SAP Lumira pros and cons

Vendor: SAP

3.6 out of 5

22 reviews
73% willing to recommend

191 followers

Pros & Cons summary

SAP Lumira delivers value by integrating with Business Objects universe, CRM, ERP, and BW, offering stunning visualizations in geographical hierarchies with ease and speed in dashboard creation. It excels in graph filtering and is praised for stability by experienced users but lacks robust ETL capabilities and has slow dashboard performance due to high memory use. SAP Lumira requires more user-friendly features, simpler dashboard prep, and less mandatory keyboard input.

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PROS

SAP Lumira provides value through its ability to consume the Business Objects universe.

The visualizations in SAP Lumira are beautiful.

SAP Lumira has geographic hierarchy and the capability to connect with SAP sources like CRM, ERP, and BW.

The ease of developing dashboards is one of the best features of SAP Lumira.

SAP Lumira is stable and continuously improving with excellent support.

CONS

Lumira lacks sufficient ETL capabilities for data cleansing and mining by users.

Users find it challenging to analyze data due to limited drill-down functionality.

Lumira's dashboard execution is slow because it uses a lot of memory resources.

Creating dashboards in Lumira is more IT-centric, requiring design expertise compared to more intuitive tools like Tableau.

Lumira demands direct keyboard input with some coding, making it complex for users to learn and teach.

SAP Lumira Pros review quotes

it_user434982

Global Manager BI Applications at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 1, 2016

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

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Rafal Zaborowski

Supply Chain Manager, Proxy, Matw Global D&I Council Memeber at SAUERESSIG Group

Feb 2, 2023

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.

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reviewer1930287

Software Engineer (Reporting Analyst) at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Aug 10, 2022

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.

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it_user435360

SAP HANA Architect Associate at Accenture

May 2, 2016

Beautiful visualizations.

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Zakaria Rahoui

Consultant Business Intelligence at Corporate Software

May 4, 2022

The best feature is the ease of developing dashboards.

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it_user448320

Development and Alumni Relations Associate at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 22, 2016

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

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it_user856440

Team Leader Analytics at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Apr 22, 2018

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

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SAP Lumira Cons review quotes

it_user434982

Global Manager BI Applications at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 1, 2016

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

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Rafal Zaborowski

Supply Chain Manager, Proxy, Matw Global D&I Council Memeber at SAUERESSIG Group

Feb 2, 2023

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.

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reviewer1930287

Software Engineer (Reporting Analyst) at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Aug 10, 2022

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.

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it_user435360

SAP HANA Architect Associate at Accenture

May 2, 2016

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