Alteryx vs SAP Lumira Discovery

What users are saying about

Score 9.2 out of 10

Based on 251 reviews and ratings

Score 7.5 out of 10

Based on 506 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

Alteryx ranks higher in 3 feature sets: Ad-hoc Reporting, Report Output and Scheduling, Data Discovery and Visualization
SAP Lumira Discovery ranks higher in 1 feature set: BI Standard Reporting

BI Standard Reporting

5.3

Alteryx

53%

7.1

SAP Lumira Discovery

71%

Alteryx ranks higher in 2/3 features

Pixel Perfect reports

5.0

50%

2 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Customizable dashboards

6.0

60%

42 Ratings

7.1

71%

100 Ratings

Report Formatting Templates

5.0

50%

2 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Ad-hoc Reporting

8.1

Alteryx

81%

7.4

SAP Lumira Discovery

74%

Alteryx ranks higher in 3/4 features

Drill-down analysis

8.4

84%

56 Ratings

7.4

74%

103 Ratings

Formatting capabilities

7.5

75%

61 Ratings

7.1

71%

106 Ratings

Integration with R or other statistical packages

8.9

89%

53 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Report sharing and collaboration

7.5

75%

53 Ratings

7.7

77%

101 Ratings

Report Output and Scheduling

7.8

Alteryx

78%

7.2

SAP Lumira Discovery

72%

Alteryx ranks higher in 5/5 features

Publish to Web

8.2

82%

47 Ratings

7.7

77%

85 Ratings

Publish to PDF

9.0

90%

52 Ratings

7.7

77%

97 Ratings

Report Versioning

4.0

40%

2 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Report Delivery Scheduling

8.9

89%

52 Ratings

6.3

63%

55 Ratings

Delivery to Remote Servers

9.0

90%

1 Rating

N/A

0 Ratings

Data Discovery and Visualization

7.4

Alteryx

74%

5.5

SAP Lumira Discovery

55%

Alteryx ranks higher in 2/3 features

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

6.0

60%

2 Ratings

7.4

74%

104 Ratings

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

8.0

80%

54 Ratings

7.2

72%

97 Ratings

Predictive Analytics

8.3

83%

54 Ratings

2.0

20%

72 Ratings

Access Control and Security

8.0

Alteryx

80%

SAP Lumira Discovery

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

Alteryx ranks higher in 4/4 features

Multi-User Support (named login)

8.0

80%

2 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Role-Based Security Model

8.0

80%

2 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

8.0

80%

2 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Single Sign-On (SSO)

8.0

80%

1 Rating

N/A

0 Ratings

Mobile Capabilities

4.0

Alteryx

40%

SAP Lumira Discovery

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

Alteryx ranks higher in 1/1 features

Responsive Design for Web Access

4.0

40%

1 Rating

N/A

0 Ratings

Attribute Ratings

Alteryx is rated higher in 6 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Usability, Availability, Performance, Support Rating, Product Scalability
SAP Lumira Discovery is rated higher in 1 area: Implementation Rating

Alteryx

94%

79 Ratings

7.4

SAP Lumira Discovery

74%

108 Ratings

91%

1 Rating

6.0

SAP Lumira Discovery

60%

1 Rating

Pros

Pulling data from multiple disparate data sources.
Allows users to see the data at every step of the workflow to be able to cleanse, analyze, and optimize the data.
Provides an analytics platform that is easy for users of all levels to thrive in whether they are just starting out in their analytics journey or they have a master's degree in Data Science.

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Employee in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 1001-5000 employees

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SAP has built in features you would expect from a data visualization package, like easy import from other SAP systems.
SAP has most of the typical charts that you would expect in order to visualize your data.
SAP allows you to have multiple charts on one visualization for your data.

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Consultant in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

A larger library of data sources being leveraged/licensed through Alteryx directly similar to the Experian and Dun & Bradstreet data that is available now would be ideal for additional data enrichment.
The ability to take R and Python-based data insights/model outputs/forecasts/etc. and pull directly into downstream tools and reporting is a bit lacking and could use improvement.

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Cory Hubbard

VP of Strategic Analytics

Gregory Welteroth AdvertisingMarketing & Advertising, 51-200 employees

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Even though the process of creating visualizations of data is now greatly improved, it could still be a lot better as users become accustomed to this kind of tool and bring forward edge cases the developers did not anticipate.
It would be awesome to have a cross platform tool that works on more than just Windows.
Some options for specific graphs feel limiting.

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Darian Rawson

Senior Designer

Eview 360Design, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

—

Alteryx Editions & Modules

SAP Lumira, standard edition	$185¹

per user

Additional Pricing Details

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Likelihood to Renew

Alteryx 6.5

Based on 14 answers

We've developed a working partnership with Alteryx. As an enablement suite, we're continuing to innovate and deliver great products with use of Alteryx in our solutions. Alteryx use expands to our global product development teams and is in use in multiple parts of our organization. Alteryx also delivers Experian demographic content to other clients in their product offering. We're highly likely to renew, but that decision is way above my pay grade.

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Mark Frisch

Director, Technology Services

ExperianInformation Technology and Services, 5001-10,000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Usability

Alteryx 9.2

Based on 35 answers

The sheer breadth of the functionality and how easy it is to use makes it absolutely revolutionary for any company still using Excel, SQL, etc. The interface is drag and drop and does not require any coding, but also benefits from those with coding ability as it is fully integrated with the likes of R, Python, Spark, etc. Just how quickly the impact of Alteryx is seen is really very impressive.

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Chris McEleavey

Founding Partner, Technical Lead

BulienComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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SAP Lumira Discovery 7.6

Based on 17 answers

SAP Lumira is very good self service analytical tool with powerful capabilities. However need to look into other SAP products in BI space, like SAP SAC. SAP Lumira is more used for custom and complex analytical need in business intelligence area. Also SAP Lumira is going out of maintenance in coming future replaced by SAP SAC.

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Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Reliability and Availability

Alteryx 9.1

Based on 3 answers

I use many programs and compared to others, Alteryx virtually never goes down, freezes up or gives an application error. Over a 4 year time period that I have used this program, any of these may have happened 3 times. It is an incredibly stable program that I feel completely confident in.

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Dan Chapman

Manager, Market & Competitive Insights

Office DepotBusiness Supplies and Equipment, 10,001+ employees

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SAP Lumira Discovery 9.0

Based on 2 answers

Lumira is a desktop application runs in its own JVM. It installs its own java runtime libraries to avoid any core java version conflicts. The availability of the application is completely relies on individual machine hardware configuration. On a decent desktop, it performs well and always launches in either 32 or 64 bit environment based on the hosts system's OS

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Ravi Ada

Founder + CTO

MedlioHospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

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Performance

Alteryx 9.1

Based on 1 answer

Alteryx processes data very fast, regardless of the volume.

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Alberto Guisande

Director

Decision ScienceInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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SAP Lumira Discovery 7.0

Based on 2 answers

The performance is linear with amount of data that is being explored. We have done some benchmarks acquiring 10million data cells without having any performance problems. We need to make proper adjustments to jvm run time properties to start with higher heap size and other parameters that optimizes the run time performance

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Ravi Ada

Founder + CTO

MedlioHospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

Alteryx 8.5

Based on 36 answers

The online community support is great. 90% of my questions about how to do even esoteric stuff in Alteryx is a search away.When I have had difficult technical problems, Alteryx support has been prompt and helpful. At conferences the support lab and tips and tricks presentations have helped me work through difficult and thorny long term problems.

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Professional in Marketing

Insurance Company, 1001-5000 employees

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SAP Lumira Discovery 7.4

Based on 17 answers

It does not have many bugs or issues since not a lot of new features are being added. The customer support for SAP Lumira Discovery is good and anyone considering this as a self-service tool would be happy. It integrates well in the SAP BI suite of products and the overall experience is positive.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 201-500 employees

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In-Person Training

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

SAP Lumira Discovery 6.0

Based on 1 answer

We did not take in-person training

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Ravi Ada

Founder + CTO

MedlioHospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

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Online Training

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

SAP Lumira Discovery 6.0

Based on 1 answer

Most of the user guides are pretty comprehensive and very easy to understand. The product itself is designed to be self-serve tool, did not need much of the end-user training. Most of the training we had is to how to read the data, how to explore the data, how to acquire the data etc.

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Ravi Ada

Founder + CTO

MedlioHospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

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Implementation Rating

Alteryx 9.1

Based on 3 answers

There is really not much to it (the installation, that is). Once you get it installed, along with any of the add-ons (demographics, R, etc.), you are up and running almost immediately. There is really no additional setup. You can immediately begin blending data, running demographics, performing spatial queries, running predictive analysis, etc. And for many of these functions, the learning curve is quite easy.

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Dan Chapman

Manager, Market & Competitive Insights

Office DepotBusiness Supplies and Equipment, 10,001+ employees

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SAP Lumira Discovery 10.0

Based on 5 answers

Installing the desktop software on end-user machines is always challenging. The machine specifications are the biggest factor when running Lumira and be able to handle large datasets during data exploration. This often demands beefy machines at least for power-users. Although Lumira software licensing is not a big problem but managing partner's extensions and keeping track of their individual licenses may be an issue. If there is a way to bundle the more popular extensions such as vSQL or vOLAP should be bundled in core product and offer them as part of Lumira license instead of a separate license which causer operational burden.

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Ravi Ada

Founder + CTO

MedlioHospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Alteryx is way better than Microsoft Excel. It visually lets you do things to the data, one tool at a time. And, you can just delete the tool if it did not do what you were wanting it to do. Excel is a nice app, but Alteryx expands the capability so much more, especially when combining different data sources.

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Employee in Human Resources

Airlines/Aviation Company, 10,001+ employees

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Even though SAP Analytics Cloud is considered to be better in aspects such as data connectivity or analytics, we decided to choose Lumira as it was easier to understand, learn and use. As our business is not really that big and does not require the inclusion of large amounts of data, Lumira was overall the safest and most comfortable option. Also, some members in our team had previous knowledge so it was easier to adapt

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Employee in Marketing

Design Company, 51-200 employees

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Scalability

Alteryx 9.1

Based on 1 answer

Alteryx can scale horizontally or vertically (or both) if you need

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Alberto Guisande

Director

Decision ScienceInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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SAP Lumira Discovery 6.0

Based on 1 answer

Enterprise wide implementation is a challenge with data security and trustedness. No easy installation can be done across the enterprise. no upgrade paths also available from SAP. They have so much of experience with desktop implementation, there it could be a controlled environment with a capital budget. These may be resolved in the upcoming releases

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Ravi Ada

Founder + CTO

MedlioHospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

Alteryx does an excellent job of integrating consumer and spatial data to calculate and visualize things like locations within a certain drive-time radius.
For visualization purposes I had to move the data to excel for some decent graphs.
It can become very expensive.

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Engineer in Research & Development

Education Management Company, 11-50 employees

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After Lumira Discovery training, a lot of business users were able to create reports and customize them according to their needs which in turn reduced the number of dashboard requests for the BI team.
Development time was significantly reduced for reports that were time sensitive.
Simple and standard UI was easy to standardize reports across the organization.

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Professional in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Screenshots

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Alteryx

SAP Lumira Discovery

Alteryx

SAP Lumira Discovery

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Alteryx

SAP Lumira Discovery

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Alteryx

SAP Lumira Discovery

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

Alteryx

SAP Lumira Discovery

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Alteryx

SAP Lumira Discovery

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Alteryx

SAP Lumira Discovery

Responsive Design for Web Access

Alteryx

SAP Lumira Discovery

Alteryx

SAP Lumira Discovery

Alteryx

SAP Lumira Discovery

Alteryx

SAP Lumira Discovery

Alteryx

SAP Lumira Discovery

Alteryx

SAP Lumira Discovery

Alteryx

SAP Lumira Discovery

Alteryx

SAP Lumira Discovery

Alteryx

SAP Lumira Discovery

Alteryx

SAP Lumira Discovery

Likelihood to Recommend

Alteryx

SAP Lumira Discovery

Pros

Alteryx

SAP Lumira Discovery

Cons

Alteryx

SAP Lumira Discovery

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Alteryx Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

SAP Lumira Discovery Editions & Modules

Edition