SAP Lumira Discovery vs. Tableau Desktop

SAP Lumira Discovery

495 Reviews and Ratings

Tableau Desktop

2,288 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
SAP Lumira Discovery	Score4.4 out of 10	N/A	SAP Lumira Discovery is SAP’s data visualization and discovery application. It facilitates data discovery, visualization, and analysis by assisting users with creation of dashboards, infographics, presentations, data facets, tag clouds, and more.	$185 per user
Tableau Desktop	Score8.1 out of 10	N/A	Tableau Desktop is a data visualization product from Tableau. It connects to a variety of data sources for combining disparate data sources without coding. It provides tools for discovering patterns and insights, data calculations, forecasts, and statistical summaries and visual storytelling.	$75 per month

Pricing

SAP Lumira Discovery

Tableau Desktop

SAP Lumira, standard edition: $185
per user

Tableau: $75
per month per user
Tableau Enterprise: $115
per month per user

Pricing Offerings
SAP Lumira Discovery	Tableau Desktop
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	Yes

No setup fee

No setup fee

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All pricing plans are billed annually.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	SAP Lumira Discovery	Tableau Desktop
Considered Both Products	SAP Verified User Chose SAP Lumira Discovery I have evaluated products such a Tableau Desktop and Splunk and the biggest difference I realized was the ability to include interactive controls in the output. For instance if I wanted to include the ability to filter by a category or filter by a date range, the controls can … Incentivized Helpful? Frédérick Samson Software Architect in Information Technology at SYNTELL Inc. (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose SAP Lumira Discovery - Power BI has more features (like ETL) and more integration. Power BI Desktop is free. - Tableau has better visual and better interactivity. Tableau is expensive. - SAP Lumira is affordable as long as you don't need the Web Portal. Incentivized Helpful? Lauren Brands Enterprise Systems Solutions Experienced Associate in Finance and Accounting at PwC (Accounting, 10,001+ employees) Chose SAP Lumira Discovery Lumira is the last of my visualization tool selections, this is in comparison to Tableau, Qlik, etc. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP Lumira Discovery Both Tableau and QlikView score very highly in end user experience and visualisation development compared to Lumira. However the integration of Lumira with existing Universes you may have or cost implications if you have a SAP BI Suite licence can help shift the preference into … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP Lumira Discovery I found SAP Lumira first, but actually have begun to use Tableau more. SAP stacks up pretty well against Tableau, but it feels just a step behind in most areas. Incentivized Helpful? David Fickes Decision Sciences - Modeling, Simulation & Analysis in Research & Development at San Francisco State University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SAP Lumira Discovery Lumira is a junior version of Tableau. I would go for Tableau in an instant but it is also 10 times the price. For smaller jobs, Lumira can do the job but it has a lot of growing up to do. Incentivized Helpful? Andy Perrella Business Manager in Marketing at DuPont (Chemicals, 10,001+ employees) Chose SAP Lumira Discovery Tableau is used by many in my business and is easier to learn. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP Lumira Discovery The way it works with other SAP apps is a great factor which tilts the pointer in favor of SAP LD. By that I mean ability to import data from places like SAP HANA, BW, BO Universe, etc. provides a flexible way to cleanup and prepare data for analysis easily and quickly. The … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP Lumira Discovery Lumira is the worst. If you are a total SAP shop you might prefer to use WebI, BeX, or even Crystal Reports/Dashboards before making the leap into Lumira. If you have the option and are already a MS 365 user, download PowerBI, it is cheaper, easier and more powerful. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP Lumira Discovery None of the above mentioned tools have good SAP products connectivity. Most of the medium and Large organizations usually run large-scale SAP deployments. Incentivized Helpful? Himanshu Singh Product Manager in Product Management at ANS Commerce - E-commerce Solutions for India (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose SAP Lumira Discovery SAP Lumira is mainly for non technical persons. When one is not into much data and doesn't want to dig dip into data models and algorithms, it is very handy. But, if you are dealing with lots of data with huge variety and volume you should consider the alternatives, as the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP Lumira Discovery SAP lumria is user-friendly and need no basic training for visualization training. Incentivized Helpful? Parimelalagan Kumaraguru -Pari- SAP BI Consultant in Information Technology at Islamic Development Bank (IDB) (Banking, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SAP Lumira Discovery For a full featured SAP environment, Lumira is the suitable platform for a BW, Hana, ECC universe or third party DB universe sourced reporting compared to all of the other analytical platforms. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP Lumira Discovery It has better visualization than the above-mentioned software. It is much easier to use SAP Lumira for quick data visualization without any hitches. We are confident in the product and it has never failed to deliver what we looked for. Our efficiency has increased 3 fold since … Incentivized Helpful? Avishek Chakraborty Solutions Architect in Information Technology at Saksoft Ltd (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SAP Lumira Discovery Easy to use, one time license cost, close integration with BI/BO, custom user story for case based data presentation. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP Lumira Discovery SAP BusinessObjects Lumira is a more powerful program that lets us create better visualisations than other options that were considered. We were happier with the results we were able to get with Lumira than with other programs that we used in the past. Incentivized Helpful? Alina Hera Customer Service Team Manager in Customer Service at Ruukki (Construction, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SAP Lumira Discovery Certain features that SAP BusinessObjects Lumira has are not as good as in the other software that we considered, but SAP BusinessObjects Lumira was a more reliable program overall than some of the alternatives, which helped us decide to purchase this software versus the other … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP Lumira Discovery I used SAP BusinessObjects Lumira while consulting with a company that had existing licenses. While I'm not normally a big SAP fan, I was blown away by this product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP Lumira Discovery The ease of access to Data and visualizations. The fact that it is integrated with BW and HANA makes it a must have for SAP customers Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP Lumira Discovery I think the only real reason to select SAP BusinessObjects Lumira over the others listed above at the moment would be due to the integration with the rest of the SAP stack, whether that is the current level of integration or the future level that is expected. On all other … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP Lumira Discovery It looks like Lumira is inferior in terms of utilizing ZIP mapping. Incentivized Helpful? Ghada Bahloul Intern in Research & Development at Inria (Research, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SAP Lumira Discovery I select edto use SAP BusinessObjects Lumira because it's the best solution for data analysis. Incentivized Helpful? Anil Kumar Sahu Technical Architect in Information Technology at IBM (Food Production, 10,001+ employees) Chose SAP Lumira Discovery Lumira is more tightly coupled with the SAP HANA data source. It is more suitable for doing real time data analysis. Incentivized Helpful? Darshan Goyal Retired SDO at Haryana Irrigation (Government Relations, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SAP Lumira Discovery Domo and QlikView - Data manipulation is easy with QlikView, but Lumira is good with ease of creating visualizations. Incentivized Helpful? Jason Westenskow Director Business Intelligence in Finance and Accounting at Allconnect (Consumer Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose SAP Lumira Discovery In all cases, except data connectivity, Lumira is worse in my opinion. Incentivized Helpful?	Tableau Afia Tamanna Information Technology Business Consultant in Professional Services at Alfa NET+ (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Tableau Desktop Tableau Desktop is preferred over other BI software because it allows for more data visualization, storytelling, and dashboards. Microsoft Power BI may be a better option if you need to perform data modeling, however. Tableau Desktop is an excellent tool for nearly all other … Incentivized Helpful? Ravi Ada System Architect in Engineering at Medlio (Hospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees) Chose Tableau Desktop User experience wise Tableau is hands down the winner. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Desktop I feel like Tableau is easier to use and offers a greater selection of visualizations. I feel that the dashboards are easier to put together and offer a great amount of flexibility for the end-user. Tableau has an excellent user support group. I find the community to be … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Desktop It is more useful and easy. Incentivized Helpful? David Fickes Decision Sciences - Modeling, Simulation & Analysis in Research & Development at San Francisco State University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Tableau Desktop Excel is the ultimate jack-of-all-trades Swiss army knife approach. You can do almost anything but it is missing much of the polish of dedicated applications of Tableau. Great for the initial approach to a new dataset. I have created some custom Excel macros that go in and run … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Desktop More flexible and easier to use than Lumira Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Desktop Tableau is not as user-friendly as SAP Lumira. SAP Lumira is more efficient and productive time-wise, especially for first-time users. Tableau is better for more complex and detailed dashboards; especially interactive dashboards. Tableau enables users to create interactive … Incentivized Helpful? mahesh ray Data Engineer in Engineering at Citrix (Computer Networking, 10,001+ employees) Chose Tableau Desktop Tableau is the only tool that can be exposed to end users so that they can build their reports and dashboards and can publish these without the help of a dedicated developer. Incentivized Helpful? Sandeep Reddy Tippana HANA Modeler in Information Technology at Schlumberger (Oil & Energy, 10,001+ employees) Chose Tableau Desktop SAP Lumira starts off well with its ease of use but the number of visualizations are very limited in Lumira when compared to Tableau Desktop. Also the ability to customize the visualizations is limited. Its integration with the non SAP data sources is poor. Also, the components … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

SAP Lumira Discovery

Tableau Desktop

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Tableau Desktop
Feature	SAP Lumira Discovery 8.0 97 Ratings	Tableau Desktop 8.3 167 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	8.097 Ratings	8.4166 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	00 Ratings	8.8139 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	00 Ratings	7.8145 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Tableau Desktop
Feature	SAP Lumira Discovery 7.3 103 Ratings	Tableau Desktop 8.7 164 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	10.0100 Ratings	8.6159 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	7.0103 Ratings	9.2162 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	5.098 Ratings	9.2157 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	00 Ratings	7.7122 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Tableau Desktop
Feature	SAP Lumira Discovery 6.1 95 Ratings	Tableau Desktop 8.1 158 Ratings
Publish to Web	7.082 Ratings	7.3149 Ratings
Publish to PDF	5.094 Ratings	7.9149 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	6.355 Ratings	9.2123 Ratings
Report Versioning	00 Ratings	8.2116 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	00 Ratings	8.073 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Tableau Desktop
Feature	SAP Lumira Discovery 4.3 104 Ratings	Tableau Desktop 8.4 156 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	5.0102 Ratings	9.0154 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	6.095 Ratings	8.2149 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	2.072 Ratings	8.6126 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining	00 Ratings	8.02 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Tableau Desktop
Feature	SAP Lumira Discovery - Ratings	Tableau Desktop 8.7 142 Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	00 Ratings	9.0139 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	00 Ratings	8.0119 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	00 Ratings	8.8129 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	00 Ratings	9.03 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	00 Ratings	8.877 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Tableau Desktop
Feature	SAP Lumira Discovery - Ratings	Tableau Desktop 8.0 135 Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	00 Ratings	8.2124 Ratings
Mobile Application	00 Ratings	7.097 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	00 Ratings	8.8117 Ratings

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Tableau Desktop
Feature	SAP Lumira Discovery - Ratings	Tableau Desktop 9.0 64 Ratings
REST API	00 Ratings	9.256 Ratings
Javascript API	00 Ratings	9.051 Ratings
iFrames	00 Ratings	9.249 Ratings
Java API	00 Ratings	10.046 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	00 Ratings	8.453 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	00 Ratings	8.446 Ratings

User Ratings
	SAP Lumira Discovery	Tableau Desktop
Likelihood to Recommend	5.0 (105 ratings)	8.7 (194 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.9 (39 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (15 ratings)	8.6 (63 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (10 ratings)
Performance	7.0 (1 ratings)	6.1 (9 ratings)
Support Rating	7.0 (11 ratings)	7.0 (56 ratings)
In-Person Training	6.0 (1 ratings)	9.4 (4 ratings)
Online Training	6.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (4 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (3 ratings)	8.0 (34 ratings)
Configurability	2.0 (1 ratings)	8.1 (2 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	2.0 (83 ratings)	8.4 (115 ratings)
Data Sources	10.0 (89 ratings)	7.9 (115 ratings)
Ease of integration	5.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	6.0 (1 ratings)	7.0 (3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	8.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	8.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)