Looker is a business intelligence and data visualization platform that aims to provide everyone with access to useful data in a unified view in an easy-to-understand format through its centralized platform. Looker’s pre-built applications and blocks can help your company get up and running quicker by speeding up the process of customization. Looker’s LookML data modeling language gives data analysts a way to define business metrics, as well as find correlations between data and tables. Looker’s data visualization features lets you build more beautiful ways to display your data, that can be understand by both data scientists and business users alike. Its reports and dashboards let you drill down into key metrics so you can get a better understanding of what is happening, and apply this across your business to make improvements to operations. You can also share these data visualizations from any device.
| Support | Business Hours Online | Customer Type | Large Enterprises Medium Business Small Business |
| API | Location / Phone Number | Santa Cruz, California | |
| Deployment | SaaS/Web/Cloud | Category | Business Intelligence Software |
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Yes, Looker provides API.
Looker is great because it mirrors the functionality of typical coding languages but applies it to BI tools and applications. You can use LookML to write how a dashboard should look in addition to standard drag and drop building. The flexibility makes it much easier to use from a data team point of view. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sometimes it lacks the visualizations or functionality that a business user might expect from a competitor such as Tableau. While looker can "do more" from an advanced point of view, basic data consumers don't feel that it gives them all they need from a BI point of view. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It provides more flexibility than most options on the market, however business users might not always be satisfied with the visualization options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It helps us bring a lot of data sources together quickly and easily from our data warehouse. As a smaller and newer startup, the flexibility it provides allows us to add new and important metrics or data on the fly. When we change our definitions for a metric, it's usually really simple to change that definition in the LookML and update it quickly across our entire Looker instance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is very easy to use, we can democratize the data of the entire organization, it is truly functional and used by all employees regardless of their experience with BI tools. One of the most important factors of an organization is the time therefore the organizations are in the necessity to inquire about tools that produce positive results in less time, this is why Looker is one of those suitable tools, because it counts with an interface of easy handling, therefore it is not necessary to invest time to train a personnel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sometimes the tool can take a few minutes to load and therefore will send you results that are not normally expected by the user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
If your company needs a coherent data model to avoid different analyses based on the same topic, Looker is the right one for that type of activities, offering favorable and effective results for the objectives of a company. In addition, it is a tool that does not require a technology expert to manage it properly, so you will not invest time to train new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is a tool that is being used in all the departments of the organization, because it allows all the users to access it to consult any type of information as well as the analysis of data of potential clients. It is a tool with very extensive functions, at the same time we use it to analyze internal data of our own organization and to create all kinds of reports and follow-up for data validation. We prefer to use Looker over any other tool because it is very comfortable and dynamic to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Myself i like the product easy customization and its ability it offers for easy data comparison from multiple data sources and its very reliable on various reporting.
Looker also offers nice collaboration and effective budgeting capabilities and some tool functions like drag and the drop functions responds smoothly and also the reports importation option is a plus on this product.
It allows easy data viewing via the tool professional dashboard which presents all the necessary data as per user requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
No serious product usage problems, the tool is quite simple getting used and also on daily usage manipulation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Looker is the only functional product for easy data mining from various sources and its a simple system to get a long with and the technical support from the team is amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Quick data collection and also exporting.
Providing productive business reports.
Big data transformation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Easy to use and good flexible functionality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Occasionally a bit fiddly merging data sets and visualisations not as flexible / customisable as in other programs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Showing clear KPIs on dashboards with minimal work needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Customer support
Simple visualisations
Development mode Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
You need to create a new Explore after deploying new code in Development Mode. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Standard visualations for different publics: board, product owners and analysts from different squads and departments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The nearly limitless reporting abilities. This allows me to make data driven decisions vs having any guess work. The revenue as a result speaks for itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Nothing that I can think of to be honest. I really love using Looker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Consider it! it's great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I am taking all the guess work out the equation and running reports which help me identify what the data says. Once, I have that I can make data driven decisions that sky rocket success. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Looker easily translates extensive data sheets into easy-to-read consolidated reports, so the most important data you need for your daily tasks is available in just one click. It makes easier to keep under control goals, metrics, employee's working hours, anything you need to perform your daily tasks as a manager. It's an amazing reporting tool, available whenever you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sometimes I got annoyed by the lack of permissions to visualize some reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Data visualization in a single screen made my life really easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I love this software primarily for its essential function, I am struck by its data analytics solution that helps companies rethink business intelligence and data visualization, in order to achieve business with the highest percentage of profit And not at a loss and at the same time obtaining information relevant to the subject, for more economic knowledge for a stable and successful growth, in the same way I incredibly like Looker due to its more in-depth analysis providing efficiency in its great totality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sometimes it takes time to fully load the information already analyzed, to be sent, which is a system failure, being quite modest, in other outstanding aspects, it should be noted that a new data source and visualization tables should be added with more options to become more advanced, in this way to be a little more flexible according to its operation, including that user management and the exchange of information could be equally simpler. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Looker adapts perfectly when you need to know data about the project financed by a company, it is mostly recommended when you have as a priority to make the most of the resources that are going to be used and even in what way, in short, this software is ideal for small companies they need a knowledge boost, meaning this system offers everyone to explore and understand critical data for the constant growth of your company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
This software is being used in most of my company, essentially the teams that are in charge of the calculations and total analysis of the data, mainly used for its function objective that is based on business intelligence, promoting support for our staff to carry out an analytical process, which is very important, since we take this information as a priority for decisions of large projects, since Looker contains an ease of use thanks to its very understandable graphics for our convenience when we go to the branch of presentations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Looker makes accessing and analyzing all of our data in one place easy. It has been invaluable in scaling our business and operations, while doing the harder data work for us. So we can focus on operationalizing, scaling, and growing our company through quick and powerful analytics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Looker is a part of our team. I would not like to see it lose its customer-centric focus and product growth during its acquisition by Google. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Operational reporting, quick and powerful analysis, data democratization, managing data model, company analytics growth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Ability to visualize reports in a very easy way. link different types of information and have clear visibility on metrics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Its a bit slow and sometimes complicated when it come to search for keywords Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It can be used in every industry as a data processing tool. I think the future of data processing is going to right direction and looked is a good example of it. I would fully recommend this tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
As an Operations Manager its super useful for me to check daily metrics of company and find any issues. Also to compare on daily/weekly basis the development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
