Looker vs. Oracle Analytics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Oracle Analytics
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Oracle Analytics is a solution used to visually explore data to create and share compelling stories. Oracle Analytics Cloud is a cloud native service, and Oracle Analytics Server is the on-premise option.N/A
Pricing
LookerOracle Analytics
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LookerOracle Analytics
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.Must contact sales team for pricing.
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Community Pulse
LookerOracle Analytics
Considered Both Products
Looker
Chose Looker
  • Looker offers significantly better reporting options than most other BI tools in a similar price range.
  • In terms of performance, Looker can handle much greater amounts of data than similar BI tools.
  • Although Looker primary works with LookML, you can do everything on LookML that …
Oracle Analytics
Chose Oracle Analytics
Business Objects was considered in places where the organization is using an SAP-based transactional system. Looker again becomes the advantage where you are going to build a totally new customized data warehouse model since it allows you to better reduce some extent of the ETL …
Chose Oracle Analytics
While Oracle BI Foundation Suite (esp. OBIEE 11g) outperforms most other business intelligence tools available on the market (Looker, Cognos, etc), it falls behind on a few fronts. One of the primary features where OBIEE falls behind is the reporting and visualization tools. …
Features
LookerOracle Analytics
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Looker
7.6
133 Ratings
7% below category average
Oracle Analytics
8.1
62 Ratings
1% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports6.7109 Ratings8.055 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.4132 Ratings8.061 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.6114 Ratings8.361 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Looker
7.1
131 Ratings
12% below category average
Oracle Analytics
8.1
66 Ratings
1% above category average
Drill-down analysis6.8127 Ratings8.564 Ratings
Formatting capabilities6.9129 Ratings8.265 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages6.155 Ratings7.345 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.8130 Ratings8.262 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Looker
8.1
127 Ratings
2% below category average
Oracle Analytics
7.8
63 Ratings
5% below category average
Publish to Web7.8105 Ratings7.755 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.2112 Ratings7.762 Ratings
Report Versioning7.983 Ratings7.853 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.5109 Ratings8.058 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.038 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Looker
6.6
127 Ratings
19% below category average
Oracle Analytics
7.9
61 Ratings
1% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.7123 Ratings7.659 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.5109 Ratings7.652 Ratings
Predictive Analytics4.66 Ratings7.747 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings8.63 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Looker
7.5
127 Ratings
12% below category average
Oracle Analytics
8.4
61 Ratings
1% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)7.8119 Ratings8.160 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model7.3104 Ratings8.060 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.4121 Ratings8.560 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control7.459 Ratings8.54 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.741 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Looker
5.4
94 Ratings
36% below category average
Oracle Analytics
8.0
48 Ratings
3% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access5.690 Ratings8.046 Ratings
Mobile Application5.01 Ratings8.033 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile6.084 Ratings8.044 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Looker
-
Ratings
Oracle Analytics
8.0
36 Ratings
3% above category average
REST API00 Ratings8.331 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings8.030 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings8.323 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings8.031 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.531 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings8.024 Ratings
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User Ratings
LookerOracle Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(132 ratings)
8.2
(76 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.3
(8 ratings)
9.1
(8 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(12 ratings)
8.2
(6 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
6.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(14 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Configurability
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
LookerOracle Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
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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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
  • 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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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
  • 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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Oracle
  • More AI but with human back up.
  • Less mumbo jumbo so even IT guys/gals can more easily work.
  • More statistics (math) and orientation for those not familiar with it.
  • More live as well as virtual (live) show casing of real situations in business.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Oracle
Scalability and rich integration capabilities. In the future, if we go with Hyperion for the Financial Consolidation and planning purposes -BI integration with Hyperion is going to be much simpler as it has native interface connectivity and even integration capabilities with well known CRM products (Siebel) and ERP Products (Oracle EBS, Peoplesoft, SAP) is going to be easy and straight forward.
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Usability
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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Oracle
Great, if you are limited to using it along with other Oracle products; sadly, not if you are integrating with other products, which can be a challenge. It is a great product with tons of functionality and great integration with other in-house platforms. Great visuals and customization for data and analytics to provide decision-making data and analysis.
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Reliability and Availability
Google
No objections
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Oracle
No problems, it's that simple.
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Performance
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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Oracle
Other than anomalies or expected quirks, there were never any earth-shattering delays.
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Support Rating
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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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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In-Person Training
Google
No answers on this topic
Oracle
Oracle University offers very in-depth training.
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Online Training
Google
No answers on this topic
Oracle
It was a private training site.
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Implementation Rating
Google
Very satisfied, easy to implement
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Oracle
A properly implemented Endeca solution performs extremely well on the largest of datasets and it positions your organization to immediately achieve your ROI.
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Alternatives Considered
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
Oracle Analytics Cloud, is one of the most agile and secure data analysis platforms that according to the budget and the amount of use, you can use the resources you need under the cloud. The Oracle brand is also very well known in this field and can meet all the needs of an organization or industry in any sector.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Google
Perfect price to performance
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Oracle
No answers on this topic
Scalability
Google
No answers on this topic
Oracle
We have seen the results of this in our initial research and are not surprised that Oracle does this like it does soo many other things in this area, so well.
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Return on Investment
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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Oracle
  • We've used OBIEE (or it's previous named product) for over 13 years and it's still the most used tool for BI by the business.
  • We moved our largest business system off of Business Object into OBI so we could gain improved performance, reliability, and easier management of metadata.
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ScreenShots

Looker Screenshots

Screenshot of a Looker dashboard with a geo chart.