SAP Lumira is a self-service data manipulation, visualization, and story creation tool that can connect to one or more data sources to create datasets. These datasets come from one or multiple sources and can be enhanced with new measures, hierarchies, and created columns (also called custom columns).

Lumira has a wide range of graphical charts and tables, which enables end users to visualize their data in a more interactive fashion. Users can create stories that provide a graphical narrative to describe their data, which is done by grouping charts together on boards to create presentation style dashboards. By adding images and text, we can annotate and add presentation details.

The installation of SAP Lumira is done locally and works well with both remote and local data. It allows us to save the charts that have been built on the datasets. These can then be printed or sent via email if required. It is possible to publish these datasets on SAP HANA, SAP BEx, SAP Lumira Cloud, SAP Lumira Server, and SAP StreamWork activities. The default file format for datasets and charts that are created in SAP Lumira is .lums. *.lums contains information such as the data source connection, data definition, visualization, and the data itself.