SAP Lumira Discovery Reviews

There are many data sources and it's very easy to merge huge datasets and sources into Lumira.

Connectivity with a SAP system is great--you can connect to it in 4 clicks. Having the BI platform is easier, as the IT team will do the major part of the job. It is also very easy to use an Excel sheet to include your relevant information in your reports.

We use the data sources provided. I do not have visibility on how hard was to connect. What I can explain is the experience when connecting to an Excel file, which is quite simple and it gives you the option to merge some data origins and make them work as one.

Lumira is a very useful tool for our project determinations and data displaying capabilities have offered better insight on company decisions for better profits and accuracy on project details.

I don't have any background or experience in managing raw data technologies such as Postgre, SQL, Sharepoint, etc. Taking the benefits of those technologies and wrapping them in a tool that you can, for the most part, run as a self-sustaining entity separate from your IT department is a godsend! It means you only rarely or seldom have to invoke the power of the IT masters, and you can run your various data on your own.

1. SAP Lumira basically is in development so there may be a possibility of losing data.
2. Sometimes it is unable to show a large amount of data and shows error.
3. Conversion in graph sometimes takes more time then it should take.
4. No time response on new data.
5. Export/Import of excel makes it more useful to share and insert data.

SAP Lumira supports a large number of data sources which can be used to generate your reports, graphs, charts etc. It is very easy to upload large data, you don't need your IT team for this. IT detects and delivers information as soon as data is entered. Gives real-time analytics so that you can check your company growth easily.

It works well with SAP systems, and excel .csv files. Most others it takes much more of an effort to get them into the system.

SAP Lumira won't take efforts to quickly predict small range of data sets. But, it is not easy to work with multiple data sources, the outcome doesn't look good. Even merging the data needs the data expertise which I don't think the target users of SAP Lumira are familiar with. The real-time data visualization is quick if you have provided the data sources clearly.

In some cases, we would not have problem uploading certain data on SAP Lumira and get our results as we desired. In some other instance, we had to change a few data [points] on Excel before uploading it to Lumira so it would read it properly. It would be nice if the data range could be increased more than 10000 as we are dealing with data of more than 15000 per sheet.

Everything is possible with the BI platform. We can find an alternative or indirect [option]. We can connect BW directly, or through BO as an existing connection.

Real-time data source access of SAP Cloud for Customer using the Lumira add-on

The other two points I will give it when the merge is very easy for the end user.

All of the above.

It should be easy to connect to relational databases (ex. SQL Server). JDBC drivers and setup should be part of the installation.

The drop down menu on the side to quantitative and qualitative data was really useful. The option to create a qualitative measure to a quantitative one in order to filter desired data was really convenient.

It works best with SAP HANA, where we do lot of real time data analysis at a detailed level as well as at an aggregated level.

Can't handle large database, e.g. more than 1 million records / more than 1 GB data, etc.

Very easy to take data's from SQL & Excel. Establishing connectivity with SQL is very easy.

connectivity is there. number of rows is too small and the application keeps crashing

Seems to be pretty good. Most of my work can devolve down to .csv files and so this isn't that big of deal. I'm a specialist in getting the data to work with whatever program I need to get it in. Ultimately, Ruby is a great language to do this but recently I've been doing a lot of data work directly in R.

Good through existing BI platform connnections

As I said earlier Lumira has all the data source connectivity options which makes it a perfect product for us.