Preface

With the increasing popularity of data discovery, self-service BI, and visualizations around the world, more and more tools are being developed for data discovery, which allows you to eliminate the complexities of analyzing and discovering data. You can learn the techniques of data discovery, build amazing visualizations, create fantastic stories, and share these visualizations through electronic mediums with one of the most powerful tools: SAP Lumira. Moreover, this book will focus on extracting data from different sources, such as plain text, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform, SAP HANA, and SQL databases. Finally, it will teach you how to publish the result of your painstaking work on various mediums, such as SAP BI Clients, SAP Lumira Cloud, and so on. This book provides you with a step-by-step guide and discusses the essentials of SAP Lumira, starting with an overview of SAP Lumira family of products. This book demonstrates various data discovery techniques using real-world scenarios of an online e-commerce retailer. Moreover, this book will provide you with detailed recipes of installations, administration, and customizations of SAP Lumira. In addition, it shows you how to work with data, starting from acquiring data from various data sources to preparing and visualizing it through the rich functionalities of SAP Lumira. Finally, it teaches you how to present data via a data story or infographic and publish it across your organization or World Wide Web.