Lumira 1.29 – Data Blending Comes of Age

Lumira recently introduced a new concept called Blending.  Blending allows Analytics to allow data from multiple datasets or fact tables to be displayed across a common dimension.  This was a critical next step in Lumira’s evolution because often the job of an Analyst requires them to pull together multiple result sets into a single visualization.  It’s […]

Using Explorer and Lumira with SAP BW

This is a quick post to let you know that there is an excellent whitepaper available which explains everything you need to know about leveraging Explorer and Visual Intelligence with SAP BW. Organizations must leverage some type of acceleration technology – either HANA or BWA. Here is the original article: http://www.saphana.com/docs/DOC-2943 Here is a link […]

Visual Intelligence – Resolving Start Up Issues

Enjoying Visual Intelligence?  I am.  Unfortunately however every once in a while something will go wrong.  Most of the time stopping and restarting Visual Intelligence will fix the problem but sometimes not. One error I received recently was:  Open document failed / The engine failed to start before timeout.  Restart the application.  (HDB 10005) Here […]

Visual Intelligence Goes Predictive….

It was only a few short months ago when Visual Intelligence was released.  We were promised a rapid development and release cycle, but I never expected this many changes is such a sort time. Here is a quick summary: 1.0.1 – Visual data analysis and data discovery for the Desktop 1.0.2 – Freehand SQL, Publish […]

New 90-day free trial to SAP Visual Intelligence

It’s New! It’s Cool! It’s Wow! It’s like two aspirin for that DeskI hangover! … and it’s available FREE for 90 days! 11/12 UPDATE:  This was a limited time offer.  The free trial is now 30 days. SAP Visual Intelligence is now available for download.  It provides the ability to connect to data sources such […]