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SAP Lumira vs Tableau Enterprise comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 15, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

SAP Lumira
Ranking in Data Visualization
26th
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Tableau Enterprise
Ranking in Data Visualization
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
309
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (2nd), Reporting (2nd), Embedded BI (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of SAP Lumira is 0.9%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tableau Enterprise is 11.0%, down from 27.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Tableau Enterprise11.0%
SAP Lumira0.9%
Other88.1%
Data Visualization
 

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.
Uzair Faruqi - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Data Science at Mjunction Services
Ease of developing dashboards and receiving strong technical support have enabled efficient data visualization
Introducing custom features, such as NLP-based reports, is not very good in Tableau. My MD has been asking us for a way to write in natural language to request reports that the system should generate, but that isn't very effective with Tableau. As a developer, I can develop an on-demand report in Python quite easily, but exposing a REST API on the Tableau platform is not a very easy task. AI enablement is an area for improvement for Tableau, and that is something they might have to work upon. I have heard that ThoughtSpot is quite better in this regard, but the cost of ThoughtSpot is much higher. ThoughtSpot has lots of natural language-based report generation features that Tableau lacks.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It's more of a user-friendly tool, it's easy, and it speeds up the process."
"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."
"This is a tool that gives more power to the user."
"It seemed to be fairly user friendly."
"It is fairly easy and fast when it comes to using it."
"This product is amazing and changes how people think of the relationship between IT and businesses."
"The dynamic creation of dashboards and the quick visualization is the key feature."
"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."
"Tableau has provided visibility into patterns which I had not previously observed."
"The ease of presenting findings is very helpful."
"Users can generate reports by themselves, while IT people can focus on the database management."
"The drill-down approach and interactivity in Tableau are highly effective."
"The dashboards are great."
"The best features of Tableau that I admire the most are that it's user-friendly, intuitive, and the visual aspect is impressive."
"The scalability is simply awesome."
"I have found the solution easy to use and the interface is very good."
 

Cons

"Lumira uses a lot of memory resources, so the execution of dashboards is slow."
"I did encounter issues with stability and performance. It really takes a long, long time, if you want to do analysis on viewed data."
"It has some limitations when operating BW data, and has limited functions when mixing different data sources."
"A lot of bugs keep coming up when we connect to HANA or create our custom color palette."
"Don't waste your time. Lumira falls short of its competitors in this space both in capabilities and in ease of use."
"We definitely encountered issues with stability. We found a lot of bugs throughout the amount of time that we've been using the product."
"Each quarterly upgrade has new features, but then existing features tend to break. This is highly frustrating and affects existing Lumira documents."
"It needs to have more complex and enriched chart functions."
"The process of embedding the dashboards on external portals and websites could be improved."
"Include forecasting on table calculation fields."
"They need to improve the icons and the filters, because they look too old, resembling Excel from 1997."
"Provide additional enhancements in any business process: Operations, Marketing and Sales, Finance, Human Resources, Logistics, etc."
"I would like the solution to have certain features allowing the delivery of reports to the email."
"Overall, the only major frustration that I have had so far is with Tableau Public. I first used Tableau Public when I was building capacity, and when there was a later release to download and you wanted to upgrade, all your work would have to be manually re-entered."
"The pricing is a bit higher than the competition. They'll need to lower it to stay competitive."
"Provide additional enhancements in any business process: Operations, Marketing and Sales, Finance, Human Resources, Logistics, etc."
 

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."
"Tableau is an expensive solution, though it comes with its advantages."
"The price could be higher for the quality of software, so they revised the pricing in this version, and I agree with the price for top version. The top version costs about $70 per month, and the price is cheap for the quality."
"Tableau is a little cheaper as compared to Power BI and other technologies that we have used in the past. However, if the business users in our organization want to make presentations, Tableau has been asking us to purchase a Tableau Creator license, and $35 per month is expensive for business users. Power BI is giving a free desktop version for business users to connect to any data source and build their own dashboards. That's why we have proposed to use Power BI for most of the business users in our organization."
"Paying for users you never setup or buying expensive desktop licenses for users who can solve their users with web editing on the server are the two biggest expenses."
"I believe it has a lifelong license, and once you purchase it, you don't have to renew it, but I'm not sure."
"The pricing of Tableau should be better to remain competitive in the market, especially when compared to alternatives."
"Tableau is free."
"Its price is reasonable. Everything is included in the license."
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Comparison Review

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Product Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
May 2, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Government
17%
Marketing Services Firm
8%
Financial Services Firm
5%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
University
6%
 

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 Business117
Midsize Enterprise67
Large Enterprise184
 

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Also Known As

SAP BusinessObjects Lumira
Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Tableau Online
 

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Sample Customers

Medtronic, Cirque du Soleil, Antarc, B&G Manufacturing, EarlySense, eBay, Ferrero, James Austin Company, Lenovo, Sagem, RAK Ceramics, Vodafone
Accenture, Adobe, Amazon.com, Bank of America, Charles Schwab Corp, Citigroup, Coca-Cola Company, Cornell University, Dell, Deloitte, Duke University, eBay, Exxon Mobil, Fannie Mae, Ferrari, French Red Cross, Goldman Sachs, Google, Government of Canada, HP, Intel, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Macy's, Merck, The New York Times, PayPal, Pfizer, US Army, US Air Force, Skype, and Walmart.
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