SAP Lumira Reviews

The connection almost covers our main RDBMS and SAP products. Users can fix, operate datasets, and build a story on top of it. Especially for HANA live and HANA offline connections, its performance is pretty good and operate data live. What impresses me most are the charts and graphs, geo map, the integration with ESRI, and the third part of designing geo maps. What’s more, you can integrate with other third party APIs and design your own charts. Last but not least, you can publish not only a dataset, but also the whole storyboard to cloud, BIP, and the Lumira server, which makes it easy for your team to share, view and edit.

I would say Lumira is very user friendly and easy to learn for a business analyst and their clients. It removes dependency on IT, and a business can sometimes build their own story from a dataset. That’s a huge improvement for our organization.

It has some limitations when operating BW data, and has limited functions when mixing different data sources. Also, the publishing and sharing integration with BIP and other cloud products needs work.

I've been using it for two years.

There were no issues with the deployment.

We've experienced no issues with performance.

It's been able to scale for our needs.

This product is amazing and changes how people think of the relationship between IT and businesses. It makes processes easier and faster and enables businesses to know exactly what they need so that their storyboard becomes more accurate and easy for them to present.

• Data analysis
• Data visualization
• Selection of data from various sources
• Easy reporting tool for business analysts

• Fast response
• Easier to use than our previous solution
• Can do the data manipulation and altering
• Can be installed on desktops
• Easy to download and install
• No technical expertise required for data analysis

The Cloud/Edge version of SAP Lumira still needs to be more user friendly. It's still in the initial stages, so we can expect more features in future releases. SAP is coming up with a new improved cloud version.

I've been using it for eight months.

There were no issues with the deployment.

We've experienced no issues with performance.

It's been able to scale for our needs.

It's good.

We chose it because of it's ability to have a selection of data from various sources, and it's an easy reporting tool for business analysts to use.

We used a vendor team to implement it, and it's going to be supported by an in-house one.

It's a pretty good solution, but you should wait for SAP’s new improved version of Lumira.

Dynamic real-time visualizations by connection to real-time databases.

• Better and faster visualizations
• Integration with HANA gives next-to real time performance
• Easy to share

A lot of bugs keep coming up when we connect to HANA or create our custom color palette. Also, after coding JavaScript, sometimes the elements get hidden behind the graph and then there is no way to know how to make modifications. Another concern is the security regarding which users are allowed which kinds of data sources. This setting is done on the BI platform. Ours is 4.1 but still, there is security for Hadoop as a data source.

I've been using it for around a month.

We have encountered no issues with its stability.

It’s a scalable application.

I would prefer more documentation with examples regarding the security and custom javascripts within Lumira. Other than that, the support is good.

I have never used any other product.

It's complex only when establishing a separate Lumira Server and initial configurations.

We implemented it on our own.

We evaluated Tableau. It requires bit of an expertise in the usage of the product. Lumira is easy to understand and learn. Plus the easy integration with SAP. Also, licensing reasons.

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.

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

It needs to have more complex and enriched chart functions.

I've been using it for three years.

There were some issues but SAP support stayed on to help throughout the deployment.

We've experienced no issues with performance.

It's been able to scale for our needs.

It's very good.

It was straightforward.

We used a mixed team of vendor and in-house. We engaged a SAP Lumira product team from the get go.

Engage a SAP Lumira product team, and ask questions to understand how many deployment options there are available with SAP Lumira. Choose the option that fits your strategy and seek advice from the SAP Lumira support team on how best to deploy for maximum ROI.

The most valuable feature for us is that it allows us to generating complex charts and dashboards on the fly.

It's very easy to use. For example, even for us non-developers who don't know how to code or to handle databases, we're able to use Lumira. All we've needed is knowledge of some of the basic functionalities of it.

There are several features that competitors have in the reporting tools market, such as Qlikview, Crystal Reports, and Dashboard Designer. SAP should make Lumira more comparable and competitive to those solutions.

I've been using it for approximately one-and-a-half years.

There have been no issues with the deployment.

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

We have had no issues with scaling it for our needs.

8/10. Customer service is good, but it still can be further improved in terms of response times with issue fixes.

I've been using SAP technologies for the last six years. I have used Dashboard Designer, Crystal Reports and Webi reports to build our dashboards, but as it was something new and easy to use, we tried using Lumira for our POCs. Now, it seems to be one of the best SAP dashboard/chart/data analysis tools available.

The initial setup was not too complex, but no one was aware of it which increased its complexity. Now, it is very easy to deploy and use.

We implemented it on our own. SAP is doing a good job, and I am sure they will work on making implementations better.

SAP Lumira Standard Edition is approximately $185 per user.

It is really easy to use and provides the best results. It can really help any organization/domain to build their own dashboards easily and to analyze complex data.

We use Lumira to develop dashboards and discovery needs and visualize data needs.

Managers need to have interactive dashboards, and SAP Lumira has allowed us to develop dashboards for their discovery needs. And after we deploy these dashboards into Launchpad BI, we can schedule their publication or execution and send it to the manager's email.

The best feature is the ease of developing dashboards.

Lumira uses a lot of memory resources, so the execution of dashboards is slow. Even with 128GB of RAM on our server, the execution time is still slow.

I've been using this solution for six years.

Lumira performs well.

Lumira is scalable - we can deploy a cluster with different nodes and deploy features on different nodes.

SAP's technical support do a good job and always respect the incidents.

The initial setup is easy, taking between two to four hours to deploy on the server side and then another hour on the client side.

I would recommend using SAP Lumira because the development of dashboards is easy, and they have a good look and feel. I'd give Lumira a score of nine out of ten.