Great user to use product that can be rolled out to the whole org
May 21, 2019
Great user to use product that can be rolled out to the whole org
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Looker
We have Looker available as an opt-in app for the whole enterprise. It is our self-service business intelligence tool. Our power users create a dashboard and scheduled reports for others to view. This tool allows us to see many of our non-financial metrics in a multi-dimensional manner (vs two-dimensional spreadsheets).
- Beautiful visualizations.
- No advanced coding needed to manage (users can drag and drop).
- Easy to learn, mostly intuitive with basic training.
- Mobile viewing is HTML based, not always highly viewable.
- Basic operations can be difficult to achieve. There is a function called table calculations which allows this.
- Running on a single server, the entire instance can slow down if even one user schedules a large dashboard.
Looker empowers users to create their own views/dashboards from its web application. The last time I used Tableau (in 2015), only certain license holders could create content from the desktop application. Everyone else was a view only user. On that theme, we found Looker to be more economical rolling out to the whole enterprise.