Adaptive Insights vs SAP Lumira comparison

Workday and SAP are both solutions in the Data Visualization category. Workday is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.2, while SAP is ranked #23. Workday holds a 0.7% mindshare in DV, compared to SAP’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Workday users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 73% of SAP users who would recommend it.

Adaptive Insights

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100% willing to recommend

SAP Lumira

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73% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

Adaptive Insights and SAP Lumira compete in financial planning and data analytics respectively. Adaptive Insights has the upper hand in financial planning with its robust capabilities, while SAP Lumira excels in data visualization for detailed analytics.

Features: Adaptive Insights offers comprehensive financial planning, robust budgeting tools, and powerful scenario planning capabilities. It allows instant consolidation of financial data and integrates seamlessly with MS Office. SAP Lumira provides advanced analytics, dynamic real-time visualizations, and a user-friendly interface for engaging data exploration.

Room for Improvement: Adaptive Insights could enhance its non-financial reporting features, improve ease of use for data visualization, and expand integration with non-financial systems. SAP Lumira might focus on simplifying the initial setup process, providing more advanced user guides for complex features, and enhancing the scalability for large datasets.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Adaptive Insights provides a straightforward cloud-based deployment with seamless updates and dedicated financial support. SAP Lumira offers both cloud and on-premises deployment options, providing flexibility but potentially more complexity in setup. It delivers quick and knowledgeable support for its users.

Pricing and ROI: Adaptive Insights uses a subscription-based pricing, offering cost-effectiveness over time with a strong ROI from financial management efficiency. SAP Lumira has variable pricing depending on deployment and features, with potentially higher initial costs but justified by its deep data analytics capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Adaptive Insights

Ranking in Data Visualization

11th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Performance Management (8th), Financial Performance and Strategy Management (3rd), Reporting (12th), ESG Reporting Software (4th)

SAP Lumira

Ranking in Data Visualization

23rd

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 0.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Lumira is 0.8%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Andrew Rosenberg

Adaptive Planning Manager at Alight

Adaptive scales well, simple to create new budget versions and models

For the organization I used to work at, it streamlined the process of creating budgets. It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday. So that made it easy. Reporting was pretty easy to set up as well. It streamlined the amount of time it took to do the budget as well as kind of making it simple to implement a rolling forecast process. So, it really was more just a productivity increase and time shortening for the budgeting and forecasting process.

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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

"Automated reporting."

"The integration with our payroll system to complete staff modeling during our budget and forecast processes."

"It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday."

"Changes to corporate structure, account codes are updated in all versions including prior years, hence "one-version of truth" as claimed."

"The biggest feature is the source of truth for all of our budget and forecast versions."

"Reports are allowed to be edited for aesthetic purposes, which is lacking in a lot of other dashboard tools."

"The important feature is integration with source data. It connects to various ERP systems, including Workday, Intact, and others. It can also import actuals and compare them to PlanPoint quite easily."

"It's very stable."

More Adaptive Insights pros

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

"Beautiful visualizations."

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

"It is fairly easy and fast when it comes to using it."

"SAP Lumira is the best system in the world, at least in my opinion. I like that it's a stable system and that many people in my company have development experience in SAP Lumira. The solution keeps on improving and has excellent support."

"The most valuable features of SAP Lumira are the dashboards, geographical elements, and graph filtering, and the usage is similar to a website which makes it easy to use."

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

Cons

"Adaptive Insights has a limit of 1,00,000 rows for HTML reports. It should be improved because we will have multiple dimensions that need to be populated to enhance the image."

"Their customer support team is slow to respond and not extremely confident."

"Being able to drill down when using OfficeConnect needs work."

"The product's configuration process could be faster."

"Adaptive Insights could improve the data designer interface to make integrations easier to set up."

"Better user interface (UI)."

"Users continue to become more advanced and are looking for more advanced solutions."

"We tried Discovery and OfficeConnect at one point and found them too cumbersome, at the time."

More Adaptive Insights cons

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

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

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

"I'm not a fan of using SAP Lumira 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 Lumira is a complex system to learn and teach, so another area for improvement in the solution is that it needs to be more user-friendly."

"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."

"Lumira uses a lot of memory resources, so the execution of dashboards is slow."

"It needs an easier printing feature."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Ensure that you have the proper pricing plan in place."

"Everything is negotiable, but this solution is low cost compared to others."

"Pricing is in line with other cloud-based EPM tools. It is a subscription-based model based upon the number of users and site type if it's an admin or end-user type thing."

"It's affordable."

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."

"Prior to purchasing licenses, make sure you understand which users will only need planning and which users will need both planning and OfficeConnect."

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is relative to its peer competitors. It's certainly competitive compared to a spreadsheet template that you build in Excel. It can be expensive if you need to have 100-500 budget holders giving input and building financial plans. However, in that case, it becomes an extremely good bargain. Compared to its competitors, it offers an excellent value."

"Licensing seems to be worth the cost considering the efficiency Adaptive brings."

"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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Financial Services Firm

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Adaptive Insights?

It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Adaptive Insights?

12 years ago, it was very affordable. Workday has definitely increased its price since it acquired Adaptive a few years ago. So, it's affordable. But there are other more affordable solutions that ...

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What needs improvement with Adaptive Insights?

The integrations could be simpler. It takes quite a bit of internal and IT know-how to set up. So, there could be room for just improving the integrations, making it easier to integrate outside sys...

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Also Known As

Workday Adaptive Planning, Adaptive Discovery , Workday Adaptive Planning

SAP BusinessObjects Lumira

Overview

Adaptive Insights is a cloud-based financial planning and analysis software that helps businesses streamline their budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes.

With its intuitive interface and powerful analytics, it enables organizations to make data-driven decisions and drive business performance.

Workday

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

SAP

Sample Customers

1. Cisco Systems 2. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated 3. Deloitte 4. DocuSign 5. Dropbox 6. Electronic Arts 7. Fender Musical Instruments Corporation 8. Fitbit 9. Fossil Group 10. Groupon 11. Hilton Worldwide 12. HP Inc. 13. Intuit 14. Johnson & Johnson 15. LinkedIn 16. Lyft 17. McAfee 18. Medtronic 19. Netflix 20. Oracle 21. Pandora 22. PayPal 23. Pinterest 24. Red Hat 25. Salesforce 26. ServiceNow 27. Slack Technologies 28. Spotify 29. Symantec 30. Tableau Software 31. Twitter 32. Workday

Medtronic, Cirque du Soleil, Antarc, B&G Manufacturing, EarlySense, eBay, Ferrero, James Austin Company, Lenovo, Sagem, RAK Ceramics, Vodafone

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