{"id":12320,"date":"2013-05-16T02:38:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T01:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=4973"},"modified":"2013-05-16T02:38:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T01:38:24","slug":"new-sap-lumira-see-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/new-sap-lumira-see-the-light.html","title":{"rendered":"New SAP Lumira: See The Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As announced last Friday, SAP Visual Intelligence<\/a> has been renamed to SAP Lumira (you can find the announcement and full FAQ here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Why Did We Change Another Perfectly Good BI Product Name?<\/h3>\n

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We know that this decision is likely to be met by some eye-rolling from our faithful customers who are still recovering from previous name changes.<\/p>\n

The bottom line<\/strong>: we know that there are downsides to such a change, and despite the inevitable disruption it may cause, we feel it\u2019s the right choice. Here are some of the key reasons that tipped the balance:<\/p>\n

Family Ties<\/strong>. As we announced earlier this week, the next version of SAP Visual Intelligence (sorry, SAP Lumira) will offer tight integration with SAP\u2019s next-generation cloud BI platform, SAP Lumira Cloud<\/a>. We feel that it\u2019s more appropriate to use a completely new name for a completely new \u201cnetwork of truth<\/a>\u201d approach to business intelligence and analytics (oh \u2013 and \u201cSAP Visual Intelligence Cloud\u201d is clunky).<\/p>\n

Searching and Sharing<\/strong>. SAP Lumira is a more human-friendly yet Google-ready name. As with SAP HANA<\/a> (which trips off the tongue more easily than \u201cSAP’s new platform for real-time analytics and applications\u201d), a distinctive name makes it easier to find relevant materials (it\u2019s one of the reasons we took the space out of \u201cBusiness Objects\u201d many years ago). And with community becoming increasingly important, this change should ultimately make it easier to find the information you need to deploy and use the products successfully (but alas, no, this doesn\u2019t mean that Xcelsius is coming back, even if the logic is the same.)<\/p>\n

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Destined for Greatness<\/strong>. Although BI has been around for a long time, we believe that analytic users are still a minority. SAP Lumira aims to change that by making it easier than ever to get powerful, self-service business intelligence into the hands of everyone. We have big plans for the product that we can\u2019t quite talk about yet, but we believe it is destined for greatness, and it\u2019s less painful to make the switch now than later.<\/p>\n

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SAPLumira New Features<\/h3>\n

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