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SAP Lumira Essentials

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SAP Lumira Essentials

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
SAP Lumira Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Data discovery versus business intelligence


You may be confused about data discovery and business intelligence technologies; it seems they are very close to each other or even BI tools can do all what data discovery can do. And why do we need a separate data discovery tool, such as, SAP Lumira?

In order to better understand the difference between the two technologies, you can look at the table below:

 

Enterprise BI

Data discovery

Key users

All users

Advanced analysts

Approach

Vertically-oriented (top to bottom), semantic layers, requests to existing repositories

Vertically-oriented (bottom-up), mushup, putting data in the selected repository

Interface

Reports, dashboards

Visualization

Users

Reporting

Analysis

Implementation

By IT consultants

By business users

Let's consider the pros and cons of data discovery:

Pros:

  • Rapidly analyze data with a short shelf life

  • Ideal for small teams

  • Best for tactical analysis

  • Great for answering on-off questions quickly

Cons:

  • Difficult to handle for enterprise organizations

  • Difficult for junior users

  • Lack of scalability

As a result, it is clear that BI and data discovery handles their own tasks and complement each other.