Business Intelligence with SAP Business Objects 4.3

The new SAP Lumira aims to  let you tap into your data- big and small - and discover answers. This application allows to: - Deliver faster time to insight in a repeatable, self-service way - Maximize business knowledge with a combination of big picture insights and granular details - Accelerate decision making with immediate, fact-based answers to complex business questions - Increase self-service data usage without adding to your IT department's workload - Visualize any amount of data in real time – with SAP HANAOne - Organize and navigate data the way you want to - quickly and visually without using a single line of code or additional modeling layer.  SAP Lumira's interactive visualizations let you analyze data quickly to discover unique insights that you can share throughout your organization. With the software's ability to connect to the SAP HANA platform, business users get access to real-time answers buried in massive amounts of data. For SAP Visual Inte

Using SAP Visual Intelligence - Step by Step Let's see how to create a chart with Visual Intelligence. 1. Connect to your data source If your data source is: - RDBMS: Enter your credentials, connect to the database server, browse and select a data source.   If you are connecting to SAP HANA, you select a view and cube to build your chart. - Flat file: Choose the columns to be acquired, trimmed, or shown and hidden. - Universe: Enter your universe credentials, connect to the Central Management Server repository, and select a universe to build your chart. 2. View and organize the columns and attributes. The data acquired can be viewed as columns or as facets. You can organize the data display to make chart building easier by doing the following: - Create filters and hide unneeded columns. - Create measures, time and geography hierarchies. - Clean and organize the data in columns using a range of manipulation tools. - Create columns with formulas using a wide sel

SAP Visual Intelligence  can Acquire data from different data sources SAP Visual Intelligence 1.0.6 You can acquire data from the following data sources: - C.S.V file - SAP HANA cube - MS Excel - Freehand SQL - SAP BusinessObjects Universe Each data source can be adapted before acquisition to include or remove columns. For certain data sources you have other options, for example data formatting, column naming and trimming, and specifying column name prefixes. The acquisition options are described for each individual data source. Note: For data that is acquired to manipulate locally the maximum number of cells that can be acquired is 15 million. Spreadsheets with more than this maximum are cut off at this point. Read also: Using SAP Visual Intelligence SAP Visual Intelligence SAP VISUAL INTELLIGENCE FEATURES SAP HANA Introduction

VISUAL INTELLIGENCE FEATURES AND EVOLUTION A new BI general need  about a fast data visualization that enables  interactive data visualization and self consumption is now covered by SAP with SAP VISUAL INTELLIGENCE. Through  Visual Intelligence SAP aims to answer the growing demand for self-service data visualization in order to realize an analytic dashboard tool. SAP Visual Intelligence was originally released during the May 2012 SAPPHIRE NOW event, and a new version, was released as Feature Pack 3 for BI BusinessObjects 4 . Concerning  power and complexity, SAP Visual Intelligence is positionated between the dashboards such as SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (a.k.a Xcelsius) and SAP Zen, and the self-service web and mobile tools of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. SAP Visual Intelligence is part of the SAP BusinessObjects Explorer family, but while BusinessObjects Explorer allows for data exploration and visualization via a web service or through a mobile app, SAP Visual Intelli

The new Visual BI Interface Tap into your data - big and small - and discover answers with SAP Visual Intelligence software.  Fast data manipulation and engaging visualizations allow you to combine and analyze data from a variety of enterprise and personal sources and quickly discover unique insight – no scripts, predefined queries or reports required. With SAP Visual Intelligence, you can: Deliver faster time to insight in a repeatable, self-service way Maximize business knowledge with a combination of big picture insights and granular details Accelerate decision making with immediate, fact-based answers to complex business questions Increase self-service data usage without adding to your IT department's workload Visualize any amount of data in real time – with SAP HANA For detailed information visit the official SAP site: SAP Visual Intelligence See Also: Using SAP Visual Intelligence Connect SAP Visual Intelligence to data sources