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Dynamic and Realtime Dashboards
December 12, 2017

Dynamic and Realtime Dashboards

Vinaybabu Raghunandha Naidu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Looker

Looker is one of the best tools for monitoring dashboards and report generations. It is used widely over the organization. It helped to migrate from the legacy email reports to dynamic dashboards and report creation.
Business Analytics and higher management heavy rely on looker for the trend of sales, expenses and many other use cases.
  • Helps to dynamically create filters.
  • Easy user interface.
  • Can connect to multiple datasources with ease.
  • Representation of data in different formats : graphs, stats.
  • Can share the looks to different teams and assign appropriate permissions for individual look.
  • Can include multiple looks within one single dashboard.
  • Creates cache data in the internal looker DB which consumes much space. Would be great if it has some garbage collection technique.
  • 2 Factor authentication to user login will add more value to its security.
  • Would be great to download the looks and send through an email.
Email for sending the daily reports and the trend in company changes is replaced with looker dashboard.
Grafana, a visualization tool to monitor the system failures is replaced with looker.
It can be integrated with multiple datasources and data retrieval is realtime.
Looker dashboards are powered by Redshift, Treasure data and many more. Never encountered any connectivity issues.
Also in the recent upgrade it provides SSL level authentication
Managing dashboards became very easy due it high level user interface.
Sharing of looks and dashboards is easy among the teams and stakeholders.
Looker is well suited to showcase the company progress and trend visually where the data is noisy and huge. Multiple types of data visualization can be included in a single frame. Best in Dynamic dashboard creation and data projection in real time.
Less suited when OLAP datasources are connected which increases the data retrieval time and loading to looker is slow.

Looker Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
7.7
Pixel Perfect reports
7
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
8
6.5
Drill-down analysis
6
Formatting capabilities
7
Integration with R or other statistical packages
5
Report sharing and collaboration
8
7.0
Publish to Web
7
Publish to PDF
6
Report Versioning
7
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
8.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
7
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
7.7
Multi-User Support (named login)
7
Role-Based Security Model
8
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
8
7.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
6
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
8
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding ()
Not Rated