Overall Satisfaction with Looker
As a Digital Analytics & Business Intelligence consultancy, we're always on the look for modern and fresh approaches to common issues. There has been a clear overload of enterprise focused tools and companies that failed to address unique needs of SMEs. While there are some obvious leaders in the field of BI software for reporting and visualisation (like Tableau), Looker made its way up to challenge those. We've been consulting companies in setup, implementation and usage of Looker from startups to mid-sized companies. With the clear focus on data discovery and modeling, we've saved lots of time in reusable models and additionally helped clients to properly depict their business circumstances in BI.
- Interesting approach to data modelling (LookML), that highly increases re-usability, is version controlled and much easier to understand for people that are not fluent in SQL.
- Makes data discovery fun and easy.
- Collaboration features
- Visualisation capabilities clearly lack behind Tableau and some others.
- Allow for custom branding and CSS changes to fit a given corporate identity / design.
- Ability to blend data between different sources (i.e. two different connections / databases).
- Tableau Desktop,Tableau Server,Qlik Sense,QlikView,Sisense,Microsoft BI,TARGIT,Jaspersoft,Klipfolio,Domo,Pentaho,GoodData,Mode
This question is very complex and depends on the concrete business needs. Looker plays very well when focus is on data discovery, ease-to-use and complex data modeling done straight in the tool. For a super complex dashboard, reports and in a huge enterprise environment with extreme dependencies, there are tools that are currently better suited.
One of Looker's strength is to truly enable self-service BI, by giving almost everybody access to the system in a browser environment without the need of a thick client software and for a relatively low marginal price per user.
One of Looker's strength is to truly enable self-service BI, by giving almost everybody access to the system in a browser environment without the need of a thick client software and for a relatively low marginal price per user.