Publishing Stories to Lumira Cloud

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1 Publishing Stories to Lumira Cloud The latest release of SAP Lumira and Lumira Cloud includes the ability to publish stories designed in Lumira (or Predictive Analysis) to Lumira Cloud. Today s blog shows the process of designing visualizations, creating story boards, and uploading them to SAP Lumira Cloud using the data set from the Customer Lifetime Value case study blog. Our story board will describe the customers for AdventureWorks Cycle Company, as well as summarize the Customer Lifetime Value and purchase habits for different groups of customers. Building Stories The first step in building a story board is creating saved visualizations on the Visualize tab in Lumira. Only saved visualizations can be included in story boards, it is not possible to design visualizations within the Compose tab, so the story board author should think about the analysis story and design visualizations to convey all of the important story components. Once a library of saved visualizations has been developed, click on the Compose pane to start a new story. There are a variety of multi-panel board designs, or the user can design their own by dragging saved visualizations up from the library of saved visualizations at the bottom of the Compose pane. Visualizations and controls can be added in Edit mode, as shown below, where the author can design and control what the user will see. Authors can also add pictures and additional text notes to call out insights or personalize the story board with product images, for example. Developing a logical plan for the analysis is critical to story design. In order to explain the customers at AWCC, I m building 3 boards within my story. The first profiles customers and determines how many customers are in each demographic segment. The second looks at the purchase of Product X and the

2 breakdown by different demographic groups, while the last board summarizes customer lifetime value across demographics. Once I have added my saved visualizations to the board, I can enter View mode, shown below, and interact with the story board the way a user would. Publishing Stories Once my story has been developed, I can select Stories on the Share pane shown below, select the story I want to upload, and click Publish to SAP Lumira Cloud. Publishing to Lumira Cloud uploads both the underlying dataset and the story object.

3 Viewing Stories in Lumira Cloud Once this is complete, I can log into my Lumira Cloud account and see my new objects in My Items, as shown below. In Organizations that subscribe to Lumira Cloud, multiple users could now access this story and share insights. I can select the Who Are Our Customers? story and view it within the web browser. Web users also have the ability to zoom into charts and view them full page, as shown below.

4 Web users can also interact with the visualizations in a board using the controls available in the right hand pane to filter the visualizations. Making a selection in the control pane filters all the visualizations in the board. This has been a quick example of creating and sharing meaningful story boards with SAP Lumira. Click here to download the SAP Lumira.lums file with the story described in this document.

5 Hillary Bliss, Analytics Practice Lead Decision First Technologies Hillary Bliss is the Analytics Practice Lead at Decision First Technologies, and specializes in data warehouse design, ETL development, statistical analysis, and predictive modeling. She works with clients and vendors to integrate business analysis and predictive modeling solutions into the organizational data warehouse and business intelligence environments based on their specific operational and strategic business needs. She has a master s degree in statistics and an MBA from Georgia Tech.