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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Looker

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ALooker 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

    Pigment

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/APigment is an enterprise-grade business planning platform that provides users with a 360° view of the business, updates its financial models in real-time, and allows users to run what-if scenarios at the click of a button. Pigment aims to enable FP&A and revenue teams to improve cross-functional collaboration, increase internal efficiency, and align financial and operational plans, all while scaling reporting and data management.N/A
    Pricing
    LookerPigment
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LookerPigment
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredOptional
    Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.—
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    Features
    LookerPigment
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Looker and Pigment
    Feature
    Looker
    7.4
    134 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Pigment
    8.4
    5 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports6.5110 Ratings8.65 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.2133 Ratings9.64 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.5115 Ratings7.05 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Looker and Pigment
    Feature
    Looker
    6.8
    132 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Pigment
    7.7
    6 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Drill-down analysis6.3128 Ratings7.96 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities6.6130 Ratings8.56 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages5.655 Ratings6.54 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.8131 Ratings7.96 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Looker and Pigment
    Feature
    Looker
    7.9
    128 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Pigment
    7.8
    6 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Publish to Web7.7105 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.8113 Ratings7.26 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.984 Ratings8.15 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.2110 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Looker and Pigment
    Feature
    Looker
    6.6
    128 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Pigment
    7.5
    5 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.7124 Ratings7.95 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.5110 Ratings7.05 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics4.66 Ratings7.95 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings7.15 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Looker and Pigment
    Feature
    Looker
    7.3
    128 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Pigment
    8.0
    5 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)7.5120 Ratings7.95 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.2105 Ratings8.15 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.2122 Ratings7.85 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control7.360 Ratings7.95 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Looker and Pigment
    Feature
    Looker
    5.2
    95 Ratings
    39% below category average
    Pigment
    7.3
    5 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access4.991 Ratings7.25 Ratings
    Mobile Application5.01 Ratings6.95 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile5.885 Ratings7.85 Ratings
    Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
    Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Looker and Pigment
    Feature
    Looker
    -
    Ratings
    Pigment
    8.2
    7 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Long-term financial planning00 Ratings8.17 Ratings
    Financial budgeting00 Ratings7.97 Ratings
    Forecasting00 Ratings8.67 Ratings
    Scenario modeling00 Ratings8.57 Ratings
    Management reporting00 Ratings8.07 Ratings
    Consolidation and Close
    Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Looker and Pigment
    Feature
    Looker
    -
    Ratings
    Pigment
    6.8
    6 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Financial data consolidation00 Ratings6.95 Ratings
    Journal entries and reports00 Ratings6.15 Ratings
    Multi-currency management00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Intercompany Eliminations00 Ratings7.13 Ratings
    Minority Ownership00 Ratings6.15 Ratings
    Local and consolidated reporting00 Ratings7.15 Ratings
    Detailed Audit Trails00 Ratings7.45 Ratings
    Financial Reporting and Compliance
    Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Looker and Pigment
    Feature
    Looker
    -
    Ratings
    Pigment
    7.6
    6 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Financial Statement Reporting00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Management Reporting00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Excel-based Reporting00 Ratings6.35 Ratings
    Automated board and financial reporting00 Ratings8.56 Ratings
    XBRL support for regulatory filing00 Ratings7.33 Ratings
    Analytics and Reporting
    Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Looker and Pigment
    Feature
    Looker
    -
    Ratings
    Pigment
    8.6
    7 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Personalized dashboards00 Ratings9.47 Ratings
    Color-coded scorecards00 Ratings8.46 Ratings
    KPIs00 Ratings8.66 Ratings
    Cost and profitability analysis00 Ratings8.66 Ratings
    Key Performance Indicator setting00 Ratings8.86 Ratings
    Benchmarking with external data00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
    Integration
    Comparison of Integration features of Looker and Pigment
    Feature
    Looker
    -
    Ratings
    Pigment
    7.9
    6 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Flat file integration00 Ratings7.95 Ratings
    Excel data integration00 Ratings7.96 Ratings
    Direct links to 3rd-party data sources00 Ratings7.86 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    LookerPigment
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    IBM Planning Analytics
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    Score7.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LookerPigment
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (134 ratings)
    7.9
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.2
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (12 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.5
    (51 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    7.3
    (51 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 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
    LookerPigment
    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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    Pigment
    Planning, financials, and even sales tracking are greatly helpful for project planning. This makes product planning easy; you can simply see what the industry is demanding and what should be produced more in coming quarters. If you have really huge data, then this sometimes crashes.
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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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    Pigment
    • Helping organizations assess the impacts of various business decisions effectively​
    • Seamlessly integrates with multiple data sources
    • Collaboration with other teams and teammates
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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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    Pigment
    • Its not that stable, need some improvements in stability of the product. Gets crashed sometimes
    • There is learning curv for script as pigment have its own logic things
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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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    Pigment
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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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    Pigment
    Overall most of Pigment is self-service and meant to be used by the business users. It usually doesn't require reaching out to a technical or IT resource to make changes to reports or the models we have setup.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    No objections
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    Pigment
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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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    Pigment
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Pigment
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Google
    Very satisfied, easy to implement
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    Pigment
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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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    Pigment
    Pigment has a lot of the same self-service capabilities but offers a more robust infrastructure to plan and report on more than just the financial data. It allows for more extended planning and the reporting and dashboard capabilities are very strong.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Google
    Perfect price to performance
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    Pigment
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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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    Pigment
    • Capacity to anticipate better (forecasting accuracy improved)
    • Single source of truth for internal and external financial KPIs
    • Agility to compare scenarios and making decisions based on that
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    Looker Screenshots

    Screenshot of a Looker dashboard with a geo chart.