup.com/uk/

[email protected]

You can follow me on Twitter:

@Analytics_Fox

Blog on Business Intelligence

http://thinkingbi.wordpress.com

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