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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Posit

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APosit, formerly RStudio, is a modular data science platform, combining open source and commercial products.N/A

    SAP Lumira Discovery

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASAP Lumira Discovery is SAP’s data visualization and discovery application. It facilitates data discovery, visualization, and analysis by assisting users with creation of dashboards, infographics, presentations, data facets, tag clouds, and more.

    $185

    per user

    Pricing
    PositSAP Lumira Discovery
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    SAP Lumira, standard edition
    $185
    per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    PositSAP Lumira Discovery
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    PositSAP Lumira Discovery
    Considered Both Products
    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    No answer on this topic
    SAP
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    44 Answers
    80%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    44 Answers
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    42 Answers
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    28 Answers
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    38 Answers
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    PositSAP Lumira Discovery
    Platform Connectivity
    Comparison of Platform Connectivity features of Posit and SAP Lumira Discovery
    Feature
    Posit
    9.3
    27 Ratings
    11% above category average
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    -
    Ratings
    Connect to Multiple Data Sources8.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Extend Existing Data Sources10.027 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic Data Format Detection10.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Exploration
    Comparison of Data Exploration features of Posit and SAP Lumira Discovery
    Feature
    Posit
    9.0
    27 Ratings
    7% above category average
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    -
    Ratings
    Visualization8.027 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive Data Analysis10.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Preparation
    Comparison of Data Preparation features of Posit and SAP Lumira Discovery
    Feature
    Posit
    10.0
    26 Ratings
    20% above category average
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    -
    Ratings
    Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment10.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Transformations10.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform Data Modeling
    Comparison of Platform Data Modeling features of Posit and SAP Lumira Discovery
    Feature
    Posit
    10.0
    22 Ratings
    17% above category average
    SAP Lumira Discovery
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    Ratings
    Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools10.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single platform for multiple model development10.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-Service Model Delivery10.019 Ratings00 Ratings
    Model Deployment
    Comparison of Model Deployment features of Posit and SAP Lumira Discovery
    Feature
    Posit
    9.9
    18 Ratings
    14% above category average
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    -
    Ratings
    Flexible Model Publishing Options10.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security, Governance, and Cost Controls9.915 Ratings00 Ratings
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Posit and SAP Lumira Discovery
    Feature
    Posit
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    8.0
    97 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.097 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Posit and SAP Lumira Discovery
    Feature
    Posit
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    7.3
    103 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings10.0100 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.0103 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings5.098 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Posit and SAP Lumira Discovery
    Feature
    Posit
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    6.1
    95 Ratings
    30% below category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings7.082 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings5.094 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings6.355 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Posit and SAP Lumira Discovery
    Feature
    Posit
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    4.3
    104 Ratings
    60% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings5.0102 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings6.095 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings2.072 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    PositSAP Lumira Discovery
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    RapidMiner
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Anaconda
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Watson Studio
    Score10 out of 10
    Sisense
    Score6.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    PositSAP Lumira Discovery
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (123 ratings)
    9.0
    (105 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.7
    (17 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    Availability
    9.4
    (3 ratings)
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.9
    (9 ratings)
    1.0
    (12 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.3
    (4 ratings)
    4.0
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.0
    (83 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (89 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    PositSAP Lumira Discovery
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    In my humble opinion, if you are working on something related to Statistics, RStudio is your go-to tool. But if you are looking for something in Machine Learning, look out for Python. The beauty is that there are packages now by which you can write Python/SQL in R. Cross-platform functionality like such makes RStudio way ahead of its competition. A couple of chinks in RStudio armor are very small and can be considered as nagging just for the sake of argument. Other than completely based on programming language, I couldn't find significant drawbacks to using RStudio. It is one of the best free software available in the market at present.
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    SAP
    Infographics derived from specific data sources appears to be well suited for development using Lumira. The development of executive level dashboards was less appropriate from my perspective. The software does not provide sufficient demonstration or samples for the users to learn from in my opinion.
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    Pros
    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    • The support is incredibly professional and helpful, and they often go out of their way to help me when something doesn't work.
    • The one-click publishing from RStudio Connect is absolutely amazing, and I really like the way that it deploys your exact package versions, because otherwise, you can get in a terrible mess.
    • Python doesn't feel quite as native as R at the moment but I have definitely deployed stuff in R and Python that works beautifully which is really nice indeed.
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    SAP
    • 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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    Cons
    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    • Python integration is newer and still can be rough, especially with when using virtual environments.
    • RStudio Connect pricing feels very department focused, not quite an enterprise perspective.
    • Some of the RStudio packages don't follow conventional development guidelines (API breaking changes with minor version numbers) which can make supporting larger projects over longer timeframes difficult.
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    SAP
    • 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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    Likelihood to Renew
    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    There is no viable alternative right now. The toolset is good and the functionality is increasing with every release. It is backed by regular releases and ongoing development by the RStudio team. There is good engagement with RStudio directly when support is required. Also there's a strong and growing community of developers who provide additional support and sample code.
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    SAP
    Given the scope ,maintanence , support and budget are the main drivers to deciding renewal of a software
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    Usability
    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    For someone who learns how to use the software and picks up on the "language" of R, it's very easy to use. For beginners, it can be hard and might require a course, as well as the appropriate statistical training to understand what packages to use and when
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    SAP
    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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    Reliability and Availability
    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    RStudio is very available and cheap to use. It needs to be updated every once in a while, but the updates tend to be quick and they do not hinder my ability to make progress. I have not experienced any RStudio outages, and I have used the application quite a bit for a variety of statistical analyses
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    SAP
    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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    Performance
    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    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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    Support Rating
    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    Since R is trendy among statisticians, you can find lots of help from the data science/ stats communities. If you need help with anything related to RStudio or R, google it or search on StackOverflow, you might easily find the solution that you are looking for.
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    SAP
    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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    In-Person Training
    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    We did not take in-person training
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    Online Training
    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    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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    Implementation Rating
    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    We did it at the individual level: anyone willing to code in R can use it. No real deployment involved.
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    SAP
    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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    Alternatives Considered
    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    RStudio was provided as the most customizable. It was also strictly the most feature-rich as far as enabling our organization to script, run, and make use of R open-source packages in our data analysis workstreams. It also provided some support for python, which was useful when we had R heavy code with some python threaded in. Overall we picked Rstudio for the features it provided for our data analysis needs and the ability to interface with our existing resources.
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    SAP
    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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    Scalability
    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    RStudio is very scalable as a product. The issue I have is that it doesn't necessarily fit in nicely with the mainly Microsoft environment that everybody else is using. Having RStudio for us means dedicated servers and recruiting staff who know how to manage the environment. This isn't a fault of the product at all, it's just part of the data science landscape that we all have to put up with. Having said that RStudio is absolutely great for running on low spec servers and there are loads of options to handle concurrency, memory use, etc.
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    SAP
    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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    Return on Investment
    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    • Using it for data science in a very big and old company, the most positive impact, from my point of view, has been the ability of spreading data culture across the group. Shortening the path from data to value.
    • Still it's hard to quantify economic benefits, we are struggling and it's a great point of attention, since splitting out the contribution of the single aspects of a project (and getting the RStudio pie) is complicated.
    • What is sure is that, in the long run, RStudio is boosting productivity and making the process in which is embedded more efficient (cost reduction).
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    SAP
    • We could obtain original data from vast and detailed corporate and personal data sources.
    • We could share visual analysis results with stakeholders via the cloud, and it could also be viewed on a tablet.
    • It is very flexible and accurate to use. It can be used for forecasting sales, resource planning, and scheduling.
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    ScreenShots

    Posit Screenshots

    Screenshot of Posit runs on most desktops or on a server and accessed over the webScreenshot of Posit supports authoring HTML, PDF, Word Documents, and slide showsScreenshot of Posit supports interactive graphics with Shiny and ggvisScreenshot of Shiny combines the computational power of R with the interactivity of the modern webScreenshot of Remote Interactive Sessions: Start R and Python processes from Posit Workbench within various systems such as Kubernetes and SLURM with Launcher.Screenshot of Jupyter: Author and edit Python code with Jupyter using the same Posit Workbench infrastructure.

    SAP Lumira Discovery Screenshots

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