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Panorama Necto vs SAP Lumira [EOL] comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Panorama Necto
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (31st), Reporting (20th), Data Visualization (19th)
SAP Lumira [EOL]
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

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Programmer Analyst at Tech Services Company
The infographics feature is unique to Necto. However, they need better tutorials and community support.
The best feature I liked is the infographics which is great and it's best unique feature. It helps developers use existing infographics from the library or they can create their own and present to end users It's quite easy to create reports in Necto using the infographics feature. Collaboration…
Rafal Zaborowski - PeerSpot reviewer
Supply Chain Manager, Proxy, Matw Global D&I Council Memeber at SAUERESSIG Group
It's stable, it keeps on improving and the technical support is excellent
I think a lot of users aren't having fun using SAP because it requires putting in a lot of information by keyboard directly because it requires some coding, so this is one area for improvement. From a user point of view, SAP is a complex system where you can learn and teach, so another area for improvement in the solution is that it needs to be more user-friendly. In the next release of SAP, I want it to have a friendlier menu for its users.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I would definitely recommend this product to others as it provided ease of use and good reports."
"Eye catching infographics and very good collaborative capabilities providing context based discussion has really impressed our users within the organization."
"It lets users analyze corporate data and create personalized dashboards."
"I highly recommend this tool for any business that wishes for quicker and qualitative analysis of their data."
"We have been using this tool for self-service data discovery, it is quite easy to use, and I like their customer service as the tech support guys are very responsive."
"They have started working with Panorama Necto and are extremely happy with the product."
"I used this tool for a regional sales dashboard and I confirm that it is one of the best data discovery BI tools I have ever used."
"This tool exceeded my expectations!"
"I would recommend using SAP Lumira because the development of dashboards is easy, and they have a good look and feel."
"It seemed to be fairly user friendly."
"It provides better, more robust ability to visualize data than in Excel or some of the other desktop tools that are out there, providing users the ability to identify actionable trends in their data sets that they normally wouldn't see, like in a spreadsheet or tabular data, a report."
"I think rapid development, geospatial coding, using it to connect to multiple data sources are all good selling points for it."
"Now, it seems to be one of the best SAP dashboard/chart/data analysis tools available."
"It is a product that's easy to learn and understand, with the ability to create dynamic visualizations and various integration options including next-to real-time."
"The most value that Lumira provides is in its ability to consume the Business Objects universe."
"It's more of a user-friendly tool, it's easy, and it speeds up the process."
 

Cons

"Major improvement is needed in the way Panorama offers in-person training and online chat support."
"I don't think it would support data analytics if the data set is really very big."
"Administration is an area where it needs improvement as a huge set of scripts are required."
"Limited support for big data analytics."
"Training, tutorial and awareness."
"Multi-language support"
"Initially when one starts with the tool there are so many options on the console (it is a bit cluttered), one is a bit confused."
"They have too many options in the graphs and when I asked the support to help me with that, they did not respond."
"SAP Lumira can improve if they game more capability to the end user to prepare dashboards because it's more of an IT task to create them. In Tableau, we can drag, drop, and create. However, in SAP Lumira, we need a designer and a separate KT to be able to do it well."
"We definitely encountered issues with stability. We found a lot of bugs throughout the amount of time that we've been using the product."
"Each quarterly upgrade has new features, but then existing features tend to break. This is highly frustrating and affects existing Lumira documents."
"The Cloud/Edge version of SAP Lumira still needs to be more user friendly."
"It would be great to have more ETL capabilities so that the user can do more cleansing/mining on his/her side."
"Lumira uses a lot of memory resources, so the execution of dashboards is slow."
"It needs an easier printing feature."
"A lot of bugs keep coming up when we connect to HANA or create our custom color palette."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"PowerBI is way more capable at a much better price point: $10 per user without all the associated setup costs."
"In terms of cost, SAP Lumira is less affordable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
16%
Outsourcing Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
19%
Construction Company
15%
Government
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise32
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise15
 

Also Known As

Panorama Necto
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira
 

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Sample Customers

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