SAP Lumira and MII
When working with the SAP Lumira product (Data Visualization | Business Intelligence & Analytics) it is very easy to see the value of the overall solution and how it enables enterprise business users to interact with a wide range of products and I have already outlined this in other documents here on the SDN at both a business and technical level:
Business:SAP MII, HANA/ESP, and Lumira (Business)
Technical:SAP MII, HANA/ESP and Lumira (Technical)
How-to Steps For Accessing SAP MII from Lumira
The first step is to download and install Lumira onto your PC and then open up Lumira:
Once Lumira starts, the next step is to select the Acquire Data option:
Select the Query with SQL option in order to browse the various SQL Data acquisition options:
Next, select from the SAP section the SAP MII option (Note: there was nothing required to load into Lumira to get this option):
From here fill in the options for your SAP MII instance like this and please note the Data source entry has a colon separating the server name and port and press the "Connect" button:
Once connected, Lumira will browse all of your content on the MII server and display a tree view of your projects and query templates and write your SQL statement:
Please note the following:
- The MII project name cannot have spaces in it
- Lumira today is not compatible with trending out time fields, only date is possible (This is planned for a future release of Lumira):
Example SQL: SELECT "P"."DateTime", "P"."AssetUtil1" FROM "Examples"."QueryTemplates/PCoSimTagInterpolateQuery" "P"
Finally, you can now create your visualization objects inside of Lumira and define how you would like to display your MII Query Template data:
Hope this helps,
Sam