9 Key New Features in SAP Lumira 2.2- Designer Edition
Following suit of their release schedules, after SAP Lumira Designer 2.0 and SAP Lumira Designer 2.1, SAP has made the next version of Designer, SAP Lumira 2.2- Designer Edition, generally available as...
View Article5 Key New Features in Lumira 2.2- Discovery Edition
This is part of the SAP Lumira Discovery Series of blogs. SAP released Lumira 2.2 in August 2018 for all three components: Discovery, Designer and Server. The focus has been on the following key...
View ArticleVisual BI Extensions (VBX)- Time Slicer for Lumira Designer
One of the most constant dimensions on any dashboard is the time dimension. The time dimension gives relevance for a metric. In many cases, the same measure gets sliced in different time buckets to be...
View ArticleSAP Lumira Designer 2.2 – The Next Logical Upgrade
With every new release of SAP Lumira Designer, Visual BI Solutions works at capturing and presenting the newest features that the latest release offers. And it is no different this time either – we...
View ArticleMigrating from SAP Lumira 1.31 to SAP Lumira Discovery 2.2 : How, Why, Pros...
This is part of the SAP Lumira Discovery blog series. The latest release, SAP Lumira Discovery 2.2 incorporates a lot of updates from an UI and functionality perspective. SAP will also be stopping main...
View ArticleValue Driver Trees & Enterprise Planning, Forecasting & Budgeting (Part 1)
This blog is part of the Value Driver Tree Blog series. Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric once characterized budgeting as follows: It sucks the energy, time, fun, and big dreams out of an...
View ArticleAuthoring in SAP Lumira Designer 2.2 – An Introduction
Lumira Designer has been adding features to enrich the self-service experience of its applications. SAP Lumira Designer 2.1 allowed users to create components at runtime. As an extension, SAP Lumira...
View Article[Video] Spend by GL Hierarchy using SAP Lumira Designer
This blog is part of Visual BI’s Video Blog series Leverage intuitive hierarchical drill-downs to select values from GL account hierarchy and dynamically visualize spend at any level. Highlights...
View ArticleSimplifying Time Period Selectors for SAP Lumira Dashboards
The time dimension is something that is universal to all dashboards and in most cases, a lot of time is spent in writing logic to determine the buckets especially Month to Date (MTD), Quarter to...
View Article5 Quick Visual Tips for a Better User Interface
Whether you are creating a dashboard or static report, regardless of the tool, these visual tips will help you improve its presentation and create a more intuitive and professionally-looking user...
View Article[Video] Planning Dashboard with Write Back using SAP Lumira Designer
This blog is part of Visual BI’s Video Blog series Enable goal-efficient planning and analytics at each sales representative level across regions and time periods with this dashboard that supports the...
View ArticleHow to Effectively Use Colors in Dashboard and Report Design
Choosing colors can be very simple and fun once you know the composition of colors and how they work together. This article will provide you with a simple yet effective guideline to communicate better...
View ArticleAzure Data Factory – Data Flow Activity
Azure Data Factory (ADF) is fully managed cloud service for data orchestration and data integration. It supports variety of processing services like Data Lake Analytics, Hadoop etc. Now ADF is coming...
View ArticleReal-Time Power BI Dashboards Using Azure Stream Analytics
Traditionally in the world of reporting, the occurrence of an event is reported much later than its time of occurrence. What is the purpose of knowing whether at the end of the day? We want to read and...
View Article6 Signs that your SAP BusinessObjects is not sized and what you should be...
Every BOBJ Server is not the same and there is not one universal recipe when it comes to sizing it. As unique as each deployment is, the Sizing should also be done specifically for the usage of it. But...
View ArticleExecuting SSIS Package using Azure Data Factory
Microsoft has the powerful feature of either lifting the existing SSIS package to Azure Data Factory (V2) or Integrating a new SSIS package with ADF(V2). This feature adds more strength to Azure like,...
View Article5 Quick Visual Tips for a Better User Interface
Whether you are creating a dashboard or static report, regardless of the tool, these visual tips will help you improve its presentation and create a more intuitive and professionally-looking user...
View Article[Video] Planning Dashboard with Write-Back Capability using SAP Lumira Designer
This blog is part of Visual BI’s Video Blog series. Experience how SAP Lumira Designer can deliver a planning application with write-back capabilities (similar to the functionality available in...
View ArticleHow to Effectively Use Colors in Dashboard and Report Design
Using colors in a dashboard can be very simple and fun once you know the composition of colors and how they work together. This article will provide you with a simple yet effective guideline to...
View ArticleAzure Data Factory – Data Flow Activity
Azure Data Factory (ADF) is fully managed cloud service for data orchestration and data integration. It supports variety of processing services like Data Lake Analytics, Hadoop etc. Now ADF is coming...
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