Looker Software
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About Looker
Looker, now part of Google Cloud, is a cloud-based business intelligence (BI) platform designed to explore and analyze data. The solution helps businesses to capture and analyze data from multiple sources and make data-driven decisions.
Looker provides business teams the ability to analyze supply chains, market digitally, quantify customer value, interpret customer behavior, and evaluate distribution processes. Users can also "view source" to understand how the data they are viewing is being manipulated. The dashboards allow presenting data and insights using customizable charts, graphs, and reports. All dashboards and queries can be drilled into, so users can discover information in multiple layers.
With Looker's data modeling language, users can define data metrics ...
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Looker User Reviews
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Nicholas
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Company size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Internet
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
February 2020
The perfect solution for our stage business
I could not be happier with Looker. My one hesitation in recommending it is that other tools seemed to be able to provide 80% of the value at 20% of the cost, but I've only demoed those tools and not actually used them so I'm not sure if they could actually deliver.
Pros
Looker is incredibly easy to use for a casual user, which most of our users are. As soon as your email is activated, you have access to the product and new users need very little direction to start getting value out of it.
Cons
Relative to other BI tools, the advanced charting functionality is somewhat limited, but frankly that's not the main reason we bought Looker. Data scientists can use another tool of their choice, we have Looker for people who aren't data scientists.
Reasons for choosing Looker
LookML gave Looker an advantage because it allowed us to pre-define a framework for our users to need. We didn't feel Chartio did this quite as well. Looker is also better funded and I felt more confident that they would continue to add features and fill in gaps in the product in the future.
Reasons for switching to Looker
Tableau is an antiquated architecture (permanent license desktop app) and was going to be prohibitively expensive to roll out to the whole company. Having used it, I also had concerns about adoption since there's more of a learning curve.
Tara
Company size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
June 2019
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Pros
Easy to create dashboards without engineers needing to write code.
Cons
Still not very good yet for a multi-tenant embedded environment. Needs a lot of work to set up and the API is slow.
Reasons for switching to Looker
Too difficult to build dashboards without using the engineering team.
Tanya
Company size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness
Time used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
May 2022
Easy to democratise the use for BI to all departments
Positive! You can define your logic of measuring and if you have a BI Team any discrepancies are easy to track. Depends on how good the connection with your data warehouse is but for example with Snowflake it worked seamlessly.
Pros
Departments can access data in a consumable form without complexity. Some SQL skills help achieve a lot more with the software, you can write your own queries and get more drilled down data.
Cons
Some visualisation options (like graphs & charts) were a bit more complex to achieve. Although, the default tables are simple and easy to understand.
Anonymous
Company size: 501-1,000 employees
Time used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
May 2022
Poor quality
Pros
Nice looking embedded dashboard, that is easy to understand
Cons
poor documentation, poor react visualization components
Carly
Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
March 2022
Great to understand data from different platforms
Pros
I am able to pull in different data from multiple platforms to get a better scope and understanding of the work done and work yet to do. The team has more visibility to everything.
Cons
Sometimes it takes a while to load pages. Each cell loads individually, but it can still take a bit to see the data.
