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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

    ThoughtSpot

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AThoughtSpot is an Agentic Analytics Platform for enterprises where users ask data questions using natural language and get answers with AI. Code-first for data teams and code-free for business users, ThoughtSpot can handle large, complex cloud data at scale.

    $1,500

    per year (5 users)

    Pricing
    SAP Lumira DiscoveryThoughtSpot
    Editions & Modules
    SAP Lumira, standard edition
    $185
    per user
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro
    $50
    per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise
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    Pricing Offerings
    SAP Lumira DiscoveryThoughtSpot
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    SAP Lumira DiscoveryThoughtSpot
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    SAP
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    80%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    86%
    Would buy again
    37 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    29 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    37 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    Features
    SAP Lumira DiscoveryThoughtSpot
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of SAP Lumira Discovery and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    8.0
    97 Ratings
    2% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    89 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Customizable dashboards8.097 Ratings8.189 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings6.021 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.725 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of SAP Lumira Discovery and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    7.3
    103 Ratings
    9% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.5
    91 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Drill-down analysis10.0100 Ratings8.390 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.0103 Ratings7.090 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration5.098 Ratings8.888 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings5.949 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of SAP Lumira Discovery and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    6.1
    95 Ratings
    30% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    8.1
    84 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Publish to Web7.082 Ratings8.155 Ratings
    Publish to PDF5.094 Ratings8.478 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling6.355 Ratings8.364 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings7.918 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings7.935 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of SAP Lumira Discovery and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    4.3
    104 Ratings
    60% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.2
    86 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)5.0102 Ratings7.585 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization6.095 Ratings7.079 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics2.072 Ratings7.565 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings6.913 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of SAP Lumira Discovery and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    8.1
    86 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.282 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings7.974 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings7.678 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings7.816 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.772 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of SAP Lumira Discovery and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    53 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.051 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings6.734 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings6.746 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of SAP Lumira Discovery and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    7.2
    51 Ratings
    7% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings7.342 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings6.835 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings8.134 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings7.013 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.235 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.115 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    SAP Lumira DiscoveryThoughtSpot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (105 ratings)
    8.4
    (91 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    8.2
    (85 ratings)
    Availability
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (12 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    4.0
    (4 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    2.0
    (83 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    Data Sources
    10.0
    (89 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Professional Services
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SAP Lumira DiscoveryThoughtSpot
    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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    ThoughtSpot
    It is well suited when the same data is consumed by many different people with different analytics and visualization requirements because, if you have the data available in ThoughtSpot, every user can prepare different views. Also, it is a good reporting tool, you can get rid of slides if you have a good dashboard prepared, gaining flexibility and agility.
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    • Beautiful visualizations. The visuals are distinct, clean, and easy to discern from one another.
    • Intelligent querying functionality. When looking to manipulate the data, the search function makes it easy to manipulate the features in the data, along with aggregating them in the way you'd like.
    • Embedding! It has been a smooth process thus far for our product & technical teams to work with ThoughtSpot and bring it into our product.
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    • It would be great if ThoughtSpot can add the feature to filter by clicking on visualizations. i.e if I click on a particular data point in the chart if the full dashboard can filter just for that particular data point.
    • Color coding the heatmap with different colors like green to orange to red.
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    I give it just waiting because passport is brilliant and it has helped our organisation In advancing to the next stage in the age of AI. It has allowed or non-tech people to better service and clients in a cost-effective way. George port has allowed us to create new products for us and for our clients increasing our revenue streams and reducing clients churn
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    The rating is because of the ease of use of the interface as it has a no code interface that makes it easy to setup data pipelines without extensive programming. Cloud native integration: It integrates seamlessly with cloud based data warehouses. Automated data loading, Scalability, Cost Effective, Transformations, Data Governance and security.
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    it's available unless there is a server or system update etc. sometimes the timing of this is bad (for example during a month end close)
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    It does what it is supposed to. Would be nice to have a bit more insights
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    I give it this meeting because the team is not only help able to help us in the current solutions but also amazing and taking feedback and feeding it back to their development team which includes more products and features into ThoughtSpot
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    In-Person Training
    SAP
    We did not take in-person training
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    ThoughtSpot
    inhouse in-person training. Took a bit to long to get the basics.
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    poor instructions
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    We also explored Tableau Ask Data. Tableau is our standard for BI in our organization. We want to use the smallest amount of tools in our company to have the best adaption. ThoughSpot will fill a few gaps that we have with our current set up and will also enhance out offering for our employees in the transition of being more data driven within in near future
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    Because it is very reliable, inside the situation, we need strong internet connection to access a lot of data but easily never had any downtime except during the upgrades
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    • Time to market ROI is massive vs hiring the full-time dedicated team to build and maintain a frontend multi-tenant SaaS data viz product.
    • It will be interesting to see over time how the advanced features play out in terms of usability and end value, such as Natural Search, which we are very excited about, and the machine learning tools.
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    Screenshot of the ThoughtSpot home screenScreenshot of SpotIQ, which offers AI-driven insightsScreenshot of the Spotter AI agent that surfaces insights through natural language queriesScreenshot of AI Assist producing SQL in real timeScreenshot of SpotIQ, which offers AI-driven insightsScreenshot of the integration with dbt models and metrics