Item: SAP Lumira Discovery
Rating: 2
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP BusinessObjects Lumira is being used by our organization for ad-hoc reporting. Is it being used by one department in the organization but could be extended to whole organization. SAP BusinessObjects Lumira is being used for smart meter analytics across the utility companies. The purpose was to replace SAP Explorer in the long run

Pros and Cons

UI is not intimidating
Can connect to multiple data sources
Natively supports HANA views etc.

Far behind Tableau in terms of functionality
Not Intutive
Chokes with large amount of data

Alternatives Considered

Tableau and IBM Cognos

Just for trial since its SAP product and the lisence was free intially for SAP Lumira if you have HANA but I would not recommend it for people who would have to buy this product from SAP. The other ad hoc tools are far ahead in the game. Please look at Gartner for BI tools Quadrant

Other Software Used

SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects, Hadoop

Likelihood to Recommend

I don't think that version 1.27 of SAP BusinessObjects Lumira is suited for anything. If SAP adds more functionality like Tableau then it could be more suitable. Clients that already have SAP HANA , for them it might be somewhat useful but I think Cognos, Tableau etc have already built connectors to HANA so Lumira would lose the edge in that sense too.

Lumira - Not Now Maybe Future

Overall Satisfaction with SAP BusinessObjects Lumira

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros and Cons

Alternatives Considered

Other Software Used

Likelihood to Recommend

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