

Mark all the checkboxes to select as shown below. Since we have only 3 fields, let’s take all of them. In the next step, we select the dimensions and measures required to build the report we need.

As soon as you do this, it also appears on the right pane. Double click on this view inside of the 0TEACHMEHANA package. Let’s create our view on the EMPLOYEE view. These packages contain the information views which would act as source of data for the Lumira reports.Īs seen below, we have our 0TEACHMEHANA package which houses all the views we created earlier in the tutorial Once connected, the below screen opens up which displays all the available packages the user can see in the HANA system. sign would indicate that the connection is being established. I’ve provided the details for my system below. Contact your system administrator if you are unaware of the details to provide here. In the next step, you would be asked to provide the connection details to this HANA system where you wish to source data from. The next step would now ask you for the source of your data. Click on File from the context menu.Ĭlick on New to start creating a new report. Click on it to open.Ī beautiful window opens up to start the application… Wait for it. You can find lumira under your SAP Business Intelligence Folder and SAP Lumira sub folder in the start menu. Report Users: End Users/Business Users/Business Analystsįrequency of use in realtime projects: Medium-HighĮffort to develop: Medium Creating our first SAP Business Objects Lumira Visualization This tool will be called Lumira 2.x which will have 2 components – Lumira Discovery (for data exploration) and Lumira Designer (for dashboards). Note: In Mid-2017, SAP plans to provide a single solution combining the data exploration capabilities of lumira and the dashboarding capabilities of SAP Design Studio (It’s in our next tutorial. So it’s great with respect to performance too. The tool is also optimized to run with the SAP HANA database. It is a really powerful tool and is one of SAP’s best offering currently in this use case. Lumira, unlike explorer also allows the user to do transformations to data in order to cleanse the dataset as per the user’s demand. But lumira users can connect to HANA views directly by themselves and use it for building reports. It now allows a business user to not rely on their IT developers to create create reports for them whenever they wish to do some slice and dice data exploration.Įxplorer had it’s limitations wherein the business user still needed someone to create an information space first which created a dependency on IT. Lumira opens up avenues of data exploration like never before. Like Explorer, it is a data exploration tool. In this one, we try to the understand the SAP Business Objects Lumira. Welcome one and all to another reporting on HANA tutorial.
