In today’s data-driven world, the ability to access and analyze diverse data sources efficiently is key to gaining actionable business insights. SAP Lumira, a self-service data visualization and analytics tool, empowers users to explore, visualize, and share data insights seamlessly. One of Lumira’s standout strengths lies in its versatile data connectivity options, enabling users to connect to a wide range of data sources for comprehensive analytics.
SAP Lumira is a powerful business intelligence tool designed for business users and analysts to create interactive dashboards and visualizations without deep technical expertise. It supports data preparation, blending, and advanced visual storytelling, making data insights accessible and actionable.
The foundation of meaningful analytics is quality data from relevant sources. SAP Lumira’s ability to connect to multiple data repositories ensures that users are not limited by where their data resides. It facilitates the integration of structured and unstructured data, enabling richer context and more accurate analysis.
SAP Lumira supports a broad array of data sources, both SAP and non-SAP, through native connectors, JDBC/ODBC drivers, and APIs. Below are key connectivity options:
As SAP’s flagship in-memory database, SAP HANA is fully integrated with Lumira. Users can connect directly to HANA views, calculation views, and analytic views to leverage real-time transactional and analytical data for live data visualization without the need for data extraction.
Lumira offers seamless connectivity to SAP BW, enabling access to InfoProviders, queries, and BEx queries. This allows organizations to utilize their existing BW data models and metadata, ensuring consistency in reporting and analysis.
SAP Lumira supports connectivity to traditional relational databases such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, and Teradata using JDBC or ODBC drivers. This capability enables blending data from enterprise databases with other sources for holistic insights.
Users can easily import data from CSV, Excel, or text files. This option is ideal for ad-hoc analysis or combining external datasets with enterprise data.
Lumira extends connectivity to cloud platforms such as SAP Cloud Platform, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, and Hadoop ecosystems through connectors and APIs. This enables advanced analytics on big data and cloud-hosted information.
For dynamic or real-time data integration, Lumira supports connection to web services and REST APIs. This flexibility allows organizations to incorporate data from third-party applications, social media, and IoT devices into their visualizations.
SAP Lumira offers two primary modes of data connectivity:
Live Connection: Data remains in the source system (e.g., SAP HANA), and Lumira queries it in real time. This ensures up-to-date information but requires stable connectivity and can be resource-intensive.
Import Mode: Data is imported into Lumira’s local environment for offline analysis. This provides flexibility and faster performance for large datasets or complex transformations but may lack real-time freshness.
Users can choose the mode based on their analysis needs, data volume, and performance considerations.
SAP Lumira’s extensive data connectivity options empower businesses to unlock the full potential of their data assets. Whether connecting to SAP HANA for real-time insights, blending data from relational databases, or integrating cloud and big data sources, Lumira provides a flexible and robust platform for comprehensive analytics.
For SAP professionals and business users alike, understanding and leveraging these connectivity options is critical to delivering impactful, data-driven decision-making capabilities.