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Aid SAP Lumira

SAP Lumira
Bringing Data to Life

Overview
SAP Lumira is software that enables users to
bring data to life. This data visualization tool
makes it easy to create beautiful and
interactive maps, charts, and infographics.
Users can import data from Excel, CSV and
other sources to perform visual Business
Intelligence (BI) analysis using an intuitive
guide. The resulting stories and insights can
be saved as a PDF and shared via email.

Procedure
There are four main steps, or “rooms,”
involved in creating a Lumira story. Each
room provides specific functionality to define
and share your story. You can move back and
forth between the rooms to refine your story.

Getting Started

Download the SAP Lumira Software Gather Data

Instructions on how to download SAP Lumira 1. Start by creating a document in Lumira that
to your PC are available here. will house your data set and visualizations.
2. Connect to the data source that contains
** NOTE: At this time, SAP Lumira is only the data to be visualized. **NOTE: Excel,
available for download on PCs. Please note Text, CSV and clipboard copy are the only
that you must have 3GBs of RAM. A solution formats supported by ITS at this time.
for Mac and VDI users will be made available Additional data sources will be made
in a future release. available in a future release.
3. Import the data to SAP Lumira to create the
document dataset. Data is available for you
to manipulate in the Prepare Room.

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Lumira Rooms
Begin to Visualize
Prepare Room Visualize Room

Imported data is refined and/or enriched. Options for This room offers a wide variety of options to help you
editing and formatting the data are available. You can visualize the data. Here, your prepared data can be
develop additional context for your story using features plotted in the appropriate combination of graphs,
such as hierarchies, measures, dimensions, calculations, tables, and charts, which will allow you to further build
and formulas. You also have the capability to merge or your story. The diverse selections allow you to depict
append the data with additional datasets. the data in a manner that can help facilitate thoughtful
analysis, and assist in the identification of trends.

Watch some How To Videos
Watch some How To Videos
on the Prepare Room: 1-10
on the Visualize Room: 11-15

Compose Share

In the Compose room, the components you have The datasets and stories created in Lumira are saved in
created in the Visualize room all come together to tell documents in .lums file format. Once the data story is
your story. Combine your visualizations with images visualized, you can share it with colleagues for review
and text and arrange them free form or by using and/or further collaboration. To share your story,
preformatted templates. Stories can be multiple pages export it as a PDF. Other sharing options will be
and interactive. You can compose presentation boards, supported in a future release. **NOTE: We strongly
infographics, and reports. advise that you NOT share stories via a cloud account.

Watch some How To Videos Watch some How To Videos
on the Compose Room: 16-25 on the Share Room: 26-28