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What is Looker?
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…
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Popular Features
- Customizable dashboards (94)8.888%
- Report sharing and collaboration (95)8.686%
- Drill-down analysis (92)8.282%
- Formatting capabilities (93)7.474%
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What is Looker?
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.
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What is Looker?
Looker, Google Cloud’s business intelligence platform, enables users to chat with data. Organizations are given self-service and governed BI to build custom applications with trusted metrics, or to bring Looker modeling to their existing environment.
Looker Studio is a part of Google's Looker Suite for business intelligence. Looker Studio is a self-serve BI solution where less technical users can create charts and reports, while Looker is a complete, enterprise BI platform, where technical users can build complex models that consider every aspect of the business. Looker Studio offers both free and pro versions, while Looker is not available for free. Looker and Looker Studio integrate with each other to support both types of analysis at businesses.
Looker vs. Looker Studio
Looker Studio is a part of Google's Looker Suite for business intelligence. Looker Studio is a self-serve BI solution where less technical users can create charts and reports, while Looker is a complete, enterprise BI platform, where technical users can build complex models that consider every aspect of the business. Looker Studio offers both free and pro versions, while Looker is not available for free. Looker and Looker Studio integrate with each other to support both types of analysis at businesses.
Looker Features
BI Platform Features
- Supported: Administration via Web Interface
- Supported: Live Connection to External Data
- Supported: In-memory data model
- Supported: Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)
- Supported: Data warehouse / dictionary layer
Supported Data Sources Features
- Supported: Oracle
- Supported: MS SQL Server
- Supported: IBM DB2
- Supported: Postgres
- Supported: MySQL
- Supported: Cloudera Hadoop
- Supported: Hortonworks Hadoop
- Supported: EMC Greenplum
- Supported: IBM Netezza
- Supported: HP Vertica
- Supported: ParAccel
- Supported: SAP Hana
- Supported: Teradata
- Supported: Sage 500
- Supported: SAP
BI Standard Reporting Features
- Supported: Pixel Perfect reports
- Supported: Customizable dashboards
- Supported: Report Formatting Templates
Ad-hoc Reporting Features
- Supported: Drill-down analysis
- Supported: Formatting capabilities
- Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages
- Supported: Report sharing and collaboration
Report Output and Scheduling Features
- Supported: Publish to Web
- Supported: Publish to PDF
- Supported: Output Raw Supporting Data
- Supported: Report Versioning
- Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling
Data Discovery and Visualization Features
- Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- Supported: Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- Supported: Support for Machine Learning models
- Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages
Access Control and Security Features
- Supported: Multi-User Support (named login)
- Supported: Role-Based Security Model
- Supported: Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
- Supported: Report-Level Access Control
- Supported: Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
- Supported: Field-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
Mobile Capabilities Features
- Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
- Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
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Looker Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Mexico, Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil |
| Supported Languages | English |
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
Reviewers rate Report Delivery Scheduling and Multi-User Support (named login) highest, with a score of 8.9.
The most common users of Looker are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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March 11, 2024
Look no further than Looker!
March 11, 2024
Great BI tool for data aggregation
In terms of user interface and freedom of customization, Tableau is probably still better than Looker.
However, Looker is very good in scenarios where multiple data sources and dashboards already exist within the organization and need to be integrated/unified in one place. That was the case for us, so we decided to use Looker.
However, Looker is very good in scenarios where multiple data sources and dashboards already exist within the organization and need to be integrated/unified in one place. That was the case for us, so we decided to use Looker.
February 20, 2024
Deep dive into Looker
The easy which with data and reports can be customized in Looker for adhoch or individual needs is amazing - Very easy to filter and save views.
September 18, 2023
Looker is a fantastic BI tool that scales with the business
Tableau has an adoption issue of having to upgrade to the most recent Tableau reader. In my experience it was very difficult to get the sales team to do this.
microstrategy was the most overly complicated reporting software I have ever used. You need a consultant to do anything, and forget about adoption.
Looker is a no-brainer compared to both.
December 23, 2022
Looker's great if you're looking for a customizable solution for making data available to your team
Tableau is also a great BI tool, but it felt a lot less flexible to me in terms of customization of data. As a visual platform, Tabluea is incredible; it can produce unbelievably rich visualizations and dashboards. It's also easier to get set up on Tableau too, but ultimately it doesn't have the same data capabilities or flexibility as Looker.
May 04, 2022
Analyze your data efficiently with Looker
July 30, 2021
Looker for our Business Operations team
Score 8 out of 10
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Looker has overall better UI and visual elegance than Sigma
May 14, 2021
Excellent tool with impeccable support team!
Looker is an awesome tool. I have tried to use Tableau before, but I think Looker is a better tool since it is more usable.
May 08, 2021
Awesome software for our team
We have not evaluated any tools that are exactly like Looker. It definitely stands out in our software stack and has a tremendous amount of benefit.
Looker is widely used and trusted within the data analytics industry, so this is the main reason why we chose it and selected it over other software. Also, the interface is pretty easy to use so it was good for our team since everyone could learn quickly.
May 02, 2021
Awesome product for data visualization
We selected Looker because of what other products it integrated with so we did not really consider other ones. That being said, it was a great choice.
May 02, 2021
Turn data into meaningful decisions
Looker is one of the most used softwares because it has a great interface
April 30, 2021
Look no further than into Looker
Looker was easier to use, better integration with non-standard datastores, such as Prestodb, and Snowflake, and BigTable. Ease of manageability. Creation of reports faster and easier compared to QlikView. Tableau has better heat maps, however, Looker has better drill down in heat map compared to Tableau. Licensing is cheaper than QlikView.
April 30, 2021
An amazing data visualization tool
Looker is overall the best software for data visualization simply because it does not take a lot of time to onboard someone for this software and it still has tons of functionality.
April 28, 2021
Wonderful tool and customer support
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Looker has been around for quite some time and they have been a leader of the market due to their features. They also have a great support team that is always available to help.
April 22, 2021
Looker helps us organize our business data
April 07, 2021
Looker is pretty good for the price
Looker is cheaper, by far. Easier to manage. In the end, Looker was a better choice for us, even with its maintenance warts and the headaches with the APIs. Tableau licensing is difficult to manage, at the very least, whereas Looker is not. User management is much easier to manage within Looker.
November 17, 2020
Solid performer
Our company uses Looker because our parent company has a data team to support the data warehouse and all the scripting. It is basically used for our circulation dept. I am developing it for our advertising dept because they have DFP in the data warehouse. However, I still deploy TapClicks for our advertising reporting because it does not require knowledge of SQL and a data team. Their UI is very user-friendly. I pretty much handle all reporting by myself with the help of their customer support.
October 04, 2019
Looker is a game changer for our company reporting
Looker is a lot easier to connect with our data pipelines and for users to create their own scalable Explores. Before, analysts would have to create separate Tableau dashboards for each ask, but now with Lookers Explores, some teams are able to self serve and create their own dashboards.
October 03, 2019
Data and Reporting Made Easy
Looker is easier to use and look at compared to many of its peers.
September 28, 2019
Great robust product that helps scale
It was cheaper and less complicated. We were not ready to just into something as big as Sisense and quite frankly didn't need that level of product at the time. We also considered building our own tool but eventually realized that would be way more time and effort consuming so we went with Looker.
September 28, 2019
Complex but powerful
Looker is a lower cost solution than other tools available in the marketplace. Unfortunately, that means that it does not have as many resources available that help users with onboarding and getting up to speed. They also charge for add-on functionality that comes standard on the other comparable tools that other companies provide.
September 28, 2019
Excellent Social Sharing & Reporting Platform
I was not involved in the decision to utilize Looker, as that was made well before I was brought into the company. I also haven't been exposed to any of their competitors, as the last position I held utilized an internal system.
September 18, 2019
Looker is the tool you're looking for... if you can afford it.
Looker was, hands down, better than any other products we looked at. It was far easier to get started and keep moving because of Looker's internal programming language and data definition language, LookML. We were up and going in just a few days and were creating advanced analytics the same day we got started after reading the LookML docs. Now, we have a pretty sharp team of programmers (I'm a former programmer by trade). I was even able to get started very, very quickly.
September 14, 2019
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