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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Looker is Business Intelligence Software. Looker offers the following functionalities:
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Yes, Looker provides API.
What do you like best?
With Looker you can extract data from any system in a massive way, which allows to obtain more knowledge about all kinds of relevant topics, mentioning that each user can access their clients, deepen the reports and comply with fully balanced adjacent information, being a operation of its executive panels, very extraordinary in every way, highlighting that it is one of the most frequently used due to its splendid management of novelties, both old and new, they are great.
What do you dislike?sometimes it does not show the data in custom formats, which can be a challenging problem, especially for companies that maintain a splendid information management, with prudent, actionable statistics, that is, shorter and more forceful, that cannot be adapted to our environment. never more. quirky and compelling, highlighting that it is not intended for stable, personal, and fluid use by users using this software.
Recommendations to others considering the product:Looker helps users to visualize multiple data that are extracted from the different systems that operators use, which are registered on their platforms, with extremely adequate training in each relevant aspect, highlighting that it can combine data in different optimal channels, from different functionalities, to display them so that users can visualize the impact on different variables, including that they can be customized to their most conducive environment.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?We use Looker mainly in our marketing department, to achieve an improvement to analyze the data found in different disparate systems, obviously information based on the sales that are made in these forceful work areas, in order to reach a massive income inflow , since this service also provides us with business proposals that we can execute, which is impossible to reject for its brilliant idea to guarantee the majority of beneficial operations, in many of its labor and economic senses.
What do you like best?
Looker is a fantastic product because it is so easy to get provide the data to visual analytics in minutes with this product. It has absolutely changed the way that we run our business and it given us insight to our data that we have never had before. Looker has the great ability to connect to pretty much any data source and it has the ability to publish to the cloud server for sharing our work that is fantastic. Looker is very easy to navigate and it is basically use drag and drop functionalities that which is easy to perform operations with the help of drag and drop functionalities and also user can easily create visualization in a minutes. Looker is smooth to work and it has eased our organization to become more data driven. It helps us in the complete analytics journey right from data preparation to analysis to intelligent insights that it helps us in making data driven decisions because it is very easy to manage our business data and it can recognize opportunities better and quicker through this implement.
What do you dislike?This is the biggest issue with looker platform is that it is very expensive product to scale across a large organization as compared to other implement because it takes a bit long time to open the software and then connecting to the data is slow so it does not have the function for perfect visualizations. The other compliment around this implement is that it can lead to data security issues and compliance issues for some organization. Also, one must be well acquaint to the tool to use and needs training before running operation on it and it is requires a paid version to make edit the free version to view files. It is difficult to develop some extra complex reports if when we want to combine two various information resources in one view but it can need some innovative skills.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?Looker is an awesome job of adding new features with every new version of this implement. Looker is an amazing tool to create beautiful dashboards because it is very user friendly and to provide the great functions. Looker is the most intelligent way to express our business in a story with charts and graphs which helps people to make decisions quickly and most effectively. Looker is so easy to navigate with a user-friendly interface because it is known for its remarkable visual capabilities.
What do you like best?
Report exporting platform and a nice productive solution for the various projects to collaborate. The tool interface is full of easy commands like Drag and Drop functions, powerful strategic planning and very great productive analytics.
Looker its still a best marketing and advertising platform, feedback obtaining and its ability to support the integration of major Big Data packages.
It offers effective reports, on either financial, sales and marketing reports and the technical help from the team.
What do you dislike?Looker is a professional package with easy and friendly dashboard with very simple functions for any user to use.
Recommendations to others considering the product:General solution for financial, sales and also marketing reports production and very great tool on data processing from different sources.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?Providing effective strategic planning.
Collaboration with team members.
Big data management.
What do you like best?
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.
What do you dislike?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.
Recommendations to others considering the product:It provides more flexibility than most options on the market, however business users might not always be satisfied with the visualization options
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?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.
What do you like best?
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.
What do you dislike?Sometimes the tool can take a few minutes to load and therefore will send you results that are not normally expected by the user.
Recommendations to others considering the product: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.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?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.
What do you like best?
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.
What do you dislike?No serious product usage problems, the tool is quite simple getting used and also on daily usage manipulation.
Recommendations to others considering the product: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.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?Quick data collection and also exporting.
Providing productive business reports.
Big data transformation.
What do you like best?
Easy to use and good flexible functionality
What do you dislike?Occasionally a bit fiddly merging data sets and visualisations not as flexible / customisable as in other programs
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?Showing clear KPIs on dashboards with minimal work needed
What do you like best?
Customer support
Simple visualisations
Development mode
What do you dislike?You need to create a new Explore after deploying new code in Development Mode.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?Standard visualations for different publics: board, product owners and analysts from different squads and departments.
What do you like best?
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.
What do you dislike?Nothing that I can think of to be honest. I really love using Looker.
Recommendations to others considering the product:Consider it! it's great!
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?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.
What do you like best?
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.
What do you dislike?Sometimes I got annoyed by the lack of permissions to visualize some reports.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?Data visualization in a single screen made my life really easier.
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