A great analytics visual tool for teams on a budget
September 13, 2019

A great analytics visual tool for teams on a budget

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Google Data Studio

Our marketing team uses Google Data Studio to visualize our marketing data. We use it for everything from blog traffic, website signups, to social media engagement and user demographics. Google Data Studio is a great tool for us because it's free, but it has some of the advanced features an enterprise software tool would have.

Pros

  • Charts and graphs are very easy to create and read.
  • Data sharing: it's easy to export a data set and share it with the people who need to see it.
  • Collaboration: it's simple for our team to hop on and edit a report someone already worked on.

Cons

  • The report is only viewable online. You can't export in a PDF or anything like that.
  • No automated delivery (like google analytics).
  • Errors: it's pretty common to get errors with your data, and it's not super clear what the issue is.
  • Increased marketing funnel visualization.
  • Better internal reports when looking at project ROI.
  • Better visual aids for presentations, both internal and external.
For a free tool, there isn't much you can do for support. Similar to Gmail, there isn't a support line or email you can reach out to, but that's to be expected with a free tool.

Do you think Looker Studio delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Looker Studio's feature set?

Yes

Did Looker Studio live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Looker Studio go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Looker Studio again?

Yes

Google Data Studio is a great tool if you're on a budget. For a free tool, it's amazing. It has some great features, the kinds of things you might find in a very expensive product, and it's completely free. We've used Google Data studio to visualize a lot of our marketing data. If you want basic reports, you don't need to pay for a product.

Looker Studio Feature Ratings

7.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
8
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
6
Predictive Analytics
7
6.3
Customizable dashboards
6
Report Formatting Templates
8
Pixel Perfect reports
5
6.8
Drill-down analysis
6
Formatting capabilities
7
Integration with R or other statistical packages
6
Report sharing and collaboration
8
6.4
Publish to Web
8
Publish to PDF
1
Report Versioning
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
Delivery to Remote Servers
7

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