OMB Data Visualization

Tool Requirements Analysis: SAP

Dr. Brand Niemann
Director and Senior Data Scientist
Semantic Community
http://semanticommunity.info/
AOL Government Blogger
http://breakinggov.com/author/brand-niemann/
July 30, 2013
http://semanticommunity.info/Data_Science/Free_Data_Visualization_and_Analysis_Tools/SAP

Background
DRAFT White Paper for OMB Pittsburgh, July 11, 2013.
Start With the End in Mind, Avoid Tool and Turf Wars, and Develop
Well-designed Spreadsheets That Can be Dragged and Dropped
Onto a Tool That Creates Statistics and Visualizations in the Public
and Private Clouds.
Focus on Requirements Analysis by First Comparing Magic Quadrant
Leaders and Challengers on Common Data Sets.
Spotfire Was Able to Reproduce Birst, IBM, Information Builders,
Logi Analytics, Microsoft, MicroStrategy, QlikView, SAS, and Tableau
Data Visualizations With Dynamically Linked Visualizations.
Broaden This Requirements Analysis to Include More Sample Data
Sets and Tools.
SAP Is a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.

Gartner BI Magic Quadrant: SAP

SAP Analytics Strengths and Cautions Excerpts
SAP is the global market share leader of the BI and
analytics platforms market.
SAP is frequently cited by customers as the enterprise
standard BI and analytics platform.
SAP Predictive Analysis, introduced in 2012, bolstered its
predictive analytics offering by integrating analytical
capabilities already built in R with the real-time and inmemory capabilities of Hana to create some new, advanced
analytic use cases.
When respondents were asked which product-specific
limitations were barriers to wider deployment, more SAP
respondents cited software quality than for any other
vendor.
Note: Bolding by the author to highlight key points.
Source: http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1DYKLUR&ct=130206&st=sb

SAP: Free Trials

http://www.sap.com/software-free-trials/index.epx
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SAP Crystal Solutions: Download 1

http://www28.sap.com/mk/get/EMLQ1ENT1?SOURCEID=Thank_You_Footer

SAP Crystal Solutions: Download 2

http://www28.sap.com/mk/get/EMLQ1ENT1?SOURCEID=Thank_You_Footer

SAP Crystal Solutions: Download 3

http://www28.sap.com/mk/get/EMLQ1ENT1?SOURCEID=Thank_You_Footer
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SAP Crystal Solutions: Download 4

Begin Download (451 MB)!

http://www28.sap.com/mk/get/EMLQ1ENT2?t=CDD&email=bniemann@cox.net&SOURCEID=Thank_You_Footer&CTID=11618014
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SAP Crystal Dashboard Design: PDF

http://www.sap.com/solutions/sap-crystal-solutions/dashboards-visualization/sapcrystaldashboard-starter/brochures/index.epx
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SAP Hana

On May 10th, 2013, SAP announced the renaming of SAP Visual Intelligence to SAP Lumira.
This FAQ document answers questions about the name change and its implications.

http://www.saphana.com/welcome
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SAP Hana

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-31600/version/18

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SAP Community Network

a word of warning:

Lesson learned: HANA ain't cheap..

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-42451
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SAP Lumira

http://store.businessobjects.com/store/bobjamer/en_US/Content/pbPage.sap-lumira
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SAP Lumira Personal Edition

1GB of free storage

Quickly analyze your data by uploading a spreadsheet
Collaborate with colleagues by sharing datasets, analytics and documents
Built-in saving and opening from within SAP Lumira

http://www.saphana.com/docs/DOC-3824
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SAP Lumira: Import Spreadsheet

https://cloud.saplumira.com/explorer?itemId=51F203DDDCD41D66E10000000A4E423F&type=DATASET
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SAP Predictive Analysis

Number of Downloads: 266

50 GBytes Hard Disk!

https://store.sap.com/sap/cpa/ui/resources/store/html/SolutionDetails.html
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Budget 2013: Spotfire

Knowledge Base: http://semanticommunity.info/Budget_of_the_United_States_Government_Fiscal_Year_2013

Spreadsheet: http://semanticommunity.info/@api/deki/files/17291/=Budget2013.xlsx
Spotfire: https://silverspotfire.tibco.com/us/library#/users/bniemann/Public?Budget2013-Spotfire
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Some Conclusions and

Recommendations
Semantic Community Was Able to Import An Excel File
Into SAP Lumira Cloud But It Did not Automatically
Generate (Intelligent Analytics) Dynamically Linked
Graphics Like Spotfire Does.
Spotfire Provides Similar Features To SAP Lumira Cloud
and Predictive Analysis, But the Author Finds Spotfire
Much Easier and More Powerful to Use.
MindTouch and Spotfire Are More Versatile Than SAP
Lumira, Hana, and Predictive Analysis For Mashups.
Semantic Community Will Continue to Use The Gartner
BI Magic Quadrant Leader Tools and Their Sample Data
Sets and to Recreate Visualizations and Dashboards.
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