SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio vs SAP Lumira comparison

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio and SAP Lumira are both solutions in the Data Visualization category. SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio is ranked #30, while SAP Lumira is ranked #26. SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio holds a 1.0% mindshare in DV, compared to SAP Lumira’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 73% of SAP Lumira users who would recommend it.

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73% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio and SAP Lumira based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

SAP BusinessObjects Design ...

Ranking in Data Visualization

30th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

SAP Lumira

Ranking in Data Visualization

26th

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio is 1.0%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Lumira is 0.9%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SAP Lumira	0.9%
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio	1.0%
Other	98.1%

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reviewer2329704

Head of Data at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Comprehensive product with valuable dashboard and reporting features

SAP BusinessObjects offers a comprehensive solution with all BI functionalities. It includes valuable features like a dashboard, reporting, visualization, etc The platform's pricing needs improvement. It is very expensive. They should work on this particular area. We have been using SAP…

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Rafal Zaborowski

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.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It includes valuable features like a dashboard, reporting, visualization, etc."

"Geographic hierarchy and the ability to connect with SAP sources, such as CRM, ERP, and BW."

"It's very easy to import data and also to create formulas and so on, and it made creating charts, especially bubble charts, really easy and very powerful, helping me build impressive metrics for the team around surgery times, supplies used, and expense analysis."

"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."

"We chose it because of its ability to have a selection of data from various sources, and it's an easy reporting tool for business analysts to use."

"This product is amazing and changes how people think of the relationship between IT and businesses."

"The best feature is the ease of developing dashboards."

"It seemed to be fairly user friendly."

"The most value that Lumira provides is in its ability to consume the Business Objects universe."

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Cons

"The platform's pricing needs improvement."

"It needs an easier printing feature."

"We definitely encountered issues with stability. We found a lot of bugs throughout the amount of time that we've been using the product."

"It needs the ability to drill down more. Analyzing data with Lumira at times becomes a bit difficult."

"It would be great to have more ETL capabilities so that the user can do more cleansing/mining on his/her side."

"I am happy with the product, but they could improve in the discovery of the product."

"I did encounter issues with stability and performance. It really takes a long, long time, if you want to do analysis on viewed data."

"Lumira's capabilities feel like that of a store app with the intuitiveness of a desktop app, which is not a good combination."

"An area of improvement, for sure, is the flexibility of the visualization."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The platform's pricing needs to be revised."

"In terms of cost, SAP Lumira is less affordable."

"PowerBI is way more capable at a much better price point: $10 per user without all the associated setup costs."

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Top Industries

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Government

17%

Marketing Services Firm

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	15

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Also Known As

SAP Design Studio, BusinessObjects Design Studio

SAP BusinessObjects Lumira

Overview

Create interactive, mobile-ready data visualizations for your business dashboards and BI apps – using SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio. Enhance app and dashboard design, put actionable information at decision makers’ fingertips – and get the maximum value from your data with a direct connection to SAP Business Warehouse and SAP HANA.

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SAP Lumira delivers beautiful visualizations, allowing you to easily articulate and share key data insights. Discover hidden patterns and transform the way you communicate your data – big and small in the most engaging way. SAP Lumira lets you pull data directly from a variety of sources and bring it all together in a repeatable, self-service way. Point and click data manipulation lets you organize and consolidate data the way you want to: quickly and easily. Through the intuitive interface and engaging visualizations you can analyze data effortlessly to discover valuable insights that can help keep you organized and agile with your data.

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Features:

· Quickly extract and analyze data from virtually any source, create compelling visualizations, and share key insights with ease.

· Expand your business intelligence by cleaning, enriching and merging multiple datasets together.

· Streamline discovery by exploring any volume or type of data in real time, without sacrificing performance or security

· Simplify the 360-degree view of your business by bringing together data from enterprise sources across all lines of business straight to your desktop

· Share data visualizations and collaborate with colleagues or business partners using SAP Lumira, Server for Teams

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