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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SAP Lumira Discovery

    Score8.5 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

    Sigma

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASigma Computing headquartered in San Francisco provides a suite of data services such as code free data modeling, data search and explorating, and related BI and data visualization services.N/A
    Pricing
    SAP Lumira DiscoverySigma
    Editions & Modules
    SAP Lumira, standard edition
    $185
    per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAP Lumira DiscoverySigma
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Contact us for pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    SAP Lumira DiscoverySigma
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    80%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    94%
    Would buy again
    118 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    77 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    116 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    68 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    77 Answers
    Features
    SAP Lumira DiscoverySigma
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Sigma Computing
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    8.0
    97 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Sigma Computing
    7.5
    163 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Customizable dashboards8.097 Ratings9.3161 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings5.4104 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.7133 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Sigma Computing
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    7.3
    103 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Sigma Computing
    7.5
    166 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Drill-down analysis10.0100 Ratings8.0155 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.0103 Ratings7.0163 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration5.098 Ratings7.7162 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings7.35 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Sigma Computing
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    6.1
    95 Ratings
    30% below category average
    Sigma Computing
    7.5
    156 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Publish to Web7.082 Ratings7.3103 Ratings
    Publish to PDF5.094 Ratings7.7130 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling6.355 Ratings7.6132 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings7.0120 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings7.968 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Sigma Computing
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    4.3
    104 Ratings
    60% below category average
    Sigma Computing
    6.8
    149 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)5.0102 Ratings8.6147 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization6.095 Ratings5.626 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics2.072 Ratings6.218 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    SAP Lumira DiscoverySigma
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (105 ratings)
    8.2
    (170 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    7.6
    (48 ratings)
    Availability
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (47 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    4.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    2.0
    (83 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    10.0
    (89 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SAP Lumira DiscoverySigma
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Sigma Computing
    We were able to set up client-facing embedded reports with ease and security. The interface is not difficult to learn, although we may not be aware of or lack the necessary expertise to utilize more advanced features that would likely benefit us.
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    Pros
    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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    Sigma Computing
    • Allows end users to easily dive into the data without having direct access to the table in our database management software.
    • Can easily turnaround dashboards that are detailed and visually pleasing.
    • Sigma is intuitive and as new features are rolled out it is easy to adopt and incorporate them into new and existing dashboards.
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    Cons
    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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    Sigma Computing
    • Sigma Computing does not allow custom ordering of pivot fields in pivot tables easily
    • Sigma Computing lacks functionality for creating tables or sections that dynamically adjust to the browser window's height while maintaining a fixed height textbox at the bottom
    • Sigma Computing does not provide straightforward options for formatting totals in tables, such as renaming 'Total' to 'Average', 'Team Total', etc
    • Sigma Computing does not support searching by individual tab names within a workbook
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SAP
    Given the scope ,maintanence , support and budget are the main drivers to deciding renewal of a software
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    Sigma Computing
    Sigma has helped us a lot and has become an integral part of our daily workflow. It would be difficult to switch to another platform and have to rebuild the numerous metrics and performance reports that we have already established
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    Usability
    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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    Sigma Computing
    It has a clean and modern interface. However, it is not completely intuitive. I think it would be better and easier to navigate with more Windows style drop down menus and/or tabls. There is a significant learning curve, but that may be due in part to the technical nature of this type of software tool.
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    Reliability and Availability
    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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    Sigma Computing
    Yes, as long as you don’t conduct user error sigma is always up and running and waiting for you to complete your dashboards
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    Performance
    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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    Sigma Computing
    It depends, it loads quickly for smaller dashboards but when loading larger amounts of data it takes more time to do so
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    Support Rating
    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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    Sigma Computing
    They are very friendly and informative. They are quick in resolving our queries and help us understand very minute things as well. They are quick in creating feature tickets based on our custom requirements, and they would also create a bug ticket if there is any discrepancy and get that checked on time.
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    In-Person Training
    SAP
    We did not take in-person training
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    Sigma Computing
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    Online Training
    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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    Sigma Computing
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    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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    Sigma Computing
    Was not involved in implementation
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Sigma Computing
    With Looker, to be effective, a substantial amount of coding & modeling needs to happen in LookML. Being another language to learn, users have to context switch again from at a minimum either SQL or Python into LookML. The concept of being able to source control, code review, and deploy your models is a plus though.
    Tableau is the gold standard for data visualization, no question. Power users will be able to create dazzling content that Sigma won't necessarily be able to easily match. However, since development usually happens via an extract, helping other users troubleshoot is an arduous process. Trying to re-do or un-do all the transformations and calculations that cause a certain number is very difficult.
    With Sigma, all the queries happen directly against Snowflake and you can see the query logs. The data modeling happens right in a tabular, spreadsheet-like manner, so within only a few minutes, substantial transformations can happen, with visualizations just a few more clicks away.
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    Scalability
    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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    Sigma Computing
    It is a cloud service offering that is able to expand based on your usage
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Sigma Computing
    • Monitoring health of cloud platform has allowed the company to anticipate issues before they affect customers – Sigma prompted us building a canary monitoring process that provides customer container health.
    • Customer success has used an activity report to discover customers running runaway processes that they were unaware of, creating an alert to contact the customer and prevent an embarrassing situation.
    • Customer success uses the activity report to prompt conversations regarding increases or declines in behavior that led to increasing contract limits or addressing churn concerns.
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