Qlik Sense vs SAP Lumira comparison

Qlik and SAP are both solutions in the Data Visualization category. Qlik is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.0, while SAP is ranked #26. Qlik holds a 5.6% mindshare in DV, compared to SAP’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Qlik users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 73% of SAP users who would recommend it.

Qlik Sense

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96% willing to recommend

SAP Lumira

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73% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

Qlik Sense and SAP Lumira are competing analytics platforms, both offering unique advantages. Qlik Sense seems to have the upper hand with its superior data visualization capabilities and flexibility.

Features: Qlik Sense offers advanced visualization options, an associative data model, and user-friendly interface. SAP Lumira provides strong data integration, robust data preparation tools, and seamless integration with other SAP systems.

Room for Improvement: Qlik Sense could benefit from more intuitive customization options, enhanced multi-device adaptability, and greater integration with third-party tools. SAP Lumira may improve by simplifying its setup process, expanding support for non-SAP data sources, and enhancing its user interface.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Qlik Sense features an intuitive cloud-based deployment with positive customer support. SAP Lumira requires more complex setup and integration with SAP infrastructure but provides extensive service offerings for large enterprises.

Pricing and ROI: Qlik Sense offers flexible pricing models favoring long-term ROI through scalable architecture. SAP Lumira typically has higher entry costs due to integration needs but offers value for businesses utilizing other SAP solutions.

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Categories and Ranking

Qlik Sense

Ranking in Data Visualization

4th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

125

Ranking in other categories

Embedded BI (2nd), AI Data Analysis (16th)

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 January 2026, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of Qlik Sense is 5.6%, down from 7.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Lumira is 1.0%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Visualization Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Qlik Sense	5.6%
SAP Lumira	1.0%
Other	93.4%

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Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

In-memory data storage boosts performance

The advantages compared to other BI tools show architectural differences. The main feature is that it keeps all the data in memory. It doesn't retrieve the data from data sources when I need it on the dashboard; instead, it quickly provides the desired data, making it very fast compared to other BI tools. The ROI is very high using Qlik Sense. It offers many benefits of BI. It is flexible from a developer's point of view, allowing me to accomplish many tasks compared to other BI tools. From an end-user perspective, it's convenient and performance-oriented, providing something meaningful from all the organization's data.

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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

"My organization now has data from disparate systems at their fingertips in a way that lets them get the answers they need when they want it."

"The integration with R & Python for predictive modeling, and possibly machine learning in the future, is very valuable."

"Qlik Sense brings in the concept of shared libraries where one user can create custom dimensions (even with drill-down functionality), measures, and even visualizations and save it to the "Master Items," from which the other users can simply drag and drop to use it for their analysis."

"Business users have been able to use the BI self-serve model."

"Qlik Sense helps us increase our organization's customer relationships and brings in more projects."

"The drag-and-drop dashboard builder is an intuitive interface for building dashboards from source reports."

"We can generate various graphs, various reports and we can mainly use it for dashboard related things. We can create a dashboard with live data and we can make decisions based on this information,"

"From siloed reports, we went to a centralized knowledge hub, combining cross-functional data, and helping decision-makers see the data as a whole, therefore making more informed decisions."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Beautiful visualizations."

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

Cons

"They need to keep it as simple as possible but include as much advanced functionality as possible by positioning all the objects on the page, changing colors for all the objects, improving sheets actions, etc."

"In my opinion, collaborative development of the Qlik Apps is a bit tricky and difficult in the Qlik Sense Cloud."

"It would be great if decentralized teams would have more features to manage the metadata on the dashboards, setup the specific user access rights and rules to govern incoming and outgoing data sets from/to other teams, and more features to separate the different data process layers (e.g. extraction, transformation [data quality, business rules])."

"Possibly offering some more basic, simpler templates."

"Technical support requires improvement. I would rate it around three out of ten. Basically, I think they lack in the support system."

"I wish the product had the ability for slightly more customization. The out-of-the box charts and visualizations are fantastic, but I want to be able to tweak it without having to add outside extensions and widgets."

"The support aspect could be improved, particularly in terms of response time for high-priority issues, especially when dealing with production environment client issues that require immediate attention."

"We want the next version of this solution to be cloud-based so that each user can access it from anywhere in the world with their phone, tablet, or computer without a VPN connection."

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

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

"It needs an easier printing feature."

"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."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The costs can initially become quite high. Make sure you have a clear understanding of who will truly use the product as opposed to someone that will simply receive the end report."

"Costs are a little high on the license/token side. However, if you look at the TCO, it is not too bad, particularly against Power BI."

"Licensing: Review the named model and move towards a usage model (e.g., cores, memory, computers, API calls, etc.)."

"Currently, our ROI is clear and concise decision-making. This timely addition will easily add $15 million to our bottom line in 2017."

"It is the most expensive tool."

"Understand the break over price point for switching to the Enterprise license."

"We have 20 licenses for Qlik Sense, and it is a special license that allows people in the whole company to use it over time. You buy this license and there are some minutes that can be used. For example, for the users that used only a few minutes in a month, we use this license. All the people have the ability to work with Qlik Sense. However, the number of licenses is not the number of users. The number of users that uses Qlik Sense is approximately 35 people."

"The new licensing model is much better."

More Qlik Sense pricing and cost advice

"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

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Government

Insurance Company

10%

Media Company

Healthcare Company

Transportation Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	34
Midsize Enterprise	40
Large Enterprise	87

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

Questions from the Community

Seeking lightweight open source BI software

It depends on the Data architecture and the complexity of your requirement. Some great tools in the market are Qlik Sense, Power BI, OBIEE, Tableau, etc. I have recently started using Cognos Enter...

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Seeking lightweight open source BI software

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The most valuable features of Qlik Sense are its speed and seamless development of web technologies.

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Also Known As

QlikSense, Qlik Analytics Platform

SAP BusinessObjects Lumira

Overview

Qlik Sense is a visual analytics and business intelligence (BI) platform that gives users full control over their system’s data. From this platform they can control every aspect of their system data. It maximizes an organization’s ability to make decisions driven by their data.

Benefits of Qlik Sense

Some of the benefits of using Qlik Sense include:

Easily manipulate data: Qlik Sense allows users to easily combine and otherwise manipulate their system’s data. It allows them to create interactive visual representations of your datasets. The many different ways that the data can be represented offer many potential options for how to analyze the data. These choices enable users to easily gain critical insights.

Easily automate alerts and routine actions: Qlik Sense enables users to keep a close eye on their data. Automatic alerts that will notify them if their data changes in any way. Users don’t need expert knowledge of coding to create automated data-driven events. Users of all experience levels can take advantage of this benefit. Qlik Sense enables routine actions to be automated when necessary data insights will spur the system to take action. This combination of analytics and other tools empower users to take charge of their data.

Customize reporting: Users can set Qlik Sense to generate custom reports. These reports can also be customized to be shared by way of one of several methods, allowing users to control who sees their data and what they see.

Reviews from Real Users

Qlik Sense stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its associative analytics technology and its remote access capability. Qlik Sense employs an associative analytics engine that gives users the ability to take their data analytics to the next level. Users can create visual connections between different datasets spread across their network, creating deep insights that enable users to gain a full understanding of their data. This engine is easily scaled up to allow a large number of users to benefit from the deep insights that it provides. Users can access Qlik Sense from anywhere in the world. Qlik Sense has an online portal that can be used consistently from anywhere at all. Having the ability to remotely analyze data gives users flexibility when it comes to choosing how to deploy their manpower.

Jarno L., the managing director of B2IT, writes, “The associative technology features are the solution's most valuable aspects. Qlik was the first company to implement an in-memory associative analytics engine. This basically means that all data is loaded into memory, but it also means that instead of joining data together, the data is associated together. From the front end, from the user interface point of view, data can be joined or included or excluded on the fly. It can be drilled down and drilled through and users can slice and dice it and that type of thing can be done from anywhere in the data to any other place in the data. It doesn't have to be predefined. It doesn't have to have hierarchies or anything like that.”

Tami S., the senior business intelligence analyst at the La Jolla Group, writes, “With the changing business landscape, it is nice to access Qlik Sense through an external website. As an organization when we use QlikView Desktop, we need to connect to our internal network. We can access QlikView through the QlikView access point but the website has a little different look and feel than the desktop application. We appreciate that Qlik Sense is browser-based and the user experience is the same whether at home, in the office or on a boat. As long as the user has internet access, performance is the same.”

Qlik

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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Sample Customers

Abbvie, Airbus, Barclays, BT Openreach, BMW, Daimler AG, HSBC, IKEA, Nationwide Building Society, Royal Mail Group, Sanofi, Siemens, Wendy'', Vodafone, Volvo

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

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