SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform vs SAP Lumira Discovery | TrustRadius

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Score 7.6 out of 10

Based on 723 reviews and ratings

Score 7.3 out of 10

Based on 478 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform

SAP Lumira Discovery

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform

SAP Lumira Discovery

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform

SAP Lumira Discovery

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform

SAP Lumira Discovery

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

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform

SAP Lumira Discovery

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform

SAP Lumira Discovery

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform

SAP Lumira Discovery

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

This software is easy to initially learn, and very powerful in producing reusable reports.
It is much faster than my company's internal manual queries. The ability to build off of a saved query and share queries to other users is a great positive.
My favorite part is that you can run queries in the background and it does not interfere with your current work or slow your computer down.

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Team Lead in Research & Development

Medical Devices Company, 51-200 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

The installation can be very complex and time-consuming, it requires a lot of planning and foresight as to what role the software will play in the organization.
The software has a relatively large learning curve that takes dedicated users months to get comfortable with, the UI is a bit intimidating for new users.
SAP could organize their help better, it can be difficult to find dependable solutions to issues via their website and support channels.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 5001-10,000 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

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform 8.4

Based on 22 answers

The institution has decided to move in a different direction, and will be using MSBI for reporting. I have been very happy with the Business Objects suite of tools, and will continue to use them heavily until we make the transition.

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Robert Scrimshaw

Finance Analyst III

Mayo ClinicHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Usability

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform 10.0

Based on 5 answers

From a server and client side perspective. the Business Intelligence Platform provides a foundation for all aspects of content development, distribution, analysis, collaboration and self service. Ease of use from targeted content delivery through controlled accessibility. Content exporting in the format of the users choice. Scheduling for internal or external delivery. Public and private folders for secure content access when requied. Web based for viewing on the users device of choice without the need to download additional applications.

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Technician in Information Technology

Management Consulting Company, 11-50 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

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform 10.0

Based on 4 answers

When we implemented 3.1, we had a tough time managing the system: It took almost a year to stabilize.

With 4.0, we want to roll out to more users, and are holding back because of fears about the performance issue

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Analyst in Information Technology

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Company, 501-1000 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

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform 9.0

Based on 11 answers

Overall, the tool (Web Intelligence 4.2) is fast and solid. One issue is a dependability on JAVA for a full feature report creation/edit capabilities (as opposed to limited HTML option). Second, planned end of JAVA support by major browsers (Chrome is already not supporting JAVA applet).

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Dariusz Zyskowski

Business Intelligence Manager

City of ChicagoGovernment Administration, 10,001+ employees

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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

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform 9.0

Based on 8 answers

The overall support package is very good. The online knowledge base provides wealth of information including step by step details on how to resolve known issues on a per release basis. When required software and/or code is included as a download or cut and paste option. It is also highly recommended to have well trained personnel as your system administrators. Do not relay on support alone to resolve all of your issues

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Technician in Information Technology

Management Consulting Company, 11-50 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

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform 10.0

Based on 3 answers

SAP authorized training is best, Please go ahead with it. Even lot of online training options/videos available for self learning

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Associate Principal

LTI - Larsen & Toubro InfotechBanking, 10,001+ employees

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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

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform 9.0

Based on 2 answers

I haven't used it or got feedback from the end user.

Content looks to be pretty detailed. Focused on SQL but not BW.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Company, 501-1000 employees

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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

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform 9.0

Based on 8 answers

Hire specialists and experienced staff. Mix some beginners so that everyone is not a leader but a learner too. Plan well; architect well; break down implementation in small steps and move towards larger steps. Create a centralized and authorized SAP Business Objects implementation team.

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Priyanka Musale

Sr SAP BOE/BODS Lead

Data RedeemersInformation Technology and Services, 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

We selected SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) based on price. It can stack up against others in terms of price and honestly, that's about it. Salesforce Commerce does a hell of a better job at handling it. However, in the space of Business Intelligence, SAP can do more, and that's why at the end we went with it

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Michael Diaz-Suarez

Help Desk Specialist

GetronicsConsumer Goods, 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

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform 9.0

Based on 2 answers

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform supports SOA Service Oriented Architecture. You can start/restart/enable/disable all the servers. You can seamless do load balancing and clustering. It supports all leading application and web server. Supports LDAP SSO integration.People who can work on excel with training they can work on SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence, dashboard, Lumira, Information design tool product suite. Tool is very user friendly and easy to learn and implement

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Associate Principal

LTI - Larsen & Toubro InfotechBanking, 10,001+ 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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Founder + CTO

MedlioHospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

By generating and distributing reports in a timely manner, we were able to save millions of dollars for the company which otherwise would not have been visible.
Almost realtime dashboard, saved the company a huge amount by showing the outages and kept the company from buying a tool to do just that.
It showed the customers who were not paying the bills and were missing in the system due to some loophole. This was visible by doing reporting on the theft usage of electricity.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Utilities Company, 51-200 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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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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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

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform

SAP Lumira Discovery

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform

SAP Lumira Discovery

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform

SAP Lumira Discovery

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform

SAP Lumira Discovery

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform

SAP Lumira Discovery

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform

SAP Lumira Discovery

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform

SAP Lumira Discovery

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform

SAP Lumira Discovery

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform

SAP Lumira Discovery

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform

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