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'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.

• Better and faster visualizations
• Integration with HANA gives next-to real time performance
• Easy to share

It gave me the ability to see things that I otherwise wouldn't see from a pivot table.

We use it for things like planning major holidays, looking at resources required by hour based on things like traffic or sales or other important events that we may need to take into consideration. We can also provide some executive guidance on sales trends and forecasted results for the end of the day, the end of the week. We use it for a little bit of short term forecasting from time to time.

I would say Lumira is very user friendly and easy to learn for a business analyst and their clients. It removes dependency on IT, and a business can sometimes build their own story from a dataset. That’s a huge improvement for 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.

We're starting to get a lot more demo requests. We can create a demo for the client really easily in Lumira, because it's quick and easy and it's just drag and drop. Up until Lumira we were using Design Studio which takes a lot more coding and work to actually create something. It's an easier tool to use.

We’ve created several dashboards that display large sets of data in an insightful and easily digestible way.

Managers need to have interactive dashboards, and SAP Lumira has allowed us to develop dashboards for their discovery needs. And after we deploy these dashboards into Launchpad BI, we can schedule their publication or execution and send it to the manager's email.

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

To be honest, the way I function, I'm not sure it has improved the organization. I work for an SAP third-party vendor, so I got my Lumira license through my company. Basically, we use it because it's an SAP product and we have a certain amount of licenses for our company. I use it as a tool to visualize some data about SAP, so actually, I typically only use it for presentations. To some extent, it has improved them.

We knew which stores were selling a lot, but we didn't know that they were actually outperforming all the other stores. When we were able to visualize it, it actually drove that home, and we were able to do that on the fly. It took a very short amount of time for us to do that, where someone goes through and spends time doing financial reporting and stuff along those lines, but they're typically usually using old technology (Excel) and it takes them a week to put that together. Within an hour or so, we had actually a better visualization of the data.

It's very easy to use. For example, even for us non-developers who don't know how to code or to handle databases, we're able to use Lumira. All we've needed is knowledge of some of the basic functionalities of it.

This is a tool that gives more power to the user. Now we don't have to wait on our IT teams to create or change reports. Once IT gives us a static list of ingredients (fields), we can create our own recipes (charts and tables) without further IT dependence.

• Fast response
• Easier to use than our previous solution
• Can do the data manipulation and altering
• Can be installed on desktops
• Easy to download and install
• No technical expertise required for data analysis

The program helps us understand quickly the market so we're seeing what is being built and how much data they are using.