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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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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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The primary business solutions that Google Looker Studio can help provide include data visualization, in-house custom performance dashboard creation, and internal-facing KPI reporting. The primary scope of our use case with Google Looker Studio (i.e., formerly Google Data Studio) is to help review keyword/search term performance, device-level performance, and ongoing budget/spend pacing.
March 12, 2024
Looker Review.
Looker is a business intelligence application with an analytics-oriented application server that sits on top of relational data stores. We use Looker for creating monthly reports. Additionally, it helps to provide a friendly interface for non-experienced users, integrate data, and manage data easily for DBs, data analytics, and many other tasks.
March 12, 2024
Looker: Cheap for what it delivers!
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
I use Looker to build analytical dash boards to provide data from different sources inside my organization. Presenting data with good visuals and dynamic data slicing and cross filtering so that the users can obtain insights from data
March 12, 2024
Using Looker as explorer for the last year
We use Looker as the visualization tool for the data of some of the SW applications we developed in the organization. It is used normally for those applications where Google Analytics information is available. We use it as a tool to share and visualize data but also to extract information to analyze it in other tools.
We use Looker to plug and play with other Google products, such as porting data from Search Console or Google Analytics, and even Google Sheets to join data sources. When GA4 launched, it became a lot more tricky for us to get visibility into the data we needed, so Looker was the ideal solution for us. We've created custom reports with dashboards and used templates readily available, which is a great plug-and-play option for setting up views quickly. It's also straightforward to do more complex things that we'd usually need Data Analysts to do in SQL, like joining data tables, because adding tags and categories to imported data with data joins is possible.
March 11, 2024
Looker is the report engine for you!
We use Looker to track everything about marketing delivery, opens, clicks, and conversion tracking. This includes email, SMS, push, and external channels. This allows us to distribute this important information across the entire organization so that when someone needs the information, they have it immediately and without extra effort from the seats that are responsible for producing the content or managing the channels.
March 11, 2024
Integral, Awesome software
Looker is used throughout my organization, for reporting on a host of different areas including revenue tracking, ad request monitoring, campaign management/pacing, and traffic acquisition. We have scheduled email reports set up covering a plethora of different use cases, that are leveraged both internally and externally. Problems addressed include regular access to data, distributing information to stakeholders on a fixed cadence, and keeping different teams appraised of what is going on while mitigating the need for excessive meetings.
March 11, 2024
Look no further than Looker!
I use Looker in my business for both business and marketing analytics, across a myriad of data sets and sources
March 11, 2024
Great BI tool for data aggregation
We collect a lot of data within the company, but that data used to be spread out among multiple divisions and multiple (not interoperable ) systems within our organization, making it almost impossible to operate organization-wide data analysis.
Besides, most legacy systems within our organization required the users to have SQL hands on experience, which limited the number of people who could actually access and use the data.
Besides, most legacy systems within our organization required the users to have SQL hands on experience, which limited the number of people who could actually access and use the data.
February 20, 2024
Deep dive into Looker
Looker is an amazing tool - we use Looker for creating Default/standard reports for our monthly reporting, weekly reports.
The business problems Looker helps to address
- Users with no experience of SQL or in particular, any coding or knowledge of machine language, extract data from different tables and retrieve the data needed by the user
- Creating and extracting data from customer/adhoch reports is super simple and user-friendly
The business problems Looker helps to address
- Users with no experience of SQL or in particular, any coding or knowledge of machine language, extract data from different tables and retrieve the data needed by the user
- Creating and extracting data from customer/adhoch reports is super simple and user-friendly
September 18, 2023
Looker is a fantastic BI tool that scales with the business
Our organization is using Looker to provide data access to the entire organization, build for scale, and to enable all departments to pull their own data.
December 23, 2022
Looker's great if you're looking for a customizable solution for making data available to your team
We use Looker to make clean data available to the rest of the company. Empowering teams with data in a quick and reliable way with as much of the technical nuances removed. It's an easy way to reduce reliance on the analytics team and make reporting as real-time as possible.
May 04, 2022
Analyze your data efficiently with Looker
We can work on our data using this tool. Our use case is that we are working on a large analytics project where we have to integrate data from wide sources into the system and transform the data activities accordingly. Our different divisions used the tool (marketing, consulting, sales, etc). Looker is somehow most efficient for low velocity and volume data. Users may face issues while working on large data. It can be assumed to be a day-to-day data analytics solution for your organization that helps manage your data in a more organized way.
July 30, 2021
Looker for our Business Operations team
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Our Business Operations & Systems department is currently using [Looker] to create a visual dashboard. We primarily use it to track our end-to-end business process efficiencies across different programs. We then publish these dashboards for our organization.
May 14, 2021
Excellent tool with impeccable support team!
Looker is being used by our organization to manage and build dashboards for our team, both for our website and data analytics as well as some of our sales data in order to track and manage our sales kpis. Our sales manager and client services team have used this product to be able to track these and build dashboards.
May 08, 2021
Awesome software for our team
Looker is being used by our company to make reports and graphs for both our own company initiatives, as well as for our clients. Our whole organization uses it at least to view data, but a lot of us work within the software to make it edits. This tool lets us build dashboards to show all of our company numbers simply and upfront.
Looker is an ETL (extract, transform, load) software, which means that it has the ability to ingest data. Users can create dashboards in various flavors, such as dashboards, reports and line graphs. The platform looks well-designed and is really easy to navigate. All the three columns and the dropdown boxes are well thought-out. These offer a level of customization to an extent that you can further customize them according to your needs.
May 02, 2021
Awesome product for data visualization
I mostly use Looker to manage our social media numbers and turn that into reports and visual data for the rest of the team and for our clients. I know a lot of the rest of the company uses this tool as well, but this is the purpose specifically for me.
May 02, 2021
Turn data into meaningful decisions
We use Looker for data migration and visualization. It is great for turning loads of data into meaningful graphs and charts that can be made sense of. It helps us drive decisions that make sense for our company.
April 30, 2021
Look no further than into Looker
Looker currently is being used by our organization to make business decisions on buying or selling inventory in the ad tech space. The key decisions being made allow for the KPIs to give a larger return on investment or minimize cap losses based on the reporting the metrics that looker provides for us.
April 30, 2021
An amazing data visualization tool
We use Looker to be able to visually analyze our data. It is being used by most of our organization, but especially our Operations team. I believe this is a support important tool because just having the data only tells half of the story if you cannot visualize it and be able to notice trends and reasons for discrepancies in data.
April 28, 2021
Wonderful tool and customer support
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Looker is being used by our organization in order to connect databases and create data models so we can make data driven decisions for our organization. It is only being used by our team who conducts data analysis, though we do of course share the results of the analysis with the rest of the team. It solves the problem of displaying data in a visual way.
April 22, 2021
Looker helps us organize our business data
Looker is being used across our entire organization and by every single department. We generally use Looker to address business-related metrics like health checks, MRR, C$R. It is a single source for us to determine how our business is progressing. It is a great tool to get cross-functional data and use that to provide feedback or make changes to our structure or initiatives.
April 07, 2021
Looker is pretty good for the price
We use Looker across the whole organization. It is used for integrated reporting (known as Looks) for delivery via email or GUI. Our company uses it for its own reports and we also publish customer-facing reports with it, on a daily basis. Essentially, it is a delivery program and some other things for our ETL process.
November 17, 2020
Solid performer
Looker was basically developed for our Circulation Dept. Since they have DFP data in the data warehouse already, We were using Yieldex for advertising reporting but it is pricey. I started building dashboards for our advertising department and people love it. My VP is planning to work with other Hearst newspapers to get them on board.