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Dear All,

Recently I got a chance evaluate the capabilities of SAP Lumira against BusinessObjects Explorer. Though both are Self Service BI tools and complement each other in most of the cases, below are some of my findings to differentiate both the tools. Feel free to add as much as you can in the table below if you come across something.

CategorySub CategoryLumiraExplorer
Data AcquisitionTool SelectionUsed wherever data acquisition, Transformation and excellent Visualizations neededUsed for Search and data exploration with visualization needs
Data integration layerNo need of Information space. Data source can be accessed directlyNeeds Information space which is an intermediate layer between User and data source.
Data AcquisitionData acquisition is performed by the Business userThe task of creating and maintaining Information Space is usually accomplished by an IT person or a BI system administrator, not the business users themselves.
Data TransformationHierarchy creationCustom Hierarchies creation is not supported other than Time and Geo
data.
Not Available
Data source MergingData source merging is possible thus it is possible to merge local and
departmental data
No provision for data source merging
Column/Data ManipulationWe can create/Modify the available columns and the data in the columns
of the data set.
Not Available
Data CleansingData cleansing is possible for columns that contains Geographical and
Time series data by using NAVTEQ Sybase IQ database
Not Available
Data VisualizationVisualization choiceMore advanced visualizations choices and greater granular control over
the final product (i.e.) visualization
Visualizations are built and rendered automatically based on the Dataset  with limited option to change the Visualization
Custom ChartsExtensions (Custom charts) can be created and deployed using SDKNot Available

Hope the blog is interesting . Thanks for reading.

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