Alteryx Analytics vs SAP Lumira Discovery

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Score 8.5 out of 10

Based on 136 reviews and ratings

Score 7.5 out of 10

Based on 438 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Alteryx Analytics

7.6

SAP Lumira Discovery

7.2

Pixel Perfect reports

8.0

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Customizable dashboards

5.9

7.2

Report Formatting Templates

9.0

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Alteryx Analytics

7.8

SAP Lumira Discovery

6.9

Drill-down analysis

7.2

6.7

Formatting capabilities

7.3

6.7

Integration with R or other statistical packages

9.1

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Report sharing and collaboration

7.6

7.3

Alteryx Analytics

8.1

SAP Lumira Discovery

7.4

Publish to Web

8.0

7.3

Publish to PDF

7.4

7.9

Report Versioning

9.0

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Report Delivery Scheduling

8.2

6.9

Alteryx Analytics

7.8

SAP Lumira Discovery

6.1

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

8.0

7.5

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

7.5

6.6

Predictive Analytics

8.1

4.3

Alteryx Analytics

8.3

SAP Lumira Discovery

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Multi-User Support (named login)

8.0

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Role-Based Security Model

8.0

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Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

9.0

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Alteryx Analytics

4.0

SAP Lumira Discovery

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Responsive Design for Web Access

4.0

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Pros

Alteryx provides an integrated workflow management environment for data blending, analytics, and reporting. It is also very extensible to be connected to a variety of data connections including major databases (Oracle, etc.), analytics tools (R), and visualization tools such as Tableau through its plugins. Our department used Oracle and Tableau already and it was well integrated with Alteryx.
The workflow authoring environment in Desktop is easy to use so that most of the users (if they are a bit skilled data developers or analysts) may not need the training to use its basic functions. Drag and drop interface and icons are intuitive to understand.
When running Alteryx workflows, it is easy to monitor and track what's the progress by seeing percentages. It is helpful to balance and manage bandwidths of database servers, especially when to populate large data sets.

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Project Manager in Research & Development

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Quick transformation of data into tailored dashboard reports
Easy access to SAP Cloud for customer data using the SAP add-on
Very fast processing capability with no noticeable lag

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Andrew Griffin

SAP CRM and CEC Consultant

Edenhouse Solutions LimitedInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Excel reporting - reports in PDF are fairly straightforward, but trying to output results in Excel can prove to be tricky/ugly.
Chart creation - current chart tool is very basic; needs to be a way to customize the look/feel of a chart more, as well as an easier way to incorporate "big" data that can be easily reported on/viewed.

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Cameron Tubbs

Senior Predictive Analyst

BuxtonMarket Research, 51-200 employees

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Control over data import formatting - for example where amount and currency values are imported there is not enough control over the transformation and formatting and this has caused us data import difficulties where values read have been truncated due to punctuation in the amount fields.
The user interface is simplified, but the terminology and screen layout do not always make it obvious how to start the process for a new user - for example to add a new data source or create a new report.

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SAP CRM and CEC Consultant

Edenhouse Solutions LimitedInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Alteryx Analytics 6.5

Based on 14 answers

I personally have moved to a different position that does not require data analysis tools. I really enjoyed working with Alteryx and think it is a great tool, but have moved to a different organization and role.

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Mika Silverman

Consultant

MarineXchange SoftwareInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Usability

Alteryx Analytics 10.0

Based on 2 answers

Through a graphical UI one can perform engineering and development, other vendors do not have such a code-less interface.

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Nick Lensing

Data Engineer

Virtual DBSMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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SAP Lumira Discovery 2.1

Based on 6 answers

Any visualization tool must provide greater and easy access to corporate varied data sources, ability to provide an easy data acquisition mechanisms both at design and run-time. Another feature is support of variety of devices, form factors and equally good performance to visualize the data. Aslo the ability to protect organization's sensitive data. I don't think Lumira is strong in any of the above mentioned areas.

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Ravi Ada

Founder + CTO

MedlioHospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

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Reliability and Availability

Alteryx Analytics 10.0

Based on 1 answer

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 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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Ravi Ada

Founder + CTO

MedlioHospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

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Performance

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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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Ravi Ada

Founder + CTO

MedlioHospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

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Support

Alteryx Analytics 9.9

Based on 2 answers

Overall pretty good. Depending on the quality of the question posed the CS team will get back as they are available

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Nick Lensing

Data Engineer

Virtual DBSMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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SAP Lumira Discovery 7.1

Based on 3 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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Ravi Ada

Founder + CTO

MedlioHospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

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In-Person Training

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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

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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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Ravi Ada

Founder + CTO

MedlioHospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

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Implementation

Alteryx Analytics 10.0

Based on 1 answer

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 7.3

Based on 2 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

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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Compared with the built-in Cloud for Customer reporting suite, Lumira was quicker at processing figures and provides a greater range of reporting visualisations, as well as being much more user friendly for non-technical end users to pick up and use with minimal direction. However there is still the need to create the data sources in Cloud for Customer for bespoke objects etc., so that Lumira is able to consume them.

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Andrew Griffin

SAP CRM and CEC Consultant

Edenhouse Solutions LimitedInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Scalability

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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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I think our client has gained the return.
Analysing with short notice is more helpful in running the business.
In a very competitive market this tool is very useful.

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Rakesh Sharma

Software Engineer Analyst

Accenture, BangloreInformation Technology and Services, 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?

Alteryx Analytics Editions & Modules

Alteryx Analytics

On-premise Edition

Alteryx Designer

$3,9951

Alteryx Designer with Spatial

$12,9951

Alteryx Designer with Data

$29,9951

Alteryx Server

$45,0002

1. per user, per year

2. per server, per year

SaaS Edition

Alteryx Analytics Gallery

$1,5001

1. per user, per year

Additional Pricing Details

The above prices are in USD for Alteryx products and are per-year subscription prices based on a 3-year contract, with annual payment.

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

SAP Lumira Discovery Editions & Modules

SAP Lumira Discovery

Edition

SAP Lumira, standard edition

$1851

1. per user

Additional Pricing Details

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Likelihood to Recommend