SAP HANA Cloud vs. SAP Lumira Discovery

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SAP HANA Cloud
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
SAP HANA is an application that uses in-memory database technology to process very large amounts of real-time data from relational databases, both SAP and non-SAP, in a very short time. The in-memory computing engine allows HANA to process data stored in RAM as opposed to reading it from a disk which means that the data can be accessed in real time by the applications using HANA. The product is sold both as an appliance and as a cloud-based software solution.
$0.95
per month Capacity Units
SAP Lumira Discovery
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
SAP 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
SAP HANA CloudSAP Lumira Discovery
Editions & Modules
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SAP Lumira, standard edition
$185
per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SAP HANA CloudSAP Lumira Discovery
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsIncludes a one year free trial.
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Community Pulse
SAP HANA CloudSAP Lumira Discovery
Considered Both Products
SAP HANA Cloud
Chose SAP HANA Cloud
SAP hana is best utilised for data management at the backend. Therefore using SAP HANA at the backend and utilising SAP BO's reporting tools at the front end for visualising the data in a better presentable form is an example.
Chose SAP HANA Cloud
- Large Scale enterprise wide reporting is possible
- Security is very tight
- Real time data processing
SAP Lumira Discovery
Chose SAP Lumira Discovery
we choose SAP Lumira because comes from SAP and we trust in the quality of their products, also we saw a very potetial tool for out clients to explore their data and add value to their erp implementation
Chose SAP Lumira Discovery
In India, users are already using this product and have got adapted to it. It's tough because it is not as beneficial as Lumira, but to bring a change in an Indian company is hard to implement.
Chose SAP Lumira Discovery
Lumira is more tightly coupled with the SAP HANA data source. It is more suitable for doing real time data analysis.
Chose SAP Lumira Discovery
Just for trial since its SAP product and the lisence was free intially for SAP Lumira if you have HANA but I would not recommend it for people who would have to buy this product from SAP. The other ad hoc tools are far ahead in the game. Please look at Gartner for BI tools …
Chose SAP Lumira Discovery
This is by far easier to use.
Chose SAP Lumira Discovery
Data Analysis is best suited with Lumira compared with any other product. Visualisation and decision making is best thing you would recommend using Lumira for.
Chose SAP Lumira Discovery
The main advantage of SAP Lumira is its ability to connect to the servers quickly and it is more ideal for connecting to SAP. We wanted to connect to the SAP HANA server to analyze the data and we thought Lumira was an ideal choice.
Chose SAP Lumira Discovery
I have looked at many visualization tools and Lumira was the easiest to deploy, quickest to deploy, and had a very easy to use UI.
Chose SAP Lumira Discovery

Lumira is better at visualization than Analysis Office but does not allow as much in depth analysis. Also it's much easier to consume quickly with Lumira as you don't have to build a query to pull the data.

Design studio is more flexible but dashboards and visualizations need to …

Chose SAP Lumira Discovery
BI/BW reporting.
We choose Lumira because of low cost of development. We can import data source & end users can build report according to their needs.
Chose SAP Lumira Discovery
I actually prefer Lumira because it integrates better with my current business intelligence investment, it's free for me to use, and it allows me to use my enterprise data as well as other data I can pull in and merge with it.
Chose SAP Lumira Discovery
SAP Lumira is easy to use but the functionality of Lumira lacks in many ways. Lumira is lagging behind when compared with the amount of features Tableau is providing. But, Lumira has the edge in connecting with OLAP data sources like SAP BEx queries and also connecting to SAP …
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Top Cons

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Features
SAP HANA CloudSAP Lumira Discovery
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
SAP HANA Cloud
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Ratings
SAP Lumira Discovery
7.5
96 Ratings
9% below category average
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings7.596 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
SAP HANA Cloud
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Ratings
SAP Lumira Discovery
7.6
102 Ratings
6% below category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings7.699 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.8102 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings7.497 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
SAP HANA Cloud
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Ratings
SAP Lumira Discovery
7.2
94 Ratings
15% below category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings7.781 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings7.693 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings6.355 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
SAP HANA Cloud
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Ratings
SAP Lumira Discovery
5.6
103 Ratings
36% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.1101 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings6.794 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings2.072 Ratings
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User Ratings
SAP HANA CloudSAP Lumira Discovery
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(294 ratings)
6.9
(104 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.1
(10 ratings)
7.8
(14 ratings)
Availability
3.6
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
3.6
(1 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.4
(255 ratings)
7.0
(11 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(2 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Configurability
3.6
(1 ratings)
2.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
4.5
(1 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
4.5
(1 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
4.5
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
3.6
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
SAP HANA CloudSAP Lumira Discovery
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP
It is well organized. One can use it for the company's portfolio management. Various tasks can be done for managerial purposes. One can track the material from start to end product: for example, raw material, packing material & consumable material to formulated bulk and formulated drug product. This can help to manage spending as well as finding costing of the product.
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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
SAP
  • Real-time reporting and analytics on data: because of its in-memory architecture, it is perfect for businesses that need to make quick decisions based on current information.
  • Managing workload with complex data: it can handle a vast range of data types, including relational, documental, geospatial, graph, vector, and time series data.
  • Developing and deploying intelligent data applications: it provides various tools for such applications and can be used for machine learning and artificial intelligence to automate tasks, gain insights from data, and make predictions.
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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
SAP
  • Requires higher processing power, otherwise it won't fly. How ever computing costs are lower. Incase you are migrating to cloud please do not select the highest config available in that series . Upgrading it later against a reserved instance can cost you dearly with a series change
  • Lack of clarity on licensing is one major challenge
  • Unless S/4 with additional features are enabled mere migration HANA DB is not a rewarding journey. Power is in S/4
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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
SAP
At this moment we are not focusing on SAP, however would love to in the future. This is primarily because of our limited ability to generate more revenue to fund for SAP partnerships and products. Our initial tryst with SAP Partneredge open ecosystem didn't go as planned and we have shelved that for now. Hope we can revive in the future
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SAP
No answers on this topic
Usability
SAP
In addition to the points described in the previous parts of the review, I believe that as I gain more experience with the product over time, I will be able to better describe my experience with this tool. Meanwhile, I can confirm that the possibilities presented to my organization by the change to SAP HANA, at the moment, have been very important to evolve the analytical and strategic field towards a new path.
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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
SAP
No answers on this topic
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
SAP
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
SAP
One specific example of how the support for SAP HANA Cloud impacted us is in our efforts to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues. Whenever we encountered an issue or had a question, the support team was quick to respond and provided us with clear and actionable guidance. This helped us avoid downtime and keep our analytics operations running smoothly.
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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
SAP
No answers on this topic
SAP
We did not take in-person training
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Online Training
SAP
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
SAP
Professional GIS people are some of the most risk-averse there are, and it's difficult to get them to move to HANA in one step. Start with small projects building to 80% use of HANA spatial over time.
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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
SAP
I have deep knowledge of other disk based DBMSs. They are venerable technology, but the attempts to extend them to current architectures belie the fact they are built on 40 year old technology. There are some good columnar in-memory databases but they lack the completeness of capability present in the HANA platform.
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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
SAP
Limitation of training deliverable by organization
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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
SAP
  • ROI has always been high in terms of the functionality that it offers and the security features it comes with.
  • Managing large volumes of data in real-time is not an easy task, but it does it pretty well with faster data processing.
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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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