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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SAP Lumira Discovery

    Score4.4 out of 10
    N/ASAP 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

    Yellowfin

    Score8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Yellowfin is a cloud-based business intelligence and dashboarding platform.

    $250

    per month

    Pricing
    SAP Lumira DiscoveryYellowfin
    Editions & Modules
    SAP Lumira, standard edition
    $185
    per user
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAP Lumira DiscoveryYellowfin
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    SAP Lumira DiscoveryYellowfin
    Considered Both Products
    SAP
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    Yellowfin
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    80%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    67%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    63%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    67%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    67%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    71%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    SAP Lumira DiscoveryYellowfin
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Yellowfin
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    8.0
    97 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Yellowfin
    6.1
    12 Ratings
    29% below category average
    Customizable dashboards8.097 Ratings6.212 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings5.85 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings6.411 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Yellowfin
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    7.3
    103 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Yellowfin
    6.6
    12 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Drill-down analysis10.0100 Ratings6.611 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.0103 Ratings7.112 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration5.098 Ratings6.511 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings6.38 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Yellowfin
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    6.1
    95 Ratings
    31% below category average
    Yellowfin
    5.9
    11 Ratings
    34% below category average
    Publish to Web7.082 Ratings6.311 Ratings
    Publish to PDF5.094 Ratings6.211 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling6.355 Ratings5.611 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings5.89 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings5.55 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Yellowfin
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    4.3
    104 Ratings
    60% below category average
    Yellowfin
    5.8
    12 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)5.0102 Ratings5.912 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization6.095 Ratings5.712 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics2.072 Ratings5.810 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Yellowfin
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    -
    Ratings
    Yellowfin
    6.2
    11 Ratings
    31% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings6.311 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings6.510 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings6.310 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings5.94 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Yellowfin
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    -
    Ratings
    Yellowfin
    6.7
    8 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings6.25 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings6.38 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings6.28 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of SAP Lumira Discovery and Yellowfin
    Feature
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    -
    Ratings
    Yellowfin
    6.1
    5 Ratings
    24% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings6.15 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings5.45 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings6.05 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings6.35 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.55 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings6.55 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    SAP Lumira DiscoveryYellowfin
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Zendesk Explore
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Zendesk Explore
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SAP Lumira DiscoveryYellowfin
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.0
    (105 ratings)
    6.2
    (12 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    6.3
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (11 ratings)
    5.6
    (7 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    2.0
    (83 ratings)
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    Data Sources
    10.0
    (89 ratings)
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SAP Lumira DiscoveryYellowfin
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SAP
    Infographics derived from specific data sources appears to be well suited for development using Lumira. The development of executive level dashboards was less appropriate from my perspective. The software does not provide sufficient demonstration or samples for the users to learn from in my opinion.
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    Yellowfin
    We can recommend this software without hesitation, as it has the ability to generate reports and data analysis, as well as process the data automatically, which saves time. It is ideal for small and medium-sized companies that wish to improve their services in the business world
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    Pros
    SAP
    • SAP has built in features you would expect from a data visualization package, like easy import from other SAP systems.
    • SAP has most of the typical charts that you would expect in order to visualize your data.
    • SAP allows you to have multiple charts on one visualization for your data.
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    Yellowfin
    • Yellowfin’s Storyboard, Timeline and Collaborative tools make it easy to share data and insights across an organisation.
    • Strong Operational and Executive Dashboards that reflect the business KPIs and can send out prompts to people within the business based on rules.
    • Yellowfin makes it incredibly easy to create dynamic reports and dashboards which incorporate maps through locational intelligence functionality.
    • Yellowfin is a single license and all access is via a web browser making it perfect for both on-premise and cloud deployment. Mobile apps are also available.
    • User roles and source filtering allows Admin/IT to offer different functions/views by user group/role.
    • Mobile BI applications to support any device ..
    • API connectors ( YF 7.2 on the way in Mar16 ) for a range of third-party Web-based applications, data sources, Enterprises CRM/ERP apps & open data platform apps, including Salesforce, Google Analytics, Twitter, Youtube , Zoho CRM, XE.com & more coming to make endusers to integrate their applications for better benefits
    • Yellowfin Integration with Predictive analytical and Big Data processing tools like R, UDF, Spark to build rich applications for end users
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    Cons
    SAP
    • Even though the process of creating visualizations of data is now greatly improved, it could still be a lot better as users become accustomed to this kind of tool and bring forward edge cases the developers did not anticipate.
    • It would be awesome to have a cross platform tool that works on more than just Windows.
    • Some options for specific graphs feel limiting.
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    Yellowfin
    • The ability to predefine a colour for a specific graph as a selection option dynamically.
    • The ability to customise the label of a chart, especially with respect to performance related reporting graphs we need an increase in dynamic charting options to meet our more specialised requirements.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SAP
    Given the scope ,maintanence , support and budget are the main drivers to deciding renewal of a software
    Incentivized
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    Yellowfin
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    SAP
    SAP Lumira is very good self service analytical tool with powerful capabilities. However need to look into other SAP products in BI space, like SAP SAC. SAP Lumira is more used for custom and complex analytical need in business intelligence area. Also SAP Lumira is going out of maintenance in coming future replaced by SAP SAC.
    Incentivized
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    Yellowfin
    As mentioned previously, if a newer company is looking for a strong, polished BI tool, Yellowfin would be a great software vendor to consider. Unfortunately, the high cost might be a barrier to these newer companies who dont have any legacy software/agreements such as an EA agreement with Microsoft.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    SAP
    Lumira is a desktop application runs in its own JVM. It installs its own java runtime libraries to avoid any core java version conflicts. The availability of the application is completely relies on individual machine hardware configuration. On a decent desktop, it performs well and always launches in either 32 or 64 bit environment based on the hosts system's OS
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    Yellowfin
    99.9% availability
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    Performance
    SAP
    The performance is linear with amount of data that is being explored. We have done some benchmarks acquiring 10million data cells without having any performance problems. We need to make proper adjustments to jvm run time properties to start with higher heap size and other parameters that optimizes the run time performance
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    Yellowfin
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    SAP
    It does not have many bugs or issues since not a lot of new features are being added. The customer support for SAP Lumira Discovery is good and anyone considering this as a self-service tool would be happy. It integrates well in the SAP BI suite of products and the overall experience is positive.
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    Yellowfin
    They have good support in what they provide. But what they provide is not what is promised. I would stay with them if I can. Be very careful before signing up with them. They are not what they seem in the sales pitches. Be very careful and make sure you test and test before you sign up.
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    In-Person Training
    SAP
    We did not take in-person training
    Incentivized
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    Yellowfin
    Yellowfin provides 3 levels of training to support consumers, business analytics, developers and Administrations :
    1. Yellowfin BI Training - Level 1 (Exploration)
    2. Yellowfin BI Training - Level 2 (Advanced)
    3. Yellowfin BI Training - Level 3(Expert)
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    Online Training
    SAP
    Most of the user guides are pretty comprehensive and very easy to understand. The product itself is designed to be self-serve tool, did not need much of the end-user training. Most of the training we had is to how to read the data, how to explore the data, how to acquire the data etc.
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    Yellowfin
    Web-based training for large audiences for Level 1 and Level 2 I would suggest
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    Implementation Rating
    SAP
    Installing the desktop software on end-user machines is always challenging. The machine specifications are the biggest factor when running Lumira and be able to handle large datasets during data exploration. This often demands beefy machines at least for power-users. Although Lumira software licensing is not a big problem but managing partner's extensions and keeping track of their individual licenses may be an issue. If there is a way to bundle the more popular extensions such as vSQL or vOLAP should be bundled in core product and offer them as part of Lumira license instead of a separate license which causer operational burden.
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    Yellowfin
    Design the data model and views for each dashboard is very important and it is the success factor Configuration of cluster for large implementation
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    Alternatives Considered
    SAP
    Even though SAP Analytics Cloud is considered to be better in aspects such as data connectivity or analytics, we decided to choose Lumira as it was easier to understand, learn and use. As our business is not really that big and does not require the inclusion of large amounts of data, Lumira was overall the safest and most comfortable option. Also, some members in our team had previous knowledge so it was easier to adapt
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    Yellowfin
    Yellow Fin platform is browser agnostic and is accessible from desktops as well as mobile devices. It is very simple and fast, it is integrated with Big Data, clients do not require a great training. It just works. But it’s easier to have things on the cloud, especially if you need to use different computers. Yellow Fin lacks the cloud feature.
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    Scalability
    SAP
    Enterprise wide implementation is a challenge with data security and trustedness. No easy installation can be done across the enterprise. no upgrade paths also available from SAP. They have so much of experience with desktop implementation, there it could be a controlled environment with a capital budget. These may be resolved in the upcoming releases
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    Yellowfin
    - Tested 500 con-current users in Linux platform with 4 cores systems - Tested with cloud based VM - Tested with 1000 reads per minutes
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    Return on Investment
    SAP
    • We could obtain original data from vast and detailed corporate and personal data sources.
    • We could share visual analysis results with stakeholders via the cloud, and it could also be viewed on a tablet.
    • It is very flexible and accurate to use. It can be used for forecasting sales, resource planning, and scheduling.
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    Yellowfin
    • made our org more data centric
    • Decisions are made based on data vs opinion
    • has created a single source of truth for the bulk of the organization
    Incentivized
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