SAP Lumira - Every minute spent learning, 1 full day of productivity gained!
May 02, 2016

SAP Lumira - Every minute spent learning, 1 full day of productivity gained!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Lumira

I've come from from an area of data analysis and consumption that was heavily utilizing Excel spreadsheets to create dashboards and reports. These reports were manually configured week by week, month by month. I utilized formulas and entered raw data obtained through various database sources.

Lumira, changed all that. Lumira allowed me to tap into various data sources, create report templates and set scheduled refreshes so I never have to monkey around with reports on a weekly basis. I've saved hundreds of hours that were spent massaging and cleansing data. That is now being used to do what my job requires of me - making meaningful analysis happen, while putting the things I learned to use.

SAP Lumira has enabled me to take raw data, create meaningful reports, and obtain key information pieces to act upon and drive change. It's been a while since SAP made data analysis easy, but thanks to their hard work - we're finally there.

  • Analysis - Dynamic charts, filters and drill downs of data from a budget or cost measure.
  • Plotting data on various charts, including geographical data via ARC GIS data on Esri Online.
  • Simple GUI interface - No SQL or programming required.
  • Sort columns/dimensions in visualizations (e.g. custom sort on dates, months, years)
PowerBI - very intuitive - more so than SAP Lumira with a very small learning curve. Able to plot graphs and charts by typing in natural language. IBM Watson - not as intuitive, but quite powerful. Able to plot and suggest or propose findings by parsing and analyzing data (very cool) Lumira is not able to plot by natural language or propose charts as well, but it is overall much more friendly and robust. It comes in cloud and desktop client versions.
SAP Lumira is well suited if you are sick and tired of doing manual reports, and would like to automate report creation. It is not so well suited, if you are looking to customize a visualization as it does require extensions or plugins for non out-of-box charts.

SAP Lumira Discovery Feature Ratings

Customizable dashboards
10
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
8
Report sharing and collaboration
10
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
8
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8