Item: Google BigQuery
Rating: 10
Author: Jose F. Gomez

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google BigQuery is being used as a data warehousing tool so that we can run analytics and calculate business metrics on our data. It’s very comprehensive and powerful yet provides tools to simplify recurrent queries on the data that makes working with it easy enough. We like that it’s a place where multiple people from interdisciplinary teams can converge on the data and work on finding ways to improve and better understand our business.

Pros and Cons

It provides a central data storage regardless of the data source.
It features functionality that makes it easy to store and re-run queries.

It can be overwhelming to non-technical users at first.
You can easily get confused as to what to do to start if not familiarized with the workflow.

Return on Investment

It helped us define a structured process for data analytics.
Simplified the decision of where to store our data.

Support Rating

It’s Google, they’re big and well organized, the documentation is abundant and the scalability is amazing. The UX is good too, considering it’s a professional tool expected to be used by people with a specific technical background. Overall, it makes me feels good and secure that we know where to store the data, how to use that data and that the data is handled with utmost security and performance practices.

Key Insights

Do you think Google BigQuery delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Google BigQuery's feature set?

Yes

Did Google BigQuery live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Google BigQuery go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Google BigQuery again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

Google BigQuery is an especially powerful tool for teams running a business that collects data in multiple tools and want to have a place to centralize all of the data for process analysis. Teams that want to learn the insights of every aspect of their processes and their performance can store their processes data in Google BigQuery and then create queries and store them as needed then run experiments or test scenarios and measure outcomes easily.

THE tool you need to improve your business

Overall Satisfaction with Google BigQuery