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1 - 5 of 314 Reviews
Lainey
Marketing and Advertising, 1 employee
Used more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
Reviewed October 2021
Google Data Studio for Automated Reporting
Alejandro
Verified reviewer
Wine and Spirits, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2021
Start using DS, you'll love it
Amazing. Couldn't be better!
PROSI love Google Data Studio... it's quite hard to select one feature, cause all the program is great, from the easy to use tables, the charts tables, graphics, the custimizable layout, the connection with your database...
CONSSometimes it gets a little bit slow and the tables or charts bugs... but it's understandable
Reason for choosing Google Data Studio
Because of the price, I'm using the free DS version and we also love working with Google products in my company. I think they have no comparison
Reasons for switching to Google Data Studio
I didn't know DS before... I used to work on Google sheets with tons of formulas and a limited database connection
Anonymous
201-500 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2022
Google Data Studio will handle my needs?
I had a big concern that I would no be able to use Microsoft Power BI (budget issue), but in the end of the road Google Data Studion was a good surprise. Good price, everything you need to put a high quality data project running. No issues. In another company for example, it would be my choice.
PROSOnce it's build your data sources, it's easy to build your dashboards even they don't have the best data viz options. It's in the Google tech stack, that makes easy to your team keep running. Would like to have Microsoft Power BI? It was my concerto too! But yes, Google Data Studio will deliver all info you need in a beautiful interface - don't worry. Good price, clear and light interface, access from any device. Your data project will meet the needs.
CONSDifferent from Microsoft Power BI for example, you don't have a on screen calculation, easy to work on. Many times you need to create new fields, build cases with calculations to have the field to use on. You need an administrator/builder with more tech skills. But any doubt that I found, I had case or example in the web to search and use. But once it's build the base, it's easy to build dashboards, deploy, upgrade and so one.
Reason for choosing Google Data Studio
Already part of Google tech stack (our choice), price, fast and easy.
Reasons for switching to Google Data Studio
We need a onde piece solution for data, where all data sources get together. In many times, price here, lack of features there were a problem. Now, we have a single source of truth.
Bart
Verified reviewer
Market Research, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
1
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed September 2020
A great solution for non-essential dashboarding solutions
We loved using it for some reasons, we hated to leave (as we had to do a lot of work all over again). But we are happy we pushed through.
PROS1) Simple to use It is easy to use. Drag & drop, add texts, connect sources, ... It all works like a charm. 2) Free It is free to use. Connect your account and you're good to go. The downside: you're on your own... 3) Visual freedom As opposed to other solutions we (currently) use, Google offers by far more flexibility in terms of creating something that is visually exactly what you want.
CONS1) What security? We used google data studio to embed dashboards in our own SAAS solution. As embedding only works with 'open access' documents, it means that you open up your dashboard to the world (provided they know the URL). It is not the security we like. 2) Lack of roadmap impact & customer support As one of the many free users, we have no impact on how the product evolves over time. Customer support is a matter of googling your way around and finding a community response rather than an official spokes persons' help. 3) Speed... Or the opposite rather: slooooowness No matter how happy we are about Google's Cloud Platform solution, Data studio is sloooow.
Reason for choosing Google Data Studio
Pricing. We were a bootstrapped startup, qlick & tableau were too expensive for us.
Bryan
Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed December 2023
Google Data Studio For Marketing Reports
Google Data Studio is free and pretty easily connects to all of the Google platforms that we use when reporting to clients.
CONSWe had a few issues with the reports not loading properly when downloaded as a PDF (Blank pages when there should have been data) and the only solution that we have found is repeatedly downloading and/or waiting a few hours to try again.