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SAP Lumira Discovery

Overview

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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Rating: 9 out of 10
May 22, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
SAP Lumira Discovery is great . It helps with data visualisation and analysis . It helps the business get realistic on time data that can help them access problem points and a...
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Pritama Kundu
Contributor - Information Technology
Manager - Business Integrator
Lilly
SAP Lumira Discovery14 years of experience
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SAP Lumira is for DATAphiles

Rating: 5 out of 10
March 6, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Firstly, SAP lumira is one amazing product that I would use daily for making data-driven decision. It has become easy for visualization. We use a lot of real-time data to proc...
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Verified user
Manager
SAP Lumira Discovery1 year of experience

An Excellent Business Intelligence Tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 26, 2022
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We can emphasize the initiative thinking that attracts a lot of my interest. Sap Lumira Discovery, because it allows for the rapid transformation of views from one type of gra...
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Rehan Kanuga
Team Lead - Product Management
Data Analyst
Rehan Web Services
SAP Lumira Discovery1 year of experience

Positiveness and Negativeness in SAP Lumira Discovery

Rating: 7 out of 10
February 17, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
I use SAP Lumira Discovery is a great Self service BI tools to help in my organization to bring all the businesses and my IT team together. Data Visualization and connecting,a...
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Arkadip Kundu
Engineer - Engineering
Doing a BootCamp
DigitalSherpa.AI
SAP Lumira Discovery1 year of experience

Easy Business Planning and Effective on Predictive Data Analytics Production SAP Package.

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 16, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Great and effective discovery functionalities and the easy of using the SAP Lumira Discovery tool on the first time to use the software. Easy to configure the tool interface i...
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Annette Gilmour
Program Manager - Information Technology
Senior Project Manager
Linio Group
SAP Lumira Discovery2 years of experience
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Pricing

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SAP Lumira, standard edition

$185

On Premise
per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttp://getlumira.sapstore.com/download…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

8
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

7.3
Avg 8.0

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

6.1
Avg 8.3

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

4.4
Avg 7.9
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Product Details

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

SAP Lumira Discovery Screenshots

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SAP Lumira Discovery Video

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SAP Lumira Discovery Competitors

SAP Lumira Discovery Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported LanguagesChinese (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.

Tableau Desktop, Domo, and QlikView are common alternatives for SAP Lumira Discovery.

Reviewers rate Drill-down analysis highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of SAP Lumira Discovery are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Good for large data sets, room for improvement on visualizatoins

Rating: 5 out of 10
Incentivized
November 08, 2016
Verified User
Employee in Marketing
Media Production Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
SAP Lumira Discovery
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira is being used in our creative department to develop infographics.
Pros
  • Customer support
  • Customizable
  • Variety of visualizations
Cons
  • User interface (rather complex and at times, hard to follow)
  • Sharing options - would love to be able to export visualizations to other formats besides PDF
  • Data entry / editing within the program
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited: To present large data sets where little visual design is necessary
Less appropriate: Visually-driven, highly customized infographics

Lumira Review

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
June 08, 2016
Verified User
Analyst in Finance and Accounting
Automotive Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
SAP Lumira Discovery
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is currently being used in the accounting department. It is being used to address the profitability of certain products that we offer. It is also being used to provide executive level management with summary dashboards. These dashboards allow management to see in real time what is happening with orders and production.
Pros
  • It has a little bit of a learning curve, but after some training it is a very powerful tool.
  • It makes understanding large data sets easier.
  • The dashboards are very intuitive.
Cons
  • It can be complicated to use.
  • I wish there was the ability to bring it into PowerPoint
Likelihood to Recommend
I feel like it really shines when you can connect it live to the data set and see the dynamic updates.

Lumira for Performance analytics.

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized
June 09, 2016
vc
vamsi cherukuri
Sr. Business Intelligence Solution Architect
Medecision (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
SAP Lumira Discovery
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira is being used across the organization at the executive level for bench marking and performance comparison across the Health Care IT.
Pros
  • Integrating the SAP Lumira in SAP BI platform is a greater scope for Enterprise level reporting.
  • Hyperlinking webi reports in SAP Lumira storyboard for granular level of data analysis takes this to the next level in the performance Intelligence world.
  • SAP Lumira Data set sharing is another advantage to share the analyzed data sets across the organization or can be needed by other applications to capture the snapshot of analyzed and aggregated or detail level of data.
  • As a self-service BI tool, will give scope to the business executives across the organization to make data driven business decisions.
Cons
  • It will be good to have a hyperlink between 2 different data set stories or visualizations.
  • Creating a variables should have been more matured functionality, Lumira multi-sessions capability, More Visualizations formatting features, Scope for object level security.
Likelihood to Recommend
Since it is a self-service tool, users need an extensive training about how the data sets are captured. SAP Lumira is really useful where there is an efficient data model available for the data savvy.

Data Visualization tool for big data

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
March 05, 2022
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
SAP Lumira Discovery
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SAP Lumira Discovery helps us to decipher the massive amount of usable internal data to be translated and transform into visual reports. Helps to organize data, which can be put into charts and graphs to analyze data and help in making strategic decisions with very significant business information. A great tool to make sense of all the internal data on multiple platforms.
Pros
  • Interpret high volumes of internal data and transform into visual reports.
  • Analysis of visual reports to make strategic decisions.
  • High level analytics.
Cons
  • To many options making it difficult to navigate.
  • Layout should be more up to date.
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP Lumira Discovery is a flexible, accurate, and time-saving tool. It works pretty well if you have high volumes of internal data available to be analyzed and transform into a visual report for decision-making related to resource planning and scheduling. It is easy to use and deployment in a professional setting requires not a great deal of effort to obtain optimal results.

Great for Extracting and Visualizing Massive Data

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
August 03, 2016
Verified User
Administrative Assistant in Finance and Accounting
Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Since I am involved with academia at a large research university, SAP Lumira turned out to be an excellent platform for providing visual insights to generic Excel data. In fact, we are encouraging our students to utilize this software for extracting relevant information from large sets of data.
Pros
  • This software is absolutely amazing because it is very easy to navigate, and the results are quite informative as they provide visual insights to generic databases.
  • I used it to create multiple visual aids depicting the countries of origin of our graduate students, which helped us evaluate the effectiveness of international recruiting efforts.
  • Finally, I utilized Lumira to prepare informative visual deliverable materials in order to illustrate the grade distribution among minority students.
Cons
  • I wish the ZIP code mapping was incorporated in Lumira.
Likelihood to Recommend
As an average academia user, I find Lumira extremely helpful for preparing valuable visual arguments as persuasive evidence in support of business decisions. I can also see how it could be beneficial for small and medium-sized business entities in assessing their results and attainment of budgeting objectives.
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