GoodData vs. Looker Studio

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
GoodData
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
GoodData is a cloud-based data and analytics platform, bringing AI-fueled data-driven decision-making to organisations across the globe. With a platform that leverages the potential of automation and AI, GoodData empowers its customers to make data analytics available to end users via real-time, self-service data insights right at the point of work. The vendor states that over 140,000 businesses and 3.2 million users rely on GoodData to drive meaningful change and achieve more through…
$30
per month per user
Looker Studio
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Looker Studio is a data visualization platform that transforms data into meaningful presentations and dashboards with customized reporting tools.N/A
Pricing
GoodDataLooker Studio
Editions & Modules
Internal Analytics Startup
$30
per month per user
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GoodDataLooker Studio
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
GoodDataLooker Studio
Considered Both Products
GoodData
Chose GoodData
I was involved in the decision making but not final decision maker. Ease of implementation for GoodData vs Cognos (used for 15 years in multiple companies). I think Tableau's visualizations are better, but there is much that just can't be done in Tableau that GoodData handles …
Chose GoodData
Looker and GoodData are both powerful BI platforms, but they have distinct strengths. Looker offers seamless integration with Google Sheets, enabling easy data import and analysis. On the other hand, GoodData excels in data modeling, providing a user-friendly interface for …
Chose GoodData
In GoodData we really liked the fact that sales and engineering were on our side from the beginning, the calls were very easy to book and were efficient with clear agenda and participants. We also got invited on Slack were we had support from the team and also we liked the …
Chose GoodData
For analysts, Tableau is far better because of better graph visualization. Tableau does not need to deal with the amount of uploaded data. Our company uses Gooddata because of its unbeatable price.
Looker Studio

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
GoodDataLooker Studio
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
8.5
56 Ratings
18% above category average
Looker Studio
7.5
51 Ratings
11% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.540 Ratings8.235 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.856 Ratings9.350 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates8.345 Ratings5.049 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
8.4
55 Ratings
6% above category average
Looker Studio
6.3
50 Ratings
24% below category average
Drill-down analysis8.654 Ratings7.442 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.555 Ratings8.446 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.651 Ratings6.450 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings2.923 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
8.1
54 Ratings
4% above category average
Looker Studio
8.9
49 Ratings
8% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.052 Ratings9.449 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.843 Ratings9.446 Ratings
Predictive Analytics8.232 Ratings8.024 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining8.211 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
8.2
56 Ratings
8% above category average
Looker Studio
-
Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)8.256 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model7.749 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.255 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.434 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
9.0
34 Ratings
17% above category average
Looker Studio
-
Ratings
REST API9.128 Ratings00 Ratings
Javascript API8.925 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames9.028 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
-
Ratings
Looker Studio
7.5
50 Ratings
11% below category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings9.244 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings6.943 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings8.131 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings4.634 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.818 Ratings
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User Ratings
GoodDataLooker Studio
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(84 ratings)
8.8
(51 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.1
(14 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(63 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Availability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.9
(6 ratings)
6.7
(10 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
GoodDataLooker Studio
Likelihood to Recommend
GoodData
GoodData excels for my sales team in scenarios such as real-time performance tracking and sales metrics. The customizable dashboards help me to monitor lead conversion, revenue and individual performance. Along with huge data we also have insights. We can get most of our decisions based on it's analysis and optimize our strategies, and enhance overall sales.
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Google
Does great at open canvas editing and letting you fully customize without the need for a grid. It is democratizing self-service no-code analytics. You do not need to be a data or analytics engineer to get started, and you can go very far based on how intuitive and straightforward the UI is. Some of the biggest challenges with Looker Studio relate to user management/security, embedding options, and issue support. For a long time, every user needed to have a Gmail to invite them to view a dashboard via login, not sure if that has been improved yet. You can let any user view without logging in, but that is not always recommended due to security reasons. In terms of embedding, you can only iframe dashboards. More sophisticated BI tools let you embed elements via API or Javascript. Iframing dashboards also make drill downs and dashboard to dashboard navigation tricky/near impossible. There is also no ability to contact Google for support when bugs or outages happen. They point everyone to the Data Studio community. There is some ability to get in contact with Google if you have an enterprise-level contract with Google Cloud, but the path for support is very ad hoc and not always fruitful.
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Pros
GoodData
  • GoodData helps in simplifying complex data into easy-to-understand visuals. We can create personalized dashboards & tailor them as per requirements. This data can be used from an executive level employee to a team lead employee in the business
  • GoodData is a very user friendly platform. The collaborative features simplify sharing and discussing reports among team members which promotes a culture of data-driven decision-making.
  • GoodData connects with various data sources and consolidate information from multiple platforms. This flexibility proves invaluable for businesses dealing with data spread across different systems as they can access large amount of data on a single platform.
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Google
  • Self-service
  • Easy to use, point and click
  • Little to no training required
  • Easy to share internally and externally
  • Rich visualizations
  • Canned reports
  • Easy to copy/paste/dupe existing reports
  • Ability to join data sets
  • Easy integration with various data sources
  • Flexible data integrations, including lowest common denominator (CSV, XLS, G-Sheets)
  • Wide range of APIs
  • Secure / authentication via Google SSO
  • Easy to share / re-assign ownership of reports and data sources
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Cons
GoodData
  • Firstly I would like to mention about it's setup which took us more than a month to integrate and get things started.
  • Not that easy for beginner to start using the platform.
  • Some features are hard to find at setup due to it's complexity but later it went well.
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Google
  • Few functionalities are very exclusive only for data studio.
  • It's time taking to load data and at the same time only single Data source can be connected.
  • When editing the reports you have to switch between Edit and View mode to see how does the change looks like.
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Likelihood to Renew
GoodData
Each client I have worked with and spoken too has renewed their GoodData subscription. I know of not one to date that has cancelled. The GoodData platform has a very high rate of renewal from the discussions I have had with their internal teams as well
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Google
It is the simplest and least expensive way for us to automate our reporting at this time. I like the ability to customize literally everything about each report, and the ability to send out reports automatically in emails. The only issue we have been having recently is a technical glitch in the automatic email report. Sadly, there is almost no support for this tool from Google, but is also free, so that is important to take into consideration
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Usability
GoodData
GoodData provided us with strong overall usability and provided us a platform for various business analytics. Its user-friendly and insightful reports and also the dashboards. Me and my team really appreciate the platform's ability to streamline decision-making processes. However, there is a learning curve during initial setup as I mentioned before. Continuous improvements in the onboarding could further enhance GoodData's usability as well.
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Google
Google Data Studio has a clean interface that follows a lot of UX best practices. It is fairly easy to pick up the first time you use it, and there is a lot of documentation on line to help troubleshoot, if needed
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Reliability and Availability
GoodData
We are approximately one month since go-live. There has been one short outage.
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Google
No answers on this topic
Performance
GoodData
Performance on refreshing metrics works well.
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Google
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
GoodData
Support team has been highly responsive and helpful from our first initial deployment to present day. They engage and work with us. know when to escalate for more challenging problems. They also follow up. Overall have had a very good experience with support
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Google
I give it a lower support rating because it seems like our Dev team hasn't gotten the support they need to set up our database to connect. Seems like we hit a roadblock and the project got put on pause for dev. That sucks for me because it is harder to get the dev team to focus on it if they don't get the help they need to set it up.
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In-Person Training
GoodData
Petr was a rock star - patient, knowledgeable, clear and easy to work with.
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Google
No answers on this topic
Online Training
GoodData
GoodData implementation team was professional and courteous
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Google
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
GoodData
Thorough, professional and on time.
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Google
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
GoodData
GoodData was more cost effective and did not necessitate additional spend on internal resources. The end user interface was easy to use and did not require additional set up or customization. The clients required little support from the Prometric staff to use the product
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Google
Google Data Studio provides a great feature set considering its price point, especially when compared to commercial options from Microsoft and Tableau. While it may not be as versatile when it comes to working with and developing complex datasets, there is enough charm in its simple, easy-to-use UI to allow not-so-complex analytics to be conducted without having to hire a data analyst.
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Return on Investment
GoodData
  • We have been able to quickly go to market with a feature-rich version of our application.
  • The licensing costs are manageable but make our offering more expensive than alternatives.
  • The possibility to horizontal scaling with Kubernetes is a bright outlook for our business.
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Google
  • Free, so the only investment is time
  • Because it doesn't have native support of non-Google sources, it can cost more money than Tableau
  • The time spent formatting the templates or building connectors can have a negative impact on ROI
  • As a agency, charging for the reporting service is profitable after the first month or two after building the dashboard.
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ScreenShots

GoodData Screenshots

Screenshot of GoodData's array of tools and AI features to dig into data for needed insights.Screenshot of GoodData’s AI-powered features (like NLQ) and drag-and-drop UI, used to build and interact with charts and dashboards.Screenshot of GoodData's pro-code, low-code, and no-code interfaces, available so users with all skill levels can collaborate to share insights and findings.Screenshot of forecasting tools that let users predict trends for key business metrics for the next month, quarter, and year.Screenshot of NLQ, used to ask questions of data, automatically create new visualizations, and discover new insights using natural language via an AI chatbot.Screenshot of an AI-powered explanation of what is driving the values, in dashboards and visualizations.