self-service data discovery for business users and analysts using sap lumira

Self-Service Data Discovery for Business Users and Analysts Using SAP Lumira Eamon IdaSAP

“WebIntelligence provides end users with self-service access to data stored in data warehouses, data marts, and packaged business applications (such as SAP R/3). Using WebIntelligence, end users can autonomously access these data sources without having to submit development requests to IT.”

First WebIntelligence press release; December 22, 1997

IS BI ADOPTIONSTILL A CHALLENGE?

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BI Adoption Rate Among Knowledge Workers: Is It?

35% 50% 75%


Quite High …

of

Knowledge Workers Have Access or Utilize BI/Analytics

Source: Information Week; Doug Henschen; 2012 BI and Information Management Trends; November 2011


Areas Making Huge Progress

Source: Information Week; Doug Henschen; 2015 BI and Information Management Trends; December 2014

Which of the following users have access to or utilize analytics and BI today (2014)?

61%

ITManagement

52%

C-Level Corporate Executives

68%

Business Analysts


Areas Still Lagging

Source: Information Week; Doug Henschen; 2015 BI Survey; December 2014

Which of the following users have access or utilize BI/analytics today (2014)?

18%

Customer-ServiceReps

19%

Sales force

9%

AllEmployees


User Satisfaction

“Satisfied” or “Very Satisfied”

38%

ProductDevelopment

36%

Marketing

39%

Operations

41%

LOB Mgmt

1: Somewhat Unsatisfied or Not Satisfied


Not Taking Advantage of Available Data …

Base: 330 global enterprise BI decision makers; Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of SAP.

THE BI SPECTRUM: KNOWN VS. UNKNOWN


Standard Reports

Ad hoc Reports

OLAP & Visualization

Dashboards& Scorecards

Exploration& Visualization

Value

Predictive Modeling

Traditional Self-Service BIAnswers Known Questions

Org

aniz

atio

nal &

Com

petit

ive

Impa

ct

The BI Spectrum: Known vs. Unknown

Self-Service BIAnswers Unknown Questions


An Example: Visualize GDP Data in the Cloud

visualizing.org


Why Visual Discovery?

Source: Aberdeen Group, 2011

85%Visual Discovery Users

77%Others

Timely Access to Information1

Others

726Visual Discovery Users

440

Leveraging Scarce IT Resources12

1: Users per supporting full-time equivalent


Avoiding the Traditional Timeline

Days to add columnto report8

Days to build a newdashboard30

Source: Data provided by Aberdeen Group, 2012


Your Brain Is Wired for Visuals

30% Cortex devoted toneurons processing visuals

65% Information remembered by people72 hours after exposure whena picture is added

150ms Time it takes for the human visual system to process a complexnatural image


Numerical Description

Visuals Convey Knowledge

North South East West

Q1 $10,000 $12,500 $15,000 $12,000

Q2 $11,000 $11,500 $3,000 $12,000

Q3 $10,000 $12,000 $23,000 $12,500

Q4 $15,000 $11,500 $4,000 $12,000

What quarter was our best last year? In Q4 what region did not as well as the others?


Visuals Convey Knowledge (cont.)

Visual Description


Visual Representations of Information Tell Stories …

Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard


The Smart Phones Story

Source: Rafael Zanetti; http://scn.sap.com/community/lumira/blog/2013/09/04/analyzing-smartphone-platforms-sales-per-quarter


The Story of How Effective a Public Investmentin Tertiary Education Is in the USA

Source: Viusalizing.org and OECD;


The Story on When to Post Tweets About Your SCN Blog

Source: Robert Russell; http://scn.sap.com/community/lumira/blog/2013/08/14/data-geek-challenge-analysing-the-scnblogs-twitter-timeline

SAPSELF-SERVICE


On Premise In The Cloud On Mobile

SAPLumira Cloud Mobile

SAP Lumira,Server

SAPLumira, desktop

Search

Explore

Share

Acquire

Transform

Visualize

Enterprise Information

Assets

Local

View

SAP Lumira,Edge Edition


WITH SAP LUMIRA,YOU …


Local

View

Spend more time on analysis, less on

data manipulation

Let visualizations tellthe story behind

the data

Quickly connect toall the data you need –

big and small

Unlock the power of your data without adding toyour IT staff workload

With SAP Lumira, You …


Connect to All the Data You Need

Data sources available CSV and Excel files Clipboard Data SAP HANA and Hadoop RDBMS through JDBC (free-hand SQL) Universes 3.x and 4.x. Query with SQL SAP Business Warehouse

Acquisition of data (HANA,universes, databases) requires user authentication

Data is stored locally in an optimized In-Memory data engine for performance and offline access


Data Access

Select source

Select data – optional

If data volume exceeds 30 million cells warning prompted

Data loaded into document

SAP HANA Online

Visualize data


Mash Up Data to Get the Complete Picture

Merge data from different data sets based on common

values


“TECHNOLOGY MAN, ALL THIS LITTLE STUFF INTERRUPTSMY CHAIN OF THOUGHT”

SONNY ROLLINS


Stay “In Flow”

More timefor analysis

Repetitive tasksare automated

No code orscripting required

SELECT *

FROM widgets

WHERE price-sold >10.00

ORDER BY stores;


Enrich Your Data Sets Automatically

Numeric columns are enriched as measures

Date/Timestamps columns are suggested as dates

All Geographicdimensions are detected


Show the “Where” of Your Data

Based onnames

Based on latitude and longitude coordinates


Transform Data Dynamically

Flexibletext, date, arithmetic and

conditional formulas See what is possible with contextual suggestions


Let Beautiful Visualizations Tell the StoryBehind the Data


Ease of UseDrag-and-Drop Data Exploration with Native HTML5


Best-in-Class Visualizations Anywhere

Delivering storytelling

with infographics

On premise In the cloud

On any device

Example 1 Example 2


Ease of Use Visualization Builder

Visualization Gallery

Chart Family

Feeder Pane

Chart Body


Ease of UseSwipe, Tap, Zoom to Answers on Mobile


Sharing Insights with Others

Share visualizations and data sets on premise (BI suite, Lumira Server, and SAP HANA) and

in the cloud (SAP Lumira Cloud)


Sharing with Others Using the Cloud


Trusted Data DiscoverySAP BI 4.1 - Lumira Server integration

Governed, administered, securedusing your BI 4.1 investment (add-on for SAP Lumira)

Publish datasets & stories fromSAP Lumira (desktop)

Consume from the BI launch pad

Manage from the central management console (CMC)

Refresh and schedule .unx-based data

BI 4.1 SP03 contains required node (with the required HANA technologies)


3 Data Workflows for SAP Lumira Server

Lumira Datasets(real-time or static)

Lumira Stories

SAPLumira

SAP HANAStudio

① ②

③


DEMO


Get

StartedLearn about Lumira1

Try it for freesaplumira.com

2

Try it with your data3

WRAP-UP


Where to Find More Information

Blog – blogs.sap.com/analytics

Videos – www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8FF03148AD0742B1

Twitter – #saplumira

Download – www.saplumira.com

Web – www.saplumira.com

SCN – scn.sap.com/community/lumira


7 Key Points to Take Home

Better-performing organizations have deployed data visualization solutions

Our brains are wired for visuals: maximize knowledge with a combination of visual insights and granular details

SAP Lumira helps connect individuals to information to improve decisions and business performance

SAP Lumira, desktop is for Business Analysts who want to spend more time on analysis, less on data manipulation

SAP Lumira, Edge edition is a great way for teams and departments to perform data visualization and discovery

View, explore, and understand data via your mobile device

Increase self-service data usage without adding to your IT department’s workload

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Thank You!

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