Customers of any desktop software sold without maintenance agreements need to purchase the next major versions of the product.īut what about the server version of 2.0? We are bringing together 2 sets of customers with 2 different license entitlements onto a single component.īefore we made any decisions about how to handle this, we established a few principles to guide our decisions:īy taking a use case approach, we are able to ensure continuity of functionality that is in line with what customers expect while protecting the investment of existing Lumira customers. If you own Lumira standard edition 1.x, you will need to purchase Lumira standard 2.x.If your license entitles you to Design Studio 1.x, you get the designer component with a valid maintenance agreement.
If your license entitles you to Lumira Desktop 1.x, you get the discovery component with a valid maintenance agreement.So for the desktop clients, it’s pretty straightforward: The standard edition is a limited version of discovery, and sold without maintenance on the SAP Store and through distribution partners. The server edition is the successor to BOTH the Lumira Server for BI Platform 1.31 and Design Studio server addon 1.6. The designer edition is the successor to Design Studio 1.6. The discovery edition is the successor to Lumira Desktop 1.31. To review, Lumira 2.0 includes 3 separate components:
This blog is part of the Lumira 2.0 launch blog series.Īs you know, Lumira 2.0 is an ambitious project to bring together 2 code lines into a single product that can address data discovery and analytic application use cases.