This book helps you get up to speed on the next generation of SAP business intelligence. You can learn how to model and visualize data to tell a story. You can find out about options for desktop, mobile, and cloud deployment. What story does your data tell? Take a look at SAP Lumira, SAP's newest data visualization tool. Whether you're a new user or a seasoned Bl expert, learn what SAP Lumira can do to identify trends and find hidden insights in business data. From data acquisitions to data manipulation to data visualization, get the details on the steps to take to add some color to your data. From an administrative perspective, you'll want to know how SAP Lumira fits into existing Bl landscapes and which deployment option, installation, and configuration is best for each setup. This introduction to SAP Lumira will help make each picture-or chart-worth a thousand words.

Author Biography

Christian Ah-Soon has worked for SAP BusinessObjects for 15 years as a program manager on transversal areas like administration, security, internationalization, installation, semantic layer, and SDKs. He is co-author of SAP BusinessObjects BI Security (SAP PRESS, 2013) and Universe Design with SAP BusinessObjects BI, The Comprehensive Guide (SAP PRESS, 2014). Christian holds a Ph.D. in computer science and graduated from TELECOM Nancy. Peter Snowdon has worked for SAP BusinessObjects for many years in different roles starting as a developer and moving into product management and currently is an engineering manager. Peter has, in a previous life, tried a number of different topics including Building, Architecture, Accident Analysis and has an MA in English Literature and Economics as well as an M.Sc. in IT.