Adverity vs. Looker

If you're a marketing organization that wants to own your data architecture, get away from hours of manual excel work, and build a flexible and scalable BI practice for yourself and your clients, Adverity is your solution. Especially if you don't have a dedicated analytics team or current database solution. If you have access to a wide variety of API's and a fully staffed team to custom develop new connectors in under 30 days for no incremental cost, you're probably best in-housing

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When data drives potential for new orders, Looker earns its place in our tech stack. If, on the other hand, we are hoping for pipeline generation, Looker is useful if you are willing to repeatedly go check customer utilizations .... it is not appropriate if you are hoping to automate data analysis for this purpose.

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• Customizable dashboards, that you could change and make unique to your specific need / business.
• Combining a range of data sets into one view.
• Easily sharable insights, that you can share internally or also with clients.

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• It is very easy to start a new dashboard and configure what you want to display by just selecting/dragging from the list of available columns.
• It is intuitive, mainly if you use other Google services like Google Sheets.
• The look and feel is modern and nice.
• It it very useful to have an immediate visual overview of the data in a spreadsheet.

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• Adverity is running into some issues being able to custom-develop API connectors at scale/speed. This is mostly because of their rapid growth and incredible core product. If you need custom development, be prepared to use one of the many easy-to-use workarounds Adverity offers for endpoints they don't have a direct integration with. Don't worry - you'll get your data either way.

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• I wish I could get more granular in the Google ad data, such as down to the campaign type, instead of having to see only all campaigns.
• The setup can be time-consuming if you're not using the product regularly.
• Editing the dashboard requires a few logins; I wish it was more seamless.

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We are very haooy with Looker, it provides us with all the funciomalities we need for both the day to day oerformance tracking and longer periods reporting. It is easy to use for account managers, configurable and customizable for soecialists and what is most imoortant, our clinets generally really love it

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Adverity is easy to understand and use, even for users who are less technical. Reports and dashboards are easy to send out, and back-end users can easily navigate workspaces for creating new data fetches.

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Looker is relatively easy to use, even as it is set up. The customers for the front-end only have issues with the initial setup for looker ml creations. Other "looks" are relatively easy to set up, depending on the ETL and the data which is coming into Looker on a regular basis.

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No objections

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Somehow resources heavy, both on server and client. I recommned at least 50Mbs data rate and high performance desktop comouter to be abke to run comolex tasks and configure larger amount of data. On the other hand, the client does not need to worry when viewing, the performance is usually ok

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Never had to work with support for issues. Any questions we had, they would respond promptly and clearly. The one-time setup was easy, by reading documentation. If the feature is not supported, they will add a feature request. In this case, LDAP support was requested over OKTA. They are looking into it.

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Very satisfied, easy to implement

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Previously I had never really used a tool like this, only using software such as GA to look at any insights and review performance. So I think that the combined view of having all of the data sets (Which in my role I wouldn't always particularly have access to), was really useful. As an individual who was optimising our clients websites it meant that I was really able to prioritise what was important, but also have a great view of absolutely all activity that was happening

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In my opinion, Looker is no Power BI. It is good, but I think Power BI is amazing. That said, in my experience, Power BI is nowhere near as easy to setup and report on Google services as Looker is. We plan to continue using Power BI for c-suite and corporate reporting, especially for internal databases, but will gladly use Looker for our marketing information for AdWords, Analytics, Search Console, and YouTube.

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• Scale - the biggest advantage has been the ability to extract, transform, and load data for 150+ clients with a three-person team without a software or data engineering team to support. Adverity would easily allow us to scale up to double or triple the client load if needed.
• Templates - Another advantage related to scale, Adverity allows us to run a templated approach to extraction, transformation, and also data visualization and reporting so that onboarding is very fast. Typical clients with up to 15 data sources can be onboarded in as little as a couple of hours.

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• Other than some people not liking the numbers, I don't see any negative impacts; we haven't experienced that.
• The reports help us unravel the story of our users and how they are sifting through our pages.
• Our clients enjoy seeing the numbers to understand better what stands out on their sites.
• The reports have helped us see what campaigns are working and where we need to tweak things.
• The reports have enabled us to have better conversations with stakeholders about how their web pages should be modified, edited, etc., to reflect the data.

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