Explorer Concepts

This section discusses concepts and terminology you should be familiar with before using Explorer:

• Visual data discovery Visual data discovery is a new category within the BI market that uses best practices in visualization to help users more readily find the patterns in the data. It uses either in-memory processing or pre-indexing to ensure speed-of-thought response time. At the time of this writing, SAP also released a new visual discovery tool, Visual Intelligence, which is more positioned for power users.

• Information Space Information Spaces are pre-indexed sets of data that users can access with Explorer. An Information Space can be created based on a universe, HANA data model, or spreadsheet. Creating an Information ...

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