Blogs
Lumira 2.1 Discovery, a first glimpse
On Friday Dec 15th, SAP made Lumira 2.1 Discovery available for the general public. During the last few months, there were some exciting new features announced. In the article below, we take a quick look at a feature we were waiting for to return to the stage, namely “Linked Analysis”, and a new feature called “Ad-Hoc Data Comparison”.
Linked analysis
Up until Lumira 1.31, it was possible to link the analysis between different graphs, so that when you filter on a dimension in the first graph, the data was also filtered in the other graphs. With Lumira 2.0 however, this was no longer possible.
In the release of Lumira 2.1 Discovery, this is again possible.
When using this filter, it acts as Parent-Child filter on the other components if you filter on the first graph:
Unfortunately, this does not work for geomaps.
Hopefully SAP can also add this for the geomaps in the future.
Ad-Hoc Data Comparison
There is also a new way of comparing data in a graph by simply selecting columns in a column chart:
To activate this at runtime, right-click the chart and select the “Enable Ad-hoc Data Comparison” option:
However, this option is so far only found in Column Chart graphs.
Conclusion
There are a few nice new features and perhaps some others we still need to discover. We will find out more in the coming weeks as we continue to discover the new release.
Blogs
Open Hub Destination with BEx Query as an InfoProvider
Introduction
A SAP BW system is mostly known to consolidate data to give reporting or analytics capabilities to your business. However, there could be occasions where you want to transfer the data. One of the options to do this is to make use of Open Hub Destination. This was in the past a part of the InfoSpoke, but separated since SAP BW 7.X. The Open Hub Destination allows you to distribute data in database tables or flat files in a fully integrated and controlled SAP BW data flow:
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Getting started with SAP HANA SDI in less than a day
(The Twitter case) – Part 2
I was recently asked by a client’s marketing department to figure out how to bring Twitter data to their reporting environment. They are currently using a BW-on-HANA, so I immediately thought of HANA Smart Data Integration (SDI) as a possible candidate. In this blog I’ll cover the basics for the setup and show you that it’s actually quite easy to get up-and-running with SDI. In fact: I was pulling data from Twitter less than 3 hours after starting this SDI adventure 😊.
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Getting started with SAP HANA SDI in less than a day
(The Twitter case) – Part 1
I was recently asked by a client’s marketing department to figure out how to bring Twitter data to their reporting environment. They are currently using a BW-on-HANA, so I immediately thought of HANA Smart Data Integration (SDI) as a possible candidate. In this blog I’ll cover the basics for the setup and show you that it’s actually quite easy to get up-and-running with SDI. In fact: I was pulling data from Twitter less than 3 hours after starting this SDI adventure 😊.
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