GoodData vs. Looker vs. Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
GoodData
Score 8.9 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
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Looker is a BI application with an analytics-oriented application server that sits on top of relational data stores. It includes an end-user interface for exploring data, a reusable development paradigm for data discovery, and an API for supporting data in other systems.N/A
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Power BI for Office 365 allowed users to model and analyze data, and query large datasets with complex natural language queries. It has been discontinued in favor of other editions of Power BI going forward.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesYesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalRequiredNo setup fee
Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Multiple Products
GoodData
Chose GoodData
GoodData stacked better over Looker in its ability to manage distribute and provide custom control to end users.
overall cost with GoodData would be lower as it would wound not depend on the data platform for compute resources.
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
Embedding flexibility was the main reason we chose GoodData. Interactivity, customization options, and programmatic ability were all very important to us and GoodData's embedding via React SDK offers exactly that. Implementation time was 50% shorter with GoodData than with …
Chose GoodData
GoodData is easier to understand and designed to detail critical data within a dashboard system. Visualization is essential, and the filters are quite varied. Metrics are also easy to use, so users only need to think a little more carefully about setting up the SQL required for …
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
GoodData is much more customisable in our case so we choose this. Also when it comes to pricing part GoodData is the best economically as well and in terms of features and functionalities. As compared to others similar products I believe that GoodData is much more reliable with …
Chose GoodData
GoodData has been proven best for us as it has given the most accurate analytical insights on our data. I've used other tools too but no one has been this good in terms of reporting, handling data, decision making.
Using GoodData for almost every organisational decision and …
Chose GoodData
All of the tools have their plusses and minuses. The one thing that stands out with Qlik is that it allows for two-way API integrations with Salesforce. This means that analytics reporting results can interact with the Salesforce application.
Chose GoodData
The primary reasons GoodData was selected was data modeling capability, ability to standardize complex metrics, quality of viaualization and multi-tenancy
Chose GoodData
I have used all softwares in my past 10 years of experience. GoodData stands out with its seamless data integration, advanced predictive analytics, and collaborative features. Unlike Tableau and Power BI, GoodData offers scalable solutions with a user-friendly interface for …
Chose GoodData
Choosing between GoodData and other platforms was clear for me as the superiority of GoodData over others due to our needs. GoodData stands out for its awesome dashboards, robust predictive analytics, reports, and analysis. Data integration helps us for business intelligence …
Chose GoodData
GoodData is best among every other platform I used because it's a cloud based platform and way to easy to use. Its robust predictive analytics and unified data view set it way apart. While Power BI and Tableau excel in visualization, GoodData's focus on comprehensive business …
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
GoodData has the perfect mix of usability, power, and price that made it the desirable choice vs the competitors.
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.
Chose GoodData
I actually investigated around 20 options and in most part the embedding + multi tenant mode that became a key concern. They either do not have the support or the price scaling is terrible or the startup cost is prohibitive.
On the average startup cost is around 50k per year and …
Chose GoodData
For the feature sets we were needing and most importantly aligning around a common culture and vision, GoodData easily made the most sense.
Chose GoodData
I selected GoodData as customer support is a lot better as well as the pricing model.
Chose GoodData
Most of the have high upfront cost and the scaling model is extremely complicated.
Looker
Chose Looker
Looker was, hands down, better than any other products we looked at. It was far easier to get started and keep moving because of Looker's internal programming language and data definition language, LookML. We were up and going in just a few days and were creating advanced …
Chose Looker
  • Birst: very opaque for teams accustomed to DevOps (i.e., programmable infrastructure)
  • Tableau: no cloud strategy. Does not scale horizontally
  • GoodData: flexible, but cumbersome. Requires Java
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)

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Features
GoodDataLookerPower BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
8.0
72 Ratings
11% above category average
Looker
7.6
133 Ratings
7% below category average
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
9.0
11 Ratings
9% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports7.954 Ratings6.7109 Ratings9.010 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.972 Ratings8.4132 Ratings8.011 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.461 Ratings7.6114 Ratings10.08 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
7.1
131 Ratings
12% below category average
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
9.5
11 Ratings
17% above category average
Drill-down analysis7.770 Ratings6.8127 Ratings9.011 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.572 Ratings6.9129 Ratings9.011 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.968 Ratings8.8130 Ratings10.011 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings6.155 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
7.8
69 Ratings
1% above category average
Looker
6.6
127 Ratings
19% below category average
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
10.0
11 Ratings
22% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.067 Ratings7.7123 Ratings10.010 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.556 Ratings7.5109 Ratings10.011 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.840 Ratings4.66 Ratings10.08 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining8.820 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
8.0
73 Ratings
5% above category average
Looker
7.5
127 Ratings
12% below category average
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
9.8
10 Ratings
14% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.872 Ratings7.8119 Ratings10.010 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.465 Ratings7.3104 Ratings9.08 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.071 Ratings7.4121 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)6.945 Ratings00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings7.459 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
15% above category average
Looker
-
Ratings
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
7.8
3 Ratings
1% above category average
REST API8.542 Ratings00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Javascript API8.437 Ratings00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
iFrames8.340 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
-
Ratings
Looker
8.1
127 Ratings
2% below category average
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
9.5
11 Ratings
14% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings7.8105 Ratings10.011 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.2112 Ratings10.010 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings7.983 Ratings9.06 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.5109 Ratings9.64 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
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Ratings
Looker
5.4
94 Ratings
36% below category average
Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
9.5
10 Ratings
20% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings5.690 Ratings10.010 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings5.01 Ratings9.09 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings6.084 Ratings10.09 Ratings
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Small Businesses
Yellowfin
Yellowfin
Score 8.7 out of 10
Yellowfin
Yellowfin
Score 8.7 out of 10
Yellowfin
Yellowfin
Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Reveal
Reveal
Score 10.0 out of 10
Reveal
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Infor Birst
Infor Birst
Score 6.4 out of 10
Kyvos Semantic Layer
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Score 9.5 out of 10
Kyvos Semantic Layer
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(99 ratings)
8.3
(132 ratings)
8.0
(15 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(16 ratings)
9.3
(8 ratings)
9.2
(4 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(78 ratings)
8.8
(12 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(2 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(9 ratings)
8.8
(14 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.0
(3 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.2
(3 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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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
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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Discontinued Products
If you're already using Office 365, Power BI for O365 is an easy choice. Start playing around with the free version and then easily add individual Pro licenses with little risk. However, if you anticipate using this with many users, it can get expensive quickly.
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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
  • Show visited pages - sessions, pageviews - which programs are viewed the most.
  • Displays session source/medium views to see where users are coming from.
  • It shows the video titles, URLs, and event counts so we can monitor the performance of our videos.
  • It gives a graphic face to the numbers, such as using bar charts, pie graphs, and other charts to show user trends or which channels are driving engagement.
  • Our clients like to see the top pages visited for a month.
  • I like the drop-and-drag approach, and building charts is a little easier than it was before.
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  • Easy to make visual dashboards from SQL queries. Previously we had to use a third party application that had to run on a web server that was so complex to setup and run. PowerBI removes all that.
  • Ability to control who/which group has access to each dashboard or report. Ties in well with the rest of the Office 365 ecosystem.
  • Has many connectors to allow pulling data from various systems, both onsite (via gateway) or external (via APIs), and join the data to create a report/dashboard.
  • Ability to show data but also export the data, if permitted.
  • Easy to show PowerBI dashboards on SharePoint or on other websites via embedded code.
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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
  • Documentation is scarce, and very difficult to find when you need it.
  • Pricing is unclear, particularly as you look to scale your reports across the business.
  • Data from other sources is not represented in the system as well as first party Google services.
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Discontinued Products
  • Licensing: Currently, Microsoft has a fixed pricing model for Office 365 users, regardless of role/function of the user. Most organizations have a small number of "power users" that create usable content and many more "consumers" that simply view/run reports created by power users. Microsoft does not differentiate between these users, and thus the pricing limits organizations from large deployments of the software.
  • Version incompatibility: Excel 2010 and 2013 workbooks are compatible with each other. However, workbooks created in 2010 that include PowerPivot databases must be upgraded to 2013 format to run in 2013. Subsequently, you cannot open these upgraded PowerPivot workbooks in 2010. This requires ALL users to be on the same version.
  • Visualization: Excel charting with PowerPivot workbooks is adequate for many users. Power View also contains a number of GREAT visualizations, including animated bubble charts and a very flexible dashboard/report design canvas. However, compared to some of the other self-service BI solutions, it is still limited in its visualization capabilities.
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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
I give it this rating because it deems as effective, I am able to complete majority of my tasks using this app. It is very helpful when analyzing the data provided and shown in the app and it's just overall a great app for Operational use, despite the small hiccups it has (live data).
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I will continue to recommend this suite to folks looking for a reporting and analytics solution, as I find in MOST cases, it's great at meeting almost every requirement I've been given by a multitude of clients across a range of industries. I've built Capacity Planning solutions that allowed end user input which was then submitted to SharePoint, Executive Dashboards, custom applications, simple analytical tools for teams to easily slice and dice data, and super simple reports as well as some very complicated ones. If you haven't seen the demos online, do a search, and see for yourself - this is a great BI suite! (I do not work for Microsoft, although I do consult out there from time to time. I do occasionally make a recommendation for a different BI reporting tool, but in general, find Excel can accomplish quite a bit for less money and in less time.)
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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
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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Discontinued Products
We are satisfied with the functionality and capabilities of Power BI. Product is cost effective and full-fill the reporting requirements of the organization. You can perform most of the report level complex analysis with the help of DAX which makes Power BI very powerful analytic tool. Power BI for Office 365 has gone away and Power BI is the next evolution of it. Power BI comes with your Office 365 E5 subscription or you can purchase licensing for it separately.
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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 objections
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Performance
GoodData
I'm generally impressed with how fast it reflects so much data.
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Google
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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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
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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Discontinued Products
as of now there is strong community for Power BI, you can get solution for most of your problems from there. Also you can send your error to Microsoft as well. After every 15 days they release updates to overcome all the issues of defects.
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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
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Discontinued Products
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Online Training
GoodData
GoodData implementation team was professional and courteous
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Google
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Discontinued Products
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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
Very satisfied, easy to implement
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Discontinued Products
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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
Looker Studio, you can easily report on data from various sources without programming. Looker Studio is available at no charge for creators and report viewers. Enterprise customers who upgrade to Looker Studio Pro will receive support and expanded administrative features, including team content management. So it's good.
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Oracle was nice, super expensive to implement if it's not in use already. JobDiva is choppy and heavy on the system while does not give great reports. Salesforce is good; remote access is good however their support is terrible
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
GoodData
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Google
Perfect price to performance
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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
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Discontinued Products
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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
  • Looker has a poignant impact on our business's ROI objectives. As an advertising exchange we have specific goals for daily requests and fill, and having premade Looks to monitor this is an integral piece of our operational capability
  • To facilitate an efficient monthly billing cycle in our organization, Looker is essential to track estimated revenue and impression delivery by publisher. Without the Looks we have set up, we would spend considerably more time and effort segmenting revenue by vertical.
  • Looker's unique value proposition is making analytical tools more digestible to people without conventional analytical experience. Other competing tools like Tableau require considerably more training and context to successfully use, and the ability to easily plot different visualizations is one of its greatest selling points.
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Discontinued Products
  • As a Microsoft Partner implementing Business Intelligence solutions, Power BI has removed the barrier for our clients to begin the "BI journey". So often, projects get hung up in that early phase of procuring and installing/configuring expensive hardware and software. Just simply getting started and designing a beginning solution has allowed our clients to see results in 1-2 weeks using their data that might have taken months to achieve otherwise.
  • One significant ROI example is process improvement. In many cases, individuals or teams are spending days each month gathering data from multiple sources for reporting to their constituents. We are reducing these times to minutes by automating many of the data collection and integration processes that were previously manual.
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Looker Screenshots

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