Looker vs. Rational BI
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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Looker | Score8.1 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 |
Rational BI | Score7.7 out of 10 | Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees) | Rational BI provides analytics, data science and business intelligence in an analytical platform that connects to databases, data files and cloud drives including AWS and Azure data sources, enabling users to explore and visualize data. Users can build real-time notebook-style reports directly in a web browser with JavaScript and SQL with direct and live connections to data. Filter and query data with an SQL database embedded in the client, without network… | $0 single user |
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98% Would buy again 85 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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99% Delivers good value for the price 75 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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100% Happy with the feature set 87 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
| Lived up to sales and marketing promises | ||
98% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 55 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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97% Implementation went as expected 69 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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| Small Businesses | Cyfe Score4 out of 10 | Chartio (discontinued) Score7.5 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies | Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense) Score8.2 out of 10 | Jet Reports Score9.5 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | Jaspersoft Community Edition Score7 out of 10 | Kibana Score8.4 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.0 | 7.7 |
| Likelihood to Renew | 9.2 | - |
| Usability | 8.8 | 8.7 |
| Availability | 10.0 | - |
| Performance | 6.0 | - |
| Support Rating | 8.8 | 7.7 |
| Implementation Rating | 10.0 | - |
| Configurability | 10.0 | - |
| Contract Terms and Pricing Model | 10.0 | - |
| Data Sharing and Collaboration | 8.5 | - |
| Data Sources | 7.3 | - |
| Ease of integration | 10.0 | - |
| Product Scalability | 10.0 | - |
| Professional Services | 10.0 | - |
| Vendor post-sale | 10.0 | - |
| Vendor pre-sale | 10.0 | - |
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