Query, analyze and share: Looker makes your data accessible (but it's not for beginners)
August 25, 2015
Query, analyze and share: Looker makes your data accessible (but it's not for beginners)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
3.26.16
Overall Satisfaction with Looker
The entire organization uses Looker. It's the primary interface to the database for all non-engineering teams. We have dashboards for both historical analysis and real-time insight. We also run frequent one-off analysis for all sorts of reasons. In general, Looker is the default place to go in our organization to ask questions of our data. As the head of engineering, I want Looker to continue to be the primary user interface to our data going forward. We rely on Looker instead of creating bespoke custom tools.
- Makes fundamental query building blocks easily reusable by others.
- Provides built-ins, shortcuts and aliases for most common query functionality. Saves you the hassle of writing raw SQL for the basics.
- Love the share feature with the short URLs. Very easy to quickly share information across the team.
- The drag-n-drop feature to customize dashboard layout is nearly impossible to use with a dashboard of any significant size.
- I would love to see a folder or namespace structure for organizing looks. Right now it's just a single giant list, disambiguated only by the display name.
We did not seriously evaluate any other options. Looker is the clear leader in the space.