**SAP Lumira Designer: from self-service insights to enterprise-grade dashboards**

In the evolving world of Business Intelligence, organizations increasingly need a balance between **self-service analytics** and **enterprise-grade reporting**. Within the SAP ecosystem, this balance is delivered through **SAP Lumira**, which consists of two closely connected tools: **Lumira Discovery** and **Lumira Designer**.

With the introduction of **Lumira 2.0**, both tools are integrated within the same BI platform, enabling a seamless workflow between exploration and advanced dashboard design.

**SAP Lumira Discovery** focuses on self-service BI. It empowers business users to explore data, perform visual analysis, and create interactive stories in a fast and intuitive way. This supports quick insights and data-driven exploration without requiring deep technical expertise.

In contrast, **SAP Lumira Designer** (formerly SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio) is built for creating **professional, enterprise-level analytical applications and dashboards**. It provides advanced design capabilities, allowing technical specialists to build highly structured, scalable, and performance-optimized BI applications.

A key advantage of this dual-tool approach is **interoperability**. Business users can start in Lumira Discovery to explore data and identify insights, while technical BI developers can take these insights further in Lumira Designer to build robust enterprise dashboards. This collaboration bridges the gap between business agility and IT governance.

SAP Lumira supports a wide range of data sources, including **SAP BW, SAP HANA, and Universes**. Since Lumira 2.0, support for **offline data sources** has also been added, increasing flexibility in disconnected or hybrid environments.

In essence, SAP Lumira enables organizations to move seamlessly from self-service data discovery to governed, enterprise-ready analytics—ensuring both speed and control in modern BI environments.

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