February 23, 2018
SAP Lumira Still Not Ready for Primetime
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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.SAPSAP Lumira Still Not Ready for Primetime2018-02-23T16:21:14.324ZIn our MIS program, students use a number of tools to learn about enterprise systems, ERP, Data Warehouses, and analytics. The student use at least three Data visualization programs so they can compare and judge which one they like and why. They start with Lumira and other SAP programs like BeX and WebI. These are cumbersome to use and not as fully developed as other software/systems they will use. They run their businesses using SAP software and then extract the data to visualize it, from procurement to inventory to sell to financial statement data.,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.,SAP is not as intuitive as other visualization software and you have to find an expert to show you how to do some of the simplest things.
SAP is still working on the package so it is in constant change, and it makes 'learning' the software more difficult than it needs to be.
SAP keeps renaming, re-merging, un-merging its systems so the 'Roadmap' they are so famous for is only valid for about 6 months!,3,,4,2,Tableau Desktop, Tableau Public, Microsoft Power BI,,3,They need to integrate it better with some non-SAP systems as any organization of a decent size will have non-sap systems that are not going to go into the SAP ERP, Database, or Data Warehouse.
They need to have better story boarding or story telling features like their competition has.,Using it to see the basic descriptive analytics of what has been going on in the business, no matter the functional area in the past 24-36 months.
Using it to preform the basic diagnostic analytics to try and determine why the data in the business is the way it, trying to determine the root cause for declines, or slow downs, etc..
Trying to integrate it with Predictive Analytics so we can try to see what will happen in the future, now what happened in the past.,None!,The simplest of charts are pretty easy to use, once you get the data into it and in the right format.
The default colors are pretty easy to use.
The default fonts are pretty easy to use.,Trying to wrangle the data into the system so it is in the right format to get the most from your visualizations is hard and cumbersome.
Trying to use color pallets and custom color schemes not already defaulted in the system is better now, but in earlier versions were frustrating.
Trying to integrate with Predicitve Analytics, the next logical step after creating visualizations is not simple.,2Verified UserSAP Lumira, great product, great access to customer base. Still not making strides mainly for lack of data connectivity and usability.2016-06-07T20:29:04.393ZWe are SAP PartnerEdge partners. We develop data and visual extensions to extend the functionality of out-of-the box functionality. Currently we offer vSQL and vOLAP data access extensions. Both vSQL and vOLAP provide a visual interface to generate queries without having to know the SQL syntax.,Data access to disparate data sources.
Data mashup.
Ability to explore the data on desktop and schedule the scenarios on the server side to refresh the data real-time.
Trusted data.,Extensive mobile device support.
Add wow factors to data visualizations.
Performance improvements.
Native data acquisition capabilities.
More SDK support to extend it.,7,Tableau Desktop and QlikView,Tableau Desktop, QlikView, MicroStrategy Analytics,4,5,10,5,Clean separation of data and meta-data from scenarios
Version control and ACL on scenarios
More server side support
Interchangeability with Design Studio for more granular control over customized reports or dashboards where self-serve cannot accomplish the goals.,Heat maps between physicians, census and population health management
SaaS based vertical BI solutions for SMB markets
Provide an automated migration tool from Xcelsius dashboards to Lumira,Custom visualization template
Re-usable query components with the help of data access extensions from Tassio Inc.
Exploit Geofencing and extensive Geo mapping capabilities,No,Price
Vendor Reputation
Existing Relationship with the Vendor,Price vs Capabilities. Also vendor's commitment to support the missing features. We believe in SAP and their commitment to meet their customer needs. More than anything else, their products support more trusted data sources and security realms than any other stand-alone third-party tool. They changed their culture upside down to nurture the partner eco-system to extend the current product capabilities and make them more usable.,Implemented in-house,No,Change management was a major issue with the implementation,Enterprise wide installation of desktop software from IT perspective
Challenges in upgrading individual desktop version
Publishing to Lumira Server for BIP,6,Online training
Self-taught,6,6,Yes, it is designed and built to be self-serve tool. Yes because it is used for data exploration, the knowledge on the tool is necessary but we feel the most of the experience is required on interpreting the data rather than using the tool. Any savvy user be able to use the tool right away.,2,Having a corporate template would create a consistent look and feel of all reports and scenarios. The best practice would be to follow the corporate brand guidelines and incorporate their own digital assets as much of as possible instead of coming up with individual taste. When these scenarios are distributed across the organization, they should have the same look and feel and meeting their style guides.,Some - we have done small customizations to the interface,Yes - we have added extensive custom code,The users often ask to reuse the queries that they use to acquire the data from non-SAP supported data sources. There must be a way to store them in the user preferences to keep re-using them. Also one of the recommended ways to save the Lumira files are to separate the data with meta data.,Yes,8,No,When we are working on our data access extension, we needed help from their engineering team on newer version of their SDK which is totally a re-write of this interface. Our extension that was developed using older version is a throw away because it would not work with newer version. The fundamental design philosophy was changed to use HTML based user interface vs supporting any programming language. We chose Java for our older version, we wanted to leverage the existing code base to make it to work with newer version of SDK. Their engineering team helped us a lot to get Java based user interface working with newer implementation of SDK.,Acquiring data from BW
Acquiring data from CSV
Merging different data sets after acquisition
Creating hierarchies, drilldown reports,Data acquisition from MS SSAS until we found the solution from Tassio
Data acquisition from MS Access until we found the solution from Tassio
Distribute the scenarios, the data is stored along with scenarios
Interoperability with design studio,Yes,6,6,9,7,Lumira server for BIP
Lumira server for teams
Design Studio,Design Studio
Predictive Analytics
Lumira for Cloud Analytics,File import/export
API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
Javascript widgets
ETL tools,5,SDK must be updated to expose much more functionality than what we have today. It has limited functionality that is exposed which limits the level integration that can be done. In order to meet everybody's needs, SAP need to spend more time to give more powers to end-users to customize anyway they want, add more functionality to suit their needs.,8,8,The pricing for Lumira. Initially we thought that Lumira licenses were free for us since we are already SAP customer. We had to negotiate volume pricing and also the license model for Lumira is rather straight forward than ECC pricing model. SAP sales team understands this, and aggressive about this tools adoption.,I think SAP sales team will work with every customer to make Lumira more widespread adoption. They will work on the pricing as long as there is commitment from customer side to evaluate and provide enough feedback on the product that is not market tested and proven. Start small and make one department successful with it before making the enterprise wide installation.,Yes,S4HANA
BW Improvements
Performance Enhancements,usability
design studio convergence
advanced geo mapping,Yes,YesRavi AdaSAP Lumira from SAP HANA for RightOn2016-06-03T17:04:05.755ZWe 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,10,,SAP HANA, SAP HANA Cloud Platform, SAP Predictive Analytics,10,8,Data preparation
Data visualization
Story creation,Sharing to Non-Lumira users,Yes,10John KrechLumira Review2016-04-27T19:46:12.796ZOur 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.,8,Microsoft Power BI,Microsoft Power BI, SAP Crystal Reports,8,7,1,,Overall dashboard design for the entire organization.,Dashboard design for board meetings and hovering for details and explanation as needed
Story boards and infographics for educational purposes
Enhanced visualizations,No,Price
Product Features
Product Usability
Product Reputation,Look for the amount of visualizations that come standard with the product and if anyone in the organization has used it before and is available to support.,Implemented in-house,No,Change management was minimal,No,6,No,During decision making to purchase the product,Date difference
Conditional Formatting,If and nested if statement,Yes, but I don't use it,6Sukhdeep TalwarSimple yet powerful tool2016-08-03T17:33:47.548ZIt is being used by myself along with CMO. I'm involved in business development activities apart from my Engineering based commitments.
We use it for visualization and analysis of our company's business, there by helping in decision making.
As we primarily work on Machine learning and data analytics application, it helps in that regard as well.,Dashboard creation is very easy and does not require much coding expertise.
Very easy to use and user friendly
Excellent data analytics tool bundled with awesome visualization features
Continuous updates with significant improvements to the tool,The flexibility in sharing Lumira output lags behind its competitors
No option to retrieve data directly from a website using OData service (URL)
Variable manipulation is not allowed much unlike Tableau,7,,Tableau Online,10,9,2,2,Use it for training or teaching freshers, as it helps in visualization,Easy comparisons and analysis from the graph, for better visualization
Data explorations for presentations
forecasting and cost analysis,Use this product as stand alone using excel as database it's quick and can create story boards in minutes
solving issues with productivity
This was used to do an initial data exploration for a seminar,No,Product Usability
Product Reputation
Analyst Reports
Third-party Reviews,System and memory requirements
Connection speed with servers
GUI user friendliness,Implemented in-house,No,Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled,8,7,No,Data Explorations
Draw graphs visualize and analyze
Creating different charts and diagrams are easy and finally preparing story board and exporting it to pdf,The overall tool should give more tool box visible on design area also there should be flooring tool box options available
Connections to other system takes much time at least in my case
Charts are grouped with drop downs which creates confusion for user that where are the other charts?,8Verified UserGreat for Extracting and Visualizing Massive Data2016-07-22T20:13:40.145ZSince 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.,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.,I wish the ZIP code mapping was incorporated in Lumira.,10,Tableau Desktop,Tableau Desktop,10,Incorporating data from various sources was excellent
The results turned out to be informative,Yes, but I don't use it,9Verified User
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SAP Lumira Discovery
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