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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Spreadsheet Server

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AThe Spreadsheet Server platform is designed to work as a Microsoft add-in to provide live reporting data and analysis from the user’s ERP solution into Excel. The vendor aims to help users eliminate the hassle of re-keying or downloading any data into spreadsheets make that spreadsheet an integral part of their business environment.N/A
    Pricing
    SAP Lumira DiscoverySpreadsheet Server
    Editions & Modules
    SAP Lumira, standard edition
    $185
    per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAP Lumira DiscoverySpreadsheet Server
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Prices can be different for any company interested in Spreadsheet Server depending on size and who should be involved. Feel free to contact us for a free demo to see if it is the right reporting tool for you.
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    Community Pulse
    SAP Lumira DiscoverySpreadsheet Server
    Considered Both Products
    SAP
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    80%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    SAP Lumira DiscoverySpreadsheet Server
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Spreadsheet Server
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    8.0
    97 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Spreadsheet Server
    -
    Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.097 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Spreadsheet Server
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    7.3
    103 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Spreadsheet Server
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis10.0100 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.0103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration5.098 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Spreadsheet Server
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    6.1
    95 Ratings
    30% below category average
    Spreadsheet Server
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to Web7.082 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF5.094 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling6.355 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Spreadsheet Server
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    4.3
    104 Ratings
    60% below category average
    Spreadsheet Server
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)5.0102 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization6.095 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics2.072 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Spreadsheet Server
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    -
    Ratings
    Spreadsheet Server
    7.0
    7 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Spreadsheet Server
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    -
    Ratings
    Spreadsheet Server
    6.7
    6 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings6.06 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings6.06 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Spreadsheet Server
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    -
    Ratings
    Spreadsheet Server
    7.0
    6 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Plug-ins00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    SAP Lumira DiscoverySpreadsheet Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (105 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (12 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    4.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 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)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SAP Lumira DiscoverySpreadsheet Server
    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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    Insightsoftware, Inc
    Spreadsheet Server is a set it and forget it type of thing. However, if you are wanting to change up the data you get on a regular basis, this may not be the product for you.
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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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    Insightsoftware, Inc
    • It's easy to use and learn how to create new spreadsheets.
    • Spreadsheet Server makes it easy to create custom financial statements for your company. It is a great tool to use with Vista by Viewpoint.
    • We can create custom graphs and KPI's in Spreadsheet Server.
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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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    Insightsoftware, Inc
    • The only issue that we came across, is that not all of our companies have the same financial structure as each other. So the GLs we use for one report, would not necessarily work for all the other companies. We did not want to create separate reports for each company either. We did find a workaround in that we created a lookup tab with GLs to use for each category for each company, then used v-lookup to pull those GLs over. This workaround worked great, but it would have been nice to have something built in to cover this.
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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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    Insightsoftware, Inc
    Very easy to use and user friendly.
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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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    Insightsoftware, Inc
    Easy to use and flexible.
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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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    Insightsoftware, Inc
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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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    Insightsoftware, Inc
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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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    Insightsoftware, Inc
    Customer Relations reaches out to me periodically.
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    In-Person Training
    SAP
    We did not take in-person training
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    Insightsoftware, Inc
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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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    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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    Insightsoftware, Inc
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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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    Insightsoftware, Inc
    Vista did not offer reporting that met our needs. We were not able to easily customize the standard reports to fit our company needs. We are able to create different reports depending on management's needs and level. It is easy to create reports for auditors as well in Spreadsheet Server.
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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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    Insightsoftware, Inc
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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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    Insightsoftware, Inc
    • Allows us quick access to cash flow statements which assist in decision making
    • Provides accurate reporting for our banking needs
    • Provides accurate information to our insurance and bonding vendors
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