Great user to use product that can be rolled out to the whole org

I was a Looker admin for the first 2 years (now I'm just a power user, so I don't deal with the data model anymore). We did most of our transformations before they get to looker (in our underlying redshift database). So, the SQL table structure is fairly usable and only from one database. Looker introduced a new feature last year that allows users to merge (like UNION) within individual views. So, users can merge data without needing an admin to create a new view in the data model.

There are shared spaces where we have teams/departments build out there own content. And, individual users have their own personal (private) workspace as well. Any page can be shared via a unique URL available in the page settings, and there are many scheduling and export options (including webhook to send the data to other systems).

Looker is a great place to be a one-stop shop for daily (or real-time) info into the company's performance. We have a business intelligence database that syncs with production daily (over-night). So, this is a good tool to use first thing in the morning to see what happened yesterday. This tool needs high organizational alignment to do some finance specific use cases like scenario comparison or near term P&L modeling. It is best suited to output historical data, we've found it cumbersome to have our forecast models live (and calculate) within Looker.