In this chapter, we will begin by talking about data sources which can provide data for SAP Lumira. Even in an ordinary organization we can find lots of data sources, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, various Online Transactional Processing (OLTP) systems, which are based on relational databases, as well as corporate data warehouse (DWH). In addition, we will cover common files such as CSV, XLS or TXT.

It is not a secret that SAP as any other vendor, tries to build its own ecosystem, and SAP Lumira has its own place in this ecosystem, such as data discovery tool. As a result, users can easily connect their SAP BusinessObjects universes, SAP HANA, or publish visualizations in SAP BusinessObjects Explorer.

Therefore, we can be sure that SAP Lumira can cover all our needs by ingesting our data via a number of connections.

In this chapter the reader will learn: