Alteryx vs SAP Lumira Discovery | TrustRadius

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Score 8.6 out of 10

Based on 170 reviews and ratings

Score 7.3 out of 10

Based on 478 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

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

Pros

Alteryx does a great job of allowing more beginner Analysts to automate many of their routine process but also allowing advanced Analysts to ability to leverage deep statistical modelling for predictive analytics.
Given the visual workflow nature of Alteyrx, the learning curve is not steep.
The Alteryx Gallery allows non-technical consumers to execute complex workflows by leveraging an intuitive web interface.
Alteryx allows data scientists to bring their own programming language to Altyerx, such as R or Python.

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 10,001+ 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

Sometimes the desktop version of authoring tool crashes! It's been unstable in the previous versions but gets better. Even if it doesn't crash, it used to be slow or not responding.
When running several version of database drivers in local machine or server, it is tricky to set up database connections. Often you have to figure out it by googling the problem and solution. There are not many knowledge bases from Alteryx.
Alteryx project file creates .bak file automatically. It is useful to prevent for the purpose of back up, sometimes it's not necessary. But it is not changeable for some reason. By default, it always creates backups.

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Project Manager in Research & Development

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ 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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Senior Designer

Eview 360Design, 11-50 employees

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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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Director, Technology Services

ExperianInformation Technology and Services, 5001-10,000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Usability

Alteryx 9.5

Based on 4 answers

I found it very easy to use very quickly. Part of it had to do with the training I received from Alteryx and the other part was how intuitive the tool is out of the box. Highly recommended for analysts especially ones with little code experience. Helpful to build basic code skills.

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Analyst in Customer Service

Logistics and Supply Chain Company, 1001-5000 employees

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SAP Lumira Discovery 2.0

Based on 6 answers

The SAP Lumira is easy to install and learn. Lumira is a perfect tool for the end-users as it is easy to use and the built-in functions can manipulate data as well. Lumira has a lot in store for the developers as well. It is a power-packed tool.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees

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Reliability and Availability

Alteryx 10.0

Based on 2 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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Manager, Market & Competitive Insights

Office DepotBusiness Supplies and Equipment, 10,001+ employees

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SAP Lumira Discovery 9.0

Based on 1 answer

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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Founder + CTO

MedlioHospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

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Performance

No score

No answers yet

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SAP Lumira Discovery 7.0

Based on 1 answer

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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Founder + CTO

MedlioHospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

Alteryx 9.0

Based on 6 answers

Good support, but could have used more when installing the server. Had a minor issue for a long time that took a lot of work to resolve. Other than that, there has been a lot of free training especially when brining on new designer license holders. Support is good overall.

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Analyst in Customer Service

Logistics and Supply Chain Company, 1001-5000 employees

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SAP Lumira Discovery 7.1

Based on 4 answers

They have been very supportive to listen to our problems and resolve them quickly. Their customer engagement team works hand-in-hand and treat our success is their success. They are the liaison between us and their engineering teams to get access to and resolve the issues on a timely manner, otherwise our issues would have been lost

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Founder + CTO

MedlioHospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

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In-Person Training

No score

No answers yet

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SAP Lumira Discovery 6.0

Based on 1 answer

We did not take in-person training

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Founder + CTO

MedlioHospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

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Online Training

No score

No answers yet

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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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Founder + CTO

MedlioHospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

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Implementation Rating

Alteryx 10.0

Based on 2 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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Manager, Market & Competitive Insights

Office DepotBusiness Supplies and Equipment, 10,001+ employees

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SAP Lumira Discovery 7.6

Based on 3 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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Founder + CTO

MedlioHospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Talend is primarily for data integration and has quite advanced capabilities. But the user has to be more technical. Alteryx makes the process simple and any user can make use of its features.Tableau was a good choice for data visualization. We needed beautiful charts and ways to represent data. Alteryx falls short in this aspect.

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Sanket Bharaswadkar

Process Analyst

HoneywellWarehousing, 10,001+ employees

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Both Tableau and QlikView score very highly in end user experience and visualisation development compared to Lumira. However the integration of Lumira with existing Universes you may have or cost implications if you have a SAP BI Suite licence can help shift the preference into Lumira's favour. All three can sit along side a larger BI solution like SAP BI or Cognos.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

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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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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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For my client, the cost of Tableau made Lumira attractive but unfortunately, due to limitations on Lumira... the client is thinking the Tableau investment may have been better for achieving business objectives.
Data size limitiations.

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Enterprise Systems Solutions Experienced Associate

PwCAccounting, 10,001+ employees

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Screenshots

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Alteryx Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

SAP Lumira Discovery Editions & Modules

Edition

SAP Lumira, standard edition	$185¹

per user

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Rating Summary

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