Thomas B.

Kuruvilla
Deploying SAP Lumira with the SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform
Session #2679
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LEARNING POINTS

 SAP Lumira
 SAP Lumira, server for BI Platform
 Solution Overview
 Demo
 LS4BIP 1.28
 Recommendations & Best Practices
 Roadmap for
 H2 ‘15 (1.29)
 H1 ‘16
SAP Lumira Family

 SAP Lumira quickly helps business people of all skills to better

understand data and use it to tell stories that captivate their
audience

Mobile Browser Desktop

 SAP Lumira Server
SAP Lumira, Server SAP Lumira, Server version for SAP Lumira for SAP Lumira,
version for Teams SAP BusinessObjects BI platform HANA Enterprise Cloud Cloud Edition

BI Platform | Edge BI

In-Memory Data Engine In-Memory Data Engine

HANA

 Teams, Departments,  Add-on to SAP BI Platform or  SAP Lumira, Server  Powered by SAP
Small to Medium Edge BI version for BI Platform in HANA Cloud
Businesses SAP Managed Cloud as a Platform (HCP)
 Optional HANA as calculation
 Single installation Service
engine*  Software-as-a-
 Small footprint  Use In-Memory Data Engine service
 Fast loading and and HANA in the same
environment
calculation

This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
 SAP Lumira, server for BI Platform #LS4BIP

SAP Lumira Desktop BI4.1 SP03+ Launchpad

 Create a Lumira Document with Lumira Desktop

 Save Lumira Document to BI Platform
 View, Refresh*, Edit and Save Lumira Document from BI Launchpad

*: Refresh limited to datasource mentioned in following slides

#LS4BIP: Refresh Data Sources

 Data Source: XLS/CSV/TXT

 Save Lumira Document based on XLS/CSV/TXT to BI

Platform (only local connection)
 Perform Document specific actions, View, Edit, Save etc..
In Launchpad
 Refresh Document

*Make sure the XLS/CSV/TXT source are available in the shared location
#LS4BIP: Refresh Data Sources

 Data Source: Free Hand SQL Support

 Save Lumira Document based on FHSQL to BI Platform

(only local connection)
 Perform Document specific actions, View, Edit, Save etc..
In Launchpad
 Refresh Document
 Prompt Data base Credentials
 Supported Data Sources
 MS SQL 2008
 MS SQL 2012
 MS SQL 2014
 Oracle 11
 Generic JDBC
#LS4BIP: Refresh Data Sources

 Data Source: Universe (UNX QPE) Support

 Save Lumira Document based on Universe to BI Platform

 Perform Document specific actions, View, Edit, Save etc..
In Launchpad
 Refresh Document
 Authentication mode set in the Connection is respected
 Schedule
 Schedule a document with .Lums as destination format
 #LS4BIP: Refresh Data Sources

 Data Source: SAP BW Support

 Save Lumira Document based on SAP BW Offline data to BI
Platform (both local and managed connections are supported)
 Perform Document specific actions, View, Edit, Save etc.. In
Launchpad
 Refresh Document
 SSO support for SAP authentication*
 SSO support for Non SAP Authentication with STS*
 Variable Prompts
 Ability to change Variable prompt values
 SAP BW 7.X onwards
 Schedule
 Schedule a document with .Lums as destination format
*SSO is supported only for Managed connections depending on the authentication mode and applicable only for LS4BIP
#LS4BIP: Refresh Data Sources

 Data Source: SAP HANA Online

 Save Lumira Document based on HANA Online to BI
Platform (only local connection)
 Perform Document specific actions, View, Edit, Save etc..
In Launchpad
 View (for Online View is similar to Refresh on Open)
 SSO support if BIP and HANA is configured with SAML*
 Prompt Credential for any other scenarios
 HANA Revision 82, 83, 84, 85, 96, 97
#LS4BIP: Refresh Data Sources

 Data Source: SAP HANA Offline

 Save Lumira Document based on HANA Offline data to BI
Platform (Local connection only)
 Perform Document specific actions, View, Edit, Save etc..
In Launchpad
 Refresh Document
 SSO support if BIP and HANA is configured with SAML*
 Prompt Credential for any other scenarios
 HANA Revision 82
 #LS4BIP: Schedule

 Schedule* Lumira Documents

 Data source
 Universe (UNX QPE)
 XLS / CSV / TXT
 SAP BW

 Options:
 Destination format supported is .lums document

*Prompts are not supported during scheduling, rather the values provided during last refresh would be considered
#LS4BIP: Desktop Governance

Desktop Governance
 LogOn:
 Forced Log on to BI Platform
 Preference:
 Preset URL to Lumira Cloud, Lumira Server and BI Platform
 Control whether the user can edit them
 Control whether SAP Lumira Desktop should auto update (and
where it should install from)
 Functionality:
 Control access to data source
 Control publishing/sharing the Lumira documents
#LS4BIP: LCM Support

 Lifecycle Management Support in BI 4.1

 Promote .Lums document between QA/Dev/Prod systems
 Support for identifying UNX and Connection dependencies
 Support for connection overrides
 Support for Live to Live and Export to LCMBIAR
 Support for object security
 BI 4.1 SP06 Onwards
 #LS4BIP: Access Level Rights

Authorization
 General Rights for Lumira Document Object:
 View Document
 View Instance
 Edit
 Schedule
*focus here was to capture only the rights impacting Lumira Stories view experience

Specific Rights for Lumira Document Object:

 Refresh
#LS4BIP: Deployment

 Lumira Server for BI is ready for Distributed deployment, consists of following

components which can be deployed on different systems
 Lumira Server
 Lumira Web Application
 Lumira Restful Web Service
 Lumira Scheduling Service
 Clustering support for High availability
 Cluster Lumira Server
 Deploy Lumira Web application on clustered application server and Split
environment
 Recommend to run Lumira Servers on separate systems
 Secure Deployment
 Static Port assignment to Lumira Server
 HTTPS, Reverse Proxy, HTTP Proxy Support for Lumira Web Application
#LS4BIP: Deployment

 Distributed Deployment
 Recommended for Production
 Deploy SAP Lumira, server for BI platform components on different
machines as mentioned below:
 Lumira server:
 BI Platform Adaptive processing server is the pre-requisite for Lumira Server
installation
 Lumira Web Application:
 BI Platform Web Tier is the pre-requisite for Lumira Web Application
installation
 Lumira Restful Web services:
 BI Platform WACS server is the pre-requisite for Lumira Restful Web Service
installation
 Lumira Scheduling Service:
 BI Platform Adaptive Server is the pre-requisite for Lumira Scheduling
Service installation
#LS4BIP: Sizing Recommendations

 Sizing Lumira – Common Caveats

 Use the BI 4 Sizing best practices in conjunction with the
Lumira Sizing recommendations.
 After all you are just sizing for an additional node in your BI
landscape.

 Merged datasets are more complex to process, and can

require more memory and processing resources

 The refresh and edit workflows are memory-intensive

operations requiring new copies of the data to be loaded
on the In-Memory data engine
#LS4BIP: Sizing Recommendations

 Sizing Lumira – Common Caveats

 By default, LS4BIP allocates 85% of the available memory
of host machines at start up to the In-Memory data engine.

 Sharing Mechanism – Workspace Manager

 When two concurrent users view the same Lumira document,
a single copy of the document is loaded on the In-Memory
data engine.
 However, when the document is refreshed or edited by one of
the users, a new and separate copy of the document is
created and loaded on the data engine.
A Few Tips & Recommendations

 Data Source:
 Make sure the XLS/CSV/TXT source are available in the
shared location to support refresh in BI Launchpad
 FHSQL refresh requires driver configuration on BI Platform
 Desktop
 Universe Query Panel Extension should be installed on
Lumira Desktop for Universe support
 Desktop Governance is supported from BI 4.1 SP05 Patch
5 onwards
 Lumira Desktop and Lumira Server for BI Platform version
must be maintained
A Few More Tips & Recommendations

 Deployment and Installation:

 Deploy Lumira Server on a dedicated system
 The installer doesn’t identify LIMA in the distributed
environment, must un-install LIMA before installing Lumira
Server for BIP

 Refer to following blogs for details

 http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-63551
 Official Lumira tutorials: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-
26507
 SAP LUMIRA Sizing guide: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-
53374
Roadmap – H2 ‘15 : #LS4BIP

 DATA SOURCE REFRESH  Enterprise Readiness

 MySQL  BI 4.1 SP07 & 4.2 support
 Teradata  Improving Auditing support
 SAP HANA improvements  Windows 10 Browser support
 Prompt Support  Extension Support
 Oracle 12c
 Visualization Extension
 Data Access Extension
 Document Management
 Mobile BI
 Switch to view mode
 OpenDoc
 Refresh on Open
 Shared Filters
Roadmap – H1 ‘16 : #LS4BIP

 DATA SOURCE REFRESH  Enterprise Readiness

 Additional FHSQL Sources  LINUX
 Managed Connection in BI 4  Scheduling support for documents
with Prompts
 Document Management  Publications
 Impact and Lineage analysis
 Data Acquisition and  Language Support
Manipulation in Launchpad
 Improved Trusted Data Discovery
 Manage connection for HANA
 Developer requirements
online/offline
 Improvements to OpenDoc  Install & Portal Customization
 Embedded SDK
 Open Doc Enhancements
 Mobile BI Improvements
KEY LEARNINGS

 SAP Lumira Server Deployment Options

 SAP Lumira, server for BI Platform overview
 Capabilities & Roadmap

 Thomas B Kuruvilla
thomas.kuruvilla@sap.com
@t_bovee
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