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SAP BusinessObjects Lumira
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira
If you are using SAP BusinessObjects Lumira for the first time, this guide will help you to understand what SAP
BusinessObjects Lumira is and how to use it.
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira lets you gain insights from trusted enterprise data sources and personal data,
and share these insights with other users through interactive visualizations, stories, and tailored analysis
applications, on desktop browsers and mobile devices.
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SAP BusinessObjects Lumira provides connectivity to SAP enterprise data models in SAP BW, SAP HANA and
SAP BusinessObjects universes (UNX) as well as to a wide variety of third party databases and file data for
data acquisition, cleansing and manipulation. It also provides online connectivity with full support for SAP
HANA and SAP BW.
To visualize data and enable interactivity, SAP BusinessObjects Lumira provides powerful UI elements such as
charts, crosstabs, geo maps and filter components out of the box, along with a rich set of ready to run analysis
applications, templates and samples. Both self-service dashboards and tailored, centrally (IT) managed
applications are built from the same libraries of UI elements and same data connections and sources, to
provide a uniform and consistent experience for business end users. Rich APIs and SDKs are provided to
For more information on SAP BusinessObjects Lumira , see the guides available at https://help.sap.com/
viewer/p/SAP_BUSINESSOBJECTS_LUMIRA
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira Discovery is used by key business users who need flexibility to connect to data
(usually multiple data sources), shape that data, and create ad-hoc stories with visualizations from all types of
data, which others can leverage, build upon, and share.
Connect to Data
With Lumira Discovery installed, youre ready to connect to data. There are all sorts of data sources available
on the Data source tab. For example, your data might be stored on your computer in a spreadsheet or a text
file, or on a server in your enterprise applications.
Once you have connected to a data source, you need to adjust the data to meet your needs. Sometimes
adjusting means transforming the data such as cleansing, enriching, enhancing, mashing, and so on. There
are many optional configurations that you can make before you begin your analysis. The configurations that
you make here create the dataset that Lumira Discovery uses to interpret and interact with your data.
Use visualization to create stories that provide graphical narration to describe data. A story can have a single
visualization or pages full of visualizations. The visualizations in a report each represent a nugget of
information. And the visualizations aren't static; you can add and remove data, change visualization types, and
apply filters and controls to discover insights and look for answers.
With formatting and stories you can make your data discoveries clearer, more persuasive, and beautiful. You
can group charts on a story page to create a presentation-style dashboard, for example, and then add images
and text annotations. When you have a Lumira Discovery document thats complete, you can share it with
others on SAP BusinessObjects Lumira, server version for BI Platform.
There are several ways to share your work in Lumira Discovery. You can publish to SAP BusinessObjects
Lumira, server version for BI Platform, view and interact with documents in SAP BusinessObjects Mobile, and
much more.
Providing sample documents is an indirect method of providing a better explanation of the concept. With
Lumira Discovery, you can create a wide range of visualizations and stories that are saved as Lumira
documents on the BI platform. Business users access them from the BI launchpad in desktop browsers or on
mobile devices.
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira Designer is the rich client for professional analysis application designers
(typically working in IT departments) to create corporate analysis applications and reports.
Lumira Designer provides the same UI elements (components) as Lumira Discovery and more. For the
extensive list of UI components offered, Lumira Designer provides a set of specific events that the
application user can execute on each component. Using the script editor, you can specify which actions
should take place when the application user triggers the event. The script API provides access at runtime to
the application itself, as well as to its components and data sources.
UI components also offer various properties to configure the look and feel, and behavior of the UI elements. At
application runtime, you can enable modification of properties by executing event scripts, as almost all
component properties are accessible through the script API.
By using these event scripts, properties, and corporate CSS style sheets, the application designer has control
of the look and feel of the application. You can also control how the user interacts with the application.
With composites, Lumira Designer enables the creation of shared UI elements (such as headers, footers,
toolbars), and the breaking down of complex applications into smaller, more manageable parts. This breaking
down of complex applications enables the cost-effective management of large corporate BI deployments.
The Component SDK of Lumira Designer lets you enhance the palette of standard components with third-
party components.
In addition to applications and dashboards for data analysis, you can also create desktop browser applications
for planning business data. These planning applications support both manual and automated data entry, and
changes to data.
For more information on creating analysis applications and Lumira documents with SAP BusinessObjects
Lumira Designer, see the Application Designer Guide: Designing Analysis Applications at https://
help.sap.com/viewer/p/SAP_BUSINESSOBJECTS_LUMIRA.
For more information on developing third-party components to be used with SAP BusinessObjects Lumira
Designer, see the Developer Guide: Component SDK at https://help.sap.com/viewer/p/
SAP_BUSINESSOBJECTS_LUMIRA.
In Lumira Designer, you can open and enhance a Lumira Discovery storyboard with blended data, in order to
professionalize it into an enterprise dashboard. Business users who create their necessary insights can thus
have these promoted towards an enterprise dashboard easily and quickly.
With Lumira Designer it is possible to create a wide range of different analysis applications, planning
applications and dashboards that are saved as Lumira documents on the BI platform. Business users access
them from the BI launchpad in desktop browsers or on mobile devices.
For more information on working with analysis applications and Lumira documents created with SAP
BusinessObjects Lumira Designer, see the End User Guide: SAP BusinessObjects Lumira Designer at https://
help.sap.com/viewer/p/SAP_BUSINESSOBJECTS_LUMIRA.
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira, server version for BI Platform is installed on the SAP BusinessObjects BI
platform and hosts the execution runtime of Lumira documents that are created from Lumira Discovery and
Lumira Designer.
Administrators manage and secure Lumira documents with standard tools and mechanisms of the BI
platform.
Business users can view Lumira documents from the BI Launchpad in desktop browsers or on mobile devices
through SAP BusinessObjects Mobile. They can interact with data (filtering, sorting, ranking, for example),
adapt visualizations, create and share personal views (bookmarks), export data and print Lumira documents.
For more information on SAP BusinessObjects Lumira, server version for BI Platform, see the End User Guide:
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira, server version for BI Platform available at https://help.sap.com/viewer/p/
SAP_BUSINESSOBJECTS_LUMIRA
Network connection is no longer a concern: you can perform data operations like filter, drill, hierarchy
navigation, and so on offline, after downloading SAP Lumira documents. You can annotate and collaborate
For more information on working with Lumira documents created with SAP BusinessObjects Lumira, see the
https://help.sap.com/viewer/product/SAP_BUSINESSOBJECTS_MOBILE_FOR_IOS/6.6/en-US.
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