Looker is a Life Saver
August 18, 2015

Looker is a Life Saver

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

Software Version

Version 3.8.14

Modules Used

  • API
  • Dashboards
  • Scheduled Looks

Overall Satisfaction with Looker

Our company uses the Looker application to schedule a variety of reports for error tracking, sales reporting, and system health. We use the Looker API extensively to power our custom facing dashboard portal and liability reporting platforms. I have nothing but good things to say about the flexibility and scalability of the Looker application. Most reports are built inside of an hour and can be deployed immediately.
  • The LOOKML language is very easy to learn even for users without SQL knowledge.
  • The partitioned tables functionality allows us to easily build large reports in the background so our users do not need to wait for complex reports to run.
  • The dashboard setup allowed me to create a dashboard for senior management in one day!
  • I would like to see support added for NOSQL databases.
Looker was selected because of their willingness to work with us. They built a custom demo for us and showed us our data within the application.
We are still using and we will continue to keep using this product.
Looker is used company wide and is used by several of our partners. Looker also powers our external facing dashboards to our customer base.
Looker connects seamlessly to our Postgres and MySQL instances and we are able to easily show dashboards with data from both sources.
I am able to share reports easily between members as well as schedule these reports to go to internal and external customers. I can also control which users can request drill down data from these reports at multiple security levels.
Looker is spectacular for relational database support.

Looker Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
10
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
10
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
10
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
10
Publish to Web
7
Report Versioning
7
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Not Rated
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Responsive Design for Web Access
9
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated