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OMB Data Visualization Tool Requirements Analysis: SAP

Dr. Brand NiemannDirector and Senior Data Scientist

Semantic Communityhttp://semanticommunity.info/

AOL Government Bloggerhttp://breakinggov.com/author/brand-niemann/

July 30, 2013http://semanticommunity.info/Data_Science/Free_Data_Visualization_and_Analysis_Tools/SAP

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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.

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Gartner BI Magic Quadrant: SAPSAP 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 in-memory 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

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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

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SAP Crystal Solutions: Download 2

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

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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

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

Begin Download (451 MB)!

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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

http://www.saphana.com/welcome

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.

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SAP Hana

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

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SAP Community Network

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

a word of warning:

Lesson learned: HANA ain't cheap..

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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

http://www.saphana.com/docs/DOC-3824

1GB of free storageQuickly analyze your data by uploading a spreadsheetCollaborate with colleagues by sharing datasets, analytics and documentsBuilt-in saving and opening from within SAP Lumira

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SAP Lumira: Import Spreadsheet

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

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SAP Predictive Analysis

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

Number of Downloads: 26650 GBytes Hard Disk!

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Budget 2013: Spotfire

Knowledge Base: http://semanticommunity.info/Budget_of_the_United_States_Government_Fiscal_Year_2013Spreadsheet: http://semanticommunity.info/@api/deki/files/17291/=Budget2013.xlsxSpotfire: 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.