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Pyramid Analytics vs SAP Lumira [EOL] comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Pyramid Analytics
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.4
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (7th), Data Visualization (9th)
SAP Lumira [EOL]
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Ynazif Nazif - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO & Principal Consultant at Pyramid Analytics & Consulting
Unified data workflows have improved reporting quality and now support better decisions
The best features Pyramid Analytics offers include a broad range of features, which I think is one of the advantages of it. It has a lot of connectors and a lot of different capabilities. I would say end-to-end capabilities is one of the nice features of it. Regarding the end-to-end capabilities and lots of connectors, I found the connectors most valuable. If you are trying to do Snowflake, SQL server, or any of the normal database platforms that you see in the cloud or on-premises, it has those connectors built in. You don't have to worry about writing custom drivers. That is a nice feature to have. Pyramid Analytics has impacted my organization positively in that I use it for my clients' organizations. For my organization, it is great because it gives me a technology platform that clients enjoy using and I am proficient with. For my clients, it is about delivering on their aspirations in terms of what they want to do with their data and where they want to head in their organization. This is definitely a tool that we can use in order to get there. After implementing Pyramid Analytics for my clients, I have seen measurable outcomes and specific improvements, such as having a single platform that gets them from the raw data to the endpoint reporting. I think that streamlining has a positive effect on the quality of the outputs. The quality of the outputs definitely leads to better decision making.
Rafal Zaborowski - PeerSpot reviewer
Supply Chain Manager, Proxy, Matw Global D&I Council Memeber at SAUERESSIG Group
It's stable, it keeps on improving and the technical support is excellent
I think a lot of users aren't having fun using SAP 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 is a complex system where you can learn and teach, so another area for improvement in the solution is that it needs to be more user-friendly. In the next release of SAP, I want it to have a friendlier menu for its users.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Pyramid Analytics has positively impacted our organization in these areas."
"Using Pyramid Analytics, I believe we can save a lot of time in reporting."
"Pyramid has a wide level of uses, as it's a complete ETL process and has a good level of connecting to a lot of data sources."
"Pyramid Analytics has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to analyze sales data and identify opportunities regarding how to use the budget and where to allocate it to get more sales."
"The on-premise version has quite good scalability."
"This solution is convenient and works well with simple data sets."
"We just replaced our old reports and chose Pyramid Analytics because the technology moved on, and we do just well in supporting our customers with a reporting tool based on Pyramid Analytics."
"Pyramid Analytics has improved my decision-making process, especially if I go for NLP, because I simply write the questions and it will automatically go with some of the data and create a visualization, which has saved time by automatically giving me a very fast answer."
"This solution is easy to use, and it is unbelievable to use for operations and exploration."
"The dynamic creation of dashboards and the quick visualization is the key feature."
"This product is amazing and changes how people think of the relationship between IT and businesses."
"Geographic hierarchy and the ability to connect with SAP sources, such as CRM, ERP, and BW."
"This is a tool that gives more power to the user."
"It is fairly easy and fast when it comes to using it."
"Beautiful visualizations."
"Within an hour or so, we had actually a better visualization of the data."
 

Cons

"From my experience so far, I would not recommend Pyramid Analytics."
"As for how Pyramid Analytics can be improved, I wish that there was a greater degree of customization available."
"Pyramid Analytics could improve by speeding up data refresh, especially for large datasets."
"I liked that I could write my own query inside Pyramid Analytics and extract the data the way I wanted it, but I did not like that it was too complex to display just a simple report, with so many menus and sub-menus, and the calculations were a bit complex."
"Pyramid Analytics could be improved to be more user-friendly. I thought the most difficult reporting tool was Tableau, but I found Pyramid Analytics to be somewhat more complex."
"The general amount of negative comments that I am hearing from my team makes me very wary."
"One thing that could be added that could be useful is more rich data cataloging, which Pyramid Analytics doesn't really have at the moment."
"Regarding how Pyramid Analytics can be improved, I honestly think we had some issues in connecting Pyramid Analytics with SAP; it is not so easy as we have been told, and this is something that could be a really good feature to improve to enable users to be more self-sufficient to manage this kind of activity."
"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."
"SAP Lumira's scalability is very limited. Every time we have to involve IT if there is a change in the dashboard."
"Lumira was very useful for me, but now I have more needs, and I have to move faster because I am responsible for a lot of data, and a lot of information that I have to provide to the directors and VPs."
"Lumira uses a lot of memory resources, so the execution of dashboards is slow."
"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."
"I am happy with the product, but they could improve in the discovery of the product."
"It needs an easier printing feature."
"Don't waste your time. Lumira falls short of its competitors in this space both in capabilities and in ease of use."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing cost is not excessively expensive, but it does increase with the addition of new features and modules."
"In terms of cost, SAP Lumira is less affordable."
"PowerBI is way more capable at a much better price point: $10 per user without all the associated setup costs."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Construction Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
19%
Construction Company
15%
Government
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise8
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise15
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pyramid Analytics?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Pyramid Analytics is that I do not have any kind of experience. I was provided with the license, meaning credentials, but I do not have any...
What needs improvement with Pyramid Analytics?
Regarding how Pyramid Analytics can be improved, I honestly think we had some issues in connecting Pyramid Analytics with SAP; it is not so easy as we have been told, and this is something that cou...
What is your primary use case for Pyramid Analytics?
I was involved in a project, more like a bid offer, and we started this kind of cooperation with Pyramid Analytics, so I obtained the certification, the highest one, and I found out it is a really ...
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