Looker is a fantastic BI tool that scales with the business
Updated September 18, 2023

Looker is a fantastic BI tool that scales with the business

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Looker

Our organization is using Looker to provide data access to the entire organization, build for scale, and to enable all departments to pull their own data.
  • Able to connect to multiple different data sources
  • Easy data filtering and navigation
  • Clean visualizations and easy to download the data
  • Looker lacks the ability to provide 'and' operators when filtering. Only 'or' is provided
  • Looker lacks the ability to auto create a data dictionary for defined dimensions and measures within the software. A person must access the API to create one, which is rather inconvenient
  • Looker lacks the ability to display descriptions on the Lookml Dashboard view, which is a list of dashboards where descriptions are not displayed
Tableau has an adoption issue of having to upgrade to the most recent Tableau reader. In my experience it was very difficult to get the sales team to do this.

microstrategy was the most overly complicated reporting software I have ever used. You need a consultant to do anything, and forget about adoption.

Looker is a no-brainer compared to both.
Looker has the ability to connect to many different types of data sources, making it easy to see all the data in one place.
Synced with GitHub, it is easy to collaborate, make updates, and do version control.
Looker is well-suited to visually display and scale data accessibility, and is a fantastic BI tool. The tool enables the end user to pull the data they are looking for and minimizes the need for an ad-hoc reporting team.

Looker Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
7
Customizable dashboards
9
Report Formatting Templates
9
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
7
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
10
Publish to Web
7
Publish to PDF
7
Report Versioning
6
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
6
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Not Rated
Multi-User Support (named login)
8
Role-Based Security Model
7
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
8
Responsive Design for Web Access
5
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
5