SAP Lumira Reviews

I use SAP for the procurement and planning department. However, my company has an SAP implementation in every department, whether its for production, reporting, finance, HR, etc.

SAP 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 with SAP. The solution keeps on improving and has excellent support.

The most valuable features are all of the analytical dashboards, which then pull real-time data.

We can prepare a summary and, with these dashboards, anybody can build it and they are all self-service tools. You don't really need to program and you don't need any high tech people to hand over the dashboards to the business. It's mainly user-friendly and a self-service tool.

We haven't actually done anything. We are just exploring. We are doing a couple of proof of concepts. We haven't realized anything in production.

We have something planned. I was given a glimpse of what we intend to do. We have a lot of data sitting on our database. We would like to deliver an analytical dashboard which really provides somebody about the performance of our sub-layer. We would like to take a look and see how our sub-layers are performing. What is the quality of the developers? Are they really meeting their deadlines? We have 100,000 sub-layers. If they don't meet their deadline, we don't either, so that's a very critical to our delivery date. These are some of the things we would like to build our dashboards and go from there.

We use SAP Lumira to build different dashboards for our tax purposes for companies. We had different KPIs for each company homepage, such as revenues, and operating income, in one dashboard. Additionally, we integrated a head count, which is an external source with dashboards coming from Workday.

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.

I think rapid development, geospatial coding, using it to connect to multiple data sources are all good selling points for it.

That's important to our company because it enables self-service or data as a service for the end-user community.

We've streamlined our tool selection. A lot of other groups within the company have used other products, Excel, Power BI, Tableau, and then Lumira came into play. Being an SAP company, we're trying to have people gravitate towards one common tool and platform, so I think it increased the efficiency just from the training perspective, the support perspective, and also just aligning with the overall IT strategy.

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

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.

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

In our experience, it hasn't improved our organization.

It's very easy to import data and also to create formulas and so on. In that sense, it's really easy and friendly. Also, it made creating charts, and especially, for example, the bubble charts, really easy and very powerful.

I've been creating metrics that show variances, for example, in surgery times and supplies used in surgeries, and also in expenses, analyses of expenses. That has helped me a lot. What I presented was really, really impressive for the rest of the team.

It would be valuable if I could more easily share what I do. Right now, where I work, we have SAP BusinessObjects, but there's no way to easily store on a server and share. If we could store models I create in a folder that I could share. Sharing is something that I think should be improved.

Also, because Lumira saves directly to your My Documents folder, it stays in your C: drive. That means I cannot simply share it with the team in my department. They have to make it easier for you to store in any folder, not just My Documents, because My Documents is on my C: drive, and that makes no sense. I thought, "Why did they do that?"

Another thing that should be improved is the connection, the ability to use different sources in the same model. I think Lumira can do it, but it's not easy. We don't have HANA, so I cannot easily access any of the queries I have in BusinessObjects. I have to go to BusinessObjects, export to Excel, and then input the Excel file into Lumira.

Not being able to use data that is updated continuously is something that really bothers me, because I have to keep remembering, "I have to update this, I have to update this." I know that the refresh works, it refreshes and it's really really good.

Also, sometimes it doesn't input data, which is really important. For example, if there is an Excel file that is really big, like 1GB, it was just unable to input it. I just couldn't work with it. The file I was using was perfect. The file didn't have any blocks or something like that. I don't know why it didn't input that one.

Also, if you have one visualization, and you want to show several areas or windows that you can resize and so on. With Lumira, it's very difficult to resize it because the areas are square. It's not like what I had before.

I would like to see them improve the format of the text that you use, so you can play more with fonts, and put more information on one screen.