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SAP Lumira Discovery

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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Popular Features

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  • Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.) (101)
    8.1
    81%
  • Formatting capabilities (102)
    7.9
    79%
  • Drill-down analysis (99)
    7.7
    77%
  • Report sharing and collaboration (97)
    7.4
    74%
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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.

7.5
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

7.6
Avg 8.1

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

7.2
Avg 8.4

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.

5.6
Avg 8.1
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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 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 Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.) highest, with a score of 8.1.

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

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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Report retrieval Speed is good
  • Nice options to design the report with parameters (Single or Multiple)
  • Easy to understand and use it
  • Multiple Data source options for Report data
  • Share Report Preview on Cloud
  • Unable to change PIE Chart Colors
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Simplicity of preparing data, setting up a few visualization models and then creating a stoy board.
  • Mulitple graphing & chart options.
  • Need more data connectivity & ability to connect to good analytics or other commonly used data sources.
  • More transformation options. For example connect 2 data sources, merge a few attributes and create visualization.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Integrates with SAP BI Platform Universes
  • Integrates with SAP BI Platform front end
  • Visual impact over WebIntelligence.
  • End User experience is not as refined or as focused as some competitors.
  • Not as feature rich as some competitors yet.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Data source integration was really easy, it populated the data columns as the appropriate fields.
  • Drag and drop functionality made it really easy to visualize data many ways.
  • Storyboard was a nice feature to compile all of the visualizations into an easily presentable format.
  • The geographic maps could be a little more exact. It would be nice to overlay counties within a state.
  • There could be better graphics to embed into the bar charts.
  • Making the storyboard link to PowerPoint would be awesome.
vamsi cherukuri | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
  • 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.
David Fickes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Good for dumping it in and exploring the data.
  • Nice job of presenting options for visualization.
  • Decent output format.
  • Some of the dimension capabilities are buried under a weird menu system. One particular visualization required a particular order.
  • The online version is disappearing.
SathishKumar Sundararajan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Handling massive data and quick response
  • One of the advantages is that we are able to integrate with ESRI Map, which is great
  • Easy to build your own dashboard without IT resources
  • Dashboard layout part could have been better,
  • What if analysis part is missing from the dashboard
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • the learning curve is quite low as it follows the same look and feel as other SAP products
  • creating new data sets is done easily
  • connecting to SAP BW
  • Working with SAP BW queries where downloading the information requires too much memory
  • Visualizing the data should come quicker, not having to go through the data prep.
  • Building dashboards and visualizations should be easier and quicker with less steps
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • I love how Lumira allows connections to many leading industry OLE databases and data marts. It provides a much simpler way of performing reporting straight from the data source, opposed to connecting to a flat file or spreadsheet.
  • The geo-overlaying and GIS capabilities of Lumira impressed me quite a bit. I thoroughly enjoyed playing around with the maps, and it was very useful for making insights into trends when the data was geodriven.
  • The UI made for an incredibly easy learning experience. Any business end user can use this tool, with little to no assistance from IT.
  • A little less ambiguity about certain functions may help. Perhaps when you hover over a button there could be a little info note that explains what the function does.
  • Arranging the dashboards and labels with more independence would be nice!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Lumira does very well with MS excel as input. Ease of use and additional features are impressive.
  • ESRI map integration is one of the biggest strength.
  • Integration with HANA and HADOOP is a big plus.
  • Drill down feature apart from geo hierarchies will be much appreciated
  • Integration with SAP BW can be improved greatly.
  • Broadcasting storyboards with refresh capability is constantly being asked for in our organization.
Preetam Nalbalwar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It is an easy to use tool and does not need any technical background
  • The tool supports almost all the data sources in the current IT sector.
  • Multiple data sources can be merged to derive the conclusions
  • The charts are not very extensive
  • The formula writing is difficult in Lumira and can be improved as it is in SAP Web Intelligence.
  • A free training sessions should be given by SAP when sale the product so that companies don't have to convince users to use Lumira.
Vivek Gupta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Tightly integrated with SAP BI landscape.
  • Very Intutive
  • Cheap Licence Fees Compared to other competitive BI tools
  • Integration with Cloud
  • Quick Sharing
  • Quick Development
  • Good for Analysis
  • Number of Charts types in Lumira seems to be less compared to other tools like Tableau / QlikView etc
  • Color Schemes are limited
  • the Table component in Lumira has limitations like we cannot export entire table components into a PDF
  • Exporting features also needs attention - Like we cannot export to Microsoft Power point
  • The overlapping of components is a tiring job. The components should adjust more dynamically on canvas.
June 08, 2016

Lumira Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
  • It can be complicated to use.
  • I wish there was the ability to bring it into PowerPoint
June 08, 2016

Promising product

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Dashboards, charts, and animations look fantastic
  • Easy to import your own data and merge with other data
  • If your data has large enough cities, the geographical hierarchies that can be generated are extremely useful.
  • The main output is an infographic/story. Would like to see other ways to output the reports.
  • Only able to author content if the client is installed. Would like web based authoring capabilities.
  • Most of the time, the data you work with has to be held in memory on your local machine. This can be problematic for performance.
Claudio Sousa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Visualization ease of use is an industry leader.
  • The ability to segment and create derived data sets is easy and straightforward.
  • Basic transformations and cleansing is easy to learn and use.
  • Flexible joining of data sets needs improvement (currently only one direction is supported making the use of this feature awkward).
  • Adding "targets" and thresholds to visualizations is lacking.
tarini goyal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • SAP Lumira works perfectly well as a stand-alone data visualization tool. If you happen to possess other SAP applications in-house, it instantly becomes an all-encompassing analytics powerhouse.
  • SAP Lumira makes a near seamless jump from being an enthusiast’s pretty graphing tool to a really serious enterprise BI tool in seconds
  • Share actionable insights with enhanced business intelligence reporting
  • Combine data from multiple sources
  • Visualize data and analyze trends
  • Share infographics and data stories
  • Deliver critical information on mobile devices
  • Drive better performance with high-impact dashboards and BI applications
  • Calculated measures with distinct counts not supported on SAP Lumira Server or SAP Lumira Cloud
  • In SAP Lumira, data acquisition from SAP HANA does not support the multi-db feature
  • In SAP Lumira Cloud and SAP Lumira Server, when acquiring data from a UTF-16-encoded CSV file, an error occurs. Only UTF-8-encoded files are supported.
Raja Gopal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Simplicity of prepare data, setup few visualization models and then creating a stoy board
  • Mulitple graphing & char options
  • More transformation options. For example connect 2 data sources, merge few attributes and create visualization
  • Need more data connectivity & ability to connect to good analytics or other commonly used data sources
Ravi Ada | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Gagandeep Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • SAP Lumira has very easy to use interface which makes it very easy to use and it is a big plus. Also, the tools for data alteration are appropriately placed and you need not drill down for simple options.
  • Complete overview of the data on the PREPARE tab provides you with a very good overview of the data.
  • Dashboards can be easily created.
  • Dashboards can be easily created which are simple yet attaractive.
  • Creating custom measures in SAP Lumira can be made a little more user-friendly.
  • Automatically created measures by SAP Lumira can be made more appropriate.
  • More sample report types can be added.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to use interface of SAP Lumira is a big plus.
  • Dashboards can be easily created and are simple yet attractive.
  • Tools to alter data are appropriately positioned in toolbar.
  • Overview of data in the PREPARE tab gives very good overview of the data.
  • Easy to create detailed overview and slides for presentation.
  • Not able to create a layer with other datasources.
  • Not able to create the custom regions in Geo map.
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