Likelihood to Recommend It's great for clients who don't have a huge reporting budget and/or want to add voiceover insight and analysis to the report. I love Looker for weekly updates. The client gets a general overview and can compare data against any time period that works for them. Plus, it's a free tool - who doesn't love that?
Read full review 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.
Read full review Pros 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. Read full review 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. Read full review Cons I’d like a bit more personalization, particularly in the “Style” section (e.g., fonts, paragraph settings, the ability to map the axis labels to shorter names…). Performance can be quite slow when there are many graphs on one page, even making the page unresponsive sometimes. I’d love to be able to easily embed a dashboard in the Google Sheets it comes from (without injecting code to embed the HTML). Read full review 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 Read full review Likelihood to Renew We are very haooy with Looker, it provides us with all the funciomalities we need for both the day to day oerformance tracking and longer periods reporting. It is easy to use for account managers, configurable and customizable for soecialists and what is most imoortant, our clinets generally really love it
Read full review Usability 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.
Read full review Reliability and Availability No objections
Read full review Performance 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
Read full review Support Rating 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.
Read full review 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.
Read full review Implementation Rating Very satisfied, easy to implement
Read full review Alternatives Considered Looker gives you options to integrate external APIs with great ease. Our data analytics team is able to easily use multiple data sources as input to the Looker dashboard, and everything is consolidated in one single Dashboard. You also have an option for Shared folders to be accessed by multiple people. The reporting system is perfect and has a wide range of options/reporting options that can be implemented.
Read full review 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.
Read full review Contract Terms and Pricing Model Perfect price to performance
Read full review Return on Investment 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. Read full review 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. Read full review ScreenShots