Looker Studio vs. Oracle Analytics Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Oracle Analytics Cloud
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
The Oracle Analytics Cloud service is a public cloud service that provides a full set of capabilities to explore and perform collaborative analytics.
$16
per month per user
Pricing
Looker StudioOracle Analytics Cloud
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Professional - BYOL
$0.3226
OCPU per hour
Enterprise - BYOL
$0.3226
OCPU per hour
Oracle Analytics Server for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
$1.75
OCPU per hour
Professional
$16.00
per month per user
Enterprise
$80.00
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Looker StudioOracle Analytics Cloud
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details—OCPUs represent physical CPU cores. Most CPU architectures, including x86, execute two threads per physical core, so 1 OCPU is the equivalent of 2 vCPUs for x86-based compute. The per-hour OCPU rate customers are billed at is therefore twice the vCPU price since they receive two vCPUs of compute power for each OCPU.
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Community Pulse
Looker StudioOracle Analytics Cloud
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Looker StudioOracle Analytics Cloud
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Looker Studio
7.5
51 Ratings
11% below category average
Oracle Analytics Cloud
8.4
25 Ratings
2% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.335 Ratings8.123 Ratings
Customizable dashboards9.250 Ratings8.825 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates5.149 Ratings8.325 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Looker Studio
6.3
50 Ratings
24% below category average
Oracle Analytics Cloud
8.3
29 Ratings
2% above category average
Drill-down analysis7.442 Ratings9.128 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.346 Ratings8.228 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages3.023 Ratings7.822 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration6.550 Ratings8.325 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Looker Studio
7.5
50 Ratings
11% below category average
Oracle Analytics Cloud
8.5
26 Ratings
2% above category average
Publish to Web9.244 Ratings8.124 Ratings
Publish to PDF7.043 Ratings9.125 Ratings
Report Versioning8.131 Ratings8.224 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling4.734 Ratings8.723 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers8.718 Ratings8.519 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Looker Studio
8.9
49 Ratings
8% above category average
Oracle Analytics Cloud
8.5
25 Ratings
5% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.349 Ratings8.625 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.446 Ratings8.521 Ratings
Predictive Analytics8.024 Ratings8.220 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Looker Studio
-
Ratings
Oracle Analytics Cloud
9.7
22 Ratings
12% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.921 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings9.021 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings10.022 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings10.018 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Looker Studio
-
Ratings
Oracle Analytics Cloud
9.7
18 Ratings
20% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings10.016 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings9.917 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Looker Studio
-
Ratings
Oracle Analytics Cloud
9.6
17 Ratings
19% above category average
REST API00 Ratings9.914 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings8.913 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings9.97 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings9.913 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings8.913 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings9.98 Ratings
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User Ratings
Looker StudioOracle Analytics Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(51 ratings)
8.7
(33 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
6.7
(10 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Looker StudioOracle Analytics Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Oracle
Oracle Data Visualization is very effective if used in an enterprise context with huge volumes of data coming from different systems. It supports dashboard and reporting capabilities and is easy to scale. It also allows you to leverage machine learning capabilities to extract hidden data trends. Visualization capabilities are powerful but not so various if compared to other solutions on the market. If you want to present a dashboard to an executive audience and you want to make your dashboards beautiful you must adapt them through PowerPoint.
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Pros
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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Oracle
  • Available without of the box connectors for Salesforce and oracle Saas Cloud. This is a huge plus for our business since we don't need another middleware solution just for this sake.
  • We are able to connect to our on-prem SQL Server database where we have our RMA database and other applications seamlessly without writing custom APIs.
  • OAC writes directly into ADW which is another advantage for loading Excel files into ADW after dataflow transformations.
  • OAC allows replication of the database from fusion ERP and lets us create subject areas using the data modeler.
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Cons
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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Oracle
  • Reports that output data to portable and mobile devices should be in a better and more appropriate form and improved.
  • In the beginning, the initial settings take some time, which I think requires a smart wizard to set up and get started.
  • Must add mores diagrams and graphs
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Oracle
No answers on this topic
Usability
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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Oracle
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
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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Oracle
Oracle Analytics Support team is very proactive and I have never had a situation where I had to wait for more than a day or two to get my issues resolved. This is a very big help for us and we appreciate Oracle and its team for guaranteeing that experience.
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Alternatives Considered
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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Oracle
Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service (OBICS) does well in terms of handling data, creating joins, managing database relationships, and data integration from multiple sources. However, the visualisation features on Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service (OBICS) are limited when compared to other business intelligence tools like Looker or Tableau. Again, the choice of tool depends on your specific requirements. Both provide different features and both are good at what they offer.
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Return on Investment
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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Oracle
  • ROI is better than average; the product pays for itself in the long run
  • Ease of use, which is very important in today's busy environments.
  • Can be costly based on the amount of user licensing, which is a flat cost per user.
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