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SAP Lumira pros and cons

Vendor: SAP

3.6 out of 5

22 reviews
73% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

SAP Lumira delivers value by integrating with Business Objects universe, CRM, ERP, and BW, offering stunning visualizations in geographical hierarchies with ease and speed in dashboard creation. It excels in graph filtering and is praised for stability by experienced users but lacks robust ETL capabilities and has slow dashboard performance due to high memory use. SAP Lumira requires more user-friendly features, simpler dashboard prep, and less mandatory keyboard input.

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PROS

SAP Lumira provides value through its ability to consume the Business Objects universe.

The visualizations in SAP Lumira are beautiful.

SAP Lumira has geographic hierarchy and the capability to connect with SAP sources like CRM, ERP, and BW.

The ease of developing dashboards is one of the best features of SAP Lumira.

SAP Lumira is stable and continuously improving with excellent support.

CONS

Lumira lacks sufficient ETL capabilities for data cleansing and mining by users.

Users find it challenging to analyze data due to limited drill-down functionality.

Lumira's dashboard execution is slow because it uses a lot of memory resources.

Creating dashboards in Lumira is more IT-centric, requiring design expertise compared to more intuitive tools like Tableau.

Lumira demands direct keyboard input with some coding, making it complex for users to learn and teach.

SAP Lumira Pros review quotes

Planning Analyst at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 27, 2016

We’ve created several dashboards that display large sets of data in an insightful and easily digestible way.

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Global Manager BI Applications at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 1, 2016

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

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Senior Consultant at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 2, 2016

Now, it seems to be one of the best SAP dashboard/chart/data analysis tools available.

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SAP HANA Architect Associate at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

May 2, 2016

Beautiful visualizations.

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SAP Innovation Analyst at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

May 19, 2016

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.

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Development and Alumni Relations Associate at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 22, 2016

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

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Principal Consultant - SAP HANA,BW,BusinessObjects BI at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

May 24, 2016

The ability to merge enriched data from different sources and also to connect to SAP HANA live data is also embedded in SAP HANA live analytics which cuts down time to deliver a solution to users and helps power users to design their own Lumira stories without any need for IT.

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Business Operations Analyst at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

May 24, 2016

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.

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Senior Vice President and Head of Multicultural Insights at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

May 24, 2016

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

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Business Intelligence Analyst at a recreational facilities/services company with 501-1,000 employees

Jun 21, 2016

Within an hour or so, we had actually a better visualization of the data.

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SAP Lumira Cons review quotes

Planning Analyst at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 27, 2016

Each quarterly upgrade has new features, but then existing features tend to break. This is highly frustrating and affects existing Lumira documents.

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Global Manager BI Applications at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 1, 2016

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

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Senior Consultant at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 2, 2016

There have been some issues; the product itself is going through the improvement stages and the newer versions seem to be more stable.

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SAP HANA Architect Associate at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

May 2, 2016

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

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SAP Innovation Analyst at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

May 19, 2016

A lot of bugs keep coming up when we connect to HANA or create our custom color palette.

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Development and Alumni Relations Associate at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 22, 2016

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

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Principal Consultant - SAP HANA,BW,BusinessObjects BI at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

May 24, 2016

It needs to have more complex and enriched chart functions.

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Business Operations Analyst at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

May 24, 2016

The Cloud/Edge version of SAP Lumira still needs to be more user friendly.

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Senior Vice President and Head of Multicultural Insights at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

May 24, 2016

It has some limitations when operating BW data, and has limited functions when mixing different data sources.

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Business Intelligence Analyst at a recreational facilities/services company with 501-1,000 employees

Jun 21, 2016

I would look at the geospatial part of it which doesn't seem work well as when you look at converting that for your maps, it is a little cumbersome, and it's not as accurate.

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