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SAP Lumira [EOL] vs Splunk Enterprise Platform comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 15, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

SAP Lumira [EOL]
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk Enterprise Platform
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
94
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (2nd), IT Alerting and Incident Management (2nd)
 

Featured Reviews

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.
Koyena Paul - PeerSpot reviewer
Managed Security Services Associate at Accenture
Centralized security monitoring has transformed our threat detection and incident response
While Splunk Enterprise Platform is widely regarded as a powerful SIEM and observability platform, users across enterprises commonly report recurring challenges including licensing and data ingestion costs. Splunk Enterprise Platform's licensing is often based on the volume of data ingested, and as our organization grows, costs can increase significantly, and our teams may need to carefully decide which logs to ingest, which can limit visibility. A suggested improvement would be more flexible licensing options, better built-in recommendations for optimizing data ingestion, and smarter data compression or tiered pricing. There is also a steep learning curve where beginners can find SPL difficult. A suggested improvement would be more AI-assisted SPL generation, interactive tutorials, and guided dashboard creation with additional pre-built templates for common SOC use cases. These are the main areas for improvement that I can see: licensing flexibility, reducing the learning curve for new users, simplifying development, improving performance for very large datasets, and providing more AI-assisted features to reduce manual effort. In terms of adding more improvements, there are frequently discussed areas including easier third-party integrations. While Splunk Enterprise Platform supports many integrations, onboarding new security tools sometimes requires custom configurations or add-ons. A suggested improvement would be more plug-and-play integrations, faster support for new vendors, and then simplified administration. Administrators often manage indexes, forwarders, user roles, and cluster health, so a suggested improvement would be easier administration dashboards and automated health checks. These are suggestions that acknowledge Splunk Enterprise Platform's strengths while highlighting areas where many enterprise users see opportunities for further improvement. The primary areas for improvement that I see are licensing flexibility, simplifying administration, expanding plug-and-play integrations, and adding more AI-driven assistance for searches and investigations. These improvements would significantly simplify our tasks and help us solve more incidents in a lesser amount of time, making it flexible even for beginners.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I think rapid development, geospatial coding, using it to connect to multiple data sources are all good selling points for it."
"Beautiful visualizations."
"This is a tool that gives more power to the user."
"This solution is easy to use, and it is unbelievable to use for operations and exploration."
"Now, it seems to be one of the best SAP dashboard/chart/data analysis tools available."
"It is fairly easy and fast when it comes to using it."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Enterprise Platform is that it's a customizable solution."
"The best features I value about Splunk Enterprise Platform include a great correlation rule that allows me to edit and generate alerts based on any event in an easy and fast way."
"We use Federated Search, which allows us to search data across multiple Splunk Enterprise Platform deployments without moving all the data in a single instance, so it helps us very much to access and analyze distributed data sources from one central search interface."
"Splunk Enterprise Platform has positively impacted my organization by helping us become compliant with a lot of auditable data points that we need to meet in order to actually operate."
"From a stability perspective, the tool is good."
"Overall, the feature set of Splunk Enterprise Platform is comprehensive and flexible."
"In my opinion, the best features Splunk Enterprise Platform offers are the ability to dive deep into all the data you have stored, especially how quickly it performs and how flexible it is, along with how fast you can work with your data."
"Splunk Enterprise Platform has the Search Processing Language, which is the query language for the product, and the advantage is that I can log and monitor all of the microservices in a single location."
 

Cons

"From an enterprise supported tool, I find that a little wanting."
"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."
"Don't waste your time. Lumira falls short of its competitors in this space both in capabilities and in ease of use."
"There have been some issues; the product itself is going through the improvement stages and the newer versions seem to be more stable."
"I am happy with the product, but they could improve in the discovery of the product."
"It needs to have more complex and enriched chart functions."
"It needs the ability to drill down more. Analyzing data with Lumira at times becomes a bit difficult."
"Splunk could improve by enhancing its graphical view functionality. Compared to other BI tools, Splunk's graphic features are limited; customers desire detailed, rich visual effects, like world maps showing threat attacks as animations."
"There is a function of the DB Connect app that needs improving—if you are collecting logs and the logs do not have anything that you can use as a rising column to tell the system to continue from where you left off, you have to bring in your logs in a batch, which can lead to duplicates."
"What I dislike about Splunk Enterprise Platform is the props and transforms functionality. For most types of data, we have custom add-ons and everything is available, but for some data we want to parse, the add-on is not available."
"I see room for improvement with Splunk Enterprise Platform, particularly concerning costs, as many customers are considering switching to other SIEM platforms because the costs for the data are sometimes too high."
"With Splunk Enterprise Platform specifically, I hit a real hard wall at about 300,000 searches an hour, and I could not get above that."
"The solution's license cost is high and can be improved."
"The user interface for search results is slower than it should be, and we would appreciate higher performance."
"From my perspective, Splunk tends to be too expensive for smaller customers."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"Splunk Enterprise Platform is an expensive solution."
"The solution’s pricing is moderate."
"The solution's pricing increases with the amount of data used. This pricing model is acceptable because it aligns with the security features provided. It ensures that the price reflects the level of security and the amount of data we're managing."
"The tool is expensive."
"If you exceed your licensed limit, the product will issue a warning, typically a five-license warning. Additionally, they send daily email notifications informing you about the breach. This prompts you to consider options such as minimizing logs or acquiring additional licensing to address the issue."
"I have heard from my managers that Splunk Enterprise Platform is an expensive solution."
"I rate the product's pricing a ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. It is a very pricey tool."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing around seven or eight out of ten."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
20%
Construction Company
15%
Government
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Construction Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise15
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business39
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise66
 

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What needs improvement with Splunk Enterprise Platform?
I would like to see more flexible licensing, easier deployment and administration, enhanced AI-driven automation, and more built-in dashboards and detection content in Splunk Enterprise Platform. I...
What is your primary use case for Splunk Enterprise Platform?
Splunk Enterprise Platform serves as our primary solution for centralized log collection, real-time security monitoring, threat detection, incident investigation, and alert management. The cloud de...
What advice do you have for others considering Splunk Enterprise Platform?
My advice for others looking into using Splunk Enterprise Platform is to start with clear use cases, onboard the right data, train your team on Splunk Enterprise Platform, optimize the searches and...
 

Also Known As

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