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What is SAP Lumira Discovery?
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.
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- Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.) (101)8.282%
- Formatting capabilities (102)7.979%
- Drill-down analysis (99)7.777%
- Report sharing and collaboration (97)7.474%
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What is SAP Lumira Discovery?
SAP Lumira Discovery is a data visualization software solution that helps business users take full advantage of the massive amounts of data that is available to their business by using
data analysis and data visualization capabilities. The data available in all major data sources (like MS Excel, csv, txt, and diverse database formats) can be put together in grids and graphs to create presentations, dashboards, infographics or business reports. The vendor says that its solution helps users go beyond
spreadsheets and basic data presentations – all with drag and drop and point and click actions.
SAP Lumira Discovery Features
BI Platform Features
- Supported: Live Connection to External Data
- Supported: Snapshot of External Data
- Supported: OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)
- Supported: ROLAP (SQL-layer querying)
- Supported: Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)
Supported Data Sources Features
- Supported: MS Excel Workbooks
- Supported: Text Files (CSV, etc)
- Supported: Oracle
- Supported: MS SQL Server
- Supported: IBM DB2
- Supported: Postgres
- Supported: MySQL
- Supported: ODBC
- Supported: Hortonworks Hadoop
- Supported: IBM Netezza
- Supported: HP Vertica
- Supported: SAP Hana
- Supported: Teradata
- Supported: Salesforce
- Supported: SAP
BI Standard Reporting Features
- Supported: Customizable dashboards
Ad-hoc Reporting Features
- Supported: Drill-down analysis
- Supported: Formatting capabilities
- Supported: Report sharing and collaboration
Report Output and Scheduling Features
- Supported: Publish to Web
- Supported: Publish to PDF
Data Discovery and Visualization Features
- Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- Supported: Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Additional Features
- Supported: Acquire and enrich data, big and small, from any source
- Supported: Visualize and explore any amount of data in real time without sacrificing performance or security
- Supported: Export reports, dashboards, presentations and infographics to pdf format for easy sharing
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SAP Lumira Discovery Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Languages | Chinese (Simplified), Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish. |
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
Reviewers rate Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.) highest, with a score of 8.2.
The most common users of SAP Lumira Discovery are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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June 03, 2016
Lumira trial thoughts
I used Lumira to visually analyse large volumes of plant originated data and manipulate it to improve the ease of analysis. I was evaluating it as an option for inclusion in a product that would be deployed to our end user customers.
- It's good as a data visualisation and investigation tool.
- Very simple and intuitive to use.
- It is far better than using products like Microsoft Excel for this purpose.
- There are constraints on the mechanisms used to import the data. For example, I was importing data from a .CSV file containing separate numeric and text representations of the date associated with the other data in the row. Lumira was unable to directly interpret these data as time & date fields without splitting the text information into individual columns.
- The data manipulation functionality for imported data could be improved, particularly the ability to create sub-columns derived from data already in the source table
June 03, 2016
Lumira beginners review
I used SAP Lumira for a class project in one of my MBA courses. SAP Lumira was really easy to use and I would recommend for projects outside of my MBA class. As part of my class project we had to analyze data using various analytical tools and this was by far my favorite.
- Strengths are ease of use and no prior experience is necessary.
- Supports various data extensions such as Excel, CSV, etc.
- Some features were missing that I wanted.
- Filtering was not so easy.
June 03, 2016
Easy to use, resourceful resource!
SAP Lumira was mainly used in marketing to analyze potential markets and histories of sales. It was initially small exercises to learn the use of SAP Lumira, which were almost unnecessary because it was so easy to use, and beyond that was an actual analysis of data. We also used it for management reports and were able to use the graphics and features to make understandable charts and graphs.
- Very user friendly and easy to understand.
- Great interface.
- Very high functionality; useful for any business seeking any information about their business or others.
- The names of some features were fairly similar and took some time to differentiate and get used to.
June 03, 2016
Easy to use and powerful business intelligence tool
We have used SAP Lumira for one of the SAP simulations for a diary product company. We have addressed the problem of making inventory and pricing decisions using this tool.
- Able to access live data from servers
- Ability to generate reports instantly
- Variety of reports are available
- Application is heavy and requires more space
June 03, 2016
SAP Lumira from SAP HANA for RightOn
We use Lumira to provide visualizations of our patented predictive analytics coming from SAP HANA in order to identify how much is tied up in excess inventory and what changes to MRP settings can release it.
- Strong charts and graphs but also visualizations such as heat maps
- Ability to add calculated measures, KPIs, and conditional formating
- Ease in linking to HANA
- Ability to create standard reports and presentations than can be easily refreshed
- More ability to share with Non-Lumira users outside of creating PDFs
June 02, 2016
Updated tool in Data Visualization
SAP Business Objects Lumira is used by our department. This tool gives us more navigation options in terms of presenting management different options to play with the data more easily.
- Easy to consume formats such as charts, bars, graphs.
- Drill down functionality to granular details.
- Able to merge the data from different sources and able to easily visualize it.
- The ability to derive the data by users themselves with little knowledge.
- I think SAP Business Objects LUMIRA needs improvement while connecting to the Universe Design Tool or UDT. At this moment I am converting UDT universe to IDT then creating the visualizations.
May 26, 2016
Standalone Lumira as a BI tool
We are testing SAP Lumira as a vehicle for the Visual Crossing mapping plug-in. We are comparing it to other BI products such as MicroStrategy.
- Lumira is easy to install and configure.
- The extension technology works well, and it is easy to add new visualizations.
- Lumira's joining capability seems weak, but perhaps that is because I am used to MicroStrategy which is very strong in this department.
- Lumira can be unstable and crash from time to time.
- Lumira's performance sometimes feels slow.
May 25, 2016
Quick and Dirty Reports made easy with Lumira
We are just starting but Lumira is giving real time information in a much easier way than ever before. We can do it ourselves without having to wait for a report to be built.
- Self service reporting made easy. This is a fact and not just a slogan. We can get answers and truly follow the data down to the root cause in a manageable way.
- Quick. The reports are very quick to run.
- Great opportunities to slice and dice and get real insight that normally would have taken lots of work in Excel.
- Standard views should always have the description of objects as well. It is great to have the customer number but without the customer description it is harder to get all the value. It feels like we stopped when we could have gone the extra mile.
- Publishing a link to a SharePoint or other place where users can then easily access the data instead of first having to log into Lumira.
- % Share functionality.
May 03, 2016
Excellent so far!
We've started using Lumira to harmonize presentation and methods of delivering reports, data exploration tools, and ad-hoc visualizations. This will be used by a team of analysts supporting an entire CPG organization.
- You can combine and seamlessly present inputs from flat files, Excel, SQL, BI, and other sources.
- I didn't take a class or read a tutorial, and had a quality, working visualization in a couple hours!
- It would be wonderful if this tool could publish to a native web format.
May 03, 2016
Project management Lumira
I tried Lumira to visualize project portfolio data and to build dashboards for that.
- Easy setup
- Good visualization functions
- Share concept
- Sample dashboards
I've come from from an area of data analysis and consumption that was heavily utilizing Excel spreadsheets to create dashboards and reports. These reports were manually configured week by week, month by month. I utilized formulas and entered raw data obtained through various database sources.
Lumira, changed all that. Lumira allowed me to tap into various data sources, create report templates and set scheduled refreshes so I never have to monkey around with reports on a weekly basis. I've saved hundreds of hours that were spent massaging and cleansing data. That is now being used to do what my job requires of me - making meaningful analysis happen, while putting the things I learned to use.
SAP Lumira has enabled me to take raw data, create meaningful reports, and obtain key information pieces to act upon and drive change. It's been a while since SAP made data analysis easy, but thanks to their hard work - we're finally there.
- Analysis - Dynamic charts, filters and drill downs of data from a budget or cost measure.
- Plotting data on various charts, including geographical data via ARC GIS data on Esri Online.
- Simple GUI interface - No SQL or programming required.
- Sort columns/dimensions in visualizations (e.g. custom sort on dates, months, years)
April 30, 2016
Students love it!
I use it in my Intro to MIS course and students' feedback has always been positive. It opens their eyes to how easy yet powerful the visualizations help analyze data and find the answer they look for.
- There are so many types of charts available and it can't be easier to switch from one to another.
- The interface is simple and user friendly.
- The charts are beautiful.
- Should make it available to a 32 bit computer as well.
- Should require at least 2 GB, not 4 GB.
- Add option to either show or hide captions of the chart types.
April 29, 2016
SAP Lumira from a User Prespective
SAP Lumira has been rolled out to users for creating self dashboards using data from SAP and non-SAP data. There was a need to combine data from various sources and merge them into one dataset for creating dashboards for top management.
- Merging of data sources
- Ease of creating dashboards on the fly by users
- Less control on charts for remaining and placement of data labels and titles
- More Direct access to SAP BW data
April 29, 2016
An Attractive Analytics and Presentation Tool
We're using it to present data from our SAP HANA and Oracle databases in an attractive, interactive manner. These reports allow users to visualize various parameters of their vehicle fleets, such as maintenance and fuel expenses. For example, they can observe the effect of preventative maintenance spending on overall maintenance costs. One feature we really like is that you can present either a finished report, or allow more ambitious, experienced users to analyze data themselves.
- It allows you to pull together data from various sources in a reasonably intuitive manner.
- A plethora of charting options are available making it easy to match the visualization to the data for maximum impact.
- The user interface isn't 100% intuitive; so it's hard to use right out of the box, but if someone who knows it gives you a tour, you will pick it up right away. We have one person in our reporting department who designed a great, multi-page presentation, and when I asked him how long he'd been working with SAP, he said: "Two weeks".
- The very modern UI is somewhat sparse in the area of tooltips. It's akin to the first time one tries to use Windows 8. But once you figure them out, it's smooth sailing.
- I don't like that the Edit Data Source/Universe Query Panel is completely modal, making it impossible to access anything underneath it.
April 28, 2016
Intuitive and great visuals (albeit not that flexible!)
It is currently being used within the Financial Reporting Space but if we purchase the full license then it may be used more broadly. It is used for ad-hoc insight of business questions (such as "what is affecting my product mix?") and also to create dashboards for more repeatable business questions (although Design Studio is favoured for this).
- Ease of creating visualizations (drag and drop); also prompts you to use the right measures/dimensions in the right axes (making it intuitive for non-it/non-analysts).
- Intuitive nature of the interface - if you know Excel, or more advanced software, getting to grips with Lumira is a breeze.
- Sharing/publishing outputs.
- As it runs on your machine, restrictions on data consumption are quite limiting.
- Flexibility - would be nice to be able to have more flexibility/customization (scripting etc. like Design Studio); I understand that there are some add-ons available but these are not publicized very widely.
- Unless using an analyst PC, it is extremely slow.
April 28, 2016
Use of SAP Lumira with ERP Simulation Software
We used SAP Lumira in conjunction with an ERP (enterprise resource planning) simulation game in a business process class in order to analyze the data generated. The ERP package was used to simulate production and sales for a cereal manufacturing company and SAP lumira was used to analyze the data from the simulation game such as production history, market sales, inventory levels, etc.
- Easy to generate graphs
- Can change variables displayed/measured
- Integrates well with SAP
- Easy-to-use interface
- Neat, professional-looking graphs
- More flexibility for choosing variables
- Make it easier to link to SAP
- Support multiple views/graphs at once (tabs, multiple pages, etc.)
April 27, 2016
Lumira Review
Our organization uses SAP Lumira to develop dashboards and infographics for educational and reporting purposes.
- It is very intuitive to use.
- Visualizations allow the user to drill-down.
- No gauge visualization present in the default standard version.
- Takes very long to load. It is a memory hog.
- It needs to recommend the best chart for the available data.
SAP Lumira is an excellent BI, the graphics and performance are awesome. Even though SAP B1 HANA has a decent BI, Lumira provides a lot more functionalities and options to personalize dashboards and reports. The interface is simple and intuitive. There are very few competitors in the market that can step up to this kind of quality. If you're managing your business with SAP, the acquisition of SAP Lumira is a "no-brainer".
- Intuitive
- Simple
- Complete
- Optimize mobile fuctionality
- A less complex version (designed for business owners/managers)
- More detailed graphics (in some cases)
April 27, 2016
Beginning with SAP Lumira
It's implemented across the whole company. Mainly it's used to analyze high level data for management.
- Easy implementation of reports not only for developers
- Many available data sources
- Easy map integration
- Table visualization and drilldown
- Graphic objects management
- Calculated measures enchantments
April 27, 2016
Lumira will glow & grow
SAP Lumira will be used by department in my client's organization. It will be used for reporting purpose on specific data from SAP HANA database.
- Good way to connect to SAP HANA database.
- Easy to bring reporting based on HANA
- Like Sharing option on Lumira visualization. Also bundle option for dataset, story & visualization
- Not found yet as we are in early stage of testing.
April 27, 2016
Visualization at its nicest
SAP Lumira is an incredible visual analysis tool that allows us to provide dashboard & reporting samples to our current prospects. We aim to show SAP Lumira with each new deal we are involved in. This is mainly being used by our presales team even more so if the prospect is interested in reporting.
- Ability to create multiple charts
- The share component of Lumira is a great function which we currently use.
- The UI is extremely user friendly, easy to use and understand
- The ability to load existing data sets so you don't have to always build reports from the ground up if you already have some created.
- It takes a minute or two to fully load, I feel that is too long of a delay.
April 27, 2016
SAP Lumira evaluation pre-buy
We were evaluating the software but in the end we had to stay with a Microsoft solution. Having said that, SAP Lumira is a very easy to use and modern BI-tool, with great looking graphs and a powerful data Engine. The maps were especially impressive with a lot more layers of complexity and flexibility than I have experienced in similar Products.
- Their Map capability and flexibility
- The powerful engine
- Ease-of-use
- Not often an aligned Company strategy to go with SAP (at least not in Sweden)
- The UI is not standard in the business, but fairly easy to learn anyway
April 26, 2016
SAP Lumira Review by Staff Con
Discovery for our client to look at data the way they want to see it.
- Visualization
- Click and drag
- User friendly
- Custom sorting
- Merge dimensions of separate data sources
- Elemental linking instead of just user input controls
April 26, 2016
BRAVO !!
SAP Lumira is becoming our main software to generate visualizations and BI documents for our meetings. We use this software to generate some good exercises for our students but also to use our student database for BI presentation and analysis. We are 5 working on Lumira every day and we are very happy with it
- Create mapping visualizations. As communication is important, this software achieves it with brio !
- Manage massive amount of data. As we use a good amount of data, it's nice to have a software that is able to manage it, use it and filter it
- Sharing. As we work as a team, we always exchange our results. The sharing feature is very useful
- Maybe more documentation about the software itself, how it works, some modeling of the software, its composition in term of structure
- More tutorials
April 19, 2016
Still much work to do
So far only SAP Lumira is used only by the IT and FI department. It not as user-friendly compared to Tableau.
- Upload from SAP-BW
- Still not very user-friendly