Looker Studio

Formerly Google Data Studio

The free version of Looker Studio is still better than the leading enterprise-embedded BI tools, despite its weaknesses. The leading embedded BI platforms have terrible visualizations that can be spotted a mile away. They are also primarily locked to a grid, making it very hard to fully customize. The price point is also a major deterrent, since users end up paying for lots of features they might never use. Looker Studio has weaknesses on the blending and modeling side, but we've been able to get by via connection to GBQ and transformation done in dbt.

Easy availability and accessible with Google suits. Sharing is smooth.

Google Data Studio integrates data into visually appealing reports and can constantly update based on the linked data source (i.e., Google Analytics), a feature that neither of the platforms listed can do. However, sometimes Google Data Studio can't generate graphs based on my specific needs (it becomes very complex), so platforms like Excel or Google Sheets work better.

We selected Google Data Studio because it is easier to make connections with third-party data sources. Also Google Data Studio can understand connections between different tables and databases better that its competitors such as Power BI. Compared to Power BI you do not need to upload and install an application to use it.

In comparison to Kibana , its much easier and being free its worth a lot. Apart from that it has flexibility of connecting to more than 300 connectors, which is not there in Kibana. Apart from that no doubt its much better that in terms of visualization of Data, analytics etc.

And being free software also it's sometime easier for organizations to use free software if they are going to use it for some limited functionality.

Data Studio is the first step in your data visualization journey, as your data gets bigger and your need for information grows you will have to move to something more powerful, but here you can start all by yourself and the resources that you have at this time, the most important thing to do is take the first step.

Google Data Studio is a Google product and many other companies also use Google Suite (as Gmail), so it was easier to share reports to clients using it than Zoho Analytics (which needs a paid account to give access to any other user).

Google holds it's own against these competitors as they each have their own strengths and weaknesses. While Tableau provides user-interactive reporting, its formatting options can be quickly rigid and frustrating.

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.

We have used Google Charts as well which works just as great as Google Data Studio for our team. We love both of these tools.

-Easy to use
-Self-service
-Point and click
-Easy to share
-Easy to copy/clone
-Easy to build ad hoc reports
-Easy to integrate data sources
-Easy to join data sources
-Easy to customize and configure dashboards
-Easy to change the design / UI and presentation layer of GDS dashboards
-Easy to access anywhere / anytime (web vs. desktop/client).

Well this tool is free that's the primary reason of using it more often.
Microsoft Power BI doesn't have google sheet connector that's the second one.

Google Data Studio is much more intuitive to pick up and start using immediately. There was very little need for formal training or onboarding to start using the tool quickly. Power BI was much more difficult to start using.

The formatting in GDS is also very customizable, and clients appreciate reports that look like they are created specifically for them.

Google Analytics and Google Data studio work well with each other. They don't necessarily stack against each other, Google Data studio just makes interpreting the data more visual and concise. I recommend both and not one over the other. Both are free tools provided by Google, so I highly recommend using and understanding both.

Google Data Studio is free, easily integrates with the Google Marketing Platform, and is simple to use. It's a better choice for most basic marketing reporting. Tableau is better for more BI and exploratory data analysis.

Obviously, Google Data Studio is an improvement over Google Charts, which I believe powers the chart modules used in Data Studio. I think of Data Studio as a convenient way to combine multiple Google Charts in one, easy-to-read report.

In many ways it is similar to SmartDraw's graphing program. It has a better appearance and more utile graph types than native Microsoft programs, and it it easily lives online. But, Data Studio is free and offers a little bit better data porting than SmartDraw and has modules that are more than just graphs and charts.

The best comparison is to Tableau Online. It is essentially the same program. Tableau is more powerful and has data warehousing, tons of dataviz tools, and lots of connections to outside sources. However, Tableau starts around $70 per month per user, which can be very expensive. Data Studio doesn't offer as many tools, connection, or power but starts out as Free with unlimited collaborators. This is a major advantage when budgets are tight. However, as I mentioned, you may have software costs with Data Studio if you need to purchase third-party connectors to import your data directly into Google Data Studio from outside sources like Facebook and CRMs.

We are heavily within the Google ecosystem and therefore didn't really consider alternatives to Google Data Studio since it met our somewhat limited needs at the time of implementation. For outside presentations, we would probably lean towards something that allows us to more easily create more aesthetically pleasing views.

We originally selected Google Data Studio since it didn't have a cost but have since switched to using DashThis.

At this point I am unable to have Facebook ads data in the Agorapulse reports (although I can customize them now). If at any point I am able to include this data I'm my Agorapulse reports I will switch to that so that I. Not having to use several different software programs.

I have not used other competitors.

Data studio gives a more robust set of metrics that can be added to the reports. Personalization of the information you want to show and analyze is much better with Data Studio. Website and campaign performance reporting all in one place are very useful and practical. Creating a link that can be accessed by my clients to see their report at any time gives added value to our service as an agency

Compared with Tableau and Power BI, I would say Google Data Studio is fairly placed or a pretty decent tool. We need to understand, this is a free tool and it will have its own limitations - apart from that this is a pretty decent tool compared to the biggies in the market.

I like Google Data Studio because it pulls in from various sources in a way that's easy for me to use. I haven't tried a ton of dashboards because the cost is prohibitive for small businesses.

Google Data Studio is an all in one package, like Adobe and Mapp. It is perfect if companies using Google AdWords and Google Analytics. The integrated dashboard is easy to configure and has a really nice visualization.

Google Data Studio is simpler than Tableau. If you need advanced data visualization, Tableau is probably a better option. Infogram offers a lot more visualization built into the system but is otherwise comparable.