GoodData vs. Looker Studio

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
GoodData
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
GoodData is an analytics platform used by organizations to deliver real-time, governed insights, embedded into products, customized for users, and integrated into any data environment.N/A
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.
$9
per month per user per project
Pricing
GoodDataLooker Studio
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Looker Studio Pro
$9
per month per user per project
Looker Studio
No charge
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GoodDataLooker Studio
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
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
GoodData seems less user friendly and doesn't provide that many visualization options so we are slowly moving to other solution in part of the company. There are still teams that plan to continue with GoodData and use React code in orther to supply missing functions.
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

Features
GoodDataLooker Studio
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
8.0
72 Ratings
12% above category average
Looker Studio
7.6
55 Ratings
6% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports7.854 Ratings7.339 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.872 Ratings8.254 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.561 Ratings7.353 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
8.0
72 Ratings
2% above category average
Looker Studio
8.1
54 Ratings
4% above category average
Drill-down analysis7.870 Ratings8.946 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.572 Ratings8.350 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.868 Ratings9.753 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings5.625 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
7.7
69 Ratings
2% above category average
Looker Studio
6.5
53 Ratings
17% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.167 Ratings8.453 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.556 Ratings8.150 Ratings
Predictive Analytics7.040 Ratings5.027 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining8.420 Ratings4.63 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
8.1
73 Ratings
6% above category average
Looker Studio
-
Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)8.772 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.365 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.071 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)7.345 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
8.4
49 Ratings
14% above category average
Looker Studio
-
Ratings
REST API8.542 Ratings00 Ratings
Javascript API8.437 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames8.340 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
-
Ratings
Looker Studio
8.7
54 Ratings
6% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.148 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.747 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings8.335 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.437 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.020 Ratings
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User Ratings
GoodDataLooker Studio
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(99 ratings)
8.7
(56 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(16 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(78 ratings)
8.5
(7 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(9 ratings)
6.7
(10 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.2
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
GoodDataLooker Studio
Likelihood to Recommend
GoodData
GoodData is well suited for classic business intelligence and data analytics solution involving visually driven content using charts and graphs. It's rich collection and drillable interactions make it perfect for embedded analytics where application workflow is tied to analytics. However, GoodData may not be ideal or appropriate for such solutions that require lot of textual content to be displayed with the help of tabular visuals, particularly in regulated industries where the key is in the details. This is all tied to the platform limits that force the default layout to pre-filter
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Google
Looker Studio is well-suited for those wanting to analyze web/site data and performance quickly. It is simple enough to learn/use for quick report-building or drilling into data. Looker Studio is easier to use/understand than the GA4 console and thus has a better UI/UX. It is an efficient tool for fast, simple data needs—especially for team members with limited analytical capabilities and knowledge.
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Pros
GoodData
  • GoodData provides advanced analytics for predictive modeling. This assists in identifying potential issues before they arise, and making proactive decisions.
  • GoodData prioritizes data security and compliance, providing features that help IT firms like ours adhere to regulatory requirements.
  • GoodData gives high customization dashboards, allows us professionals to create tailored view of KPI.
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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
  • Good Data is already have certain customizable options. However, having more flexibility in customizing reports and dashboards & control over the visual aspects would enhance the overall user experience.
  • To make Good Data even more powerful tool, improving the speed and responsiveness of the tool, especially during data-intensive tasks, would be a significantly helpful.
  • For new users, the interface can be made more user friendly which would promote easy navigation through features of tool.
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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
Because gooddata really helps us in processing data to make reports or dashboards. So we are very satisfied when we use it. What we like is the flexible use of charts. We change at will the use of charts to display in reports or dashboards. Thank you Gooddata for helping companies like us who need flexibility in usage
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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
From a customer perspective it is incredibly usable. We have more users building their own reports that would normally need custom work from our support team. The back end can be daunting when trying to configure things like new data elements or push changes to a report to all existing customers.
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Google
It is not ideal and requires time and dedication to understand how to work with it. Also, it has a lot of limitations around data it can accept. But in most cases, this tool is sufficient for everyday tasks of product and marketing departments. I wouldn't say that the interface is very user-friendly, but for people who regularly work with analytical tools, it must be ok.
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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
I'm generally impressed with how fast it reflects so much data.
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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
Implementations are hard and we had limited technical resources. We relied too heavily on GD care team. When we found technical gaps, they weren't simple to overcome
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Google
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
GoodData
GoodData comparing to other platform is very easy to use, customer support and on-boarding support. Set of features, speed of integration in our platform. Also great benefit for us was very competetive pricing.
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Google
The free version of Looker Studio is still better than the leading enterprise-embedded BI tools, despite its weaknesses. The leading embedded BI platforms have terrible visualizations that can be spotted a mile away. They are also primarily locked to a grid, making it very hard to fully customize. The price point is also a major deterrent, since users end up paying for lots of features they might never use. Looker Studio has weaknesses on the blending and modeling side, but we've been able to get by via connection to GBQ and transformation done in dbt.
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Scalability
GoodData
We now have hundreds of customers on multiple product lines. It's very flexible and we can troubleshoot ourselves.
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Google
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
GoodData
  • GoodData helped me while making a decision of our marketing spend, next month we got 3X ROI back on a $100,000 a spend.
  • I initially was very dicey about the analytics and reports we see, but now I can make my every dollar investment decisions based on it.
  • Along with our growing data needs, it allow us to handle increased data volumes as well.
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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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